Product vs. Performance: How Modern Brands Really Scale with Ari Murray and Stefani O’Sullivan (From Marketingland 2025) | Ep. 369
What really scales a modern brand: product or performance? From Marketingland 2025, Ari Murray sits down with growth powerhouse Stefani O’Sullivan (STAUD, Savage X Fenty, Moda Operandi, Chanel) for a deep dive into how today’s most resilient brands actually grow. Stefani breaks down the truth behind two very different paths: Product-led growth (STAUD, RHODE, category…
Read MoreA New Email Metric to Track in 2026 | Bathroom Break #83
Want more replies, but all you hear are crickets? Daniel and Jay unpack one of the most slept-on tactics in email and social right now: getting your audience to reply to your campaigns. It’s simple, it’s human, and it’s about to blow up as AI makes responding at scale easier than ever. They explain why…
Read MoreThe Truth About Marketing Analytics with Sid Malhotra, EVP at Snap | Ep. 368
Your analytics might be lying to you. Snap’s EVP Sid Malhotra joins Daniel to unpack what marketers still get wrong about measurement, why last-click thinking is failing modern buyers, and how to build smarter growth systems in a world where customers don’t follow clean conversion paths anymore.Sid shares why Snapchat’s nearly one-billion-person audience behaves differently…
Read MoreHow To Measure Brand with Preston Rutherford, Co-founder of Chubbies | Ep. 367
What happens when you treat brand like a growth channel and not a guessing game? You get Chubbies, one of the most iconic DTC brands of the last decade, built on humor, short shorts, and measurable creativity. As co-founder of Chubbies and now the brain behind Marathon Data Co, Preston Rutherford has spent the last…
Read MoreTry This Email Tactic That Works Every Time | Bathroom Break #82
Tired of writing emails no one reads…or worse, emails no one clicks? Daniel and Jay break down an email tactic that’s stupid simple but wildly underrated: how using animated GIFs can instantly lift your click-through rates and make any email impossible to ignore. They explain why GIFs still outperform video in email, how to theme…
Read MoreHow to Measure Marketing Effectively with Sorin Patilinet | Ep. 366
What happens when an engineer falls in love with marketing? You get Sorin Patilinet, the data-driven marketer reshaping how the world’s biggest brands think about creativity, effectiveness, and growth. After 20 years working in marketing science at Mars and PepsiCo, Sorin has one mission: to help marketers stop chasing vanity metrics and start measuring what…
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