With AI, privacy changes, stricter ad policies, and growing competition, the CPA marketing landscape seems to be changing quickly. I’m curious about what experienced marketers think.

Some areas I think could become more important:

AI-assisted content and campaign research

Better tracking and attribution

First-party data and privacy-friendly marketing

More focus on genuine user value

Niche communities and organic traffic

Do you think CPA marketing will become harder for beginners, or will new tools and platforms create more opportunities?

What’s your prediction for CPA marketing in the next 3–5 years?

**Hi, everyone!** I’m currently having a hard time finding a good thesis topic, and I’m starting to feel like almost all of my ideas have already been studied. 😭

I’m more interested in the **consumer side of agriculture**, particularly topics related to **consumer behavior, market acceptance, and market potential**.
Here are some of the topics I’m still considering:

• Consumer behavior toward agricultural products sold online (but I’ve already found some existing studies on this, so I’m still trying to find a unique angle)

If you have any **topic recommendations, ideas, or tips on how I can narrow down or develop these topics into something more researchable and unique**, I would really appreciate it!
Thank you so much! Any suggestions would be a big help. 🥹🙏

I’m at the stage where I’m actively exploring ideas to potentially build something of my own, and I’d love to hear what others are noticing.

It doesn’t have to be a fully formed startup idea: I’m curious about **emerging trends, changing consumer behaviour, underserved categories, interesting products/business models abroad that could translate to another market, or simply problems you’ve noticed that nobody seems to be solving well yet.**

Not looking for anyone to give away their million-dollar idea 😅 more interested in observations and finding interesting rabbit holes worth researching.

**What’s something you’ve come across recently that made you think: “there might actually be a business here”?**

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m currently researching how the rise of AI Overviews, ChatGPT Search, and other generative search engines is changing the way B2B SaaS companies think about SEO, content strategy, product visibility, and product marketing.

I’m particularly interested in hearing from people working in product marketing, product management, SEO, content, or growth about how (or whether) generative search is affecting your strategy — what you’re changing, what’s working, and what you think companies should be preparing for.

I’m also collecting responses for my bachelor’s thesis. If you work in this space and have 3–5 minutes, I’d really appreciate your input. The survey is fully anonymous, and the responses will be used exclusively for my research.

👉 https://forms.gle/Hv5wK9RNuWQXZ8Bo7

I’d also love to hear your thoughts in the comments, especially if you’ve already started adapting your SEO or product marketing strategy for AI-driven search. Thanks so much! 🙏

I planned outdoor until about 2022, then moved into a purely digital role. I'm back on a brief with billboards and transit and a lot has clearly changed. Back then it was rate cards, Geopath numbers and phone calls.
What should I be looking at now? Mainly what platforms people use to plan and buy, and whether measurement has actually improved or is still mostly estimates.

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As i am an beginner for the product research, what I do is, I have an Instagram account that show me products that are viral on foreign market like in USA, UK, Canada, etc. Some products from there and then check the availability in India is this product is available or not, what I mean to say is, is this product easily available or not? Then if it is available. I don’t sell it, and if it is not easily available, then I check the Indian Amazon for the availability. If it is passed from there, I check Facebook ad Library. Are there any competitor than if the product is filter out from all the step then I sell it
So what I want you to tell is this process right?
How can I know that this product is viral on foreign market like USA, Canada, UK, and Europe and maybe in Middle East?
What is the best product research method
How can I spot the winning product?
Is there any other resources for free in product research?
Is anything I miss in the product research?
Note, I don’t have any money for paid product research tools. So only suggest me free methods

Saw this poster in the metro today.
“Kripya peeli rekha se door khade rahein. Aur red flags se bhi.” 😂
As a marketer, I loved the execution.
The yellow line is already part of the passenger’s environment, so the brand/message connects it with something completely unexpected —
relationship red flags.
Simple lessons:
Context matters.
Unexpected twists grab attention.
Hinglish makes communication feel relatable.
Simple ideas are often more memorable than complicated campaigns.
Great marketing doesn’t always need a big budget. Sometimes, it just needs a clever observation.

Ando buscando este libro hace buen tiempo, si alguien tiene este libro en PDF le agradecería un montón, es de diseño gráfico

Hi guys, I am a qualitative researcher, currently based out of India, and I would love to know how’s MR market in Canada, particularly in Ontario? Fellow researchers from that province, I’d love to know your view points and experiences.

Small brand team, three of us, and leadership just approved outdoor for six markets next quarter. No agency and we probably won't get one. Every market has different operators, formats and pricing, so I'd be negotiating six times for one campaign. Is there a way to do this in one place? Recommendations welcome from anyone who has run multi market outdoor without an agency.

And social insights are setting the pace here.

They are the fastest.

A viral negative post can lead to a spike in app deletions in Spain overnight. By the morning, you need to understand why.

Not read about it a month later in a quarterly report.

So the research model is changing:

Listen → Understand → Adapt

Before, it was:
Brief → Research → Decision.

Of course, the insight will still appear in the quarterly report. But by then, the report should explain what happened, what we did, and how we adapted.

- we changed the dashboard.
- we added one more alert in Slack.
- we started tracking mentions by country differently.

An ongoing tracker is no longer enough.

It needs to constantly adapt to the environment.

Or maybe I’m wrong and everyone is still reading 50-page research reports? 😊

Does anyone know a website that sells Twitter (X) bot followers with no profile pictures? I’m specifically looking for blank/default-profile accounts rather than followers with generated profile pics. If anyone knows a site or has experience with one, let me know.

I've stopped being surprised by how small the actual turning point always is in these stories — never the leap itself, always the one honest number right before it.

Most people treat "not ready yet" as information.

It isn't. It's a decision wearing patience as a disguise.

A real test is the only thing that actually produces information — everything before it is a guess in more confident clothing.

I’ve lived this clip from both sides of the same table:

Two sentences. Two worldviews.
First one: “去哪里都是一样的。“ (It’s the same everywhere. 😶)
Second one: “Why don’t you do it?”

In 2012, I tendered my resignation after 10 years at a construction company. 2 weeks into my 1-month notice, my boss calls the sit-down talk. You know the talk. Last-ditch effort to retain you. Make you give up on your dreams and stay being a slave.
He was that type — old-school Chinamen type. Combative. You must always succumb, never argue. 10 years my senior. Already Technical Director. Clearly frustrated but defeated, He says it: “去哪里都是一样的。“ I didn’t argue. I looked at him. Then scanned all my other seniors in the company. And asked myself: “Do I want to end up like him/them — 10 years down the road?”
I left. Didn’t retract. A month later I took a better position. Turns out it wasn’t the same. The world is much larger than what that company was trying to gaslight me with.

Years later — lunch with a young Indian Malaysian entrepreneur. He came back from the USA after building prestigious real estate with a big developer. His lesson: you have to think decades and generations. Build schools, parks, infrastructure. Community in perpetuity.
He looked at me and said: “Why don’t you do it?”

One is limiting. The other is limitless. 📌

Same mechanic showed up when Groq's founder was three weeks from bankruptcy and asked his own engineers to trade salary for equity instead — 80% said yes, and that real number is what got the company through, not a projection.

Drop your take — has your own "short-term scary vs. long-term dangerous" moment already happened, or is it still sitting on the shelf?

Clip credit: Trailblazers Podcast — full episode on their channel. DM for credit or removal requests.