The Best Content You Own Is The Content You Forgot About

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Oh, we do love the idea of evergreen content. It’s the dream: write it once, watch it drive traffic forever, build authority, dominate search rankings. But let’s be honest: most “evergreen” content is just abandoned blog posts gathering dust in the darkest corner of your CMS. We call it evergreen because it sounds better than “content we wrote three years ago and never looked at again.”

TIME Magazine just showed us what evergreen content can actually do when you stop letting it rot.

Their new TIME AI Agent turns over a century of archived journalism into an interactive experience. You can ask it anything—“What did Truman say about the atomic bomb when it was first used?” or “How did TIME cover Kissinger over the decades?”—and it pulls together summaries, generates audio briefings, translates into 13 languages, or stages debates using quotes from actual reporting. I asked it questions after watching Netflix’s A House of Dynamite the other night, and it pulled up original coverage from 19…