11 essential content marketing links for Q1 26

11 essential content marketing links for Q1 26

Written by

Tony Hallett
 

06/04/2026

  1. The State of AI in Thought Leadership

Would be remiss of us not to lead with our big report from the past couple of weeks.

  1. GTLI Symposium – the recap in the park

And MD Tony was recently in Texas for the second annual symposium by the Global Thought Leadership Institute. Here’s his pithy walk-through of what went down.

  1. Promise and Peril: How attitudes to and practices in thought leadership are changing in the era of AI

The title kind of says it all. Invaluable report, especially the part about CEOs marking you down for AI-generated content.

  1. Sense-maker sessions: Content leaders (YouTube)

And so many of the big names in thought leadership have made it to our Sense-maker sessions pod. Catch all our episodes here.

  1. Kantar Marketing Trends 2026

10 trends (didn’t they get the memo about ‘11’?), from synthetic data and micro communities to AI.

  1. The most powerful way to grow Thought Leadership in the age of AI

William Arruda, who often writes about these subjects on Forbes, explores an interesting angle of standing out via public speaking, rather than compete with thousands of competitors online.

  1. Best Practices for LinkedIn Thought Leader Ads [Infographic]

Sticking with the LinkedIn theme, have you been tempted by the platform’s so-called Thought Leadership Ads? SocialMediaToday helps summarise LinkedIn’s own guide, in this infographic.

  1. Social Media Trends 2026

Thorough, from Hootsuite, covering four different areas. But what do we think of the weird little AI-generated video 😐?

  1. AI is rewriting visibility in the zero-click search era

MarTech writes about what’s been replacing traditional SEO and what you can do.

  1. LinkedIn hashtags: The complete guide for 2026

LinkedIn is a big platform for us here and we still use hashtags. This Sprout Social post explains why you should too.

  1. 25+ Places you should be sharing your content

OK, there are some usual suspects in here – but also plenty of left-field sites where you might consider sharing your content.

Why 11 links? Because ‘elevenses’ is one of the best words, and things to do.

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