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 …
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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…
Balancing Risks: Hedging Bets in Marketing and Corporate Strategy
The other week, I came across this AdWeek article about Nike’s marketing team’s restructuring, which inevitably piqued my interest. The article linked to a post by Massimo Giunco, former Nike Brand Director, who shared his take on how Nike’s CEO, John Donahue, and Nike’s President of Consumer, Product and Brand, Heidi O’Neill, decided to enact a series of changes between August 2020 through March 2021 to eliminate all categories from the organization, focus entirely on D2C (direct-to-consumer) divesting from wholesale, and shift the marketing model to prioritize digital content generation over brand narrative. According to Giunco, going all-in on this strategy led to record-low performance over the last few quarters, and now that the market cap is at its lowest since 2018, the company is reversing its approach.
While it’s somehow evident that Massimo Giunco has personal issues with Nike’s leadership, his narrative allows us to draw a parallel with the question we often grapple with: how can we invest in something that may yield long-term value like brand building but doesn’t offer good short-term measurability or certainty for success?
Continue readingFour Ps
Anyone with a Business or Marketing degree has likely heard of the following framework from the illustrious marketing professor Philip Kotler.
Marketing is the combination of the 4Ps: Price, Product, Promotion, and Place.
While many can agree with it, when we think of Marketing in most companies and business circles, we tend to focus on a subset of one P: Promotion.
If you reacted to the previous sentence by thinking, “Yeah, that’s kind of true,” you may be interested in taking a few minutes to think if your Marketing team is doing everything it’s supposed to do in your company.
Continue readingControversial Marketing Hot-Take #4
In October of last year, I thought of starting a series of posts on controversial marketing hot-takes. I posted one a day for four days straight. This was the fourth and last one. To make it even more entertaining, I've decided to use sports quotes to illustrate my point.
"𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘳𝘶𝘯 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘤…