It's very strange, and I wonder if the aging Facebook audience is making them consider taking drastic steps to "fix" it. cnn.com/2025/01/03/bus…

This is fascinating: Barnes & Noble is adding 60 new stores in 2025 and one major factor in the bookstore revival is people reading more because of TikTok.

No one will get up at your funeral to talk about how great of a marketer you were. Take pride in your work, be curious, and keep learning, but it's not what matters most. The work will always be there, prioritize your family first.

Ok pretty cool. This took a bit more prompting but took this screenshot from The Woobles IG and prompted it to make this.

The most important creative metric for scaling brands is... ❌TSR ❌CTR ❌CVR ❌ROAS ✅It's CCT: Creative Cycle Time. How quickly can you go from making an ad to making a BETTER AD based on data. Your account won't grow based on how MUCH creative you dump into. If you made 50

Pretty interesting use of Claude and MCP

This could lead to a forced divestiture of Google’s ad tech assets and a ban on Google self-preferencing its own ad products and services. "Google Is Found Guilty Of Operating An Ad Tech Monopoly (!) adexchanger.com/platforms/goog…"

Wait, is Shopify checkout going to be embedded in ChatGPT Harley Finkelstein ?!?!

Is it hostile to list factual reasons for a price increase on your site?

S2 E3 of The Rehersal was the most bizarre episode of tv I’ve ever seen, and I loved it.

Growth, Brand, Finance

I genuinely have no idea what the reaction to this will be (or if anyone will care at all), but if for nobody but myself I felt like I had to put it together. I hope you find something inside that's valuable 🙏🏻 detailed.com/state-of-seo/

A recent tell-all by a Facebook insider reveals the insidious nature of Facebook's advertising empire. share.google/M1CLaRWhOl1tvk…

I used to shoot $500k pharmaceutical commercials. I made this for $500 in Veo 3 credits in less than a day. What’s the argument for spending $500K now? (Steal my prompt below 👇🏼)

It’s here!

Who's going to be at the Meta performance summit this week? It would be great to meet up.