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Rigour, bold moves and trust: Lessons from content leaders

By Eve Michell 02/16/2026

Let’s start with slop. We’ve all heard about it and – sadly – experienced it. But the explosion of low-quality content isn’t only driven by AI tools, and it isn’t the only reason we risk failing to see in a potential Golden Age of thought leadership. With that in mind,…

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Written By Eve Michell16/02/2026
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3 examples: audiences seeking out ‘the human’

By Tony Hallett 12/18/2025

How do you stand out in a world of AI mediocrity and, more broadly, B2B same-ness?    Where in the world? Twenty years ago, I was five years into editing a weekly…

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Written By Tony Hallett18/12/2025
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Commit No Nuisance – whatever that means

By Tony Hallett 11/12/2025

I was at a meeting in Southwark last week and walked past a somewhat well-known street sign, one that I’d pass most mornings on a commute I used to make…

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Written By Tony Hallett12/11/2025
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How to optimise your content for GenAI search success

By Shirley Siluk 09/25/2025

Search engine optimisation (SEO) isn’t dead (yet). But as generative AI tools grab an ever-larger share of traffic from traditional search engines, content marketers need to adjust their SEO strategies…

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Written By Shirley Siluk25/09/2025
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Connecting with prospects online is a challenge… but the biggest test is maintaining trust

By Shirley Siluk 09/09/2025

In our ongoing series on generative engine optimisation (GEO), we’ve looked at key terms you need to know about this new strategy for being found online, current stats about AI’s…

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Written By Shirley Siluk09/09/2025
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SEO in the age of AI search: How content marketers are fighting ‘Google Zero’

By Shirley Siluk 09/02/2025

Many content marketers today might not remember the early days of the web – the days before LinkedIn (founded in 2003) or, even farther back, Google (established in 1998). But…

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Written By Shirley Siluk02/09/2025
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Who does search serve? GEO raises hard questions for content marketers looking to be found online

By Shirley Siluk 08/26/2025

If you’re a content marketer, how will you get people to view your content if AI-powered search engines no longer direct people to your website? That search apocalypse – known…

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Written By Shirley Siluk26/08/2025
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What is a use case and when you should use one?

By Bill Clark 08/22/2025

What is a use case? Don’t search it, don’t run your AI, just off the top of your head. If you’re like us at Collective Content, you’ve spent years reading…

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Written By Bill Clark22/08/2025
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Painkillers or vitamins – what do you sell?

By Tony Hallett 06/09/2025

The internet is thick with business guru after business guru telling you to sell painkillers rather than vitamins. What does that mean? Well, the theory is that we all know…

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Written By Tony Hallett09/06/2025
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Whatever the content type, one process to rule them all

By Daine Lindsay 05/29/2025

We established the way we work when Collective Content mostly worked on written projects like case studies, blog posts, whitepapers and eBooks, guides and more that we did, and still…

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Written By Daine Lindsay29/05/2025
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The $$$ is in the detail

By Tony Hallett 04/09/2025

The devil is in the detail, they say. But sometimes it’s the good stuff you find in the detail – in work or play. I recently visited several universities with…

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Written By Tony Hallett09/04/2025
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