by Dave Hayward | Dec 19, 2025 | AI, Business, Marketing, Personal stories
The rise of the “Human Premium” 3 Predictions for 2026 I don’t have a crystal ball. However, if you look at the signals from the field, you can see the shape of what is coming next. Here is where we think marketing, particularly B2B marketing, is heading...
by Dave Hayward | Dec 6, 2025 | AI Transformation, B2B Content Strategy, B2B Marketing, Brand, Content strategy, Creativity, Europa Creative Partners, Founder-led marketing, Life and work, Marketing, Marketing as a service, Performance marketing, Productivity, Psychology, Revenue, Sales
On December 23rd, Europa Creative Partners turns ten. (The featured image is a photo of me from 2016, in the first year of Europa’s operations.) When I look at the company registration, I sometimes can’t believe it. It feels like yesterday and like a lifetime...
by Dave Hayward | Dec 6, 2025 | AI Transformation, B2B Marketing, Communications, Content, Customer, Customer experience (CX), Digital marketing, Economy, Founder-led marketing, Fractional cmo, Marketing, Marketing technology, Performance marketing, Personal brand, Personal stories, Revenue, Sales, Slideshow with Dave Hayward, Strategy
Themes from meeting a lot of people It’s been a massive few months. We’ve been heads-down with clients at every conceivable stage of the marketing journey: those just flirting with the idea of working with us, those launching or active in the market, and those looking...
by Dave Hayward | Oct 3, 2025 | AI, AI Transformation, Downturn, Economy, Recession, Revenue, Uncategorized
AI bubble giving dotcom crash vibes I’m going to move into dangerous territory, where I say that I listened to Professor Scott Galloway and I thought he had a point. In a recent podcast, he and economic wunderkind Ed Elson tackled the idea that AI is a bubble. Their...
by Dave Hayward | Oct 3, 2025 | AI, AI in advertising, AI literacy, AI Transformation, Communications, Copywriting, Productivity, Psychology
The unstoppable rise of AI workforce Let’s circle back to think outside the box: it’s not like corporate jargon wasn’t already bad enough. Now, a corporate life full of passive-aggressive emails and tedious PowerPoint presentations is joined by a new villain. A new...
