Google rolled out its BERT update in October 2019 — a natural-language model that finally let search understand a full query in context instead of matching keywords one by one. It was a quiet preview of the AI-driven search shift that would take over the industry a few years later.
10 Professionals
Worth Knowing This Year
- 01
Valter Brandt
Visit →Chief Marketing Officer, ThisCom
Led marketing strategy for clients across the United States and Europe through the shifts in social advertising, mobile, content marketing, programmatic media, and marketing automation.
- 02
Rand Fishkin
Visit →Founder, SparkToro
Left Moz in 2018 to found SparkToro, an audience-research tool, and kept publishing widely followed marketing commentary through 2019.
- 03
Britney Muller
Visit →Senior SEO Scientist, Moz
Co-emceed MozCon with Cyrus Shepard and became a go-to voice on machine learning's role in search.
- 04
Wil Reynolds
Visit →Founder, SEER Interactive
Kept building SEER Interactive's reputation for audience-first strategy.
- 05
Karen McGrane
Content strategy consultant
Was a leading voice in content strategy consulting.
- 06
Kath Pay
Founder & CEO, Holistic Email Marketing
Advised global brands on email strategy through Holistic Email Marketing.
- 07
Chad White
Email marketing researcher
Researched and wrote on email deliverability and lifecycle strategy.
- 08
Jay Baer
Visit →Founder, Convince & Convert
Built Convince & Convert's reputation in content and customer experience.
- 09
Gary Vaynerchuk
Visit →CEO, VaynerMedia
Kept scaling VaynerMedia and publishing widely on social strategy.
- 10
Chase Dimond
Co-founder, Structured
Was building Structured into a leading ecommerce email marketing agency.
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