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January 14, 2026

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IN THIS ISSUE

✍️ The Ink Well
🌎 Around the Web
❓ SUM Poll
📋 SUM Training
😂 In the Meme Time

THE INK WELL

Meet Stefanie Beach

This week’s Marketer Spotlight features Stefanie Beach, CEO & Founder of The Marketeer Group and host of The Digital Marketeer Podcast.

Stefanie gets candid about why she started her podcast, what it really takes to stay consistent when no one’s listening yet, and how bootstrapping, self-doubt, and Zoom recordings shaped her growth as a marketer and host.

Have a strong POV? Submit your pitch to get published in The Ink Well.

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AROUND THE WEB

Social media tops the priority list for 84% of digital marketers, nearly double that of search. [eMarketer]
Over 60% of watch time for the top 1,000 brand channels on YouTube comes from content published over 30 days prior, meaning your creative investment builds up over time.c [Google]
News publishers expect search traffic to drop 43% by 2029. [SearchEngineLand]
LinkedIn is the second most cited source by AI, in between Reddit and Wikipedia, according to a Semrush study of 230,000 prompts across ChatGPT, Google AI, and Perplexity. [SocialMediaToday]