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07/08/2025

How Is AI Impacting SEO & The Future of Growth Agencies?

In this episode of the Ask AI podcast, host Elena Putilina speaks with Brock Murray, Co-Founder & COO of seoplus+ about how AI and large language models are changing digital marketing and SEO in particular.

Key takeaways:

• Why traditional SEO tactics are losing effectiveness in AI-driven search
• What Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is and why it matters
• How seoplus+ is using custom tools like a data anonymizer for ethical AI use
• Why platforms like Wikipedia and Reddit are making a comeback
• What skills marketers need to stay relevant in the age of LLMs
• How AI is reshaping reporting, client education, and content strategy

Brock offers practical insights from the front lines of Canadian marketing and digital growth.

Visit our episode post to stream the YouTube version and get the links for Spotify and Apple Podcasts (or simply search 'Ask AI' whereever you get shows):

https://www.askai.org/post/how-is-ai-impacting-seo-and-the-future-of-growth-agencies

Visit seoplus+ website:

https://www.seoplus.ca

Connect with SEOPlus+ on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/seoplus-

AI is reshaping digital marketing but not always in the ways we expect. In this episode of the Ask AI Podcast host Elena Putilina speaks with Brock Murray Co Founder and COO of seoplusplus a Canadian digital agency. Brock shares how large language models are shifting search behavior what that means....

01/29/2025

WILL YOUR NEXT EMPLOYEE BE HUMAN? In our latest team check-in, Ask AI caught up with Karla Congson, the Founder and CEO of hashtag -based agentiiv, Canada's first hybrid AI consultancy, to demonstrate how their AI agents interact in real-time business situations.

Click below to catch this short video where Karla showcases examples of the types of AI agents that are set to transform business and work as we know it.

Ask AI caught up with Karla Congson, CEO and Founder of Agentiiv, Canada's first hybrid AI consultancy to catch a demonstration of their AI agents for business.

04/30/2024

🔥NEW EPISODE! Can AI help us understand the cries of babies?
The Ask AI podcast caught up with Charles C. Onu, CEO and Co-Founder of Ubenwa Health, the startup whose Nanni mobile application enables professionals and parents to "shazam" the cries of babies to get actionable healthcare insights in hospital delivery rooms, nurseries, and homes.

The Ask AI podcast caught up with Charles C. Onu, the CEO and Co-Founder of Ubenwa Health, the Montreal startup whose Nanni mobile application enables professionals and parents to "shazam" the cries of babies to get actionable healthcare insights in hospital delivery rooms, nurseries, and homes.

04/10/2024

🔥NEW EPISODE! We met with leading freelance journalist Jared Lindzon (Fast Company, BBC, TIME, The Globe and Mail, Rolling Stone Magazin, Toronto Star) to chat about how artificial intelligence is impacting the evolution of work.

Click below to download or stream this very timely talk from one of Canada's top observers on the trends and forces that are shaping job skills, careers, the very nature of modern work itself.

🥰 Special thanks to our series sponsor Cinchy, the enterprise Data Collaboration Platform that provides the cure for data complexity!

Ask AI caught up with Jared Lindzon, leading journalist (BBC, Rolling Stone, New York Times, TIME) and top observer of the trends and forces that are shaping job skills, careers, the essence of modern work itself.

03/07/2024

🔥NEW EPISODE: The lastest Ask AI podcast is now available for download and streaming.

We've been wanting to get David Scharbach on the show for ages because he is one of the most connected people working in artificial intelligence and a genuinely supportive, community-focused human being.

Tune in to this show as host Melissa Kargiannakis talks to David about what it's been like hosting 100+ major AI events that have included 700+ speakers in 3 countries all the while building the Toronto Machine Learning Society (TMLS), one of the world's most vibrant communities.

They get into some really interesting territory, including:

✈️ Canada
🔬 The impact of labs on local markets
🤗 Working with and researchers

🥰 Special thanks to our series sponsor Cinchy, the enterprise Data Collaboration Platform that provides the cure for data complexity.

Catch the Ask AI interview with David Scharbach, founder of the Toronto Machine Learning Series who has hosted over 100 AI events featuring over 700 speakers!

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