Growth & Strategy

Covers AI applied to growth strategy, marketing operations, team transformation, AI adoption frameworks, ROI measurement, and organizational change. Includes annual state-of-the-field summaries synthesizing survey data, AI marketing roadmap frameworks, B2B vs. B2C comparison explainers, and guidance for marketing leaders building the internal case for AI investment. Excludes channel-specific tactics (those belong in Content Marketing, Advertising, SEO, or Sales). Serves marketing managers, directors, and CMOs who need strategic framing and benchmarking data, not just tool tutorials.

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14 pieces

  • AI Marketing Analytics: A Practitioner's Reference Guide

    A structured reference guide covering how AI applies to marketing analytics — what tasks it handles reliably, where it fails, which tool categories exist, and what practitioners need to know before adopting it in their analytics workflow.

    Jun 1, 2026
  • AI in Email Marketing: A Complete Practitioner's Guide

    A structured reference guide covering how AI applies to email marketing — what tasks it handles well, where it underdelivers, which tool categories exist, and what practitioners need to know before adopting it in their email programs.

    Jun 1, 2026
  • AI in Paid Search Advertising: A Channel Reference Guide

    A structured reference guide covering how AI is applied in paid search advertising — from mature automation like Smart Bidding to experimental generative ad formats — including known failure modes, control trade-offs, and what practitioners need to understand before relying on platform AI.

    May 29, 2026
  • AI in B2B Demand Generation: A Channel Reference Guide

    A structured reference guide covering how AI is applied across B2B demand generation channels — from intent data and content syndication to ABM personalization and pipeline scoring — with honest notes on what's mature, what's still rough, and where the failure modes live.

    May 29, 2026
  • AI Copyright Grey Zone in Ad Creative: What Marketers Actually Face

    AI-generated ad creative sits in a genuine legal grey zone — no clear copyright ownership, unresolved training data liability, and platform policies that shift faster than court rulings. This is a practical reference for marketing teams who need to understand what the risks actually are before scaling AI creative production.

    May 29, 2026
  • AI in Programmatic Display Advertising: A Channel Guide

    A structured reference guide covering how AI is applied across the programmatic display channel — from audience modeling and bid optimization to dynamic creative and brand safety — with honest assessments of what's mature, what's still unreliable, and what marketers need to know before committing to AI-driven workflows.

    May 29, 2026
  • Consumer Trust in AI-Labeled Marketing Content: What the Evidence Actually Shows

    Surveys consistently show that consumers respond differently to content labeled as AI-generated — but the direction and magnitude of that effect depends heavily on content type, brand category, and how the disclosure is framed. This analysis breaks down what the data says and what it means for marketers deciding whether and how to disclose AI use.

    May 29, 2026
  • The AI Growth Strategy Framework for Marketing Directors: From Readiness Audit to Scaled Execution

    A four-phase execution framework — Assess, Prioritize and Pilot, Scale, Govern and Measure — designed for marketing directors and VPs of Marketing who have run AI pilots but need a structured, growth-tied system to move from fragmented experimentation to end-to-end AI-driven outcomes they can defend to CFO and CEO stakeholders.

    marketing director, VP of MarketingframeworkMcKinsey, Spencer Stuart, Heinz Marketing, Larridin, Typeface, McKinsey Global Survey on AI2026-06-03