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Success is framed as a function of what tradeoffs can be sustained, not just strengths or effort. Kristen Lowe introduces “success currencies”, highlighting costs like risk, rejection, and uncertainty as key drivers of achievement. The session includes a self-assessment to identify which costs drain or motivate, and whether current ambitions align with the prices required to reach them. It will take place on July 8 at 9 AM PT.
Google's new system targets coordinated AI content, not individual pages. It detects clusters of accounts producing templated content at scale using shared infrastructure, velocity, and semantic patterns, then removes the entire network. This shifts enforcement from optimizing single pages to avoiding detectable production patterns. High-volume, templated strategies are now a liability.
A 6-step framework to investigate and explain a metric drop.
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One test replacing all-caps headlines with standard capitalization increased conversions by 25%, highlighting the impact of readability.
Soccer wins on community, accessibility, and global identity over traditional violence-heavy sports.
AI disclosure labels can reduce engagement because people assume the creator put less effort into the content. Across 8 experiments and more than 1.1 million TikTok posts, content labeled as AI-generated received 7% to 8% fewer likes and 7% lower overall engagement even when quality stayed the same. Explain how AI supported the work and highlight the human effort behind the final result to help maintain trust and connection. AI tools that require visible skill or creative input are less likely to create this reaction, so the way you present AI use matters as much as the tool itself.
Nearly 80% of UK adults are concerned about misinformation on social media, yet usage remains high. People aged 16-34 spend about 2 hours 31 minutes a day on social platforms, and 88.9% use them each week. Overall weekly reach is 73.9%, and Brits spend 7 hours 24 minutes a day on screens, reinforcing how central digital media is. Smartphones drive 34% of consumption, with social and messaging taking nearly half of mobile activity.
Short-form video is becoming an SEO and AI visibility channel for B2B software brands, not just a social media tactic. YouTube Shorts now ranks for more than 1,100 "best + software" searches worldwide, and 92% of those search results also include AI Overviews. Repurpose webinars, podcasts, demos, and customer interviews into short videos that target specific buyer queries, then optimize the title, transcript, captions, and opening hook for search intent. Start with YouTube Shorts because Google cites it far more often than Instagram or TikTok, then publish the same clips on other platforms that fit your audience.
Ramp figured out that its ICP cares about technology adoption data, so it built pages that show trends from its own spend data for individual products and software categories. It updates most pages 1 to 2 times per week and puts key statistics, charts, and dates in HTML so search engines and AI tools can easily read the content. This approach helps its pages appear in Google and AI search results for questions about software adoption and category trends.
AI is raising the floor for PMMs, making safe positioning and surface-level insights easy to replicate. The advantage now comes from judgment. Train teams to explain why decisions are made, not just ship outputs. Take clear, opinionated positions that show who the product is for and who it's not. Go beyond obvious insights by digging into contradictions and talking to customers directly. Most importantly, cut what doesn't matter, since deciding what to leave out is now the highest-leverage skill.
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An AI agent built and launched an app by running a tight loop of user interviews, concept testing, building, and iteration. It used Listen Labs to run 2,000 interviews and test 100 ideas in parallel with subagents. Image models handled product builds, while Meta ads drove acquisition. The agent landed on StyleFits, an AI stylist shaped by real user feedback. It pivoted based on low NPS, pricing friction, and trust gaps, then added free trials and shopping links. The result was a scrappy product with hundreds of paying users.
Google's Smart Bidding requires roughly 30 to 50 conversions per campaign per month to exit the learning phase and make reliable bidding decisions. Accounts segmented across too many campaigns spread that signal thin enough to keep every campaign permanently in learning mode. Performance Max compounds the issue when its boundaries with Search campaigns aren't defined through negative keywords and brand exclusions, since PMax will claim high-intent branded queries and inflate costs on terms Search would have won cheaply. No amount of bid adjustments or creative testing resolves these problems when the foundation is wrong.
Specific and verifiable messaging helps buyers more than polished buzzwords. Buyers ignore vague claims like "enterprise grade" and look for proof such as implementation time, migration steps, product demos, customer results, and real user feedback. Marketing copy should describe what a product does, who it is for, and how it solves a real problem instead of relying on vague phrases like "enterprise grade" or "AI powered." AI can speed up research and content creation, but marketers still need human judgment to turn product details into messages that answer real buyer questions.
AI hype creates unrealistic expectations that make it harder for people to recognize the real value AI can deliver today. Social media rewards exaggerated claims, so simple time-saving workflows often get presented as life-changing systems even though many still need significant human oversight. Real expertise comes from building AI solutions that solve business problems instead of talking confidently about AI concepts. Honest examples, measurable outcomes, and continuous improvement build more trust than exaggerated promises.
Updating your LinkedIn industry field is a quick fix that helps posts reach the right audience.
Nike's pulling back on traditional brand marketing and pushing further into athlete-led sport storytelling.
Use the multiple captions carousel feature to tell stronger stories by pairing swipeable context with visual-first posts.
TV and radio advertising reach 41% of Baby Boomers+ as a product discovery channel but only 19% of Gen Z. Social media influencers and bloggers reach 41% of Gen Z but only 13% of Boomers+. The inversion is nearly perfect, and it shows up in brand performance as well. Gen Z consumers who discover products through influencers show higher consideration across categories, with Dunkin' at 44% versus 38% among all Gen Z and e.l.f. Cosmetics at 28% versus 21%. Across all US adults, 27% now cite influencers as a discovery channel, ranking 9th overall behind friends and family at 51%, retail browsing at 44%, and search at 42%.
Most once-successful blogs have seen steep declines following Google's Helpful Content Updates and the rise of AI-generated search results. In a study of 100 blogs, median traffic fell 85%, with only 21 still growing. Blogs that rely solely on search traffic and affiliate monetization are struggling, while those offering original, experience-based content perform better.
Sonic branding is becoming more important as attention shifts off-screen, but most brands still rely on visual identity. Sound can drive stronger recall by tapping into emotional processing and working when users aren't looking. Building a consistent audio system across touchpoints helps reinforce recognition over time. As more media consumption happens in audio-first environments, brands without a defined sonic identity may struggle to stay memorable.
Cursor turned its branded Reddit community into a high-intent marketing channel by answering buyer questions where purchase decisions already happen. Its subreddit has 143,000 members, ranks for 482 keywords, and brings in about 9,600 monthly organic visits by appearing for pricing and comparison searches that often rank above its own website. Senior employees answer pricing, billing, and product questions in public, which builds search visibility, gives AI tools accurate content to cite, and creates a steady source of customer feedback. The strategy only works when the community trusts the moderation, so it keeps constructive criticism visible instead of removing negative posts.
Building a personal “intelligence layer” helps marketers capture insights and experiences instead of letting them stay scattered across tools, roles, or past work. This knowledge often gets lost or reset when using AI, creating constant rework. By continuously feeding it into a centralized system, it becomes reusable, improves outputs, and compounds over time. The post includes a screenshot showing how this can look in practice.
Sony built the Walkman by removing features instead of adding them. It cut recording even though research and retailers said customers wanted it. That decision lowered the price to $150, made the device smaller, and gave it a clear purpose. The cassette Walkman sold 200 million units and the Walkman brand reached about 400 million sales across all formats. Use customer data to understand existing behavior, but test new ideas by the behavior you want people to adopt instead of the feature list they say they want.
This workflow uses Claude and Gamma to automate pitch deck creation. After connecting Gamma and Google Drive and saving templates, Claude is prompted to generate a deck using a selected template and content from an existing document. It structures the slides and fills in content, while Gamma handles design. Final tweaks are made in Gamma before sending.
AI makes it much faster to turn raw marketing data into visual reports that uncover content and campaign patterns. This example uses JavaScript and AI to convert two years of LinkedIn post data into an interactive dashboard in about 15 minutes. The dashboard shows the best posting times, topic trends over time, and engagement patterns that were hard to spot in raw data. Export data from platforms like LinkedIn, Google Search Console, GA4, your CRM, or email tools, then use AI to structure the data and build HTML dashboards that help improve content and marketing decisions.
The data layer feeding most B2B marketing automation was built three to five years ago, before current consent regulations and before lead scoring was recalibrated to match who actually converts. When humans reviewed campaigns before sending, stale data caused performance problems that usually got caught. AI agents skip that review, acting on the data layer at speed and scale with no instinct to question whether consent records are still valid. An agent will suppress high-value prospects based on rules nobody remembers or keep sending to expired opt-ins for weeks until the pipeline dries up. The failure typically shows up as a deliverability incident or unexplained pipeline drop rather than a data problem.
Corporate crisis instinct is to contain bad news and move the story on quickly. The brands that have generated the most earned media from operational setbacks did the opposite. KitKat's joke about a 12-tonne theft generated $224M in earned media and the 2026 Cannes PR Grand Prix. Calbee's decision to keep its supply-chain packaging monochrome issue visible triggered a consumer art movement. What each case had in common was early recognition that an opportunity existed rather than a problem to suppress and a response that invited participation rather than managed perception.
The most common mistake is to make a mascot more memorable than the brand behind it.
Youth unemployment is rising more from a lack of job openings than from missing AI skills.
Amazon and Walmart now control 85% of the retail media market. Walmart's $1.4B acquisition of Vibe widens that gap further. The deal mirrors Amazon's playbook of plugging first-party commerce data into a DSP and striking deals with premium streamers. Walmart has 200,000 Marketplace resellers it can immediately convert into CTV advertisers. For the 200-plus other retail media networks holding the remaining 15% between them, media planners aren't allocating budget to a third network after maxing out the top two, which makes data cooperatives or acquisition the only realistic paths forward.
AI flattened execution, so channels, volume, and best practices stopped signaling anything. The only moat left is craft. Taste, a sharp point of view, and the judgment to go deep on one channel instead of spreading thin. The work that drives results now is the least measurable. Brand, thought leadership, and owned media that compound over time. It's slower, harder to prove, and often looks wrong on a dashboard, but it's what actually moves buyers.
Publishing proprietary first-party data gives content a stronger chance to earn AI citations and organic visibility, but page structure often decides who gets the citation. One study found pages with 15 or more unique data points averaged an information gain score of 62.1 versus 40.2 for pages with one or fewer. Put your strongest statistic, methodology, and key findings in the first 30% of the page because 44.2% of ChatGPT citations come from that section. Build comprehensive pages that answer multiple related questions and make original data easy for AI to extract instead of hiding it in long narratives.
With AI Overview traffic now harder to track, stop chasing clicks and start understanding what buyers actually ask AI. This post includes a templated prompt to generate real customer questions, combine the results, and then analyze overlaps to find the most consistent themes. Those repeated questions reveal what matters most to your audience, giving you high-signal ideas for offers and campaigns.
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Social content now needs to be built for discovery. This playbook shows how to do it with keyword research, search intent, content planning, and profile optimization, plus tactics like using native search data, matching formats, and leaning into engagement signals. It also includes a free downloadable social media SEO content planner.
Google just dropped two new generative media models built for creative iteration. Nano Banana 2 Lite is its fastest and cheapest image model yet, optimized for rapid, high-volume image generation. Gemini Omni Flash brings high-quality video generation and conversational editing using text, image, and video inputs. Together, they let users quickly go from idea to image to video in one workflow. Both are available across Google AI Studio, APIs, and consumer products, with competitive pricing and a few early limitations on video length and consistency.
Relying on one attribution model leads to bad marketing decisions because it cannot capture every source of revenue. One brand saw reported conversions fall after it increased video investment because first click attribution could not track view through impact. Post-click conversions fell from about 80% to 20% even though incrementality testing showed revenue increased. Compare incrementality studies, media mix modeling, and platform data instead of treating one reporting system as the source of truth.
Fear of looking AI-generated has created a form of reputational self-surveillance, where marketing teams are removing normal punctuation to preempt accusations that have not been made. The concern behind the trend is real as AI leans on certain marks and constructions hard enough that they start to feel like tells. The response should not be banning punctuation - it should be building a writing standard specific enough that the copy is unmistakably yours.
Only 23.1% of brand mentions in AI responses include a citation to the brand's domain, meaning AI covers brands at a much higher rate than it sources their content. A study of 12,000 responses across Google AI Mode, AI Overviews, Gemini, and GPT-5.4-mini found that prompt type drives the biggest gap. Single-brand queries earn a 39% mention-to-citation rate, while open-ended category queries drop to 7.2%. Missing citations tend to signal an SEO and GEO problem, since AI can't find content worthy of sourcing. Missing mentions tend to signal a PR problem, since the brand isn't present enough in third-party training data.
Pair metrics like AOV and conversion rate to get a more accurate picture of results, compared to looking at one metric alone.
A prompt for using AI to generate strong newsletter names based on positioning and audience.
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Declining categories aren't a Gen Z problem but a marketing one. Legacy brands rely on repetitive extensions instead of new ideas. US cinema admissions fell from $1.3B in 2019 to $777M in 2023. However, original, low-budget films are breaking out, with Backrooms grossing $300M and drawing 43% of viewers aged 18-24. The same pattern shows up in CPG, where Pepsi's North American volume dropped 2% while newer soda brands surged. Younger consumers want different products, not fewer of them.