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Your Content Isn't Just Competing With Other Brands Anymore

Your Content Isn’t Just Competing With Other Brands Anymore

For the past two decades, SEOs and content marketers played a fairly predictable game: Optimize for rankings, maximize share of voice against direct competitors, chase CTRs. Success meant earning the click and driving traffic back to your site. That model is breaking down. In AI-driven discovery environments, your content is no longer competing with other… 

January 30, 2026 · Ajith Babu

Reddit’s Resurgence: How the Internet’s Toughest Crowd Became AI’s Favorite Source

It usually starts the same way: A well-meaning marketing manager thinks they’ve found the perfect audience for their new product launch on Reddit. Brimming with hubris and optimism, they publish a post that’s equal parts jargon and manufactured hype. Five minutes later, the post is buried in downvotes and snark. It’s a cautionary tale replayed… 

August 25, 2025 · Stephanie Walden