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View articleRetail is pouring money into AI while sitting on data it has never truly used. That gap sets up most of the failures to come. Manuel Neto has spent ye...
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View articleHelloFresh serves roughly a billion meals a year. That sounds like the ceiling of a category it helped invent. Assaf Ronen does not read it that way. ...
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View articleMost founder stories from 2008 begin with a pitch deck. Brent Ridge, MD begins with a layoff and a goat. He was thirty years old, working as Director ...
View articleThere is a specific kind of brand problem that established companies rarely talk about openly: the moment when your loyal customers are aging out, and...
View articleThe word “Reddit” gets appended to a Google search 250 times every second. People search Google, then add “Reddit” because the...
View articleRetail media networks keep growing their ad surfaces. More screens. More offsite formats. More CTV. But the harder question is whether any of it is ac...
View articleAlmost every CMO is experimenting with AI. Very few are seeing the returns they expected. Gartner’s latest data puts the split in stark terms: 9...
View articleEvery eCommerce team has a measurement stack. Very few have a measurement strategy. The distinction matters more in 2026 than ever, as the number of c...
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View articleMost brands that talk about purpose treat it as a channel. A campaign lever. Something to activate when the quarterly numbers need a story. The result...
View articleSarah Engel has spent more than two decades in marketing. As President of January Digital, she leads the marketing leadership company and media agency...
View articleThe most persuasive TikTok data point Moroccanoil collected in 2025 was not in any dashboard. Staff overheard it at a tennis tournament. In February o...
View articleE-commerce teams are measuring their retail media performance with a number that can be engineered to look good. ROAS is clean, reportable, and easy t...
View articleThe shopping journey has always involved a kind of surrender. You surrender to a brand’s editorial curation when you browse a site. You surrende...
View articleMost organizations right now are running some version of the same experiment: distribute access to AI tools, watch what happens, and try to figure out...
View articleEmily Rose Campbell, Head of Performance at Iced Media, explains why beauty brands need to move past ROAS fixation and DTC-only measurement. She share...
View articleMost apparel brands know their gross margins. Fewer know whether the traffic they are paying for actually generates profit after returns, fulfillment,...
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