5 Content Marketing Ideas for January 2026
December 8, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Topics for January 2026 include the U.S.'s 250th year, Wikipedia's anniversary, product quality, and simple pleasures such as puzzles and cocktails.
Schools & Resources
Our latest rundown of new books for merchants includes titles on supply chain, user experience, transformation, and, yes, Taylor Swift.
Platforms & Apps
This week: AEO, agentic commerce, analytics, cryptocurrencies and alternative payments, AI marketing, fulfillment, fraud prevention, creator-led commerce, and more.
SEO Tools
Google Search Console's "Insights" section no longer shows click trends for single keywords, only by group.
Platforms & Apps
Shopify's new Agentic Storefronts means even the smallest merchants can sell via ChatGPT, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, and more.
Business
What worked in 2025, what didn't, what was painful, and what made it all worth it.
Paid Post
Content Marketing
Generative AI did not introduce subpar content so much as streamline its speed and quantity.
Platforms & Apps
This week: new products and services for agentic commerce, marketplaces, crowdfunding, creator partnerships, rush pickups, analytics, fraud prevention, and more.
Cross-border Selling
Ecommerce traction in Europe starts with understanding the trust factors shaping the customer journey.
SEO
Knowing which bot is responsible for which task is essential before attempting to disallow it.
Marketing & Advertising
AI models rely on "trusted" enterprise sources, yet providers are emerging for SMBs.
Cross-border Selling
Why relocate overseas? What are the risks and the rewards? Mikkel Thorup addresses those questions and more.
Topics for January 2026 include the U.S.'s 250th year, Wikipedia's anniversary, product quality, and simple pleasures such as puzzles and cocktails.
The new "Investment Strategy" feature is akin to Google's existing budget simulators, with two main differences.
The top benefit of targeting long-tail searches could now be AI visibility.
Understanding how AI platforms conduct searches is key to optimizing visibility in the answers.
Albatross AI claims to have the first infrastructure for training personalization models on live events.
Artificial intelligence is not replacing loyalty programs. It is refining them.
Profitable selling of used, refurbished, or overstock items requires repeatable systems.
Abir Syed says creative volume drives ecommerce marketing success, and few merchants have exhausted any channel, much less Meta.
This week: new tools for live-streaming, agentic commerce, ecommerce insurance, returns management, analytics, product customizations, digital identity verification, and more.
A new book from a noted economist seeks to explain the causes of tariffs and trade barriers.
A business's key performance indicators typically change over time with new opportunities and challenges. But Gross Revenue and Gross Profit are universal KPIs for all ecommerce retailers, all of the time.
The founder of SEOmoz, Rand Fishkin, is notable for his transparency. This was surely the case with his recent blog post describing his aborted attempt to raise venture capital financing.