The Journal

Essays, research,
and a point of view.

The people who run the agency write here. The work keeps us busy so the cadence is monthly, not daily — but what we publish, we stand behind.

All essays

Marketing

Apr 14, 2026 · 7 min

Facebook ads in 2026: what actually works now

Advantage+ Shopping, creative velocity, and the death of "audience targeting." What a good Meta ads program looks like today.

Sasha Iversen · Head of Production

Point of View

Apr 12, 2026 · 7 min

The agency, post-AI: what doesn’t change

AI collapses execution cost. That makes taste, judgment, and the ability to frame the question more valuable — not less.

Priya Raman · Chief Strategy Officer

Marketing

Apr 8, 2026 · 8 min

TikTok ads: what we learned running $40M in spend

Native-first creative. Sound-on. Creators whitelisted. And why most TikTok accounts are lighting money on fire on a Meta playbook.

Daniel Kwon · Executive Creative Director

Marketing

Apr 2, 2026 · 6 min

Social media management is back — and it's not what it used to be

The content-mill era is ending. The editorial era is starting. What a modern social team actually does.

Maya Okonkwo · VP, Brand Strategy

Marketing

Mar 30, 2026 · 7 min

Google Ads in the Performance Max era

Pmax without audience signals is a black box. Pmax with them is a cheat code. How to tell the difference.

Aaron Bell · Head of Analytics

Marketing

Mar 26, 2026 · 9 min

What marketing in the UAE and Saudi Arabia actually looks like

Why the GCC is the highest-per-capita digital-spend market in the world — and the playbook nobody imports correctly.

Priya Raman · Chief Strategy Officer

Brand

Mar 24, 2026 · 6 min

Why we ship a brand platform in 90 days

Most brand work takes nine months because most brand work has nine months to take. Here is our argument for the 90-day platform.

Daniel Kwon · Executive Creative Director

Marketing

Mar 20, 2026 · 8 min

SEO for scaling companies: what still works in 2026

Technical hygiene. Editorial quality. Digital PR. And why Google just killed half the "SEO hacks" you read about online.

Maya Okonkwo · VP, Brand Strategy

Marketing

Mar 16, 2026 · 6 min

Amazon Ads: the TACoS reality check

Why most brands track ACoS and lose the bigger war. What total cost of sale actually tells you.

Aaron Bell · Head of Analytics

Marketing

Mar 12, 2026 · 8 min

Marketing in India: playbook notes from 18 months on the ground

Low CPMs, massive creator economy, vernacular language as a cheat code. What the India playbook actually looks like.

Priya Raman · Chief Strategy Officer

Marketing

Mar 11, 2026 · 5 min

How to brief a creative team in 2026

The brief is still the single highest-leverage document in marketing. Here is what we look for when we receive one.

Maya Okonkwo · VP, Brand Strategy

Research

Feb 28, 2026 · 8 min

Measuring brand in a performance-obsessed world

The CFO wants a number. Brand teams keep answering with a story. Here is the number we actually trust.

Aaron Bell · Head of Analytics

Culture

Feb 14, 2026 · 4 min

Why our office is still in New York

Remote-first works for a lot of things. Building a cultural point of view is not one of them.

Priya Raman · Chief Strategy Officer

AI & Creativity

Jan 30, 2026 · 9 min

The creative stack we actually use in 2026

Which tools earn their seat at the table, which are quietly gathering dust, and what we are still missing.

Sasha Iversen · Head of Production