Content Marketing Institute
Prediction: Valuable Friction Will Be the 'Secret Sauce' for Standout Marketing in 2026
A call for marketers to resist equating speed with progress, preserve human judgment, and embrace 'valuable friction' amid rapid adoption of generative AI and automation.
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