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<strong>How to win AI search with creators (6 minute read)</strong>
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AI answers lean on third-party voices, so less than 10% of what they say about a brand comes from the brand's own content. 1 in 3 answers cite creators directly. Follower count barely matters, since 57% of cited YouTube videos come from channels under 100K. This playbook recommends combining SEO keyword data with real customer questions to build a shared prompt list, picking creators for authority and specificity, and reposting content stuck behind Instagram and TikTok login walls to YouTube as transcripts that AI crawlers can reach.
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<strong>How Google and Uber Measure What Cannot Be Randomized (5 minute read)</strong>
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Major marketing investments that can't be randomized still need causal measurement, rather than post-hoc narratives. Google's CausalImpact and Uber's synthetic control methods show how you can estimate the effect of national launches, sponsorships, and other whole market interventions by building counterfactuals from historical data or comparable markets. These methods are weaker than randomized tests, so you should preregister the analysis, establish a strong pre period, run placebo tests, and report uncertainty intervals. Synthetic control should be a last resort for spending that cannot support randomization.
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<strong>Is the Traditional Marketing Team Dying, Shrinking, or Turning Into Something Else? (6 minute read)</strong>
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The modern marketing team is built around three principles. 0-1 marketers use AI systems to take work from idea to shipped output with fewer handoffs. Pods replace traditional team hierarchies with small groups that share context, own a specific outcome, and ship and learn weekly. Depth of craft becomes more valuable as AI handles production, giving specialists more time to apply the judgment and expertise needed to make standout work.
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<strong>YouTube promises custom feeds and a lot more AI later this year (3 minute read)</strong>
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<strong>Even Americans who use AI every day are worried about it (3 minute read)</strong>
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In Gallup's survey of 37 countries, the US was the most anxious, with 74% worried and only 36% expecting AI to mostly help the country.
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