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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 are your AI-generated meeting summaries not telling you? 

By Tony Hallett 07/17/2024

Back when I was a reporter, an old hack once told me never to ask my best questions from the floor of a press conference or similar event. His thinking…

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Written By Tony Hallett17/07/2024
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Essential AI insights from Q2 24

By Eve Michell 07/03/2024

1. Few people use GenAI for news updates, but many expect big impacts on journalism An online YouGov survey about the use of GenAI in journalism found that 5 per…

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Written By Eve Michell03/07/2024
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Plagiarism Week – why?

By Tony Hallett 05/20/2024

I’ve seen people lose their careers because of plagiarism. And I’ve seen companies lose reputation and revenue. That’s why we care at this agency. Stepping back a bit, I understand…

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Written By Tony Hallett20/05/2024
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Essential AI insights from Q1 24

By Eve Michell 05/07/2024

1. Accenture workforce report examines employee sentiment regarding AI in the workplace Accenture’s Work, workforce, workers report finds that 95 per cent of workers see the value in working with…

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Written By Eve Michell07/05/2024
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Essential entertainment, media and sports insights from Q4 22

By Aled Herbert 01/26/2023

1. Technology helps football referees’ decisions, but results can still be offside Technology supplies some but not all of the answers. This seems to be especially true for video assistant…

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Written By Aled Herbert26/01/2023
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Stock images, authenticity and journalism

By Tony Hallett 07/27/2018

I was looking at a photo of a local park the other day – actually from a Twitter feed for that particular place – and was struck by how great…

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Written By Tony Hallett27/07/2018
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11 essential content marketing links from Q2 18

By Tony Hallett 06/29/2018

The best way to pitch a content marketing plan to your boss We kick off with a story we saw back in April, but it’s among the biggest things you…

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Written By Tony Hallett29/06/2018
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11 essential content marketing links from Q1 18

By Tony Hallett 03/28/2018

A Take on 3 Confusing Terms: Content Marketing, Content Strategy, Content Marketing Strategy This is the kind of foundational piece that everyone in who works with commercial content should read.…

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Written By Tony Hallett28/03/2018
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11 essential content marketing links from Q4 17

By Tony Hallett 01/02/2018

Copywriter vs. Content Writer: Skills, writing fees and expectations This isn’t the exact same take we’ve provided but Barry is always good and this piece has a lot to ponder…

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Written By Tony Hallett02/01/2018
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11 essential content marketing links for Q3 17

By Tony Hallett 09/28/2017

Why journalists ditch the thesaurus when it comes to “said” (for new journalism students who don’t) An unusual and simple start to this quarter’s round-up… but it’s important because the use…

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Written By Tony Hallett28/09/2017
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I was working in content marketing 20 years ago – I just didn’t know it

By Tony Hallett 05/19/2016

When I started as a journalist in the 1990s we had an unusual job come our way. Every day we were to unload a sack of VHS cassettes, for that’s…

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Written By Tony Hallett19/05/2016
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