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Marketing Insight ‘Famine’: Over 50% Of Brands Lacks Quality Insight
Advertising and marketing industry is suffering from a marketing insight famine. 51% of brands say their insights are too weak for creative work, according to State of Creativity by Cannes Lions 2025. Every week and month, hundreds of reports and studies, packed with graphs and pie charts from the Moon to Venus, keep flooding the…
Brand Trust Starts Here: Why Promise and Experience Must Match
Every brand has a promise, whether it is made in a communication campaign touting a promise of quality, speed, innovation, or value. But promise alone does not win customers. What matters most is whether the brand delivers the promise through experience. When a brand‘s promise matches the feeling it delivers, trust grows. When they don’t…
Inbox to Income: How Direct Marketing Is Powering Today’s Boldest Entrepreneurs
In a world captivated by bright shiny objects, social media campaigns, and viral videos, direct marketing is the unsung hero in the entrepreneurial identity space. From bootstrapped firms to million-dollar one-person shops, the powerful ability to connect directly to customers in their inbox, DM, or even mailbox is now a superpower. After all, this is…
What Makes CTV Advertising Delicious for DoorDash
When you think about DoorDash, your first thought is probably hot pizza, but not CTV advertising charts. Yet here we are: DoorDash’s name is stamped on a joint report with eMarketer about how Americans are spending their time on connected devices. The sponsorship feels unusual at first glance, but it might be the clearest signal…
Big Tech Acquisitions Are Redefining Creativity: Here’s What It Means
Only a few years back, the big tech acquisitions were only focused on building infrastructure—cloud servers, application stores, and operating systems—where it was all about scale, speed, and engineering power. However, recently they have been on a binge of acquiring creative talent and talent-enabling tools, design platforms, music-generation startups, AI for video, and even boutique…
WPP Profit Warning: Can the Ad Giant Bounce Back?
When the world’s largest ad agency network rings a bell, the whole ad industry listens. The recent WPP profit warning was more than a number on the balance sheet — but a warning that even the biggest aren’t immune to the rapid changes in today’s advertising environment. The company once identified as big and stable…
From Time Sheets to Results: The Rise of Performance Marketing
Having an hourly billing model made sense when everything was manual and took time. Building campaigns involved late-night think tanks and reams of edits, and spreadsheets took days to finalize. The only way to give a price to effort was to track hours. But the landscape has flipped—and quickly. AI and automation now launch, test,…
In Conversation with Lakshey Bahl: Generative Engine Optimization, AI Search, and What’s Next for Marketers
Generative Engine Optimization: In the era of AI-powered search and long-tail queries, SEO is shifting from keyword ranking to visibility in generative results. This article explores how brands can adapt their strategies to stay authoritative and discoverable across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and beyond. Search is no longer just about climbing Google’s blue links—it’s about…
How AI Creative Agency Is Making Marketing Smarter Than Ever
Not too long ago, “creative” and “algorithm” sounded like two people who would NEVER sit together for lunch. One thrives on organic, unexpected inspiration; the other is true to logic and rules. Yet in 2025, all of that has come to a head, and they are literally working together—and the game is about to be…
Legacy Media vs Digital Media in the Battle of the Attention Economy
There’s a quiet tug-of-war happening every second your screen is on—and no, it’s not between streaming apps and social feeds. It’s between legacy media and digital media, both desperately scrambling for a currency we barely realize we’re spending: attention. In this world of endless scrolling, skipping, swiping, and streaming, attention is the commodity. But it’s…
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