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Your CDP just grew a brain

The agentic land-grab is officially on — plus Google rewires bidding and the EU sets a labeling deadline.

May 25, 2026

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5 min read

Your Buyer Doesn't Have an Agent

Gartner says 90% of B2B buying will be agent-to-agent by 2028. Forrester surveyed 18,000 buyers and found they're still humans arguing on a Zoom call. 🤖

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May 20, 2026

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5 min read

Your Champion Is Outnumbered

81% of won B2B deals had broad buying-group awareness from day one. You're still pointing the firehose at one VP.

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Your AI Budget Is a Receipt, Not a Strategy

May 18, 2026

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5 min read

Your AI Budget Is a Receipt, Not a Strategy

CMOs put 15.3% of marketing budgets into AI. Only 30% can actually run it. Then they told Gartner they're broke. 🤡

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May 15, 2026

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5 min read

AEO Is the New SEO Grift

85% of B2B AI search visibility comes from places you don't own. Your AEO consultant doesn't want that on the invoice.

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The Funnel Died. Your Dashboard Hasn't Noticed.

May 13, 2026

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5 min read

The Funnel Died. Your Dashboard Hasn't Noticed.

79% of MQLs never convert. 80% of buyers now lean on zero-click results. Your reporting still pretends both numbers matter. 📉

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Everyone's Using AI. Almost No One Is Good At It.

Mar 23, 2026

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7 min read

Everyone's Using AI. Almost No One Is Good At It.

A survey of 911 marketers found 96% are using AI tools. Only 3% call themselves experts. That gap is your biggest competitive risk right now.

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Your 60-Day Window Is Killing Good Campaigns

Mar 19, 2026

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8 min read

Your 60-Day Window Is Killing Good Campaigns

You're not running bad campaigns. You're just measuring them wrong.

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SEO Is Dead. Here's What's Killing Your Pipeline.

Mar 17, 2026

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7 min read

SEO Is Dead. Here's What's Killing Your Pipeline.

B2B buyers are doing the research. They're just not doing it on your website.

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Archive

Your CDP just grew a brain

Your Buyer Doesn't Have an Agent

Your Champion Is Outnumbered

Your AI Budget Is a Receipt, Not a Strategy

AEO Is the New SEO Grift

The Funnel Died. Your Dashboard Hasn't Noticed.

Everyone's Using AI. Almost No One Is Good At It.

Your 60-Day Window Is Killing Good Campaigns

SEO Is Dead. Here's What's Killing Your Pipeline.

Marketing Qualified - A Reel Axis Publication