This Old Marketing - Content Marketing News with Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose

As Tariffs hang over the US Advertising industry, more companies start to look internal. That means internal communications, internal influencers, owned media and more. Could Trump's Tariffs be a boon for content marketers?

Google loses their online advertising monopoly case. The boys put on their prediction hats to let you know what will happen.

A judge has blocked the termination of VOA. But is it too late? Joe thinks it is.

And Ryan Coogler's movie deal gives marketers and creators a lot to think about.

Winners and losers include the American people and Diary of a CEO podcast.

Rants and raves include Google's cookies and the uber wealthy.

This week's links:

Google Loses Case

Tariffs Crush Ad Market

Judge Blocks VOA Halt

Coogler's Movie Deal

America Gives Up on Fact Checking

DOAC Turns Down Big Deals

America's Riches Households Have Banner Year

Google Keeps Cookies

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The boys are back with news that OpenAI (led by Sam Altman) is considering a social media platform that may compete with Elon's Twitter/X. Let's face it...we know what this is really about. Joe and Robert bring it home for you.

META's big lawsuit with the FTC gets started. Did Zuckerberg grease the skids enough to get this one through?

Creator Economy jobs (aka content marketing) are up, up, up. Why is that?

And the top Gen AI use cases don't involve marketing.

Marketing winners and losers include databases and Twinkies.

Rants and raves include Superman and faith-based billboards.

This week's links:

META's FTC Case Starts

OpenAI to Launch Social Platform?

Creator Economy Jobs on the Up

Top Gen AI Use Cases

Twinkies Goes 420

The Summer of Superman

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You don't become the world’s most valuable women's sports franchise by accident.

Angel City Football Club did it with a little help from HubSpot.

When they started, data was housed across multiple systems.

HubSpot unified their website, email marketing, and fan experience in one platform.

This allowed their small team of three to build an entire website in just three days.

The results? Nearly 350 new sign-ups a week and 300% database growth in just two years.

Visit https://www.hubspot.com/ to hear how HubSpot can help you grow better.

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Category:Content Marketing -- posted at: 4:00am EDT

Has AI finally killed search? Does Google even matter anymore? Must we now build our content on rented land?

The boys go through each of these questions and talk about if "do not build your house on rented land" is still a thing.

In other news, the TikTok deal is delayed (again).

In marketing winners and losers, Joe takes on the Catholic church while Robert gushes over Duolingo.

Rants and raves includes London's takedown of Leon, while the Shopify CEO tells employees to do an AI check.

This week's links:

Trump Delays TikTok (again)

Big Search Shift (Google)

Push to Rented Land?

Duolingo for the Win

Catholic Church Needs a Change

Shopify CEO Stokes AI Flames

London Taking Down Telsa with Ads

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This week's sponsor:

You don't become the world’s most valuable women's sports franchise by accident.

Angel City Football Club did it with a little help from HubSpot.

When they started, data was housed across multiple systems.

HubSpot unified their website, email marketing, and fan experience in one platform.

This allowed their small team of three to build an entire website in just three days.

The results? Nearly 350 new sign-ups a week and 300% database growth in just two years.

Visit https://www.hubspot.com/to hear how HubSpot can help you grow better.

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Category:Content Marketing -- posted at: 4:00am EDT

Possibly our dumbest episode yet.

Joe and Robert go deep into the dumbery to try to make sense of an incredibly weird (and dumb) week.

TikTok is for sale. No it's not. Maybe it is. Will we know this week?

Elon Musk merges his two companies into one, creating the dumbest valuation in the history of corporate mergers.

And META's AI steals a bunch of copyrighted books. Heck, they've probably already stolen this podcast.

Marketing losers include vibe marketing and Hooters.

Raves and commentary include Gartner and Chris Ross and how the tariffs will affect marketing spending.

This week's links:

Amazon Interested in TikTok

TikTok Looming Deadline

Elon's Merger Is Dumb

META Steals Copyrighted Books

Ghibli Effect Takes Over ChatGPT

Hooters Bankruptcy

Chris Ross from Gartner

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Category:Content Marketing -- posted at: 4:00am EDT

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