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UNPOPULAR OPINIONS
ON MARKETING
Most marketing advice is comfortable, safe, and wrong.
This is where we say what we actually think.


ChatGPT Ads Are Here. Here’s What Marketers Actually Need to Know.
ChatGPT Ads have arrived in Germany, creating a new paid acquisition channel built around conversational context rather than only keywords or audience segments. We look at how the platform works, where the opportunity may lie, what marketers should be cautious about, and how we would test it before treating it as a mature media channel.
Fabian Menzel
2 hours ago8 min read


I’m drinking the AI Kool-Aid. Sorry.
AI might be humanity’s last invention. It is also the most useful tool Fabian has ever worked with. If its development cannot realistically be stopped, the question is no longer whether we like AI, but what we do with the capabilities it has already created.
Fabian Menzel
3 days ago9 min read


AI Is Not Making Your Content Generic. You Are.
AI-generated content does not feel generic because AI wrote it. It feels generic because nobody brought a real opinion to the process. AI can structure, sharpen and accelerate your work, but it cannot decide what you believe. Authentic content starts with a point of view, a real voice and enough context to make the result unmistakably yours.
Jana Schilling
Aug 209 min read


Your Awareness Campaign Is a Hail Mary.
Companies too often turn to awareness when they want growth but do not know exactly where growth comes from. A large campaign creates attention, activity, and the reassuring feeling that something important is happening. But attention cannot repair a weak proposition, an unclear audience or a broken conversion process. It can only send more people towards them. Customers move through the marketing funnel from the top down. Companies should build it from the bottom up. The Hai
Fabian Menzel
Jul 238 min read


AI Automation Is Like Teenage Sex. Everybody Is Talking About It, Nobody Has It.
Everybody talks about AI automation as if companies are already running themselves. They are not. Most “automation” is still demos, pilots, partial workflows, and humans fixing things in the background. The real opportunity is not replacing marketers with agents. It is making marketers stronger. AI works best when it helps people research faster, think sharper, analyze more, create better, and learn faster. The problem is the story. The solution is the work. AI automation is
Fabian Menzel
Jun 266 min read
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