Canva's brand did nothing wrong and still watched more than eleven billion dollars come off the mark in a week. The lesson is about what kind of love it was holding.
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Gartner sold three review sites to G2 for $110 million. Citation data since suggests one company now supplies most of the evidence behind AI software recommendations.
Reddit is now among the most-cited sources in AI answers. A market has formed to sell brands mentions there, and the communities involved are pushing back.
Ramp hired an economist and built an index off 70,000 companies' transactions. Carta hired a Forbes reporter to write quarterly. Both now get cited by outlets that would never have run their pitches.
ZapConnect 2026 is free, virtual, and built on a bet most companies still haven't made: that adding AI to the way you already work is the wrong move, and starting over is the right one.
Reddit had a signed licensing deal with OpenAI and still lost most of its visibility overnight, with no warning and no explanation. That should worry anyone currently budgeting against AI search.
Fleming argues that AI has knocked out marketing's oldest constraint. He may have named the wrong one.
A firm whose entire business is judging where capital compounds ran an in-house media operation for twelve months, looked at the result with better information than any outside analyst will ever have, and put more in.
A real shift is underway in go-to-market strategy. Companies are moving from renting attention to owning it, and the early numbers suggest this isn't a fringe experiment. It may be the next default.
Reddit Lost 86% of Its ChatGPT Citations in Four Days. Nobody Can Tell You Why.
Gartner Sold Three Review Sites for $110 Million. G2 Now Owns Half of What AI Says About Your Category.
Reddit Became the Most-Cited Source in AI Answers. Marketers Are Paying $2,500 a Month to Strip-Mine It.
Stop Pitching Reporters. Start Being the Thing They Cite.
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Canva's brand did nothing wrong and still watched more than eleven billion dollars come off the mark in a week. The lesson is about what kind of love it was holding.
Altman pitched an AI podcast for the drive to school. An eight-word reply beat him 13 to 1, and it exposed a positioning problem the whole industry shares.
More than 200 economists and 16 Nobel laureates just warned that AI could reshape the economy faster than institutions can respond. The reputational bill lands on brands first.
Data platforms are swallowing the CDP. The tools that actually reach customers just became the most important part of the stack.
Today HubSpot published a post to its community titled "We Got This Wrong. And We Are Fixing It." The company says it will not move forward with the terms of service changes it communicated on July 1.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box on July 1 to discuss the company's new sovereign AI partnership with Nvidia.
When a company valued in the hundreds of billions decides to wait a year before going public, it writes itself a clean reason. OpenAI's reason this week is the weather.
The automaker spent three years bringing back the experts it once let go. It just topped J.D. Power's quality ranking for the first time in 16 years.
A $75 million investment that pointedly leaves A24's film catalog out of the deal shows what an AI company actually wants from Hollywood right now. Not the content. The credibility.
Today HubSpot published a post to its community titled "We Got This Wrong. And We Are Fixing It." The company says it will not move forward with the terms of service changes it communicated on July 1.
Brand & Creative
The team's judgment was already sitting in Slack threads and Google Docs comments, and mining it is the most copyable idea in B2B marketing right now. It also solves the easier half of the problem.
Sales, product, retention, recruiting, the investor story. Duke's survey of 308 marketing leaders finally gave the pattern a name, and the name is not flattering to anyone above the CMO.
Five ways owned media operations fail. The one that kills the most of them has nothing to do with content quality, and it is fully visible on the day you launch.
Six years of silence, a dozen unannounced shows, forty planetariums, and more than 300 record stores. Underneath the aesthetic is the most copyable partner playbook in recent memory.
Companies are hiring the role faster than they can agree on what to call it, who it reports to, or what it gets to decide.
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