AskThePods › DTC PodcastAbout DTC Podcast The DTC Podcast delivers an incisive, no-nonsense look at direct-to-consumer marketing, operations, and growth strategies, making it essential listening for founders, marketers, and anyone scaling an ecommerce business. This podcast cuts through the noise, offering actionable insights derived from real-world successes and failures. Learn how to navigate complex challenges such as attribution in a post-iOS landscape [1] [2] [3]
Ep 632: SheFit on TikTok Shop's Hidden Costs and Why Your New Customer Numbers Are Wrong Ep 629: 85% of Your Email Revenue Comes From One Segment (And You're Ignoring It) Ep 618: Inside Tumble – Scaling a Nine-Figure Rug Brand Listen on Apple Podcasts YouTube Website
Recent episodes Ep 632: SheFit on TikTok Shop's Hidden Costs and Why Your New Customer Numbers Are Wrong — Jul 27, 2026 Ep 631: Cracking Profitable, Incremental Scale on Applovin with Pilothouse — Jul 24, 2026 Bonus: How One Brand Recovered $1.5M in Amazon Sales From Unauthorized Sellers — Jul 22, 2026 Ep 630: "The Best Ads Say Nothing" | Ari Murray, Chief Digital Officer at Salt & Stone — Jul 20, 2026 Ep 629: 85% of Your Email Revenue Comes From One Segment (And You're Ignoring It) — Jul 17, 2026 Bonus: The CTV Blueprint for DTC Brands: Build in Summer, Convert in Q4 (Paramount Ads Manager) — Jul 15, 2026 Ep 628: How Unbound Merino Bootstrapped to Nine Figures Selling $90 T-Shirts — Jul 13, 2026 Ep 627: Why Nick Shackelford's Personal Brand Saved His Cash Flow | Agency Confidential Preview — Jul 10, 2026 Ep 626: How Wolfe Sells Gifting to Everyone: Top of Funnel Testing, CTV, and AI — Jul 6, 2026 Ep 625: Brand Salience for DTC: Turning Creative Into Your Targeting Layer — Jul 3, 2026 Ep 624: How Cove Soda Builds an Email and SMS List With No DTC, Trading Full Cans for Signups at Events — Jun 29, 2026 Ep 623: Your Google Product Feed Is the Most Overlooked Lever in AI Shopping (with Pilothouse) — Jun 26, 2026 Ep 622: How Outway Runs Canada and the US as Two Separate Businesses — Jun 22, 2026 Bonus: Top of Funnel Collapse: How AI & AEO Are Changing Consumer Behavior & How Marketers Can Adapt — Jun 17, 2026 Ep 620: How Origin Runs E-Commerce With AI Agents, From Media Buying to Diagnosing Defects — Jun 15, 2026 Ep 619: Stop Growth Hacking Your Brand to Death with Duncan From Pilothouse | AKNF — Jun 12, 2026 Bonus: How DÔEN, Origin & Universal Ads Actually Implement AI w/o Losing Their Brand | Whalies Panel — Jun 10, 2026 Ep 618: Inside Tumble – Scaling a Nine-Figure Rug Brand — Jun 8, 2026 Ep 617: How to Fix a Pooched Email Account: 10 Steps to Recover DTC Deliverability [TWBERP Preview] — Jun 5, 2026 Bonus: 100% Agentic on Meta at a $1B Brand | True Classic's Ben Diamond & Triple Whale's Maxx Blank — Jun 3, 2026 Ep 616: How Neuro Built a Nine-Figure Smart Gum Brand Before Expanding to Retail. — Jun 1, 2026 Ep 615: Prepare Your Brand for Agentic Commerce (How LLMs Are Collapsing the Consideration Phase) — May 29, 2026 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 608: She Hit 100K Customers Without Running a Single Ad | Roo & You — May 4, 2026 Ep 607: Rufus Reads Your Images – Why 40% of Amazon Searches Are Already AI-Driven — May 1, 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 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 