What HappenedOn July 9, 2024, BrandAlley reported strong results from its deployment of AI-driven personalized product recommendations. According to the retailer, the system delivered a 10% increase in average basket value (AOV) and successfully recovered 24% of at-risk customers. By leveraging transaction history, browsing behavior, and predictive analytics, BrandAlley’s AI recommendations influence real-time purchasing decisions […]
PR & Writing
AI in Workflow: Brand Analytics, Influencer Insights, and Journalist Discovery #AIg
What HappenedIn June 2024, Meltwater rolled out a series of AI-powered updates designed to accelerate brand monitoring, improve outreach targeting, and enhance campaign planning. Key additions include AI-generated Brand Analytics Tabs that compile real-time brand health reports, an AI Journalist Search tool to help PR teams identify relevant media contacts faster, and enhanced influencer campaign […]
YouTube AI Music, HubSpot Content Hub, and Google AI Overviews: Aligning Creativity, Campaigns, and Search
The pace of digital marketing is shifting again, and this time AI isn’t just supporting workflows — it’s steering how discovery, content, and visibility connect. In April, YouTube expanded its AI-powered music features with DJ-style suggestions and text-to-prompt radio stations, offering creators dynamic soundtracks that respond to audience tastes. At the same time, HubSpot launched […]
Building Authority with Verified AI Research
I have been in enough boardrooms to recognize the cycle. Someone pushes for more output, the dashboards glow, and soon the team is buried in decks and reports that nobody trusts. Noise rises, but credibility does not. Volume by itself has never carried authority. What changes the outcome is proof. Proof that every claim ties […]
Factics make us more Intelligent
The fastest way to generate content is not the safest way to generate truth. ChatGPT makes it easy to produce language that sounds confident, coherent, and complete. That speed is useful. It is also dangerous. Speed amplifies whatever discipline sits behind it. When the discipline is weak, output becomes polished noise. When the discipline is […]
Precision at Scale: AI Levels Up Creative, Email, and SEO
AI has moved from “interesting assist” to a quiet operator embedded in everyday marketing work. GPT-4’s larger context window lets teams keep strategy, research, and long-form assets in one thread so the narrative actually holds together. Adobe’s Firefly introduces brand-safe generative imagery to comping and production, trimming cycles without creating IP risk. LinkedIn’s AI-assisted job […]
AI, Me, and the Road Ahead: How I Use Artificial Intelligence to Create Content That Works
If you’ve read my work before, you know I believe technology should serve creativity, not replace it. That’s why in 2023, you’ll see two distinct kinds of content from me—each powered by AI in different ways, but with very different results. Defining the Two Paths Artificial intelligence can be an accelerator or an autopilot. When […]
Create Your Own E-book For Free
You can create your own ebook in OpenOffice writer with this free Kindle template and EPUB generator from OpenOffice.org. Kindle Template and EPUB Generator Review These days, if you want to self-publish a book, the easiest and least expensive way to do it is to make it an ebook. You can save a standard OpenOffice […]
Copyrighting Color: How (And Why) To Do It
Marketing studies suggest that over 80% of visual information is related to colour. Seem unlikely? Try and picture the following in your mind: Coca-Cola, Starbucks, Cadbury and O2. Roughly 90% of you just saw specific shades of red, green, purple and blue. Not a phrase, not an advert, just those colours and maybe a […]
Productivity Killers of a Writer
We writers are a blessed breed as not many other people get to sit around doing nothing all day long. We get to go to the beach whenever we feel like it, go to the pub for lunch and choose to stay there for the rest of the day, or just watch mindless rubbish on […]