Timeless Marketing in an AI-Driven World Carlie Buffan Sep 15, 2025 AI is changing the way people search and interact with content online. Features like AI Overviews might help with visibility, but they also mean fewer clicks—leaving many sites with less traffic even when rankings look strong. Discovery doesn’t happen in just one place anymore. It’s scattered … Continue reading Timeless Marketing in an AI-Driven World
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What are marketers saying about HubSpot’s Loop Marketing playbook?
Loop Marketing reimagines content strategy for the AI age. How you feel about it depends on how you think about marketing. Mike Pastore on September 11, 2025 In April 2025, HubSpot held a Spotlight event in New York City to introduce new products and features. The company traditionally reserved Spotlight events for its Inbound … Continue reading What are marketers saying about HubSpot’s Loop Marketing playbook?
AI threatens entry-level marketing jobs—and the future talent pipeline
AI is handling tasks that once taught junior staff marketing fundamentals. Cutting these positions now means a talent shortage down the line. Constantine von Hoffman on September 8, 2025 Entry-level roles are drying up because of AI automation and budget cuts. This is particularly true for marketing, where AI’s capacity to do grunt work … Continue reading AI threatens entry-level marketing jobs—and the future talent pipeline
Laying the groundwork for smarter, AI-driven marketing
Rules-based campaigns limit your agility. AI decisioning reacts in milliseconds for peak relevance. Learn to build the data and governance to unlock it. Mike Pastore on September 8, 2025 The move from static, rules-based campaigns to AI-driven decisioning is as significant as the earlier shift from batch email blasts to real-time personalization. Modern AI … Continue reading Laying the groundwork for smarter, AI-driven marketing
Two influencers face €30,000 fine for gambling marketing in Finland
Two influencers face €30,000 fine for gambling marketing in Finland Rachael Davies The Finnish National Police Board has fined two influencers €30,000 a piece for marketing gambling in Finland. Two social media influencers have been prohibited from marketing gambling in Finland by the National Police Board. One ban came into effect in June 2025, while … Continue reading Two influencers face €30,000 fine for gambling marketing in Finland
The real reason so many teams are struggling with email marketing
Flat engagement, weak pipeline, frustrated marketers. Sound familiar? Here’s what successful B2B teams are doing differently with email this year. Joe Cunningham on September 4, 2025 I was talking to a B2B marketer recently who admitted her email campaigns weren’t pulling their weight. They took too much time to build, engagement was flat, and … Continue reading The real reason so many teams are struggling with email marketing
Agility is the new foundation of marketing infrastructure
In a volatile market, CMOs must trade rigid martech stacks for agile, modular systems that drive personalization, speed and measurable growth. John Premkumar on September 4, 2025 High inflation, recession fears and ongoing uncertainty are putting tremendous pressure on companies across industries. With marketing often viewed as discretionary, budgets now face unprecedented scrutiny from … Continue reading Agility is the new foundation of marketing infrastructure
HubSpot debuts a new AI playbook at Inbound as content marketing falters
Content traffic is down. Old funnels are fading. HubSpot hopes Loop Marketing is an AI-first strategy to win attention and conversions. Mike Pastore on September 3, 2025 HubSpot’s Inbound conference opened for business today on the coast opposite its usual home in Boston. With so much change hitting marketing in the past year, a … Continue reading HubSpot debuts a new AI playbook at Inbound as content marketing falters
Top ways to use Zapier MCP server and LLMs to boost marketing performance
Zapier’s MCP server connects LLMs to thousands of apps, making marketing automation smarter and more efficient. Constance Chen on August 27, 2025 Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are valuable new additions to marketers’ AI toolkit. MCP is a framework that lets LLMs connect to external data sources and tools, giving them agentic abilities to … Continue reading Top ways to use Zapier MCP server and LLMs to boost marketing performance
Marketing leadership asks for radical candor but wants compliance
When radical candor and transparency are reduced to slogans, marketing teams pay the price — through burnout, disillusionment and broken trust. Jay Mandel on August 22, 2025 Marketers love bold words. Radical candor. Radical transparency. Radical acceptance. They sound daring, but in practice, they’re often hollow — more performance than principle. In organizations where … Continue reading Marketing leadership asks for radical candor but wants compliance