John Battelle's Search Blog Marketers: Your Role In Social Discourse Is Critical

AI will commoditize decades of content marketing and SEO tactics, and usher in a new era of brand and influencer marketing.  With models like ChatGPT driving the cost and time required to write effective SEO content down to zero, every brand will “flood the zone” of search engines, completely commoditizing content marketing. Perhaps this will

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Something about social media feels different this year.We’re watching a fundamental shift in how and where people want to engage online. As trust declines and user habits evolve, it’s clear we’re heading toward a new phase of social. So what does that mean for brands, users, and the future of social as we know it?🌊 Big platforms are losing their g... See more

The internet stage is more crowded. Attention is more expensive. Making one's voice heard has gotten harder. The good days of cheap Facebook ads are behind us. Turning users into contributors and advocates is a hard-to-crack but high-rewards marketing strategy. Community is the new Moat.

To systematically build iconic brands, companies must reinvent their marketing function. They must assemble cultural knowledge, rather than knowledge about individual consumers. They must strategize according to cultural branding principles, rather than apply the abstracted and present-tense mind-share model. And they must hire and train cultural a... See more