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Why Marketing Attribution Misleads: What the Experiments Show evidence marketing strategy Aug 17, 2026

Marketing attribution's central limitation is this: it observes sequence, not cause. An attribution model records that a touchpoint occurred before a purchase. It cannot establish that the touchpoint ...

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AI Marketing Productivity: What the Evidence Actually Shows ai evidence teams Jul 20, 2026

The evidence on AI productivity is genuinely strong: in controlled studies, professionals using generative AI completed work around 40 per cent faster with measurably higher quality. The same body of ...

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How to Validate Demand Before You Build Anything evidence marketing strategy Jul 15, 2026

The ability to build is not evidence of demand. That distinction has always mattered, and AI has just made it the most expensive mistake in business.

Anyone can now produce a working prototype, a cour...

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Personalisation at Scale with AI: What's Actually Possible and What's Oversold ai b2b marketing evidence Jul 10, 2026

Personalisation is one of the most cited AI use cases in B2B marketing, and one of the most frequently oversold. The technology has advanced genuinely. The infrastructure and data most organisations h...

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Using AI for Market Research: A Practical Guide for B2B Marketers ai b2b marketing evidence Jul 10, 2026

The appeal of AI for market research is obvious: faster synthesis, broader coverage, and lower cost than traditional research approaches. The risk is equally real. AI-generated research looks authorit...

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LinkedIn for B2B Marketers: What the Evidence Actually Says Works b2b marketing evidence Jul 10, 2026

LinkedIn is the only major social platform where business decision-makers are present in a professional mindset, at scale. That makes your LinkedIn B2B marketing strategy consequential. It also makes ...

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AI for Campaign Measurement: What It Gets Right and Where Human Judgement Still Wins ai b2b marketing evidence Jul 10, 2026

Most campaign measurement problems aren't data problems. They're interpretation problems, and adding AI to an unclear measurement framework makes the confusion faster, not better.

AI brings genuine ad...

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AI Search and B2B Marketing: How Buyers (and AI) Find You Now ai b2b marketing evidence seo Jul 07, 2026

Your next buyer probably will not find you the way your last one did. They will ask an AI assistant to compare the options in your category, read a synthesised answer that names three or four vendors,...

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AI Agents in B2B Marketing: What the Evidence Says ai b2b marketing evidence Jul 07, 2026

Every marketing event, feed and vendor deck right now is promising the same thing: AI agents that will run your campaigns, qualify your leads and rebuild your team around autonomous work. The volume i...

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What Is the 95:5 Rule in B2B Marketing? b2b marketing brand building evidence marketing strategy Jul 06, 2026

The 95:5 rule in B2B marketing says that at any given moment, roughly 95 per cent of your potential buyers are not in the market to buy. Only about 5 per cent are actively shopping. The heuristic come...

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Attribution vs Incrementality: The Difference That Moves Budgets b2b marketing evidence marketing strategy Jul 06, 2026

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Attribution assigns credit for a conversion to the touchpoints that came before it. Incrementality measures how many conversions would not have happened without the spend. The two numbers ar

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How to Evaluate AI Marketing Tools in 10 Minutes (The VET Framework) ai evidence Jul 05, 2026

Direct answer: evaluate any AI marketing tool with three checks: Value (name the recurring job from your real week it would do, sized in hours), Evidence (bench-test it on your own task against your c...

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