#content strategy

#content strategy

But now, communicating with perfection and polish signals a lack of value. It signals that you used AI. Speaking to Instagram influencers, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri last week announced the dawn of this new world. In posts on Instagram and Threads, he said that, "Deepfakes are getting better and better. AI is generating photographs and videos indistinguishable from captured media. The feeds are starting to fill up with synthetic everything."

AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity-powered by large language models (LLMs)-are emerging as parallel gatekeepers. They're quietly reshaping which brands get recommended long before a buyer ever reaches a search results page. In my previous article, I discussed how Google's AI Overviews are intercepting traffic (even for top-ranking sites). But there's another shift that many businesses haven't recognized: Search engines are no longer the only place where your customers' questions get answered.

Google Search Console's "Insights" section no longer shows click trends for individual keywords. It now displays trends for keyword groups, once available only to high-traffic sites. Selecting any group of keywords takes you to the Performance section with the regex filter activated to show details. Many marketers believe the future of organic search monitoring is keyword groups. Consumers' queries are becoming longer and more diverse as they interact with genAI platforms such as ChatGPT and Google AI Mode. Hence tracking individual words is becoming ineffective.

Social media marketing has become one of the most valuable tools in the modern real estate agent's tool kit. Just ask the 39% of active agents who rank social media as the top technology for attracting high-quality leads, ahead of customer relationship management tools and even the local multiple listing service (MLS). Effective social media content has the power to shape first impressions and influence buying decisions long before a lead schedules a showing, but success doesn't come from posting at random.

Don't get me wrong; the people who launched those 53 channels are surely talented creators who deliver clever or entertaining content-I subscribed for some reason, after all. But at this point, I couldn't tell you what most of them are truly about because there's nothing there to draw me back. I don't know who the creators are, and I don't return to their channels, because they're not building worlds I want to be part of. They're just...posting.

"The first thing you should be doing right now is running visibility reporting for your brand or organization," he said. Lamp will speak on this topic at AI Horizons Conference during the session, "AI Search Workshop: Turn GEO into ROI with an AI-First Content Strategy." The method isn't complicated, he said. It's a back-to-basics audit designed to help organizations understand when people ask AI tools about your brand how you're showing up.

According to research from HarrisX and Ragan, 76% of communicators say writing and editing are core competencies they need to elevate, and nearly 70% expect AI to dramatically reshape their roles in the next three years. Communicators face creative and strategic pressure to maintain professionalism, achieve business goals, craft a trustworthy and credible brand voice that stands out from the drone of bot-speak, often while being encouraged to integrate chatbots into their comms processes.

Social media has become an essential marketing channel for entrepreneurs, yet finding time to maintain an active presence remains a major challenge. For busy business owners, the constant pressure to create engaging content, respond to comments, and stay visible across multiple platforms can feel overwhelming. The reality is that effective social media engagement requires strategy, not just sporadic posting. Many entrepreneurs struggle to balance social media management with their core business responsibilities.

Short videos are in high demand. Across large platforms like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok, users are watching billions of videos every day, with companies benefitting massively from this content explosion. For creators, this often means there is pressure to create more content than ever before to be relevant and make a living out of it, especially as more AI-generated slop is infiltrating these platforms.

Too often, we pick formats because they're "hot" (hello, TikTok and AR lenses) rather than because they align with our brand's outcome. As marketers, we must reverse the lens by asking what business objective we're pursuing-awareness, consideration, conversion, retention-and then choosing the format that best fits that objective. For example, if your goal is top-of-funnel reach with a younger demographic, then short-form immersive reels or stories might make sense.

On its face, ChatGPT is a chatbot. Give it any text prompt - a question, statement, challenge - and it will generate a response ranging from a sentence, to a paragraph, to computer code. Under the hood, ChatGPT is a Large Language Model (LLM). The core is a massive text dataset, a big bunch of words. ChatGPT uses this massive text dataset to predict what the next sequence of words will be in a given context.

Facebook engagement -likes, comments, shares, and other interactions -is vital because it directly affects the organic reach of posts. When users engage with content, Facebook's algorithm interprets that engagement as valuable, boosting its visibility to a wider audience. Higher engagement also fosters community building, strengthens brand affinity, and increases the likelihood that posts will appear in users' newsfeeds. A robust social media strategy involves prioritizing genuine interactions to sustain long-term audience growth and trust.

Over recent years it feels like the evolution of technology has increased in speed. The way we consume media has changed and video is spearheading the charge. Being able to stream movies and TV shows, capture and upload imagery straight to your social channels within seconds, and produce high-quality content using cost-effective tools is making video production accessible to the masses.

Where does your show/content fall on the grid? Most podcasts are in the bottom left-square with low value and awareness. Chat-casts, minimal-prep interviews, and "just talk for 40 minutes" shows reside in this 'highest pain and lowest reward' corner. AI will saturate the quadrant further. To land in the coveted upper right, you need content with high value and awareness. Content in the upper-right stands out, earns trust, and keeps audiences coming back.

If you covered up your name and profile picture on LinkedIn, would your dream client still know that post was written by you? The LinkedIn feed is overrun with AI-generated posts, regurgitated quotes, and surface-level advice that sounds like everyone else. Your ideal clients scroll past dozens of posts every day, glazed eyes searching for something real, something that actually helps them solve their problems.

In a market flooded with digital noise and half-baked strategies, legal marketing expert Chris Dreyer stands out by offering something rare: clarity. As the CEO of Rankings.io and the mind behind the PIMCon conference, Chris is reshaping how law firms think about scaling, branding, and attracting clients. In our "Be That Lawyer" conversation, we explored what actually works in 2025, and how lawyers can stop overthinking and start executing.

Seemingly overnight, we've shifted away from search to the answer economy. In the last year, B2B buying channels have transformed, altering how customers search, discover and evaluate SaaS solutions. Already, up to 6% of B2B organic traffic comes from AI sources and is growing monthly by 40%. By the end of 2025, over 20% of organic traffic is expected to come from AI sources.

Live video has quickly become one of the most powerful ways for businesses to connect with audiences, build trust and showcase the people behind the brand. Yet for many business owners, it's also one of the trickiest formats to get right. The camera captures everything-not only confidence, clarity and culture, but also hesitation, over-preparation and mixed messaging. The difference between a live video that inspires and one that falls flat often comes down to avoidable missteps,

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