Prepare to have your perspective shifted.

‍🎧 Where Should That Click Go? Landing Pages, Homepages, and PDPs

Learn why sending paid traffic to your homepage kills conversion and how intent-matched landing pages, PDPs, and frameworks can dramatically improve performance. This episode breaks down message hierarchy, page selection, and proven layouts to turn ad clicks into predictable revenue.

‍💰 Push Prospecting in January!

Refill your top-of-funnel in January by shifting budget toward prospecting, aligning creative with “reset” intent, and targeting cold audiences with problem-solution messaging. Add strong social proof and iterate weekly to rebuild volume, improve ROAS, and avoid a Q1 performance slump.

‍🎧 How to Blend Your Omnichannel Marketing: Composite Funnels, and the End of Meta Monoculture with Dean Krowitz from Blend AI

Learn how top ecommerce brands are blending channels and reallocating spend across Meta, Google, TikTok, and Microsoft to drive better efficiency and lower CPAs. This episode explains composite funnels, why channel-level ROAS can be misleading, and how smarter omnichannel strategy led to 3x BFCM revenue with less ad spend.

‍💀 Instagram Head Shares ‘Polished Feeds Are Dead’

Instagram’s Adam Mosseri says polished feeds are fading as audiences shift toward raw, authentic content, especially with AI changing how creators publish in 2026. Brands should treat UGC as a trust signal, focusing more on who is sharing rather than how perfect the content looks.

‍🎧 The Big Three: UGC, CGC, and EGC Plus How to Use Each for Growth

Learn the difference between UGC, CGC, and EGC and how each plays a unique role in trust-building, community growth, and scalable performance. This episode explains when to use each content type and why the right mix depends on your brand’s stage of growth.

‍💰 Are Your Lead Gen Campaigns Actually Making You Money?

Most brands celebrate cheap CPLs but never check if lead gen campaigns actually produced profitable customers compared to evergreen or promo campaigns. This breakdown explains how to calculate true ROI using a simple worksheet so you can decide whether to scale lead gen or reallocate budget for stronger returns in 2026.

‍🎧 How a 0.5% Conversion Rate Is Killing Your DTC Growth

Learn why a 0.5% conversion rate quietly kills DTC growth and how increasing it to 1% can double revenue without more ad spend. This breakdown explains how to fix site funnels, audit PDP flows, and remove key chokepoints to turn traffic into real revenue.

‍🚀 Keep Sales Moving After The Holidays

Turn the post-holiday slump into growth by leaning into “reset” messaging, clearing inventory strategically, and keeping customers engaged in January. Launching new products or offers while competitors go quiet helps brands maintain momentum, gain market share, and start Q1 strong.

‍🎧 The $200 AOV DTC Brand Built on Pockets, Partnerships, and Purpose

Learn how Wildfang boosted AOV, cut CAC, and drove 25% of revenue through strategic partnerships, vertical expansion, and smarter Meta strategy. This episode breaks down how the brand rebuilt its growth engine, prioritized profitability, and redesigned operations, finance, and paid media to scale sustainably.

‍✏️ Use The Message Box Framework To Sharpen Your Brand’s Core Story

Use the Message Box Framework to clarify your brand story by mapping how you talk about your brand, how customers talk about themselves, and how they see you. This simple four-quadrant exercise helps reveal messaging gaps, define a clear throughline, and create consistent, memorable communication across every channel.

‍🎧 How Pilothouse Cut BFCM CPMs With Smarter Creative (2025 Recap)

Learn how Pilothouse reduced BFCM CPMs by using clearer, smarter creative in a post-Andromeda Meta environment where creative now is targeting. This episode breaks down what actually worked, how AI helps (and hurts), and what DTC brands should focus on to scale sustainably into 2026.

‍💰 5 Ways To Start Off Strong in Q1

Refresh your ad strategy in Q1 by reviewing last year’s wins, fixing tracking, rebuilding top-of-funnel audiences, and using Q4 learnings to guide new tests. Use January as a recovery phase to reset creative, restore testing rhythm, and set your brand up for strong performance through the year.

IN THE SOCIAL SPHERE

IN THE SOCIAL SPHERE

‍🎧 Where Does Shopify and Email Revenue Come From?

This DTC Podcast episode breaks down where Shopify and email revenue truly come from, based on analysis of 240,000+ purchases across DTC brands. Jordan from Pilothouse explains why the most profitable customers often sit outside paid media reach and how email captures that value.

‍🎧 Building The Omnipresent Brand Part 3

In this episode of Building the Omnipresent Brand, Aves explains why winning brands in 2026 will mirror real life, cooperate with culture, and treat art and advertising as part of the same continuum. She breaks down how DTC brands can spot cultural shifts early, research personas through creators, and build flexible creative systems instead of rigid brand rules.

‍🎨 Playful, Unpolished, Organized Chaos

Top design trends for 2026 focus on playful, human-centered creativity, including organized chaos layouts, custom typography, retro futurism, and human-led AI collaboration. These visual styles help brands stand out by prioritizing personality, authenticity, and scroll-stopping creative over overly polished design.