Alex breaks down what content engineering actually means: building the systems infrastructure to maintain quality, freshness, and brand accuracy across everything a company has ever put online. He makes the counterintuitive case that great content engineering puts more humans into the content process.More
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186: Olga Andrienko: Ex-VP at Semrush left her 35-person brand team to build AI for marketing ops
Olga thought she was ahead of the AI curve, but a weekend course on autonomous systems showed her she was thinking too small. She pitched a shared internal AI stack at Semrush, built systems off APIs, skipped procurement by using already-approved tools, and tracked hours saved instead of promising vague ROI.More
168: AI’s talent crunch: Marketing jobs on the brink and those set to thrive
At risk are campaign operators, generic content creators, and report-pulling analysts. Set to thrive are resident AI implementation experts who select worthy tools, data orchestrators connecting proprietary data to AI, product/customer marketers with genuine empathy, ethics guardians preventing bias issues, and localization specialists understanding cultural nuances.More
165: Ashley Faus: Building content that matches actual human thinking by integrating lifecycle, content and product marketing
Marketing frameworks often fail because they ignore how humans actually behave. People don’t follow neat, linear paths; they explore, double back, and leap ahead based on genuine interests. Drawing from her diverse experience across corporate communications and lifecycle leadership, Ashley exposes how artificial walls between marketing functions create dysfunction while offering a solution. More
127: Carmen Simon: Using brain science to deviate from expected patterns and create memorable content
Carmen takes us on an adventure exploring the wonders of brain science and how to sustain attention through contrast. We cover embodied cognition, deviating from expected patterns and avoiding the sea of sameness in AI content. We also take a detour into the speculative future of neuroscience and making data impactful through context. More
123: Andrea Lechner-Becker: Creating content that people will give a f*ck about
Andrea takes us on a wild ride filled with nuggets of wisdom, a few f-bombs and tons of laughs as she unpacks her deep understanding of marketing. She sheds light on how flawed attribution methods can lead marketers to do dumb things, why investing in branding from the outset is table stakes and bunch more stuff!More
90: Lucie De Antoni: Startup alchemy, mixing data literacy and attribution with empathy and collaboration
Lucie emphasizes that attribution needs planning, but don’t let martech make you forget empathy and emotional intelligence. It’s a no-nonsense take on making martech work for you, focusing on strategy over tactics.More
71: Find the top AI marketing tools and filter out the noise
The key to future proofing your marketing career with the ever changing AI landscape is to stay curious, get your hands dirty and experiment fearlessly: Fill out some forms, spin up free trials, get on wait lists, and give new AI tools a chance. It’s only by actually getting your hands dirty that you’ll discover which tools truly work for you and which are just part of the ever growing sea of gimmicky AI tools.More