There’s a lot of hype right now about agentic buying the idea that AI agents will soon buy from other agents, automating entire decisions on our behalf. In theory, your AI talks to my AI, they compare specs, negotiate price, and everyone saves time.
That sounds efficient.
But here’s the tension: buying, as well as selling and marketing, …
Category: Advertising
The Most Surprising Ad Move of 2025
You know what everyone in marketing is chasing right now? AI tools. Digital activations. Shiny new ways to deliver the same old messages. And yet, one of the most effective advertising moves of 2025 doesn’t involve pixels or algorithms. It involves paper. Yes, paper.
I’m talking about the Amazon Holiday Catalog for kids.
The audacity of …
Marketing in the Age of AI: Build Your Brand’s Center of Gravity
AI isn’t just changing the way people discover content. It’s changing how your brand shows up, and increasingly, you won’t be the one writing the script.
AI Overviews are now summarizing your business straight from scraped articles, reviews, forums, and social chatter. Generative ad tools are remixing product headlines, visuals, and CTAs …
Surviving AI’s Strip-Mining Era: A Playbook for Publishers and Creators
If you are a publisher or content creator today, you have probably noticed the slow leak: search traffic slips, ad revenue thins, and AI widgets answer readers’ questions before they ever reach your site. Jason Calacanis calls this the “Strip-Mining Era of LLMs” because the models vacuum up work that journalists, editors, and filmmakers paid…
Not Dead, Reborn: How AI could Ignite a Marketing Renaissance
[This post was first published as a LinkedIn article on my profile for distribution. Re-posting it here for record keeping]
People say AI is going to kill marketing.
Honestly? Some days, it kind of feels like it might.
Scroll through your newsfeed, and you'll see the headlines: Mark Zuckerberg envisions a world where you hand Meta your pr…