Why 'purpose' might be doing more harm than good

This week, we're questioning one of marketing's most popular ideas: brand purpose. Writer and creative Nick Asbury makes the case that purpose isn't just ineffective, it might be actively ba...

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Why 'purpose' might be doing more harm than good

This week, we're questioning one of marketing's most popular ideas: brand purpose. Writer and creati...

Linear TV and CTV Advertising: Answers to Marketers’ Biggest Questions

Buying linear TV and Connected TV separately ignores how people actually watch TV, resulting in dupl...

Watch: An Ecommerce Brand’s Guide To TV Measurement

Quick gut check for every performance marketer. You can cite your social CAC by channel down to the ...

Why your media mix is lying to you

This week, we're digging into why so many marketers know how to craft a healthy media mix, but don’t...

Why smart marketers keep making the wrong call

This week, we're digging into WARC’s Multiplier Playbook and asking a hard question: if we know bran...

Most TV ad creative is a guess. Here’s how to change that.

Marketers predict the winner of their own creative tests about as often as a coin flip, and on TV th...

How to escape the performance trap

This week, we're sitting down with Peter Sengenberger, 25-year media pro, Substack writer, and self-...

The death of the marketing funnel

This week we're tackling one of marketing's most enduring debates: is the traditional marketing funn...

B2B Buyers Won't Fill Out Your Survey

This week, Peter Weinberg, co-founder of Evidenza and former head of research at LinkedIn’s B2B Inst...

Ritson goes back to the marketing basics

Mark Ritson is back after 100 episodes, and he brought data. New research he conducted with Ipsos sh...

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