Getting The Attention of Activision’s COO with Inspired Executive Recruitment Podcast

Gerard and Dan are executive recruiters who run Mission One, a boutique executive search firm specializing in C-suite placements for the tech and consumer industries. They bring a refreshingly down-to-earth approach and deep, actionable insights on navigating the C-suite from both candidate and recruiter perspectives, something previously untackled in the industry.

Mission One partnered with Fame to build their thought leadership and attract both high-caliber candidates and companies. They recognized that while the market was saturated with content about executive experiences, no one was revealing what actually happens behind the recruitment curtain or teaching executives how to leverage that knowledge to get hired.

From launch, our audience immediately embraced our vision, driving 17,000+ downloads across our trailer and two launch episodes. Within our first month, we ranked in the:

• Top 50 in the UK
• Top 200 in the US

Chart positions by country

Best positions in the 30 days before this case study was written

Country	Careers	Business
Ireland	#6	#84
Sweden	#15	#203
United Kingdom	#48	-
Canada	#62	-
Denmark	#190	-
United States	#197	-

Source: Podstatus podcast chart tracking

The Results

Since launch, the show has built a steady audience and a library of episodes that keep earning views:

• Followers grew 2.6x
  • 332 in Sep 2025 to 872 in May 2026 across Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube
• Downloads and views peaked at 130,853 in a single month
  • April 2026, up from 17,652 in the launch month of September 2025
• Four episodes with more than 40,000 views each
  • Two of them above 60,000

Guests

Mission One: The Executive Edge launched in September 2025 and released 18 episodes through May 2026, from a four-part series on hiring the top 1% of executives to conversations with leaders in gaming and consumer tech, including:

• Jonathan Knight, Head of Games at The New York Times (listen)
• Alexis Bonte, CEO of Stillfront Group (listen)
• David Gardner, executive leadership lessons from EA, Atari and Supercell (listen)
• Nick Button-Brown, how executives make it to the boardroom (listen)