Prepare to have your perspective shifted.

‍💰 Timing Your Discounts For BFCM

BFCM discounts peaked during Black Friday weekend and late December, even as promotions began earlier in 2024. For 2025, brands should follow last year’s cadence but start creative and scaling efforts a week earlier to capture peak purchase intent efficiently.

‍👀 How to Prove What’s Actually Working in Your Ad Spend — The Incrementality Mentality with Stella's Brenden Delarua

Learn how Stella’s Brenden Delarua helps brands prove what’s truly driving ROI through incrementality testing and media-mix modeling. Discover how to measure real growth, optimize ad spend, and simplify campaign analysis for smarter scaling.

‍🎧 How Challenger DTC Brands Can Compete with Legacy Giants

Challenger DTC brands can outshine legacy giants through bold creative and smarter post-click experiences. Learn how to use design, copy, and landing page testing to break category norms and convert more effectively.

‍💰 Meta Lifetime Budget Campaigns To Have In Your Back Pocket

Use Meta lifetime budget campaigns to maximize your Black Friday spend and reach fresh audiences fast. Set fixed start and end dates to force full budget delivery, monitor results daily, and scale horizontally for smarter, faster growth.

‍👻 IKEA’s Relatable Horror Movie Night Ad

IKEA’s Halloween campaign cleverly turns everyday home goods into “Halloween Essentials” for horror-movie nights. By tapping into relatable moments and seasonal storytelling, the brand drives engagement while staying true to its identity.

‍🎃 Lush Gets Spooky (and Strategic) for Halloween

Lush’s Halloween campaign blends festive storytelling with smart UX design to boost engagement and sales. Seasonal navigation, themed bundles, and seamless add-to-cart features make holiday shopping effortless and fun.

‍Google Labs Launches AI Tool For SMBs

Google launched Pomelli, a new AI tool designed to help small and medium businesses create scalable social media campaigns. By analyzing a brand’s website, Pomelli generates tailored campaign ideas and ready-to-use creative assets.

‍🎧 Shaan Arora on the Real Pop-Up Levers: Copy, Timing, Segmentation

Alia founder Shaan Arora reveals that copy, timing, and segmentation—not design—drive the biggest gains in pop-up performance. Using AI-driven testing, brands can boost opt-in rates from 3–5% to 10–15% without relying on heavy discounts.

‍💰 How Highland Scaled Profitably Using This Tool

Highland scaled profitably by using a custom payback period calculator that tracks CAC, AOV, and LTV to guide smart ad spend decisions across Meta, Amazon, TikTok, and Google. This free tool helps DTC brands balance growth and profitability by revealing when new customers become break-even investments.

‍Analyzing YETI’s ‘Survive Extra Innings’ Ad

YETI’s “Survive Extra Innings” campaign smartly connects its core benefit—temperature retention—to the World Series buzz for authentic engagement. The ad’s cultural timing, visual relevance, and concise copy make it a masterclass in contextual marketing done right.

‍🏆 Evergreen Creative + Sale Ad Copy = A Winning Duo

Pairing evergreen creative with sale-focused ad copy boosts performance without reinventing your ads. Pilothouse’s Meta tests showed this combo lifted ROAS by 16.7% and cut CPA by over 10% during Labor Day sales.

‍🎧 How Outway Got Back to Profitable 8-Figure Growth

Outway founder Rob Fraser reveals how his performance-sock brand rebounded from flat sales to profitable 8-figure growth through smarter logistics, Amazon expansion, and community-driven marketing. Discover the key strategies that fueled 40% YoY growth and improved margins for sustainable scale.

‍☕️ Ad Breakdown: Chamberlain Coffee’s Pumpkin Play

Chamberlain Coffee nails seasonal marketing with its cozy, nostalgic fall ad that sells a mood, not just pumpkin spice. By pairing warm visuals and witty copy, the brand proves that leading with vibe and voice beats cliché seasonal themes every time.

‍🚀 Meta’s Andromeda Update: Creative Is the Targeting

Meta’s new Andromeda update replaces audience targeting with creative-led delivery, meaning copy, visuals, and tone now drive who sees your ads. To win, brands must embrace creative diversity—fewer campaigns, bolder contrasts, and frameworks like 3×3×3 to fuel Meta’s AI engine.

🤖 How ChatGPT Is Changing How Customers Shop

ChatGPT is transforming ecommerce by letting shoppers browse and buy products directly in chat—starting with Etsy and soon Shopify. Brands that optimize product data for AI search will win visibility and sales as shopping shifts from search and scroll to conversation and checkout.

‍🎧 CTV for DTC: How Cantrip Drives Measurable Growth with Vibe’s Audience‑First Strategy

Learn how Cantrip achieved 3–4x ROAS on CTV with Vibe’s identity-first targeting model. Discover how performance-driven connected TV helps DTC brands in regulated industries scale growth and measure true attribution.