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SBP 164: The Barber's Brief - Don’t Create Bite-Sized Chunks of Your Content

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In this Barber’s Brief, V and Marc cover the biggest marketing and platform stories from the last couple of weeks—plus introduce a new segment.

First up, they unpack why marketers should stop trying to re-label marketing as CapEx, and why misusing finance terms (like ROI) can damage credibility with CFOs. Then they move into search and AI: Google’s Danny Sullivan warns publishers not to restructure content into “bite-sized chunks” just to appease AI search—because what works today may not work tomorrow.

Next, they revisit Paul Feldwick’s classic “message myth” argument…

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