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<p>Marketing teams pour time and budget into acquisition, but <strong>friction at the final step</strong> (unclear pricing, limited payment options, poor localization, etc.) quietly <strong>erodes conversion yield and ROI. </strong></p>
<p>A new global research study, <a href="https://tracking.tldrnewsletter.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fgrow.cleverbridge.com%2Ffriction-report%3Futm_source=tldr-marketing%26utm_medium=paid-newsletter%26utm_campaign=friction-report-2025%26utm_content=primary/1/0100019a53e82525-d935c7b0-01b6-4214-9ebb-97e9562bb135-000000/Vk28pf-Zh3vkk8pvUBzqpl2J48sSC2Q6FIIcqHM6gZE=430" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><span><em>The Friction Report,</em></span></a> shows how <strong>bottom-funnel inefficiencies undercut conversion</strong> from paid and organic traffic, costing GTM teams billions in unrealized revenue. <em>(From the report: 82% of software sellers are seeing double-digit cart abandonment rates.)</em></p>
<p>With CAC rising and budgets tightening, <strong>improving conversion efficiency is one of the fastest ways to boost pipeline performance without increasing spend.</strong></p>
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“TV” now means any video that feels worth watching. This could be on a phone, social feed, or traditional screen. Social video dominates viewing, especially for Gen Z and millennials who prefer creator-led content over high production. Short, serialized micro series built for vertical viewing are growing fast. As viewers accept more ads, streaming and social models are blending. Media companies today have to think beyond broadcast and create content and ads that work across platforms and creators in a world where “TV” lives everywhere.
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Onboarding often fails because too many patterns are used at once. Each pattern works alone but loses effectiveness when combined, as they compete for attention and confuse users. Data from multiple products show that completion rates fall with every added pattern. Overlapping wizards, tours, checklists, and tooltips create contradictions and overwhelm users. The best approach is to use a single, clear onboarding pattern. Simplifying guidance improves clarity, completion, and trust. If a product needs five onboarding systems to make sense, the real problem is the product, not the onboarding.
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These brands illustrate unique paths to market distinction through product-led innovation, content design, and cultural alignment. Gong uses internal subject matter experts to build community trust through LinkedIn and thought leadership events. Better Trail reimagines review content by layering consumption modes for skimmers, researchers, and power users, bypassing traditional SEO structures. Liquid Death disrupts a commodity category by attaching humor, music, and subculture references to canned water. Each brand demonstrates that differentiation is successful when product, message, and delivery align around a single compelling idea that sets it apart from the rest of the market.
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LLMs.txt is a proposed new file format designed to guide large language models toward a website's most valuable content, using a structured markdown list placed at the root domain. Unlike robots.txt, which controls crawler access, LLMS.txt serves as a curation tool that highlights top resources like product pages, help docs, and case studies for AI citation and interpretation. Adoption remains low, with no confirmation from major AI platforms that they support it, but early adopters like Hugging Face and Stripe are using it to proactively shape how models interpret their content.
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AI systems are reshaping the web into a closed, surfaceless environment where visibility no longer determines success. Information now survives through persistence, not attention, as models continually compress and retrain on what is useful, true, and integral. Content that clarifies ideas, maintains consistency, and connects meaningfully across contexts becomes part of the machine's internal understanding of reality. Marketing must now focus on contributing value that the system depends on, ensuring continued existence within its evolving digital ecosystem.
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