Articles & Essays

AI in marketing, Agentic Commerce, performance marketing. From practice.

An Evolution of Performance Marketing

From Excel Yoga to Smart Bidding

What performance marketing really looked like in 2008, and what it has to do with craft.

The point where AI stopped being a tool

Smart Bidding, Performance Max, and the question nobody actually asked.

Human-on-the-Loop: why craft only really counts now

Why the ROAS drop in week 12 is not an AI problem, and what that reveals about Agentic AI.

The barbarians are not coming

Cavafy, AGI timelines and three questions that belong on the table now.

Guest Commentaries

The Anti-To-Do List: The Question to Ask Before You Buy Another AI Tool

Before you buy another AI tool, name the work that should leave your desk for good.

The Human-on-the-Loop Principle

Who sets the goals when the machine does the work.

The Sea of Sameness

When everyone has the same AI, who is left to stand out? Raja Rajamannar calls it a “massive Sea of Sameness”. The data shows where the value is…

The job crisis isn’t coming. It is already here.

Suleyman says: in 18 months AI will do most white-collar jobs. Bloomberg says: that is marketing rhetoric. Both are measuring the wrong thing, Bloomberg in a way…

The Mandate Is Already Here

The EU AI Act, Agentic Commerce and why performance agencies hold a structural advantage they often underestimate.

The Agent That Wasn’t

“Agentic AI” is the most-used buzzword in performance marketing in 2026, and it is mostly used wrongly. That is not a difference in meaning. It…

The Funnel We Forget

On new buying processes and Agentic Commerce: a guest commentary in medianet.

What a CAIO Actually Does

Guest commentary in horizont.at on the reality of being a Chief AI Officer beyond conferences and theory.

Google AdWords is taking away our rights! 3 tips for the new search ads

Since February 2016 Google has stopped showing ads in the right-hand column. What that means for SEA and SEO in concrete terms, and why keeping calm is the…

We don’t stop at clicks. We build for agents.

We don’t chase attention. We earn recommendation.

We don’t sell products. We enable decisions.

— Florian Michael Fischer · The Agentic Manifest