The Content Strategist
For years, video lived in a kind of search engine limbo. Sure, you could optimize the title and description, maybe add some tags. But the content inside the video was a black box. Search engines couldn’t parse your eight minutes of carefully scripted content. That’s changing quickly. AI-driven video indexing, powered by large language models (LLMs),…
Marketers have a new buzzword to either salivate or lose sleep over: entities. Not KPIs, not personas—entities. We know it sounds vaguely like the plot of a sci-fi film about sentient databases. But entities are real, and if AI models don’t recognize you (or your brand) as one, you may as well not exist to…
You Google a question your buyer asks all the time. Instead of ten blue links, you get an AI Overview with a tidy paragraph and a few citations. You try the same query in ChatGPT or Perplexity and watch another neat summary appear. If your brand is lucky enough to be mentioned, it’s usually one…
Short-form video has taken over the world. Okay, so maybe that’s an overstatement. But if you’re a human who scrolls or swipes on the semi-regular, you’ve surely noticed the TikTokification of just about everything. And as a B2B brand, you can’t ignore this shift in how people consume and share ideas. Scroll through any feed…
The half-life of online culture is shrinking, and marketing teams stuck on quarterly calendars are struggling to keep up. Case in point: A random audio clip on TikTok goes from niche ditty to global meme in two days flat. The brand that shows up two weeks later with the snippet in the soundtrack of a…
Remember when the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button was Google’s biggest gamble? Now, it’s their entire business model, and your traffic is the casino’s take. Your best-performing article still ranks #1, but traffic’s down 30%. Search your primary keyword and there it is: a Google AI Overview perfectly summarizing your content. No click required. Welcome to…
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…
When I first started working in content marketing 15 years ago, the scope of what that work entailed was relatively narrow: blog posts, website copy, email newsletters, and the occasional e-book or oddball infographic. With the TikTok-ification of the internet, short-form video became a table-stakes part of the mix. Most of these assets lived squarely…
There’s nothing quite like being asked to “prove content ROI” when you’re smack in the middle of presenting next quarter’s campaign roadmap. You scramble to explain how that blog series probably helped a few deals move forward. You gesture vaguely at that product explainer video that likely nudged some prospects along. You say “engagement” a…
