Consumers understand AI considerably better than they did a year ago and are acting on that understanding with their spending.
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Consumers understand AI considerably better than they did a year ago and are acting on that understanding with their spending.
The brands that succeed here don’t win because they wave a flag. They win because they understand the people behind it.
The instinct from most marketing teams is to add more channels, more targeting, more impressions, purely for the sake of doing more.
The next phase of marketing will be defined by who removes the most friction from decision-making.
Modern marketing is all about who has the most agile talent. By the time a performance gap is visible in your data, the opportunity to lead the market has already passed.
In the end, the goal isn’t a satisfied client who got the marketing equivalent of a pair of khakis. It’s a client who gets promoted because the work surpassingly worked.
By Ben Bloch, Founder & CEO, VenturePR For decades, the world operated within a very…
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