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Ep 614: Creative Is the New Conversion, Not Just Targeting -- Charlie Cole, Thuma Ep 612: The Bootstrap Beauty Brand Going Up Against BlackRock in Target – Megababe Ep 611: Velocity Isn't Strategy – Pilothouse on the Andromeda Creative Trap Listen on Apple Podcasts YouTube Website
Recent episodes Ep 614: Creative Is the New Conversion, Not Just Targeting -- Charlie Cole, Thuma — May 25, 2026 Ep 613: AI Is a Stack of Two-by-Fours. What Are You Building With It? (Plus Meet Gary and Blanche) — May 22, 2026 Ep 612: The Bootstrap Beauty Brand Going Up Against BlackRock in Target – Megababe — May 18, 2026 Ep 611: Velocity Isn't Strategy – Pilothouse on the Andromeda Creative Trap — May 15, 2026 Ep 610: How Full Glass Built a $200M Wine Rollup by Fixing DTC Unit Economics — May 11, 2026 Ep 609: The New Rules for Meta Attribution (and the setting you need to test NOW) — May 8, 2026 Bonus: Revenue Is Lying to You: Planning, Execution and What Actually Drives Growth with Three Ships and Keen's Brand Study — May 6, 2026 Ep 606: How Coyuchi Tested True Meta Incrementality (6-Week Blackout Results) — Apr 27, 2026 Ep 605: Meta Attribution Change – Why ROAS Dropped 40% — Apr 24, 2026 Bonus: How DTC Brands Scale Affiliate Marketing Without Fraud or Bad Attribution — Apr 22, 2026 Ep 604: How Lexington Bakes Cut CAC From $180 to $25 With a Better First-Order Offer — Apr 20, 2026 Ep 603: Why Most DTC Brands Fail on YouTube (And How to Fix It in 60 Days) — Apr 17, 2026 Bonus: How to Scale Amazon in 2026 – 3 Data Plays DTC Brands Are Still Missing — Apr 15, 2026 Ep 602: How Bobbie Won 91% of the Conversation With 4% Market Share | Building the Brand — Apr 13, 2026 Ep 601: 25% of Your List Drives 75% of Revenue. The Dangers of AI Email Segmentation — Apr 10, 2026 Ep 600: How Acid Buddy Got 1,000+ Orders in Its First 6 Weeks, Creating a New Category Behind the Bar — Apr 6, 2026 Ep 599: 3 Claude AI Workflows DTC Marketers Can Use to Save Hours Every Week — Apr 3, 2026 Ep 598: 5 Content Pipes That Scale DTC Growth Beyond Meta Ads | Cherene Aubert — Mar 30, 2026 Ep 597: How Jon Bond Built a $90M Agency with 27% Margins (and the “Tip of the Spear” Playbook) — Mar 27, 2026 Ep 596: 3 Shopify Hot-Fixes for AI Shopping: Kurt Elster on UCP, ChatGPT Referrals, and TikTok Shop — Mar 23, 2026 Ep 595: Where Will Your Growth Come From This Year? The 5-Message Creative System for Scaling DTC Strategically — Mar 20, 2026 Ep 594: How Odd Pieces Hit $500K on Kickstarter by Reinventing the Puzzle Category — Mar 16, 2026 Ep 593: 3 Rules for Culturally Relevant DTC Ads That Still Convert on Meta — Mar 13, 2026 Bonus: 26% of Brands Reply in Real Time: The Conversational SMS Playbook That Wins More Orders — Mar 11, 2026 Ep 592: $250K Kickstarter to West Elm: How Bearaby Built a Weighted Blanket Category (Without Early Meta Spend) — Mar 9, 2026 Ep 591: Meta Andromeda: 3 New Tools (CASC, AI Assistant, Creative Testing) to Improve DTC Performance — Mar 6, 2026 Bonus: How Street Interviews Became a Performance Creative Pillar (15,000 Ads Later) — Mar 4, 2026 Ep 590: How WeNatal Grew to 30,000 Families With $0 Paid Ads (Bootstrapped Supplement DTC) — Mar 2, 2026 Ep 589: 70% Different or Meta Buckets It: The Andromeda Creative Playbook (w/ Braydon Germain, Pilothouse) — Feb 27, 2026 Ep 588: How BrainGain Scaled Heavy Home Gym Equipment to 30 Countries (100,000+ Customers) — Feb 23, 2026 Ep 587: Meta Andromeda Strategy: 5 Creative Testing Shifts for $5M+ DTC Brands — Feb 20, 2026 Ep 586: Laura Cantor: Digital Transformation, AI Collaboration, and Why We're All Failing Calculus Together — Feb 16, 2026 Ep 585: Amazon Marketing Cloud: 5 Audience Plays to Lower ACOS on Competitive Keywords — Feb 13, 2026 Ep 584: Building in Pubic: Inspecting Bushbalm’s 70% Growth via Retail & the Pro Channel — Feb 9, 2026 Ep 583: Counter Intuitive Ways to Maximize Net Present Value from Your Email List with Jordan Gordon — Feb 6, 2026 Ep 582: How SURI Sold 5,000 Toothbrushes in a Week: DTC Growth in a Boring Category — Feb 2, 2026 New to the DTC Podcast Network: Agency Confidential. Tom Shipley on Buying Growth: Scaling Your Agency Through Acquisitions — Jan 31, 2026 Ep 581: Meta Ads Aren’t About Targeting Anymore: How $5–50M Brands Win with Intent-Based Creative — Jan 30, 2026 Ep 580: How Fan Bi Revives DTC Brands with 30 Days of Cash Left — Jan 26, 2026 Ep 579: How to Nail DTC Merchandising in Q1: From Scroll to Sale — Jan 23, 2026 Ep 578: How Breath Death Cracked TikTok Shop: Funnels, Affiliates, and $0 Creator Content — Jan 19, 2026 Ep 577: Why Content Targeting on YouTube Is Beating Cheap CPVs — Jan 16, 2026 Ep 576: How Silk & Snow Scaled to 10 Retail Stores by Focusing on Profitable CAC — Jan 12, 2026 Ep 575: The Angle Audit: How to Break Out of the $5M “Vibes Plateau”| AKNF x Ad-Venturous — Jan 9, 2026 Ep 574: How Pretty Litter Scaled to $300M+ With Only 12 Employees — Jan 5, 2026 Ep 573: Where Should That Click Go? Landing Pages, Homepages, and PDPs (TWBERP) — Jan 2, 2026 Bonus: Mastering the Marketing Mix: Composite Funnels, and the End of Meta Monoculture with Dean Krowitz from Blend AI — Dec 31, 2025 Ep 572: The $200 AOV DTC Brand Built on Pockets, Partnerships, and Purpose — Dec 29, 2025 Ep 571: How Pilothouse Cut BFCM CPMs With Smarter Creative (2025 Recap) — Dec 26, 2025 Ep 570: Inside the Dragon's Den with Santevia and How they 2Xed Amazon Revenue by Taking Back Control — Dec 22, 2025 