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Andy Crestodina

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Andy Crestodina's content philosophy is built on strategic restraint and analytics-driven decision making. His central argument is that most content teams spread themselves too thin across channels and frequencies, producing commodity content that fails to differentiate. Instead, he advocates a "value over volume" approach: publish fewer pieces, but invest disproportionately in two formats that resist AI commoditization. The first is original research, content that generates new statistics and data points that do not exist elsewhere on the internet, which naturally attracts links from journalists and citations from other publishers.

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Tier B · content · marketing
Reconceive the blog as a structured knowledge base, not a chronological feed
Tier A · content · marketing
Run one original-research study a year; it will out-link a year of weekly posts
Open the interactive profile → linkedin · website