{"podcast":{"title":"The Agency Insider Show","slug":"the-agency-insider-show-7021946","podcast_index_feed_id":7021946,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f8469864/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.pagetraffic.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/41553761/41553761-1719823111134-ee22f2e6e4ece.jpg","author":"Navneet Kaushal","episode_count":100,"summary":"Welcome to The Agency Insider Podcast, hosted by Navneet Kaushal, CEO of PageTraffic. Explore insider tips, strategies, and stories from the digital marketing and agency world. Each episode features conversations with industry leaders, successful entrepreneurs, and innovative thinkers, offering valuable insights and practical advice on SEO, marketing, and business growth. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, seasoned marketer, or agency professional, tune in to elevate your skills and achieve success in the dynamic digital landscape.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-25T18:19:48.364915+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-agency-insider-show-7021946"},"episode":{"title":"Lazy Agencies Will Lose Clients to AI - Amanda Walls","slug":"lazy-agencies-will-lose-clients-to-ai-amanda-walls","published_at":"2026-04-07T15:02:57+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-agency-insider-show-7021946/lazy-agencies-will-lose-clients-to-ai-amanda-walls","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-agency-insider-show-7021946","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/navneet-kaushal/episodes/Lazy-Agencies-Will-Lose-Clients-to-AI---Amanda-Walls-e3hieng","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f8469864/podcast/play/118094000/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-7%2F421588370-44100-2-9eb3a934ab9ee.mp3","summary":"Amanda Walls is the founder of Cedarwood Digital — a 14-person boutique agency out of Manchester that's won 5 European Search Awards, spoken at Brighton SEO 5 times, and is more profitable than most large agencies she knows. And she did it with no outbound sales, no account managers, and zero AI shortcuts. In this episode, Amanda breaks down why hero campaigns are dead, how a story about fruit flies generated more links than expensive data studies, why one DR45 niche link beats five DR80 links from national press, and her original Aristotle-inspired Ethos, Pathos, Logos framework for SEO. She also delivers a brutally honest warning: agencies that get lazy with AI will lose clients. Brands will fire them. And people will lose jobs. But if you use AI the right way — like doing the laundry and vacuuming instead of running the house — your agency becomes unstoppable. Whether you run a 5-person shop or a 50-person agency, this episode will change how you think about scaling, profitability, and what agency value really means in 2026. 0:00 — Intro0:54 — Amanda's background and welcome0:58 — Philosophy to SEO: The Ethos, Pathos, Logos origin story3:52 — Ted the golden retriever: Cedarwood's chief fluff officer5:13 — From Australian newsroom to Manchester agency owner7:21 — Digital PR through a journalist's lens8:35 — Why journalists are overrun and what they actually want10:23 — Anatomy of a pitch that lands links in 202613:38 — Reactive newsroom: how Cedarwood spots newsjacking windows15:13 — Economics of digital PR: low-cost, high-return campaigns16:25 — The fruit flies story: 10 hours, tons of coverage17:26 — "The days of hero campaigns are kind of gone"18:17 — Digital PR vs traditional PR: is there a credibility gap?20:40 — One DR45 niche link vs five DR80 genera…","meta_description":"Amanda Walls is the founder of Cedarwood Digital — a 14-person boutique agency out of Manchester that's won 5 European Search Awards, spoken at Brighton S…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3697,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-agency-insider-show-7021946/episodes/lazy-agencies-will-lose-clients-to-ai-amanda-walls/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-agency-insider-show-7021946/lazy-agencies-will-lose-clients-to-ai-amanda-walls.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}