Why Brand Storytelling Still Drives Results in the AI Era
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Voices of Search // A Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Content Marketing Podcast
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7 chapters
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What is the core premise of brand storytelling in the AI era?
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My name's Tyson Stockton.
Stockton and joining me today is David J. Ebner, president and founder of Chatter as well as Content Workshop. Welcome to the podcast, David. Yeah,
thanks for having me, Tyson.
Now I'm glad to have you on here and diving deeper into like content, but not just content, but like brand storytelling. And I feel like we're at an interesting time in content where it's like you have all these different opinions and you know, claims of content's dead or like it's gonna become too homogenous. But I love that like you're really leaning into like the storytelling aspect. Cause I feel like that's where a lot of the value kind of comes to life a bit more. Um So maybe like Rather than kind of jumping right into barreling into the subject, I'd I'd love it if you could just kinda tell the listeners a little bit of kind of like your path, because I think that plays into also like your perspective on content and the role that it plays.
Yeah, sure. Um my path has been very much ingrained in this concept that um that I I believe deeply that like great storytelling is all about an emotional connection between the the reader, the viewer and and and the person who created the content. Same could be said about any piece of art by the way. And that's kind of where my my uh origin story started. I was a um one of five kids in my family. I grew up in northern Ohio. you know, working blue collar family. Um, I remember The hardest thing to do was to get the attention of the adults, uh, because they were, you know, running around and Making dinner and, you know, taking us to soccer practice or whatever it was, right? And um the way I did that was telling stories.
Um I would tell these Fantastic stories of what happened in my day, 90% of it would be completely false. Um, and I would wait for some sort of emotional reaction from um from my mom, say. And um, you know, that was kind of like the way that we connected. That has, you know, carried on forever. Um, been creating stories in my head for a long time, finally got them out in paper. Um, you know, back uh in in school, I studied creative writing. Um, and then I didn't have enough of that. So I went back to school to get a master in fine arts in creative writing. So um, you know, I I come to storytelling from a well, like a classically trained background. Um, but for the most part, for me it's just always been how do we connect a human to human and uh storytelling is
The way that's always been done and the way it's always gonna be done.
I love that. And it it also like reminded me of like the the Saneer slogan, kind of like and I forget even where it's from, but like never let the truth get in the way of a good story, yeah, I love it. Getting into but I also like the coming from the creative background too, because I feel like there's been kind of this tension between technology and like the creative purist. And like I have a buddy who's you know, amazing writer and it's like and he has this love hate with technology. So like You seem to be fully leaning into it. Kind of like how how do you make peace with that with having that like kind of
creative core? That's such a great question. I don't know if I fully have made peace with it. Um, you know. Формі It's always come down to a good story is a good story. Does it really matter how it's created?
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the core premise of brand storytelling in the AI era?
0:00–6:54
2
How does David Ebner’s personal background shape his view on storytelling?
6:54–16:55
3
Why does storytelling matter more for enterprise brands scaling with AI?
16:55–24:00
4
How can brands differentiate when AI makes content feel homogeneous?
24:00–30:19
5
Where should human creativity be inserted in the content production process?
30:19–37:22
6
How does trust, not leads, become the primary metric for content success?
37:22–41:44
7
What quick‑fire insights does the lightning round reveal about content marketing?
41:44–44:50