Why the future belongs to independents

It was an honor to be back on Media & the Machine, which has grown to be an un-skippable podcast — usually with guests who are much smarter than me.Check it out over on LinkedIn too.Rob Kelly puts a lot of work into these episodes – more than any other podcast I’ve been on (even on the big networks). For this first half hour, we get into why:Marketing teams are being slashed and we’re being lied to about the reasons.The future belongs to the independents, who can publish opinions with a voice that AI can replicate, but large companies are too afraid to post.Marketing shouldn't be folded into sales. It’s the marketing-down companies that are winning right now…and forever.AI companies will continue to beg for (and eventually get) bail outs, in some form. Governments are the only entities with enough money to keep every promise that AI has made to us.There are reasons to be optimistic. AI has genuinely made certain industries much more productive and efficient. It’s the overall economics…