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Fresh thinking on marketing, analytics, and search.

McDonald’s Turned F1 Corners Into Golden Arches: The “Golden Zone” Campaign Marketers Should Study

Most brands that want into Formula 1 buy their way in. Logo on the car, logo on the driver, hospitality tent full of guests. It works, but the logo is a blur at 300...

Google Ads Will Start Pulling Promotions From Your Website on October 12: What Marketers Need to Check

Google is about to turn your website’s sale banners into ad copy, whether you ask it to or not. Starting October 12, 2026, Google Ads will automatically scan...

Google’s New SAFE Spam Detector: What the September 2026 Spam Update Means for Marketers Using AI

If you publish content with AI assistance and at this point, who in marketing doesn’t Google just raised the stakes. On September 24, 2026, Google began rolling out...

Google Is Moving Search Ads Into AI Answers: And That Changes Everything for Marketers

Google Is Moving Search Ads Into AI Answers: And That Changes Everything for Marketers For a long time, search ads were simple to understand. A user typed something into...

When AI Search Gets It Wrong: Why Google’s AI Overview Is Now a Brand-Safety Risk

AI Search Is No Longer Neutral: What Brands Should Learn from Google’s Court Case AI Search Is Now a Brand-Safety Problem, Not Just an SEO Problem For years, brands...

Reclaiming Your Time: Transforming Business Ownership into Freedom

Reclaiming Your Time: Transforming Business Ownership into Freedom In the fast-paced world of business, many entrepreneurs find themselves ensnared in the very operations...

“Marketing is about values. It’s a complicated and noisy world, and we’re not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear about what we want them to know about us.”

Steve Jobs

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I'm Nikhil Vardhan Maroju, I took the scenic route into marketing (27 browser tabs and counting) and now I write about what I actually find: analytics, AI, brand strategy, and the occasional uncomfortable truth.

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