When data security failures cost brands millions, your data partner's location isn't just geography—it's a strategic decision. 🔒 At Source Medium, we've built an all-American analytics powerhouse where EVERY team member—from engineers to analysts to contractors—is U.S.-based.

Meta AI is closing in on 600 million monthly active users—positioning it to become the most powerful AI-driven product discovery platform before competitors even launch their ad models. 😳 At LlamaCon 2025, Meta unveiled impressive AI capabilities that could transform commerce.

Visualizing data helps humans digest complex information 10X faster than text, yet most dashboards actually slow down decision-making. Edward Tufte's pioneering work reveals why: effective data visualization requires ruthlessly eliminating noise to amplify signal—what he calls

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Stripe just brought stablecoins mainstream with accounts now live in 101 countries. At Sessions 2025, Stripe unveiled a comprehensive stablecoin infrastructure that transforms how businesses move money globally. This isn't speculative crypto—it's digital dollars integrated

Greg Abel grew CalEnergy from a niche geothermal outfit into Berkshire Hathaway Energy’s $26 billion enterprise—and now he’s poised to run the whole conglomerate. What can business leaders learn from Buffett's chosen successor? Behind his "affable, yet hard-driving" leadership

Brands have spent millions building data stacks that no one uses. Source Medium is building an AI analyst that understands ecommerce metrics, your business nuances, communicates in plain English, and lives where decisions happen—Slack, email, SMS, and voice calls. Unlike

80% of AI shopping suggestions come from affiliates—not your site. 😞 Microsoft's new MCP standard, NLWeb, will transform AI search as we know it. NLWeb creates a universal way for AI agents to interact with your brand's data via MCP, putting the brand back in the driver's

Your customers are still spending. But for how much longer? We track consumer health like a vital sign—combining jobs, inflation, credit stress, and sentiment into one score. Think of 60+ as 🟢 healthy, below 55 as 🟡 warning signs. (see trends.sourcemedium.com) Our Consumer

"More attribution data hasn't led to more confidence—it's created analysis paralysis." Last week, a $50M DTC brand confessed they're paying for 4 different attribution tools plus platform reporting. Still couldn't agree on which channels actually drove their holiday revenue. 🎯

"Is AppLovin stealing credit from Meta , or actually driving incremental new customer revenue?" This question came up in three separate customer calls last week. I just recorded a 3-minute demo showing exactly how we answer this using our upcoming multi-touch attribution

4 attribution sources. 4 different answers. Your MTA tool, GA4, Meta, and Shopify can't agree on attributed $$$. And you can't audit why. Standalone MTA tools add proprietary pixels and enforce vendor-locked query params. Meanwhile, your GA4 + CAPI + Shopify + survey data

Shopify and Stripe are making a massive bet on stablecoins. Why now? Both companies see cross-border commerce hitting a wall with traditional card rails. International transactions still cost merchants 3-5% in fees, take days to settle, and exclude billions of potential