Ty Magnin
Recent articles
Strategy
Why We Gave Up On Reddit For AEO
Reddit's AEO moment lasted about eight months. In late 2024, the advice was everywhere: you need a Reddit strategy for AI visibility. Then in September 2025, Reddit citations in ChatGPT had...
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7 min read
03/26/26
Strategy
Content Marketers Need to Learn to Pitch Again
As marketers, we dream of pitching like Don Draper. We’re in a room: We’re smooth and charming. Our bosses and customers are awed by our genius. Someone starts crying. My god, it IS a carousel,...
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10 min read
02/26/26
Strategy
Welcome to the Distribution-First Era, Where Strategy Starts...
"If you build it, they will come" is a classic startup mistake. It's the belief that customers will find your great product without a distribution strategy. Sometimes they do. Often,...
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8 min read
02/26/24
Strategy
From Zero to One: LinkedIn Playbook for B2B Startups
I keep having the same conversation with startup founders: "Where should I start with content marketing?" My answer every time? LinkedIn. Just LinkedIn. For now.Most founders are biased...
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12 min read
11/04/25
Strategy
Write Smarter, Not Harder: How to Use AI Without Losing Your...
This playbook distills the most valuable lessons from the AI & content season of the Animalz podcast, drawn from conversations with the people doing the real work: founders building tools,...
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21 min read
04/03/25
Webinars
How to Manage Big Blogs (feat. Buffer, Zapier & Amplitude)
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1 min read
04/22/21
Podcasts
Mallory Russell on Earning AI Mentions and Winning Discovery...
“What we ended up building out was a 40-person organic marketing organization … starting with content as the place to move the needle.” That’s how Mallory Russell describes her journey at Square,...
Stephanie Losee (Autodesk) on Making Content Work in Matrix...
“If we combine those budgets with a team of two, we can do the work of 15 people at Ipsos.” In this episode, Stephanie Losee shows you that you don’t need a big crew to win. Learn how pooled...
Inside Zapier’s 454% ROI Content Engine With Lane Scott...
“With these ROI numbers, tell me why I shouldn’t give you advertising’s entire budget right now?” Zapier’s CMO said that when Lane Scott Jones showed her four-person blog was driving 454% ROI. In...