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As brands strive to reach a wide audience, content distribution is increasingly critical. Noah Greenberg, Co-founder and CEO of Stacker, a platform that connects brands like Sofi and Redfin with a broad variety of media outlets, joins Toptal’s Growth and Digital Marketing Practice Lead Jeffrey Gangemi on the Executive Guidance podcast to unpack how brand authority, data-driven storytelling, and smart content distribution turn content into a real growth engine. Listen now: https://topt.al/RzcPXw #Marketing #DigitalMarketing #ContentDistribution

A recent USA TODAY article highlights how AI is fundamentally changing the way companies engage entry-level talent. Toptal Chief Economist Erik Stettler notes that companies increasingly value professionals who can bridge AI with business context, bringing the creativity and judgment AI lacks. This shift in how companies evaluate talent aligns with the findings in Toptal’s High-skilled Job Report, which shows growing demand for talent that can combine AI fluency with domain expertise. Read the full USA Today article: https://lnkd.in/evRnvCae #FutureOfWork #AI #AItalent

At NRF 2026, Toptal joined The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. for a podcast conversation with Rakesh Srinivasan, Global SVP of Data & Analytics, AI, and Emerging Tech. Rakesh and Toptal’s GM of Consumer Products and Services, Chris Daniel, discussed the impact of AI on the beauty industry and the inflection point the industry is facing due to disruptive forces like brand fatigue and fragmented shopper journeys. Listen to the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/eNSdMiWz #NRF2026 #Leadership #Innovation

A recent Forbes article on how AI is reshaping the way value is measured at work reflects a shift we’re seeing across the talent market. Demand for experienced, highly qualified professionals remains strong, but expectations have changed. Increasingly, value is defined by how human judgment and experience are applied in AI-augmented environments. This aligns with insights from Toptal’s High-Skilled Job Report: demand is shifting toward high-skilled professionals who can pair AI fluency with experience and domain expertise to drive outcomes. Read the full Forbes article here: https://lnkd.in/ezkqxrKz #FutureOfWork #AI #TalentMarket

AI search is reframing how buyers research, decide, and convert. On the latest Executive Guidance episode, Scrunch’s Head of Marketing Kevin White joins Toptal’s Growth and Digital Marketing Practice Lead, Jeffrey Gangemi, to unpack how LLMs reframe intent, why structure beats scale, and how brands can adapt to AI-driven search. Listen now: https://topt.al/rwcGGB #AI #LLM #GEO

Toptal has been ranked the No. 1 most reliable professional services company in America on the America’s Most Reliable Companies 2026 list by Newsweek and Statista. The rankings are based on an independent survey of more than 80,000 evaluations submitted by 2,400 business decision-makers at America’s largest companies and scored on criteria including likelihood of recommendation and consistency of deliverables. In Newsweek’s ranking of 300 companies across all industries, Toptal took 10th place, right behind Bank of America and Oracle, which tied for 9th. As the most reliable professional services organization in America, Toptal, which ranked 11th in absolute rankings across all companies, placed well ahead of companies like Accenture (33), Deloitte (39), and Cognizant (66). We’re proud to be recognized for our commitment to delivering exceptional outcomes across tech services, AI services, data labeling and annotation, management consulting, managed services, and more—all executed by the top 3% of the world’s talent. Read more about the ranking here: https://lnkd.in/ggGMsww3 #Reliability #ProfessionalServices #FutureOfWork

In Davos, Toptal CEO Taso Du Val, alongside Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott, and David O. Sacks, Chair of the President of the United States Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, shared perspectives on how AI is reshaping the global job market. Toptal is currently seeing job demand rise in several areas as a result of AI. Read more in the Fortune article here: https://lnkd.in/eZHkTx4C #WEF26 #Leadership #AI

In Davos, Toptal hosted the Entrepreneurs Lunch at Goals House, where our CEO Taso Du Val joined visionaries like Miro CEO Andrey Khusid, Unity founder David Helgason, and BBC Head of Future World Design Manon Dave. Together, they shared stories of how creative applications of AI are solving today's challenges and shaping the future of business and society. #WEF26 #Leadership #AI

At the 2026 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Toptal joined global leaders like Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and US Secretary of Commerce Howard W. Lutnick to engage in an insightful dialogue about today’s most pressing issues, including the responsible implementation of AI at scale. Toptal CEO Taso Du Val spoke at the Fortune Global Leadership Dinner and engaged with executives from leading organizations, including PwC Global Chairman Mohamed Kande and Publicis Sapient CEO Nigel Vaz, discussing how AI-driven innovation is transforming industries and driving systemic change.   #WEF26 #Leadership #AI

Toptal has acquired No Single Individual, a talent platform known across the advertising industry for connecting agencies with rigorously vetted independent talent in advertising, brand, creative, and social. By integrating NSI into Toptal, we’re expanding our ability to help agencies scale with curated teams that drive results and achieve industry recognition. Read more here: https://topt.al/yRcVXV #FutureOfWork #TalentNetwork #Acquisition