Archive

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September

  1. You approved the ad headline.Who approves what the AI says when a customer asks a follow-up question? Two announcements on 16 September make this a practical marketing question. OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents:…
  2. The most dangerous marketing AI agent may be the one that gives the clearest explanation for the wrong decision.Many evaluations stop at response quality: Is it factual? Coherent? Well written? For marketing…
  3. An empty Gemini video search cannot clear a creative for publication.Google’s agentic video understanding lets Gemini select segments to inspect across frames, audio and transcripts rather than sample at a fixed rate.…
  4. Retrieving evidence again does not guarantee recovering an agent’s decision history after compaction.Anthropic recommends lightweight references for dynamic retrieval and structured notes for long tasks, warning that…

August

  1. Standardized home-screen buying cannot justify scaled investment.AdExchanger’s public signal is that programmatic TV home-screen ads are becoming more standardized and accessible. That may simplify buying. It does not…
  2. Optimizing citations before retrieval is fixing the wrong problem.A GEO plan can start with passage structure, then treat weak citation share as a selection problem. The causal mistake comes earlier: when an answer…
  3. Category news cannot justify publishing without a positioning decision.Public category events give everyone the same headline. The signal I inspect is whether the draft names a changed marketing choice, rather than…
  4. AI content volume is the wrong objective when judgement is weak.The usual case for AI in marketing starts with production: make more content, faster. That makes sense when production is genuinely holding execution…
  5. Dashboard reporting is the wrong trigger for changeable decisions.Dashboards make past signals visible. The useful shift happens earlier in the workflow: connect a relevant signal to a choice that can still be changed,…