Category: Brand

  • How AI Reads Your Brand: The Mind-Blowing Word Web Behind Every Response

    Imagine you’ve just walked into a vast public library. You walk up to the librarian, and you say, “I’d like a word, please.” “With the manager?” “No,” you say. “A word from your books. In fact, a word and all the words near it in your books.” “What word?” “How about the word Trust?” you…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Junior Career Opportunities in the Age of AI?

    Summary In today's episode, I discuss how junior employees can navigate AI-driven job displacement and enhance their career opportunities. Here's what this means for you. You learn how to build a skillset that remains relevant despite increasing automation. You'll also learn these concepts: the transition from performing processes to delivering outcomes, essential generative AI proficiencies,…

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  • Foundation Principles of Generative AI, Part 9

    Summary In today's episode, I discuss why you must avoid brand loyalty toward AI providers. Here's what this means for you. You maintain a competitive edge by always using the most capable technology available. You'll also learn these concepts: why brand loyalty creates technical limitations, how abstraction layers facilitate easy model switching, and how model…

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  • You Are the Media, You Are the Brand: How to Thrive in the Age of AI and Personal Influence

    What does surviving and thriving look like in the age of AI? Hereโ€™s a simple, uncomfortable (for brands) answer: you. You are what will help brands survive and thrive. You, the individual. Call it what you will, influencers, creators, thought leaders, brand ambassadors – at the end of the day itโ€™s a person and a…

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  • How Agencies Can Outperform AI: 3 Human-Centric Strategies for Success

    Why do people hire agencies? Specifically content and digital agencies. Usually, it boils down to two basic needs: You need more brains. Your team lacks a missing set of skills. You need more hands. Your team just doesn’t have the bandwidth to meet its requirements. Both of these are excellent reasons to bring in outside…

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  • Why AI Can’t Measure Brand Strength (And Why Companies Claiming Otherwise Are Lying)

    You still can’t measure brand strength in AI. Ashley Faus pointed out this morning on another post that a company is claiming to measure your brand strength/presence in AI. Unsurprisingly, the claim was not accompanied with a peer-reviewed dataset or methodology, or even a preprint paper. Let’s review why this is impossible today. Models are…

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  • **Will AI Replace Your Job? The Surprising Truth About Work in the Age of AI**

    When AI can do everything, what’s left for humans? This is the existential question everyone’s talking about after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s piece highlighting that generative AI could spike unemployment to 20% in the short term (2-5 year window). That’s realistic. It might be higher, depending on how quickly the C-suite wants to chase profits…

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  • The Future of Marketing: How AI Is Reshaping Content and What You Need to Do Now

    What is the future ofโ€ฆ? The top question I was asked at this yearโ€™s Orbit Media Content Jam, in sessions, in hallways, at meals, was some variation of โ€œWhatโ€™s the future of [thing]?โ€. Agencies. Marketing. Content. Truth. Fill in the blank with any topic, and that was the question, especially as it relates to generative…

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  • Should OpenAI Add Ads? The Pros, Cons, and Future of AI Advertising

    Should OpenAI have ads? Let’s tackle these questions. First, in terms of what this would mean for OpenAI’s business, they’ve got to find revenue. It’s long been known that OpenAI is burning cash at a crazy rate to keep up their operations. So, advertising is one potential model. The other model would be to increase…

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  • Mastering Sora & AI Video Generators: Pro Tips for Stunning Results

    Early thoughts and tips on Sora and similar video generators. Sora in particular works best with its storyboards feature. Hat tip to Nicole Leffer on this – you can cram it full of detail and it’ll behave better. Be discrete in your instructions. Like ChatGPT, making things structured seems to deliver good results. For example:…

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