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August 24, 2026

Boulders, Not Pebbles: Finding the Clients My Agency Was Built For

Nineteen years in, the founder of Ambient Array on why agency-client fit makes all the…

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August 23, 2026

AI Overviews Are Changing the Search Bargain

Google's AI Overviews are cutting publisher referrals nearly in half. What that means for your…

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August 18, 2026

What Q2 2026 Brand Loyalty Data Tells CMOs

Q2 2026 card-spend data shows loyalty is structural, not emotional. What Amazon, McDonald's, and Costco…

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Data and Research Marketing Strategy

August 13, 2026

How Topical Authority Spreads in ChatGPT

Why brand mentions matter more than citations in AI search, and how to reshape your…

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August 11, 2026

The Bigger Market Wasn’t the Better Market: A Real Estate Site Selection Case Study

Two candidate sites, one metro. The location with 6x fewer households was projected to earn…

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Data and Research Marketing Strategy

August 8, 2026

When AI Thinks for You, Who Is Actually Making the Decisions?

Belief offloading is the quiet CMO risk in daily AI use. Keep judgment and final…

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August 2, 2026

The Hidden Reason Your AI Agents Keep Getting the Wrong Answers

Why your AI agents give wrong answers: the problem is fragmented organizational knowledge, not model…

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Data and Research Marketing Strategy

July 28, 2026

The Measurement Trap: Why CMOs Keep Making the Same Budget Mistakes

Most CMO budget decisions rest on flawed measurement. Why attribution models mislead, and how to…

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Data and Research Marketing Strategy

July 22, 2026

What CMOs Should Actually Do With These Platform Shifts Right Now

What CMOs need to know about the latest platform shifts affecting measurement, AI-driven acquisition, and…

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Data and Research Marketing Strategy

July 16, 2026

The New AI Assistant Channel in GA4: Your AI Traffic Finally Has a Name

GA4 now groups visits from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude into a new AI Assistant channel.…

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Data and Research Marketing Automation Marketing Strategy

July 12, 2026

Consolidate Before You Automate: Fixing Data Before AI

Consolidate your fragmented data sources before automating. Learn how to unify customer, competitor, and financial…

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July 8, 2026

Building AI Authority: How to Get Your Website Cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity

How to structure your website so AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity cite you: knowledge…

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Data and Research

Boulders, Not Pebbles: Finding the Clients My Agency Was Built For

AI Overviews Are Changing the Search Bargain

What Q2 2026 Brand Loyalty Data Tells CMOs

How Topical Authority Spreads in ChatGPT

The Bigger Market Wasn’t the Better Market: A Real Estate Site Selection Case Study

When AI Thinks for You, Who Is Actually Making the Decisions?

The Hidden Reason Your AI Agents Keep Getting the Wrong Answers

The Measurement Trap: Why CMOs Keep Making the Same Budget Mistakes

What CMOs Should Actually Do With These Platform Shifts Right Now

The New AI Assistant Channel in GA4: Your AI Traffic Finally Has a Name

Consolidate Before You Automate: Fixing Data Before AI

Building AI Authority: How to Get Your Website Cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity

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