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Notes from running 8 publications and building tools for them. Restaurant SEO, local marketing, the boring parts that move the needle.
Fox News Still Tops April 2026 Cable Ratings Despite Viewer Slide—The Rest of Cable News Is Still Chasing Shadows
Fox News still leads cable ratings in April 2026 despite ongoing viewer losses, while CNN and MSNBC flounder without growth or innovation.
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The Myth of Unified CTV Measurement: Why Independent Metrics Are Still a Pipe Dream
The CTV measurement hype cycle is spinning out of control, but the dream of a truly independent, unified system is still a farce. Marketers deserve better.
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Incrementality Measurement Isn’t Magic — Stop Treating It Like It Is
Marketers drown in data but starve for truth on incrementality. The grift of lazy attribution models and SEO plugin hype must end — clean measurement demands rigor.
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Fox Sports’ World Cup Promo Is a Celebrity Circus, Not a Strategy
Fox Sports’ new World Cup promo is less about strategy and more about star-studded spectacle—a celebrity circus masking a lack of digital savvy.
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Programmatic Media’s Civil War: New Trade Bodies Expose Industry’s Turf Wars and Stalled Innovation
New rival trade bodies battling over programmatic media’s future expose an industry stuck between legacy turf wars and the desperate need for real disruption.
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TikTok’s Billboard Ads Are Not Just Resized Videos — They’re Rebuilt From Scratch, Thanks to Vistar
TikTok is ditching lazy repurposing and rebuilding their ads from scratch for billboards through a strategic partnership with Vistar, demanding better creative control and execution.
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Incrementality Measurement Isn’t Magic — Stop Treating It Like It Is
Marketers drown in data but starve for truth on incrementality. The grift of lazy attribution models and SEO plugin hype must end — clean measurement demands rigor.
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Why Data-Driven Audience Connections Are Still Mostly Marketing Bullshit
Marketing’s fetish with complex data to decode purchase intent is mostly a lazy narrative that confuses correlation with genuine audience connection. Here’s why.
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Omnicom’s Duncan Painter Out, Christine Gambino Steps Up in Leadership Shuffle
Omnicom shakes up its top deck as Duncan Painter exits and Christine Gambino, the COO behind its digital platform push, takes the CEO helm. This is no routine shuffle—it's a sign of the times.
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Micro-Influencers Dump Paychecks for Equity, Shaking Up Brand Sponsorships
Micro-influencers are ditching short-term sponsorship paychecks for equity in brands, exposing the broken influencer marketing model and forcing a reckoning.
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Stuck in the Grind: Why Marketers Are Trapped in Career Limbo and Who’s to Blame
Most marketers are stuck in career limbo, crushed by lazy agencies and hollow metrics. The industry’s obsession with fluff over real impact is soul destroying.
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AI Data Brokers: The New Middlemen Who Swipe 100% of Publishers’ Content—and Profits
Publishers are facing a new breed of middlemen: AI data brokers who scrape 100% of their content without paying a dime, far worse than the old ad tech tax.
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Fox News Still Tops April 2026 Cable Ratings Despite Viewer Slide—The Rest of Cable News Is Still Chasing Shadows
Fox News still leads cable ratings in April 2026 despite ongoing viewer losses, while CNN and MSNBC flounder without growth or innovation.
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Anchor Butter Ditches Pastoral Clichés for Gritty Realness in a Saturated Market
Anchor Butter throws out the tired cow-in-a-field trope in favor of bold, attention-grabbing campaigns that challenge the dairy category’s stale marketing norms.
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Generative AI in the Creator Economy: More Hype Than Help, But The Hustle Isn’t Dead
Generative AI in the creator economy is mostly a productivity tool, not the creative revolution it’s hyped up to be. The real winners know where to draw the line.
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Fox Sports’ World Cup Promo Is a Celebrity Circus, Not a Strategy
Fox Sports’ new World Cup promo is less about strategy and more about star-studded spectacle—a celebrity circus masking a lack of digital savvy.
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Micro-Influencers Dump Paychecks for Equity, Shaking Up Brand Sponsorships
Micro-influencers are ditching short-term sponsorship paychecks for equity in brands, exposing the broken influencer marketing model and forcing a reckoning.
Read →
Micro-Influencers Dump Paychecks for Equity, Shaking Up Brand Sponsorships
Micro-influencers are ditching short-term sponsorship paychecks for equity in brands, exposing the broken influencer marketing model and forcing a reckoning.
Read →