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The Z Media Podcast

The AI news that matters for marketers and content teams. Every Friday, Grant and Claire run through The Week in AI: the week's biggest stories, interviewing each other about what happened and why it matters, and the one thing to do next week. Plus a head-to-head comparison of AI tools every Wednesday. From Z Media, the AI news hub at zmedia.co.

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The AI Content Calendar: Planning a Month in Minutes

Episode 13 · September 30, 2026 · 8 min · with co-host Claire · Episode page & transcript

Planning a month of content used to mean losing two afternoons to research and guesswork, and it's often the real reason publishing goes sporadic. Claire and Grant break down how an AI content calendar fills that blank grid using real search data, a learned brand voice, and a review process that keeps every final call in human hands.

Chapters:
0:05 Open
0:23 The real bottleneck
1:21 How it fills itself
2:31 Plan to produced
3:17 Staying in control
4:05 A worked example
4:55 What it doesn't do
5:34 Quick questions
6:53 How to start
7:38 Close

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Read the full article: https://zmedia.co/ai-content-calendar/

#ainews #aimarketing #contentmarketing #marketingautomation #generativeai #zmedia #contentcalendar #aiplanning #contentstrategy #martech

AI CMS vs Content Agency: What Actually Wins on Cost and Speed

Episode 14 · September 23, 2026 · 9 min · with co-host Claire · Episode page & transcript

Agency retainer or AI CMS: which one actually fits your content budget and timeline? Claire and Grant skip the hype and break down cost, speed, consistency, and control with real numbers from both sides.

Chapters:
0:05 Cold Open
0:58 Cost
1:56 Speed and Ramp
2:26 Consistency
3:04 Control
3:42 Where the Agency Wins
4:26 The Both Answer
5:10 How to Decide
5:50 Quick FAQ
7:04 What That Looks Like Day to Day
7:42 Close

Daily AI news with key points: https://zmedia.co/news/
AI news RSS feed: https://zmedia.co/news/rss/
Talk with our team: https://zmedia.co/contact/
Call or WhatsApp: (419) 500-4882

Read the full article: https://zmedia.co/ai-cms-vs-agency/

#ainews #aimarketing #contentmarketing #marketingautomation #generativeai #zmedia #contentstrategy #aicms #marketingops #agencylife

Stack or Platform? A Buyer's Guide to AI Content Tools

Episode 20 · August 12, 2026 · 9 min · with co-host Claire · Episode page & transcript

Forty tabs open, forty AI tools promising to be the best, and a content team still drowning in logins. Claire and Grant unpack a buyer's guide that cuts through the noise and asks the only question that matters: stack of point tools or one unified platform.

Chapters:
0:05 Cold Open
1:13 The Three Jobs
1:51 Writing Tools
2:42 Design Tools
3:40 Video Tools
4:30 Stack vs Platform
5:44 Running the Evaluation
6:29 FAQ Rapid Fire
7:32 Close

Daily AI news with key points: https://zmedia.co/news/
AI news RSS feed: https://zmedia.co/news/rss/
Talk with our team: https://zmedia.co/contact/
Call or WhatsApp: (419) 500-4882

Read the full article: https://zmedia.co/best-ai-content-tools/

#ainews #aimarketing #contentmarketing #marketingautomation #generativeai #zmedia #aicontent #contenttools #martech #contentstrategy #aivideo