Google CEO: Learn AI Agents Now Or Spend 2027 Playing Catch-Up

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Careers, Marketing

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Growth Newsletter: https://levelingup.beehiiv.com/subscribe Need marketing help? Visit: https://www.singlegrain.com/ and https://npdigital.com/ Want to recruit great marketers? Find them here: https://marketingschool.io/hire Neil and Eric open by dissecting LVMH's 16 straight quarters of decelerating growth, arguing the COVID spike distorts the story and that 172-year-old brand power, not a handbag, is what makes luxury houses durable. They break down Sundar Pichai's warning that anyone who skips learning to orchestrate AI agents today will spend 2027 playing catch-up, then dig into Google actively building AI spam defenders to keep generative slop out of AI Overviews. Eric closes on Eli Schwartz's viral post that reduces all of AEO to three plain words: be unique, be helpful, be agent-ready. A sharp episode on brand moats, the compounding AI agent gap, and the only SEO play with a real shelf life. Key takeaways ◾ Brand power compounds over centuries, not quarters — LVMH's dip looks worse than it is once you strip out the COVID bump ◾ The AI agent gap compounds every day — start orchestrating agents now or risk never catching up by 2027 ◾ Every AEO tactic built to game the algorithm has a shelf life — the only durable play is "be unique, be helpful, be agent-ready" Chapters 0:00 LVMH's 16 quarters of decline 4:41 Sundar Pichai: learn agents now 6:51 Does AI volume drive revenue? 8:34 Google's AI spam defenders 12:23 Eli Schwartz's 3 AEO pillars 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗟 Welcome to Marketing School, one of the top business podcasts with over 61 million downloads. Each episode delivers actionable marketing tips and strategies from two entrepreneurs who truly practice what they preach. The show is hosted by Eric Siu, founder of Leveling Up and Single Grain, and Neil Patel, co-founder of Neil Patel Digital and recognized by Forbes as a Top 10 Marketer. 🎙️ Learn More About the Hosts Eric Siu – Leveling Up: https://www.youtube.com/@LevelingUpOfficial Neil Patel: https://www.youtube.com/@neilpatel 📩 Free Resources Ubersuggest: https://www.ubersuggest.com/ Answer The Public: https://www.answerthepublic.com/ ✅ Subscribe for Daily Marketing Insights!

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0:00.0	When a buyer asks AI for a solution like yours, does your business come up?
0:04.5	Most companies have no idea.
0:06.2	And by the time they find out, they've already lost the deal to someone who did.
0:09.9	HubSpot AEO helps you show up in those moments, what the right answers buyers are looking
0:14.7	for.
0:15.6	Before the first click, before the first form fill.
0:18.6	That's the moment HubSpot AEO is built for.
0:21.5	Check out HubSpot.com, the agenic customer platform for growing businesses.
0:26.4	So, Neil, I saw, did I ever show you this chart?
0:30.2	I mean, we like to all talk about LVMH, you know, my, and I just, I thought this is
0:35.8	really interesting.
0:36.3	So LVMH, obviously, they own Louis Vuitton they own Dior
0:39.5	they own Fendi they own Sephora and 70 plus luxury houses right so this chart over here I thought was
0:45.7	was fascinating so if you let uh since the highs of uh and Neil you can read the charts over but you see
0:52.3	December 2021 this is obviously during the height of the pandemic. And so everyone is flush with cash, right? And so, you know,
0:58.7	you saw the lines around like the Beverly Hills Louis Vuitton over here. So December 21, 44% revenue
1:05.1	growth, right? And then you move to March of 22, it drops to 37%. June 22, 22, 32%, 32%.
1:12.6	So this chart is just, it's like a hill that's going downwards, right?
1:17.7	And you can see it goes all the way to December 2025, and it goes negative 5%.
1:23.0	Right.
1:23.3	And then it just keeps dropping, dropping, dropping.
1:24.9	So LVMH has now put up 16 consecutive quarters of de-accelerating growth.
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