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Pt. 2: The marketing skills gap: Why AI rewards those who know their fundamentals
In Part 2 of this conversation, Jan Montwill, Global Media Strategist at H&M, makes that suspicion explicit… and then does something more useful than most: he explains what to do about it. Jan has spent his career across agencies including WPP and Havas before going client-side, which means he's watched this from both sides. His take is calm, grounded, and deliberately uncomfortable in the best possible way: the marketers most at risk from AI aren't the ones being replaced by automation. They're the ones who never built the strategic foundation that makes automation useful in the first place.
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Most marketing teams are working harder than ever: running campaigns across more platforms, producing more creative, tracking more metrics… and still feeling like something isn't adding up. The platforms say the numbers look great. The CFO is asking why it isn't showing up in revenue. The creative team is churning out variations. And somewhere in the middle, the strategy gets lost.
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