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On YouTube, creator content behaves like a long-term marketing asset, generating views, clicks, searches, and purchases long after your initial campaign ends.

YouTube’s search-first ecosystem gives branded creator content a much longer shelf life than feed-based platforms. Videos continue to surface whenever viewers search for relevant topics, products, or reviews.

According to Google’s data:

• 40% of a YouTube video’s views happen more than one month after it’s published.
• 30% of clicks from sponsored creator videos occur after the first 30 days.
• Viewers who watch a video about a brand are 13x more likely to search for that brand.
• Those same viewers are 5x more likely to purchase from the brand.
• Pairing creator content with YouTube’s AI-powered advertising solutions can increase incremental ROAS by an additional 16%.

That means you should evaluate long-tail metrics like branded search volume, assisted conversions, and ongoing traffic months after publication.

Head to Think with Google for more.

Scriptyard is a free visual workspace where you can organize characters, locations, scenes, and story structure on an infinite canvas before moving into the drafting process.

The interface is designed to replicate the classic wall of index cards many writers like to use, but in a digital format that’s easier to rearrange and iterate on.

There are no accounts to create, no cloud storage, and the app doesn’t use your work to train AI models. Everything stays local to your device.

Don’t miss the latest episode of The Daily Carnage Show, “Brand vs. Planet: The Marketer’s AI Footprint,” to learn more about the energy, water, land, and infrastructure costs behind the tech that powers your whole stack.

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• Our Picks for the 2026 Titanium Lions (13:06)
• Silent Spring: Is Rainbox Capitalism Dead? (11:41)
• The Future of Google Search (9:56)
• GLP-1s are Disrupting Every Sector (9:56)
• Spirit Airlines 2.0: Will it Fly? (11:08)
• Major Platform Updates (8:17)
• Nike Runs into Controversy (12:19)
• Transgressive OOH (18:45)
• Your Brain on AI (12:33)
• Meta, McDonald’s Mukbang, and The OpenAI Mess (14:41)
• Ethics in the AI Era (18:33)

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Tennessee Tourism is launching an anti-AI campaign.

The org promises that every image featured on the state’s tourism website was captured by a real photographer in a real location, not created or altered with generative AI.

Each certified image also includes content credentials and metadata showing who took the photo, when it was captured, and where it was shot.

The campaign cites research that only 5% of travelers could consistently identify authentic travel photos when compared with AI-generated ones, despite most saying photos heavily influence their booking decisions.

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