The Digital Marketing Podcast by Exposure Ninja

In this packed episode, our CEO, Charlie Marchant, and our Head of Marketing, Dale Davies, dissect three major AI developments: OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora, Google’s Product Studio expansion, and Reddit’s new AI-powered answer generation system called Reddit Answers. While these tools showcase impressive capabilities, their immediate practical applications for marketers vary significantly. Fo...

The following is a BONUS EPISODE recorded by the Exposure Ninja team. ---------- By 2026, traditional SEO traffic could plummet by 50% as AI transforms how people discover and evaluate businesses online. But here's the opportunity: while most companies are stuck in outdated SEO tactics, generative AI platforms are creating new ways to capture visibility and traffic. Generative Engine Optimisation...

For the first time ever, Google lost search users. This signals a fundamental shift towards AI-powered search and marketers need to adapt their strategies now for this emerging reality. The signs were there. ChatGPT's rise. Perplexity's growing user base. And now, Ofcom's data confirms what many of us suspected: traditional search is evolving. Think about how you find information today. Need a qui...

Google has experienced its first recorded decline in UK users, dropping from 86% to 83% market share, while AI search queries have increased tenfold between January and September 2024. Simultaneously, Google’s AI Overviews are now starting to include YouTube video summaries, marking a significant evolution in search result presentation. For marketers concerned about maintaining visibility in an ev...

AI tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI Overviews are reshaping how users find information, making Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) essential for any 2025 SEO strategy. This shift means your strategy must go beyond traditional Google rankings. GEO focuses on optimising content for AI-generated summaries, ensuring your business, products, or services are recommended by these tools. So, your next...

This week on The Dojo, we dissect the recent collapse of AllPlants, a UK vegan meal delivery service, amidst a massive marketing spend. We analyse their financial data, marketing strategies (social media, SEO, PPC), and pinpoint critical errors. We also discuss the upcoming Black Friday sales frenzy, contrasting brands embracing the hype with those choosing alternative strategies. Finally, we prov...

Head of PPC at Exposure Ninja, Tom Goodwin, chats to Tim Cameron-Kitchen about the main PPC mistakes we see businesses make and how you can fix them or avoid them altogether. Timestamps 00:00 — Intro 01:37 — Not Bidding On Your Own Brand 07:01 — Ignoring Quality Score 13:47 — Spelling Errors 16:36 — Sending People to 404 Errors 19:58 — Offers That Expire 22:00 — Not Using Audiences 27:40 — Not Usi...

In This Episode... Welcome to the Dojo, a weekly marketing news podcast by Exposure Ninja. This week, we talk about: Perplexity wants AI to do your shopping for you. What does this mean for retailers? Wicked’s Massive Marketing Campaign Ads in AI Overviews Timestamps 00:00 - Welcome to The Dojo by Exposure Ninja 00:31 - Perplexity wants AI to do your shopping for you. What does this mean for retai...

ChatGPT's 200 million weekly active users immediately make ChatGPT with Search one of the most important search engines for us marketers to optimise for. In fact, ChatGPT with Search is just one of a number of new generative engines, meaning generative engine optimisation (GEO) is now an important tool in any marketer's toolkit. So, your next question is probably, "How do I get this thing to recom...

Join me in London at this year's B2B Marketing Expo. I'll be there across both days and I'll be delivering a talk too, called "AI and the Future of SEO: How to Rank in Google’s New AI Search Results". If you're putting your 2025 marketing or SEO plans together and haven't yet figured out how to navigate the new world of AI Search, then this isn't an event you can afford to miss. Grab a ticket at:...

In This Episode... Welcome to the Dojo, a weekly marketing news podcast by Exposure Ninja. This week, we talk about: How to tap into emotions that increase your content’s viral potential The best times to post on social media to maximise engagement How to create compelling headlines that make people say, “Oh wow, that’s interesting!” What to do if your website is impacted by a Google core algorith...

Today I’ve got 5 different types of digital marketing strategies to share with you. These are tried and tested strategies that are working right now for Exposure Ninja clients and our portfolio companies. And there’s a lot of variety here, meaning there’s something for every type of business. In today’s video I talk about: Cross-pollination AI Driven Search Upselling, Cross-selling and Subscriptio...

In This Episode… Welcome to the Dojo, a weekly marketing news podcast by Exposure Ninja. This week we talk about: The Impact of ChatGPT Search on Marketers The Viral Power of Crumbl Cookies Timestamps 00:00 - The Impact of ChatGPT Search on Marketers 32:38 - The Viral Power of Crumbl Cookies What to Listen to Next Why GEO is the New SEO (and How It Works) https://exposureninja.com/podcast/336/ AI...

This podcast episode is sponsored by Semrush. Check out Semrush Local here — exposure.ninja/local Whether you're a large multinational brand with tons of locations or you're a single location business, the world of local SEO is evolving fast and you need to keep up. Not to brag, but the team at Exposure Ninja has won tons of SEO awards, including in local SEO and in some of the world's most compet...

In This Episode… Welcome to the Dojo, a weekly marketing news podcast by Exposure Ninja. This week we talk about: A big week for AI… but also some data that puts it all in context IKEA’s new face of gaming Stop calling it SEO Timestamps 00:00 - A big week for AI… but also some data that puts it all in context 16:14 - IKEA’s new face of gaming 27:43 Stop calling it SEO What to Listen to Next Why GE...

GEO is one of the main terms being used to describe getting AI chat tools like ChatGPT,  Gemini, Claude, or Perplexity to recommend your business, product, services, or brand. You're probably thinking — “How do I get these tools to recommend my business, my website, my products and services?” That’s what I’m going to cover in today’s podcast. Watch the video instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

In This Episode… Welcome to the Dojo, a weekly marketing news podcast by Exposure Ninja. This week we talk about: Legal topics have the most AI Overviews - and you're next Google’s AI Overviews fail to answer 43% of financial queries The FTC’s rules on fake reviews Tesco's stripped back ads Timestamps 00:00 - Legal topics have the most AI Overviews - and you're next 08:57 - Google’s AI Overviews f...

ChatGPT snuck out a new content creation feature last week that barely anybody in the marketing world seems to have noticed. But I think it gives marketers that use it a HUGE advantage. In fact, I've been using this personally to write and publish blogs and get them ranked in less than a day. But, and it's a big but, this thing could get you into a whole lot of trouble unless you add...well...you'...

In This Episode… Welcome to the Dojo, a weekly marketing news podcast by Exposure Ninja. This week we talk about: - Are marketers ready for Generative Search Optimisation? - WordPress BEEF! - The power of social media in mental health awareness Timestamps 00:00 — Intro 02:22 — WordPress BEEF! 14:10 — Are marketers ready for Generative Search Optimisation? 20:19 — The power of social media in menta...

Over the last decade or so, the team here at Exposure Ninja and I have generated over 100, 000 B2B leads for ourselves and our clients. And in today's podcast, we're going to be breaking down three B2B marketing strategies that you can use if B2B is your vibe. We're going to talk about: - Being really, really helpful via content. - Repurposing like a beast - Thought leadership (but not as you know...

In This Episode… Welcome to the Dojo, a weekly marketing news podcast by Exposure Ninja. This week we talk about: - ChatGPT dropped a new update for content writers - Cheap conversation starters - Position one is position none Timestamps 00:00 — Intro 00:11 — ChatGPT dropped a new update for content writers 17:46 — Cheap conversation starters 30:54 — Position one is position none What to Listen to...

Let’s be honest — it’s much easier to market a fun, trendy business. D2C subscription service for BBQ charcoal? I could do that in my sleep. But only the world’s best marketers can sell something that people know they need, but they don’t really want to buy it, like insurance. So today, I’m going to be teaching you some brilliant marketing lessons from 3 disruptive life insurance brands. If you’re...

I've seen from personal experience that the right marketing can absolutely transform a business and produce growth that completely changes lives. And agencies are one way to deliver that marketing. But there are also alternatives.  Today we're going to talk about three main things: How to know whether or not you should choose a marketing agency, freelancers or building an in-house team If...

In This Episode... Welcome to the Dojo, a weekly marketing news podcast by Exposure Ninja. This week we talk about: OpenAI’s new model o1 is released Key PPC Takeaways from The Meta Summit 363% Increase In Google Ads Leads using AI Assets Timestamps 00:00 — Intro 00:31 — OpenAI’s new model o1 is released 11:00 — Key PPC Takeaways from The Meta Summit 28:06 — 363% Increase In Google Ads Leads using...

In May last year, Google announced the next evolution of its search engine, something called SGE or the Search Generative Experience. This was pitched as something that would transform the way that people use Google, allowing us to have conversations with the search results all powered by generative AI. Well, here we are more than a year later. What happened to SGE? One moment you couldn't mov...