Author: Samantha Greene
Samantha Greene
Samantha is a Chicago-based market researcher with a knack for spotting the next big shift in digital culture before it hits mainstream. She’s contributed to major marketing publications, swears by sticky notes and never writes with anything but blue ink. Believes pineapple does belong on pizza.
Generative search is rewriting the funnel — here’s how brands should structure content for both human readers and AI agents.
New survey data on Gen Alpha ad skepticism shows brands face a trust gap that traditional influencer tactics can’t fix.
Zero-click search now dominates product queries. Here’s how brands rebuild content strategy to win generative answer citations instead of clicks.
Job-posting data shows the marketing analytics talent shortage is worsening as AI-fluency requirements outpace candidate skills.
Sovereign AI rules are forcing brands to split MarTech stacks by region, changing how campaigns get built, approved, and measured.
Global ad spend growth is slowing even as AI cuts campaign costs — here’s why efficiency gains aren’t translating into bigger budgets.
New data shows hyper-personalized ads have a breaking point — past it, conversion rates drop as trust and creative quality erode.
Nearly 4 million brand-creator collaborations are exposing the cracks in legacy influencer tools. Here’s what buyers need to fix now.
Social commerce pathways are replacing search and static links as the default distribution channel — here’s what brands must build now.
Synthetic creator adoption exposes a trust-efficiency tradeoff brands must navigate with disclosure, testing, and smarter budget allocation.