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Agentic AI is quietly rewriting marketing ops
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AI & Automation· Apr 23, 2026 · 3 min

Agentic AI is quietly rewriting marketing ops

The shift from assistant-style AI to autonomous agents that actually do the work is here. Here is what changes, and what does not.

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Analytics· Apr 18, 2026

Why your attribution model is lying to you

Last-click, first-click, linear, data-driven — none of them tell you what is actually working. Here is a more honest…

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Branding· Apr 13, 2026

The return of brand advertising in a performance world

A decade of performance marketing optimised every brand into oblivion. The pendulum is swinging — here is why, and…

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Digital Marketing· Apr 8, 2026

What happens to SEO when AI answers everything

Zero-click searches are not new — but ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews are changing the rules faster than most…

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Branding· Apr 3, 2026

Category design is a hard game most brands should not play

Creating a new category is seductive. It is also, almost always, a worse bet than dominating an existing one. Here is…

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AI & Automation· Mar 29, 2026

The new economics of content when AI costs nothing

When producing content approaches zero marginal cost, what still has value? Not what most marketers think.

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Digital Marketing· Mar 24, 2026

Why first-party data is a strategy, not a checkbox

Every brand now says they are "focused on first-party data." Few of them are actually doing the work. Here is the…

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Branding· Mar 19, 2026

The creative brief is broken — what replaces it

The 1-page brief was a 20th-century document for a 20th-century workflow. Here is what modern creative teams are using…

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Analytics· Mar 14, 2026

Dashboards are not the answer — they are the question

Every company we work with asks for "better dashboards." Almost none of them have the right question for dashboards to…

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