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AI Made Content Easier to Create (So Now Everything Needs to Be Better) ai content content strategy editing Jan 19, 2026

The misconception is that AI makes it easier to create content, so quality standards will drop. But the reality is exactly the opposite—the content quality bar is rising, not falling. This counter

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Automation and Quality Are Not a Trade-Off ai technology ai tools automation lead generation Jan 19, 2026

The idea of automation versus quality has always been a trade-off. But as AI grows more commonplace and people learn how to use it, it's becoming less and less of a trade-off than ever. Previously, au...

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How B2B Buyer Behavior Changed in 2025 b2b marketing behavioral economics sales Jan 19, 2026

We know that buyers are more educated than they ever have been, and significantly more of the buying journey is taking place before they ever talk to anyone. There are so many resources out there—whet...

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Your Content Strategy Just Became a Development Strategy ai overviews content strategy seo vibe coding Jan 19, 2026

Search marketers are starting to build, not just optimize. Across SEO and PPC teams, vibe coding and AI-powered development tools are shrinking the gap between idea and execution—from weeks of develop...

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Everyone Says Google Is Dead (While Using Google Products All Day) ai tools geo google seo Jan 19, 2026

One of the things I've been frustrated by, as you can maybe tell, is that people say Google is dead and Google doesn't matter anymore. That's just really not true at all because I wanted to think macr...

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How Chatbot Use Changed in 2025 ai chatbot seo user behavior user experience Jan 19, 2026

Eighty-one percent of US adults have used search tools powered by AI in the past three months. At the start of the year, the primary use was basic troubleshooting, writing help, and summaries. Now

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HubSpot's Search Framework Is 15 Years Old (And Completely Wrong Now) geo seo voice search Jan 19, 2026

I'm sure you all remember the foundational HubSpot framework from fifteen years ago when they said the reasons why people search something on the internet—that was the foundation of all the content we...

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New GA Lifecycle Tools data google analytics seo Jan 19, 2026

Google is expanding customer lifecycle tools in Google Analytics with new audience templates and dynamic remarketing features that help you target and re-engage high-value customers more easily. The c...

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Meta Just Put a Price Tag on Links for Company Pages budgeting business content strategy meta social media Jan 19, 2026

Meta is informing some users that they will soon be restricted in how many link posts they can share each month, unless they pay for its Meta Verified subscription service. Some Page and professional ...

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Your Website Is Still a Brochure (When It Should Be a Revenue Engine) development sales website Jan 12, 2026

Artificial intelligence is changing digital marketing, and websites are at the center of this change. A website is often the first place customers go to learn about a business, compare options, or mak...

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Your Approved Ad Could Still Destroy Your Business Jan 12, 2026

Most business owners assume that if Google or Meta approves an ad, it's safe. The thinking is simple: trillion-dollar platforms with sophisticated compliance systems wouldn't allow ads that expose adv...

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What is Tech Sprawl? ai technology digital marketing marketing technology website Jan 12, 2026

Tech sprawl is a newer term, though the problem has been building for years. It's definitely happening more with AI tools where companies think "Okay, I want this data enrichment tool because it h

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Google Built an AI Detector for Gemini gemini google search engine seo Jan 12, 2026

Are you becoming more wary of liking or sharing posts on social media, due to concerns that content could be AI-generated and you could look like a chump as a result? One of the potential side effects...

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Here is the Most Underused Martech ai technology ai tools marketing technology Jan 12, 2026

 

Marketers have been convinced that HubSpot is for them, and it's really just an expensive contact database. They use it just for emailing or they're only using a small portion of it when they have ...

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69% of Marketers Are Now Pro-AI ai ai and marketing Jan 12, 2026

According to recent study by SurveyMonkey, 69% of American marketers reported feeling excited about the rise of AI and its impact on their jobs. As we step into a new era of marketing wher

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How to Brief Execs on AI Search Reality organic traffic seo seo training Jan 12, 2026

Organic traffic is dropping. ChatGPT and Gemini referrals barely scratch the surface of what's been lost. The narrative that "traffic is simply coming from a new source" is inaccurate. Search and enga...

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New Survey: 2026 Marketing Budgets Are Smaller budgeting finances leadership marketing team Jan 12, 2026

Business-to-consumer marketing will face multiple challenges in 2026, such as price hikes, artificial intelligence-driven privacy breaches, and a decline in measurement confidence, according to a repo...

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While You're Optimizing for AI, Your Competitors Are Stealing Your Traffic agentic ai ai seo website Jan 05, 2026

We're living through a collective delusion. Marketing teams spend hours mapping semantic clusters for large language models while their title tags still say "Home | Company Name." They obsess over vec...

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While You Chase Gen Z, AARP Is Building a Media Empire digital marketing growth media social media Jan 05, 2026

While marketers obsess over figuring out how to engage younger consumers, it's easy to overlook those who are 50 and older. However, this group boasts $8.3 trillion in collective spending power and re...

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You're Already Too Late (If You're Waiting for Keyword Data) demand reddit seo seo training Jan 05, 2026

Discovery happens before search demand becomes measurable. Interest forms across social feeds, Reddit threads, and AI-generated answers long before appearing as keyword search volume. By the time your...

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Snapchat Built Its Own AI Video Generator ai tools artificial intelligence social media Jan 05, 2026

Snapchat has added a fun new AI activation for the holidays, with its new "Animate It" Lens now available for paying Snap users. Snapchat's new video AI Lens will enable you to activate an animation i...

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Pinterest Just Made CTV Measurable Like Digital media paid ads pinterest social media social media marketing Jan 05, 2026

Pinterest has acquired connected TV advertising platform TvScientific, marking the first time Pinterest has wedded its intent-based audience insights with a CTV advertising engine. Financial terms of ...

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LinkedIn's Product VP Shares 2026 Engagement Tips linkedin personal branding social media marketing Jan 05, 2026

LinkedIn is getting more attention. Over the past year, content sharing in the app is up 15%, while comments in the feed have increased by 24%, according to Gyanda Sachdeva, LinkedIn's VP of Product M...

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YouTube's Year-End Feature Dump (Most of It Won't Change Anything) social media marketing video marketing youtube Jan 05, 2026

YouTube has released its final feature update review of 2025, which includes a range of changes: the expansion of voice replies, broader availability of its "Create" app, updated channel g

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