AI in Marketing

How AI tools are reshaping campaign workflows, attribution, and agency operations. Analysis that goes beyond the hype.

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AI Search Has a Wealth Gap Most Marketers Haven't Priced In

The GEO conversation has been loud. Every conference, every newsletter (including this one), every SEO consultant has spent the last year telling you to optimize for AI search visibility. Get cited by ChatGPT. Show up in Google's AI Overviews. Make your content AI-friendly. Good advice, mostly. But there&

Gemini Called a Legit Store a Scam for 11 Days (and the Owner Had No Idea)

An e-commerce store owner posted on r/ecommerce last week about something that should make every brand nervous. Google's Gemini had been telling potential customers their legitimate, years-old store was "likely a scam" for 11 straight days. The owner only found out because they'd

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Google Doesn't Penalize AI Content. That's Actually the Harder Problem.

In 2022, a Europol report made a prediction that circulated through every marketing Slack channel for months: 90% of online content would be AI-generated by 2026. The prediction was scary enough to share and vague enough to believe. Four years later, we are at the deadline. And the answer is

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The AI Ad Market Split Three Ways and Nobody Agrees What a Conversion Is

By Notice Me Senpai Editorial There is a version of this article that treats "AI chatbot advertising" as one coherent thing. That version would be useless. Three months into the chatbot ad era, the three platforms that matter have picked three entirely different business models, and the gap

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AI Labels Cut Ad Clicks by 31% and No Two Platforms Agree What Counts

Nobody in advertising wants to talk about this directly, but telling consumers an ad was made with AI makes that ad perform significantly worse. And the rules about when you have to tell them are arriving faster than most teams realize, from at least three different directions, with almost no

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Pfizer Moved AI Search In-House in 60 Days (the SEO Industry Should Worry)

Pfizer didn't issue a press release about this. There wasn't a keynote or a blog post announcing the strategy shift. The company quietly moved its entire SEO and AI discoverability operation in-house over the course of 60 days, according to Digiday. And that timeline tells you

OpenAI's $60 CPM Ads Manager Doesn't Need to Be Good Yet

OpenAI quietly launched a self-serve ads manager this week, and the product is, if I am being generous, rudimentary. The platform offers real-time performance monitoring, the ability to optimize against impressions or clicks, and weekly CSV reports sent by email. There is no real-time bidding, no granular audience targeting, and