The End of Easy Growth in Healthcare
Rob Sauter and Lauren Leone discuss how AI-powered search has ended the era of growth through keyword dominance alone. Sauter describes AI as the ‘ultimate researcher,’ capable of synthesising provider information from dozens of sources simultaneously. He argues that first-party data ownership and trust-building are now the only defensible moats in patient acquisition.
The structural shift from keyword ranking to AI-answer inclusion changes what healthcare marketers need to invest in. Groups still optimising for last-generation search signals are losing ground without knowing it.
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