Sam Dunning
Founder · Breaking B2B
“We only took YouTube seriously a year or so ago and we've slowly reaped the rewards.”
The Book — In Progress
Pipeline-centric, strategic content creation for the AI era.
A new playbook for B2B leaders, founders, and CMOs who are tired of watching their content strategy decay while AI rewrites the rules of attention.
Drafted chapter by chapter through interviews with the operators doing the work. Each chapter ships first as an article, then earns its way into the book.
4 of 15 chapters published
A Heads Up Before You Open It
Most books are finished before you find them. This one isn't. Here's what you're actually looking at.
This is a test.
Can a book be written the same way a great YouTube channel is built — one episode at a time, in public, with real people? We're finding out, live.
This is a book.
A real one. Chapters, spine, thesis. About B2B video, AI search, and how the rules just flipped under everyone's feet.
This is a machine.
Every interview becomes a video, a blog post, a contributor page, AND material for the right chapter — automatically. Pre-purposed: every output decided before the camera rolls. Video-first: words come from camera, not the other way around.
It uses AI. A lot of it.
AI extracts quotes. AI tags topics. AI files material to the right chapter. AI even helped draft this page. We're not pretending it's not here.
But every voice is human.
No AI talking heads. No synthetic experts. Every quote in this book came out of a real mouth, on a real recording, with a real timestamp you can click and verify.
Three-way win.
Guests get distribution + attribution + AI-search visibility. Readers get the freshest, most-verifiable B2B video reference in market. We get living thought leadership instead of a frozen artifact. Nobody loses.
And honestly? It's kind of fun watching it build itself in front of you. The table of contents below is live. The progress bars are real. Chapter 14 doesn't exist yet — but it will, after the next interview. See the machine →
The Flywheel
Record one interview
An operator gives one hour. Camera rolls. Conversation, not script.
Pipeline extracts everything
Quotes, frameworks, claims — auto-filed into the right chapter. Video published. Article written.
Book gets sharper
New material lands. Chapters tighten. The methodology updates with the latest field experience.
Better guests say yes
Each new chapter is proof the system works — which makes the next guest easier to land.
Compounding, not extractive. The book gets sharper while everyone wins.
Part 1
Where we are now, and how we got here.
“I think it is really important to understand how video is going to be leveraged by AI answers.”
“Get people comfortable with using video because it's one of, if not the best way to really make a direct connection with your audience.”
Part 2
The new model, in plain English.
“Let it be your primary output and put that in and it's like riding a bike. It becomes very natural.”
“As a podcast host myself, I can fuel a 12-month content calendar from a single 60-minute podcast episode. You just gotta use it everywhere.”
Part 3
Proof, not opinion.
“Marketers using video marketing made revenue 49% faster than organizations not using video marketing.”
“Take a beat. Don't believe the hype. There's a lot of churn happening right now.”
“Think about your reputation as the accumulation of all those breadcrumbs that go up to make the loaf of bread. That is your personal brand.”
Part 4
Where AI helps. Where it hurts. How to tell.
“A lot of folks, from my opinion, trying to use AI to overcomplicate stuff rather than simplify stuff.”
“It's the people, it's the humanity. I think that makes a huge impact as a brand differentiator.”
Part 5
Where attention becomes revenue.
“In comparison to the $5 million initial grant, the $50,000 or so to make a video — that's coffee money.”
Contributors
Operators who've actually shipped video-first B2B content. Every quote here was pulled from a long-form interview, tagged to a topic, and filed for a chapter. Follow any name to their interview on the blog.
21 contributors · 205 quotes · 27 interviews
Founder · Breaking B2B
“We only took YouTube seriously a year or so ago and we've slowly reaped the rewards.”
Go-to-Market Strategist
“Video is valued very highly by the systems that decide what to serve up at the top of the list.”
Marketing, SEO & Paid Ads Expert
“You still want to do Google Ads, you still want to do SEO, and you just have to add one more thing onto your marketing mix. Nothing's going to die.”
Brand and Creative Strategist
“Take a beat. Don't believe the hype. There's a lot of churn happening right now.”
“Once things are served up to them on a platter from stage three or four, they then start seeking other places they can scale this. So for me, as a stage five, I'm now orchestrating several separate tools that I've built to go out and do research for me.”
“it really feels like I'm much more in manager mode than builder mode.”
GEO/AEO Expert
“I think it is really important to understand how video is going to be leveraged by AI answers.”
Head of Marketing and Brand · Emotive Mobility
“It's the people, it's the humanity. I think that makes a huge impact as a brand differentiator.”
Co-Founder · Orbit Media Studios
“Video is a more intimate format. You get tone of voice and body language. It builds trust faster than others.”
Head of Marketing · Ovation CXM
“Let it be your primary output and put that in and it's like riding a bike. It becomes very natural.”
Founder · Kalicube
“Think about your reputation as the accumulation of all those breadcrumbs that go up to make the loaf of bread. That is your personal brand.”
B2B SaaS Writer & Journalist / Harvard Graduate Student · Kaleigh Moore (Independent)
“The B2B content model of the past decade does not copy-paste over to optimizing for LLM citations”
Founder · searchtosale.io
“I was learning about machine learning a decade ago and that's come full circle to now be super relevant to the marketing work that I'm doing.”
Fractional Content Strategist & AI Search Optimization Expert
“I was really mad about it because it was a day I had a bad hair day and here it is in the AI overview and it stayed there for months.”
Co-founder & Chief Data Scientist · Trust Insights
“A lot of us have been in this space for quite some time. Ever since November 2022 when ChatGPT came out, suddenly everyone's an AI expert.”
Founder · Resonate Online & BetterSites
“LLMs are lazy. So the more clear, pointed, nicely tied in a box kind of content that you give them, the more likely they will be to repeat that fact.”
Content Strategist · Morgan Short (Independent)
“The problem was never, how do we make content faster? The problem was always, how do we actually say something worth listening to?”
IBM Cybersecurity Education Program Director · IBM
“In comparison to the $5 million initial grant, the $50,000 or so to make a video — that's coffee money.”
Founder · Digital Accomplice
“Marketers using video marketing made revenue 49% faster than organizations not using video marketing.”
Business Coach and Host · Mind Your Business Podcast
“Stop thinking of 'video marketing' as this separate entity that is optional for your business. Video is an effective form of communication that needs to be integrated into each and every aspect of your existing marketing efforts.”
Head of Marketing · vidIQ
“Online video is the Swiss army knife of internet marketing. It really can be used all over the customer lifecycle, whether it's customer service, marketing, or even recruitment.”
Early-access list coming soon. For now, follow chapters as they ship on the blog.