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Marketing Operators — 139 episodes

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Holiday Offers vs Black Friday, Cyber Monday: Which Comes First?

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Incrementality Testing for Black Friday, Cyber Monday: What to Spend?

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“Leadership Is Leverage”: Motion’s CEO on the Future of Marketing

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Funnel Coverage: The Upsell Fix Most Brands Never Check

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Haus CMO Reveals the Incrementality Index Behind Smarter ROAS Calls

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Employee Number Four to a $1.2B Unilever Exit: Katie Cirulli’s Story

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Creators Over Reach: How to Rewrite Your Influencer Marketing

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TikTok Shop Masterclass: Inside Ridge & HexClad Affiliate Programs

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Meta Ads Underperforming? Why + What To Do Right Now

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The Performance Creative Director Hire: Operator vs. Ideator

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Big-Swing vs. Incremental: Our Ecommerce CRO Testing Framework

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The Right Way to A/B Test Landing Pages on Meta Ads for Ecommerce

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How to 2x Your A/B Testing Output Without More Budget

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DTC Content Creation Process That Wins on Paid Social

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How AI Is Reshaping Ecommerce Growth Teams: HexClad & Jones Road

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Meta Ads Catalog, TikTok Shops + GMV Max, and the Future of Creative

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Live at Meta’s 2026 Performance Marketing Summit: Ads, AI & Audiences

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The Meta Playbook That Took True Sea Moss Beyond Nine Figures

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Ecommerce Content Flywheel: Meta to TikTok, Paid to Organic

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How to Get New Reach on Meta: Tactics & Data for Ecommerce Marketing

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Most Underrated Growth Tactic in Ecommerce Right Now With Andrew Faris

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500% Growth: Inside Cadence’s DTC and Retail Playbook

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Rethinking SMS Marketing for Ecommerce: AI, RCS & LTV

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Building a 9-Figure Baby Brand: Bobbie’s Kim Chappell (Chief Brand Officer)

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Why Your Meta Campaigns Are Stuck Targeting the Same People

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Your Step-By-Step Growth Framework With Bryan Cano (True Classic)

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New Ad Accounts, Organic & Creators: Marketing Operators Hotline

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Incrementality Playbook Every Ecommerce Marketer Needs

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Meta’s Manus AI Enters the Chat: Is Media Buying “Dead”?

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Mattel & PDQ: Scaling Through Data, Checkout, and Customer Trust

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Category Expansion: When to Launch, What to Test & How to Scale

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Episode 100! The Big Rocks We’re Focusing on for 2026 Growth

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Performance Creative in 2026: What We’ve Updated and Why

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From Organic Creative to Paid Performance: The New Flywheel

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Performance Creative: Velocity, AI Tooling & the Paid-Organic Relationship With Dara Denney

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Key Initiative Breakdown: When and how to diversify your media mix

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The New Ecommerce Playbook: DR Funnels, CRO, and Buyer Behavior

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Our DTC 2026 Predictions & What 2025 Got Right and Wrong

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From Brand Moments to Revenue: How Halfdays Drives Growth - with Liz Anthony, Chief of Staff

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The Influencer Marketing Playbook - with Lily Comba, Founder & CEO of Superbloom

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Setting 2026 Goals, Incrementality Lessons from BFCM and Amazon Brand Bidding

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What Grüns, Marty Supreme, and TikTok Shop Teach Us About Modern Marketing

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Black Friday Cyber Monday Recap & The Forecasting Process Behind Ecom Profit - with Richie Mashiko

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Brand Tracking That Matters and How Modern Teams Scale TV

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Rethinking the Customer Journey: Text-to-Buy, Post-Purchase Wins & Alternative Media

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How We Track Revenue and Ad Spend Hourly During Cyber Five

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What DTC Can Learn From Enterprise Media - with JMo, VaynerMedia

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What We’re Putting Into Motion: Evolving Creative Strategy for Meta’s Andromeda Era (Bonus Episode)

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AI & the Future of CX: Lean Teams, Better Workflows & New Revenue Levers - with Richpanel’s Amit RG

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Inside Our Forecasting, Pacing, and Holiday Shipping Strategy for BFCM Success

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The Lesser-Known BFCM Insights & Strategies Driving Our Planning Right Now

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Creative Strategy and How AI Is Changing the Game for Growth Teams - with Reza Khadjavi, Motion CEO

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Motion's Creative Strategy Summit: Why AI Creative Strategists Will Become the Highest Paid MarketersWhy AI Creative Strategists Will Become the Highest Paid Marketers (Bonus Episode)

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Operators Titans E004: David Herrmann, the Media Buyer’s Media Buyer

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Is Media Buying Dead? And How We’re Hiring for Culture, Autonomy, and Execution

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Chat GPT Shopping, Striking a Balance with SMS & How We’d Build a Marketing Team from Day One

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Operators Titans E002: Portland Leather Goods (with CMO MacCoy Merkley)

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New Product Launch Strategy, Net New Reach on Meta, and Big Partnership Swings

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Why Direct Mail Deserves a Place in Your DTC Marketing Mix - and How To Make It Work (Bonus Episode)

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Inside Cozy Earth’s Viral Social Challenge with CMO George Davis

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How We're Reaching New Audiences on Meta with Partnership Ads

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The Untapped Potential of YouTube Ads – Strategy, Measurement & What Drives Results with Brett Curry

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How Halfdays Turned Community into a Growth Engine - with CEO Ariana Ferwerda

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From Growth Sprints to Brand Health Metrics: What's Driving Wins Right Now

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DTC OG Ezra Firestone on How the Game Has Shifted and What’s Working Now

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Unlocking Growth Levers with Connor Dault, CMO of Fast-Growth DTC Supplement Brand Gruns

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How We’re Iterating on Tentpole Campaigns & Structuring the Content Teams That Power Them

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Acquisition Offers That Drive Retention: What’s Working - and Why Testing Matters

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When to Diversify or Evolve Your Media Mix: How To Approach Channel Expansion (Bonus Episode)

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Why Great Marketers Think Like Data Scientists, with Eric Seufert

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Spending More & Reaching Less? Fix Your Meta Account With Us

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E067: How Marketers Should Actually Be Using AI, with the Boring Marketer

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E066: DTC Marketers - Where Are You Wasting Your Time?

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E065: Using Spending Power to Plan and Spend Smarter with Steve Rekuc - Plus AI Ads and PDP

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E064: Does Conversion Rate Matter? Dylan Ander on CRO Best Practices & Smarter Web Analytics

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E063: Quick Hits – What’s Shifting on Meta, Shopify’s AI Update & Your DTC Questions Answered

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Bonus Episode: Marketing Operators X Meta Summit

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E062: Running a Sweepstake for Your DTC Brand? Here’s Your Checklist to Get It Right

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E61: Quick Hits – Campaign Wins, Team Structure & AI Tools We’re Testing

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E060: Go-To-Market Strategy: How 9-Figure Brands Plan, Execute, and Post-Mortem Product Launches

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E059: Meta Shifts, Margins & Smarter Growth with Taylor Holiday

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E058: Marketing in a Recession - Cuts, Bets, and What You Can’t Afford to Lose

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E057: Inside Tecovas: Reporting, Merchandising & Growing the Brand with CMO Krista Dalton

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E056: Redefining Your Ad Creative Strategy and Maximizing Meta Performance

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E055: Meta's Conversion Lift Testing, AI in Creative, and Product Seeding for Scalable Growth

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E054: From Product Drops to Post-Purchase Plays - Email Marketing with 'Email Is Not Dead' Author, Karly Craig

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E053: Our Takes on Saratoga's Viral Moment, Meta's Andromeda & AI's Role in Ad Creative

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E052: How We Set KPIs, Structure Reporting and Run Meetings to Drive Results

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E051: Why Meta Purchase Conversion Isn’t Enough - Rethinking Ad Optimization for Incremental Growth

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E050: Tecovasgate: Is This Growth Marketing? Plus Product Expansion, AI in Growth Measurement & More

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E049: How Digital Product Fuels DTC Growth with Connor Dault

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E048: Scaling with Affiliate Marketing: What’s Working for Leading DTC Brands, with Aaron Paul

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E047: Blending Brand Identity with Performance Marketing at the Highest Level

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E046: Matt Bertulli: Is Meta Still Incremental? How Paid Media is Changing & Scaling Beyond Facebook Ads

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E045: Onboarding: How To Get The Best Out of Your New Hire from Day One

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E044: Hiring: How To Build and Structure Your Team For Success

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E043: Creative Testing: Quality Vs Quantity - Does Chasing Volume Lead to Success?

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E042: Our 2025 DTC Predictions Review

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E041: Influencer marketing strategy: how we’re product seeding, building partnerships & measuring EMV

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E040: How Product Positioning and Post-Purchase Upsells Supercharge CRO with Shane Rostad

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E039: Scaling to $20M+ in 2 Years With a Team of Six: Dan McCormick of Create Wellness

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E038: Is AppLovin Living Up To The Hype & How We're Scaling Creative Partnerships

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E037: BFCM Debrief! The Marketing Strategies That Paid Off - And The Ones That Didn't

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E036: Our Biggest Mistakes & Lessons Learnt This Year

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E035: Black Friday Cyber Monday: How We'll Be Tracking, Analyzing & Maximizing Our Results

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034: How To Launch New Channels and Identify Incremental Value In Your Ad Spend

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E033: Zach Stuck on the Core Marketing Tactics to Drive Growth As You Scale

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E032: How To Balance Brand Memorability & ROI In Your Creative Ad Strategy with David Herrmann

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E031: One month countdown to BFCM: What We're Working On Right Now To Maximise Success

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E030: Reza Khadjavi, Motion Founder, on Building a Creative-first Approach to DTC Marketing

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E029: How We're Planning For 2025 - Our Approaches, Strategies vs. Tactics & Knowing When To Pivot

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E028: MOperators Hotline! Pre-BFCM Targets, Marketing Spend, Moving from Amazon to DTC & More

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E027: How We Set Goals, Attribution Limitations and KPIs for Growth

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E026: Shopify President Harley Finkelstein on Founder Mode, Chaos Monkeys & The Future of Shopify

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E025: Founder Mode, Gift With Purchases & Our Takes On The Latest Meta Updates

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E024: Resident's EVP Jared Brody on Attribution Tooling, Analytics Teams & Data-Driven Marketing

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E023: Ridge's Sean Frank drops in! Talking big swings, partnerships and being a fireman CEO

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E022: Q4 planning - How we're strategizing for Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the Holidays

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E021: Shane Rostad on CRO: The DOs and DON'Ts of Conversion Rate Optimization

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E020: Twitter Deep Dive - Media Buying, Retargeting & Is There A Place For Cheap Content?

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E019 Debriefing Our Prime Day Tactics & Results, & How We’re Hiring, Managing & Building Our Teams

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E018: Optimizing Your Ad Creative Strategy: Creative Fatigue, Format Diversity and Meta Insights

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E017: The Sweepstakes Tactics To Create Tentpole Moments

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E016: Breaking Down Twitter's Hot Takes!

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E015: Ad Creative: Dissecting The Anatomy & Analytics of Our Ads

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E014: YouTube Deep Dive: Ads, Organic Growth, Partnerships & More

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E013: Tyson Drake, former CMO at The Oodie, on Merchandising, Top of Funnel Tactics and More...

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E012: CX - Customer Experience From A Growth Marketer's Perspective! Tactics To Create Incredible Revenue-Driving Customer Experiences

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E011: Going Global: How We're Approaching International Expansion

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E010: CRO: Optimising Conversions, Increasing AOV and Selling 6-Figures Post Purchase

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E009: Ashton Wall: Putting Influencer Marketing At The Core of your Marketing Stack

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E008: Your Questions Answered! Marketing Channel Expansion, Team Building, Influencer Marketing & More

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E007: Product Drops: The Tactics and Strategies We're Using On Our Launches Right Now

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E006: David Herrmann: Paid Media, Creative Diversity and the Channels You Should Be Testing

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E005: How 9-Figure Brands Structure Their Organisations and Manage Their Teams - Hiring, Delegating, Communications and more!

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E004: All Things Forecasting! How we Forecast, the Pitfalls of Over and Under Forecasting, and the Lessons We've Learnt From Our Mistakes

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E003: Holistic Retention Strategies and Driving LTV

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E002: Creative Testing, Content Creation and Ad Performance Analysis

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E001: A Deep Dive into attribution and measurement