Y Combinator’s motto, “Make something people want,” was never about the product. It was about distribution. Build the thing that finds product-market fit, and the people come. For 20 years, that distribution ran through search engines, social algorithms, paid ads, and word of mouth. All human-mediated channels. That changed. In
Customer data platform BlueConic announced today it was acquiring Blueshift, an AI-powered cross-channel marketing platform. The next wave of CDPs is looking more agentic than previous generations, which were focused on collecting and unifying customer data. Agentic CDPs, as they’re starting to be called, will add AI agents to make decisions
In addition to the profound economic, societal and technological changes brought on by the advent of the industrial age in the second half of the 19th century, the time period also saw the introduction of symbols and brand names for distinguishing and identifying products. Logos began as representational symbols, according
AI Mode visitors arrive at your website having already done the research. They compared options inside the AI, refined their query three times, and planned. By the time they click through to you, they are not browsing. They are ready to complete a task. Your website is still built to
Marketers are nervous about agentic media buying. WPP is betting governance is the answer. Which is why alongside the launch of its Buyer Agent for Video yesterday (June 18), it unveiled a coalition of premium media owners including Disney, Netflix, NBCUniversal, Paramount and Fox as well as standards bodies IAB
Most design courses are good at teaching you how to make the technical stuff, like software, principles, and processes. What they’re often less good at is teaching you how to work, or manage a client relationship, or grapple with feedback that doesn’t make much sense because it’s come from someone
For about two months, business owners and SEO professionals have reported that pages have been removed from Google’s index without a clear explanation. The reports started in late April and have continued into June. In many of those reports, the affected pages had neither a manual action nor a crawl
Absolut, Nike, Liquid Death, Etsy, and more are behind the week’s most notable ads. Source link
Taylor Borden, an editor at LinkedIn, emailed me last week with a question she’s putting to a handful of writers for a special edition of her newsletter, The Work Shift. The premise was backed by data that shows entrepreneurship on LinkedIn is up nearly 70% year over year, more than
