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Webflow’s CMO: Stop Chasing More Content! Win AI Search! End Silos!

Webflow just scanned 2,000 real websites and gave them a report card on how ready they are for AI search. The median score? A 2 out of 5. And the reason companies are fai

Build for Community, Not the Playbook

Don’t sell to your community. Just talk to them. DadGang founder Bart Szaniewski started with $750, 100 hats and no real business plan. Four years later, the brand has s

Spotlight: The 5,000-Year-Old Method of Making People Remember You

How do you get your brand into the 90% of memory that's subconscious? In this segment from Marketing Trends, neuroscientist Pranav Yadav reveals that the human brain is

Marketing Has Forgotten What It’s For

Are you just busy working? Or are you adding value? Marketing has become overloaded with channels, platforms, metrics, and specialized roles. But Seth Matlins believes t

Why Agents Will Buy, But Marketing Must Stay Human

A bank just issued the world's first loan to an AI agent. The agent applied, signed, and set its own repayment schedule. That's where marketing now lives — and most teams

Why 90% of Your Brain Ignores Ads

What if everything you're optimizing for in marketing — attention, clicks, engagement — is a proxy for the one thing that actually drives action? Pranav Yadav is the Fou

The SEO Blog Era Is Over. Here's What Replaces It.

Your blog will never earn an audience. Ever. That's not me — that's Melissa Rosenthal, who ran the SEO content engine at ClickUp, built media at BuzzFeed and Cheddar, and

Stop Counting Your AI Agents. Customers Don’t Care.

Every CMO is being told to replace people with AI agents as fast as possible. Keri McGhee, CMO at Attentive, is doing some of that — and deliberately refusing to do other

Marketing Spotlight: How Simple Personalization Dramatically Increased Engagement

Most CMOs think personalization requires complex AI and endless customer segments. Elizabeth Maxson proves otherwise. She breaks down actionable personalization strategi

Twilio's CMO Scrapped His 2026 Plan in One Month

What happens when your next customer isn't even human? Chris Koehler is the CMO of Twilio, and his 2026 marketing plan lasted exactly one month before AI agents forced h

Why There’s More Content in 2026… But Worse Results

Merriam-Webster named "slop" the 2025 word of the year - and it explains everything about where AI-generated content is heading. Elizabeth Maxson, CMO of Contentful, rev

Spotlight: AI Context Windows Will Kill Forrester, Gartner, and G2 (Yext CEO Explains)

Best practices told you to optimize reputation across all 10,000 locations equally—but granular competitive data just revealed that 7,000 of those stores don't need it, a

What's Silently Killing Growth: The 2-Second Rule That's Destroying Your Website Traffic

Most websites are bleeding traffic before visitors even see the page… and Google Analytics can't tell you it's happening. Pantheon's data shows that if your site takes lo

B2B Teams Are Chasing AI Trends While Underfunding What Actually Matters

What if the marketing channel getting the least resources is actually shaping your entire brand reputation? Daniella Sampson reveals why B2B teams chase the wrong AI tre

Scaling Past $20M (Spotlight): When to Move Upmarket

Every startup hits the same ceiling: your founder customers love you, but they won't get you to $200M. So how do you move upmarket to enterprise without losing the commun

What Is an AI Agent? The Plain English Explainer for Marketers

In January 2026, a CMO at a six billion dollar software company scrapped his entire year's marketing plan only two weeks into the year. AI agents made it obsolete. Steph

Ex-TikTok CMO (Spotlight): Your 90-Day Campaign Cycle Is Killing You

Most brands think viral marketing takes months of planning and massive budgets. Nick Tran engineered it in 72 hours.   In this segment from Marketing Trends, the former

He Built FaceTune's AI… Here's What He Says Marketers Get Wrong

The marketing teams winning with AI today are not the ones chasing every new model release. They are the ones who found the boring, repetitive tasks their teams hate and

Website Expert: These Mistakes will Make or Break Your Entire 2026

The websites that win today are not the ones with the most content. They are the ones that deliver a fast, clean experience in the very first second a visitor arrives. J

The CMO Who Never Becomes Obsolete

The most future-ready marketing leaders aren’t the ones chasing trends… they’re the ones who can reinvent themselves every time the industry changes. Michelle Huff, Chie