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Featured coverage on AI, marketing, and leadership from the outlets shaping the industry.
The New Battle for AI Visibility
DealBook explores how brands are fighting for visibility inside AI answers, and why traditional SEO playbooks are being rewritten in real time.
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Cannes Lions 2026: Gallery Day 3
Adweek's Day 3 gallery from Cannes Lions 2026 captures the industry's biggest conversations on AI, creativity, and brand transformation.
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The AI Fluency Gap: Cannes CMO Panel
Shiv joins CMOs at Cannes Lions to unpack the widening AI fluency gap inside marketing orgs — and what it will take to close it.
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Monday's AI Trailblazers: Cannes Reworked
Shiv recaps AI Trailblazers' Cannes edition — the sharpest takes from marketers, founders, and investors reshaping the industry with AI.
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Case Study: United Rentals — Governing Growth
A new Harvard Business School case study follows United Rentals' board as it navigates rapid growth through acquisitions, governance reforms, and CEO succession. In 2025, the board must decide what changes, if any, are needed to its governance model for the next era.
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Marketers Prepare to Navigate ‘Huge Distraction’ of Omnicom’s IPG Acquisition
The Wall Street Journal reports on what Omnicom's acquisition of Interpublic Group means for CMOs, from talent shifts to client conflicts. Shiv Singh is quoted on why every marketer will worry about getting the attention they deserve during the deal.
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The most recent essays from our newsletter on AI, marketing transformation, and the future of growth.
The End of the Brief as We Know It
Creative briefs are giving way to prototypes. Why the fastest teams now start with a working artifact, not a document.
Read on Substack →A Public Company Goes All In on AI
Inside one enterprise's decision to rebuild its operating model around AI — and the tradeoffs its leadership had to make.
Read on Substack →AI Is Rewriting Who Decides
Decision rights are shifting from humans to agents. What that means for accountability, org design, and executive judgment.
Read on Substack →Fighting Cognitive Surrender
The quiet risk of AI adoption isn't job loss — it's outsourcing thinking. How leaders can keep sharp in an AI-saturated workflow.
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