TLDR Marketing 2026-06-02
Scrolling addiction 😵💫, dancing in ads 🪩, GTM Claude prompts 🔤
What to do now that AIOs turned search into reading sessions (5 minute read)
AI Overviews are making user behavior more uniform across query types and weakening intent as a signal of engagement. When an AI Overview appears, 42% to 48.5% of users stay on the results page after about 21 seconds regardless of intent. Optimization now centers on competing with AI answers, especially the second impression on scroll back.
What's Behind the Recent Wave of Dancing in Advertisements? (5 minute read)
Dance is increasingly used in advertising because it communicates brand traits in seconds. Apple and Gap use choreography as the central creative idea, not decoration. Social platforms have trained audiences to engage with movement, making dance feel native to feeds. Large ensemble sequences create shareable moments and help signal product benefits, culture, and inclusivity without dialogue. Diverse casting and credited choreographers also improve authenticity.
Category-Aware vs. Category-Unaware (4 minute read)
Positioning starts with a core decision on which category a product belongs to. One path targets category-aware buyers who already understand the space and require differentiation against existing competitors. The other targets category-unaware buyers who are solving a job-to-be-done through status quo tools and need the category introduced first. Mature markets tend toward category-aware positioning, while newer markets often require category creation before competition even matters. Choosing the wrong side leads to unclear messaging.
How to prove marketing impact when attribution goes dark (4 minute read)
As referral data disappears due to privacy changes and AI search, impact is measured through an evidence stack built from GA4, Search Console, and time series comparisons. It starts by setting a clean baseline during a quiet period with stable traffic and minimal spend, then anchoring campaign launch dates and expected lag windows. Signals like branded search lifts, direct traffic spikes, landing page visits, and returning users are tracked together. When these rise above baseline variance and align across time periods, they indicate measurable impact.
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See whyPricing Pages (Website)
A collection of pricing pages from real SaaS products. This site provides screenshots, tags each one by feature, and analyzes what makes it work. Filter by feature, tier count, or design element to find examples closest to what you're building.
15 GTM Prompts for Claude Opus 4.8 (5 minute read)
These prompts are redesigned instructions for using AI more effectively by making outputs more actionable. Across GTM stages, they guide tasks like research, positioning, messaging, sales enablement, and market creation. Their effectiveness depends on inserting real business data to ground the output.
How your phone keeps you scrolling...even when you want to stop (9 minute read)
The features that keep people glued to social media were borrowed almost directly from the gambling industry, which spent decades refining digital slot machines through continuous experimentation on millions of players. Research identifies 4 ingredients that combine to produce a "dark flow" state, where users lose track of time and feel merged with the screen. These are isolated solo use, endless auto-loading content, rapid scrolling that removes friction, and an AI algorithm that deliberately offers something close to what a user wants rather than the thing itself.
Brand Confessional: Anu Lingala on Why Trend Strategy ≠ Trend Chasing (5 minute read)
Trend strategy works when brands filter cultural signals through their core values instead of chasing every new idea. Short-term trends that last 3 to 12 months are best suited for campaigns. Longer-term trends that span 12 to 24 months or more should inform product development. Execution depends on tight alignment between product and marketing teams, since research alone does not drive ROI. Building cultural relevance over time also matters. As consumers look to reduce reliance on algorithm-driven platforms, brands are investing more in experiences and other channels that generate organic advocacy.
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