generative engine optimization Archives - Firebrand Communications
by Alastair Nee | Jan 14, 2026 | Blog, Digital Marketing, Marketing
The search landscape is undergoing the biggest shakeup since the advent of Google Search. While marketers have spent decades optimizing for Google, a quieter revolution has been taking place: AI platforms like Claude, Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Gemini are rapidly...
by Shane Jordan | Dec 17, 2025 | Blog, Digital Marketing, Marketing
The increased use of AI-based search is rapidly impacting how people discover and learn about brands online. Traditional SEO remains a foundational strategy for online discoverability, but search behavior is experiencing a rapid shift with users increasingly turning...
by Alastair Nee | Dec 10, 2025 | Blog, Digital Marketing, Marketing
If I had a functioning crystal ball, I’d probably be on a beach somewhere instead of writing about search marketing predictions. But since fortune-telling isn’t a marketable skill (yet), let’s talk about what we can actually see coming down the...
by Arman Khayyat | Aug 6, 2025 | Blog, Digital Marketing, Marketing
Updated on 01/26/2026 Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly growing as a new front end of search, powering AI assistants, chatbots, and search engine features that answer user queries directly instead of pointing to traditional links — and significantly changing...
by Alastair Nee | Jun 3, 2025 | Blog, Business, Digital Marketing, Marketing
The Communicator Awards has recognized Firebrand with an Award of Distinction in the Integrated & Multi-Channel Business to Business Campaign category for our work with VMware. This win celebrates a bold, integrated push to reposition VMware as the “trendsetters”...