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06/05/2026

34 million organic impressions across our client roster last year.

Zero of those came from "going viral."

All of them came from showing up consistently, with a real strategy, across the right platforms, for clients who trusted the process for at least 6 months.

The math of marketing is unglamorous and undefeated.

OpenAI just turned ChatGPT into an ad platform any business can buy into. No minimum spend, no gatekeeper, no agency req...
06/04/2026

OpenAI just turned ChatGPT into an ad platform any business can buy into. No minimum spend, no gatekeeper, no agency required to get in the door.

Here is the part most people skim past. Targeting is contextual. It reads the conversation happening right now, your chat history, and your past ad interactions. It is not keywords. And advertisers get zero user data back: no emails, no IP addresses, no precise locations. Only aggregated performance numbers.

The scale is the reason this is not a side experiment. ChatGPT handles roughly 2.5 billion prompts a day. It went from first ad placements in February to $100 million in annualized revenue in six weeks, and OpenAI is now projecting $2.5 billion in ad revenue for 2026. CPC bidding arrived in May, which is the exact signal performance marketers were waiting for.

The pattern underneath: discovery is moving inside the answer. Buyers are forming opinions before they ever reach a results page, and this ad surface sits right where that happens.

For brands and agencies, this rewards specific, intent-matched offers, not broad awareness copy. The teams that win will write the ad that answers the exact question someone just asked the model, and they will build a measurement approach that does not lean on last-click.

Are you ready to test an ad channel that hands you results but never hands you the customer's data?

06/04/2026

We call it the PR Readiness Score.

Six factors:
1. Story you can tell in one sentence
2. Founder who can speak on camera
3. Proof points (numbers, results, named clients)
4. Visual assets a journalist can actually use
5. A real angle (not just "we exist")
6. Speed of response when a journalist replies

Score below 4/6 and you're not ready for press. You're ready to be ignored by it.

We fix the score before we pitch. Every time.

06/03/2026

The agencies that drive results aren't the ones with the prettiest decks.

They're the ones who'll tell you your offer is broken before they sell you content.

06/02/2026

The most undervalued PR skill: writing a one-sentence story.

Most founders try to pitch journalists a paragraph. The paragraph contains six different angles, three buried statistics, and zero clear hook.

The one-sentence test:

"_____ is doing _____ that matters because _____."

Fill it in. If you can't, you don't have a story yet. You have ingredients.

06/01/2026

A client launched a product line that flopped.

They asked us to "fix the marketing." We told them the marketing wasn't the problem. The product line was solving a problem nobody had.

We helped them sunset it. Refocus on what was already working. Reallocate the budget.

Six months later, revenue from the core line was up significantly. The "failed" launch turned into a win because we were willing to say what no other agency would.

Sometimes the best marketing strategy is killing a project.

06/01/2026

Etsyโ€™s new ad from Orchard Creative is the 2026 brand playbook in 51 seconds. It opens on the math of being alive, then lingers on the small stuff: catching a butterfly, eating ice cream with a friend, one year of sobriety, a divorce, a birthday with family.

The voiceover credit is the part to study. Itโ€™s Christine Taffe, the creative director at Orchard who co-wrote the script. They kept her scratch track because it sounded like a real person, not a brand asset. That single choice does more work than any media buy.

This is the pattern of the year. Aerie, Equinox, Dove, and now Etsy are all leaning into the same wedge as AI floods every feed with synthetic content. Polished perfection used to be the safe play. Now it reads as content sludge.

The brands winning shelf space in 2026 are picking specificity, weirdness, and authorship over the slickest possible ex*****on.

Whatโ€™s the most human, hardest-to-fake thing your brand could make this quarter?

05/29/2026

Our brand audits use what we call the Three Mirror Test:

Mirror 1: What does your team think you stand for?
Mirror 2: What do your customers say you stand for?
Mirror 3: What does your content say you stand for?

If all three mirrors show the same picture, your brand is aligned.

If they don't, the gap between them is where your marketing is leaking money.

Meta is poised to pass Google in global ad revenue for the first time. eMarketer puts Meta at $243.46 billion for 2026 a...
05/29/2026

Meta is poised to pass Google in global ad revenue for the first time. eMarketer puts Meta at $243.46 billion for 2026 and Google at $239.54 billion. That's a 26.8% share of global ad spend for Meta vs Google's 26.4%, a reversal nobody on the buy side would have called five years ago.

The bigger story is why. Advertisers are flooding into platforms that pair scale with automation. Meta's Advantage+ has trained a generation of buyers to set a budget, hand over the creative, and let the machine optimize. Google's search business is still growing, but search itself is getting unbundled by AI overviews and answer engines, and the slower YouTube ramp can't fully offset that drag.

For brands and agencies, this is a structural shift, not a one-quarter blip. The platform you treat as "test budget" today is the one running your media plan tomorrow. If your team still treats Meta as a social channel rather than the largest performance ad business on earth, your media mix is already behind.

Where are you spending your incremental dollar this quarter, and is it actually pointed at where attention is moving?

05/28/2026

Three things every marketing plan needs before a single post goes out:

1. A specific person you're talking to. Not "small business owners." A specific person with a specific problem.

2. A specific outcome you're driving toward. Not "more awareness." A number.

3. A reason this person should believe you can solve it. Not your credentials. Their evidence.

Most plans skip all three and start with "post 3x a week."

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