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Direct Agents Partners with FreeWheel to Launch Advanced In-House Programmatic Solutions
On August 12th, we officially announced a strategic partnership with FreeWheel, a global technology platform for the television advertising industry, to power a new in-house programmatic Connected TV (CTV) offering. This collaboration positions Direct Agents to...
Rebuilding Marketing Credibility: How Marketers Can Shift From Vanity to Performance Metrics
For years, marketers have leaned on numbers that look good in a report but don’t always prove business impact. Clicks, impressions, likes, and engagement rates are easy to track and easy to celebrate, but when the question becomes “how is this driving growth?” Those...
The Retail Media Disconnect: Why Your Spend Isn’t Paying Off
Retail media networks like Amazon Ads, Walmart Connect, and Instacart Ads are capturing more marketing dollars than ever. Yet as budgets grow, so does the performance gap. Once celebrated as closed-loop, high-ROAS machines, retail media is now leaving many marketers...
From Feeds to Screens: The Next Phase of Creator Media
The convergence of social and CTV is no longer theoretical; it’s here. Creators are moving beyond the scroll and onto the biggest screens in the home, bringing with them built-in audiences, loyal fanbases, and new opportunities for brands to engage. This shift marks a...
Attribution Meltdown: How to Navigate Marketing Measurement in 2025
The marketing measurement landscape has fundamentally shifted. According to recent industry research, 73% of marketers report significant challenges with campaign attribution since iOS 14.5 launched, while cookieless tracking looms on the horizon. What was once a...
Rebuilt for Reach: How B2B Brands Compete in the Attention Economy
Attention is now the scarcest resource in B2B marketing. Your buyers are drowning in content and have trained themselves to tune out traditional marketing. In this attention economy, the old playbook of gated whitepapers and MQL targets is a fast track to irrelevance....
Built to Fit: How Platform-Specific Creative Drives Growth
As marketing leaders lock in their priorities for the remainder of 2025, one principle is emerging across the board: platform-specific creative is not a luxury. It is essential for performance. The acceleration of channel fragmentation and audience expectations has...
The Rise of the Omnichannel Shopper: Prime Week Trends and Insights
Prime Day 2025 demonstrated that mid-July shopping is no longer just a brief two-day event but has evolved into a full-blown omnichannel experience. U.S. consumers spent over $24.1 billion online, up more than 30% from the previous year, and 63% of households placed...
The New Search Playbook: SEO + AIO
How do you measure search success in the age of SEO and AIO? The search landscape has fundamentally changed. Traditional SEO still matters, but it's no longer the whole picture. AIO is now reshaping how consumers engage with brands, surfacing answers before a click...
The Amazon Prime Effect: Capturing Share & Margin Growth Across Retail Channels
Mid-July is no longer just Amazon’s stage; it is now a full-blown retail battleground. It has evolved into a high-stakes, multi-platform promotional cycle anchored by Amazon Prime Day (July 8-11), Walmart Deals (July 8-13), Target Circle Week (July 6-12), and TikTok’s...
Beyond Awareness: Capturing the Triggers That Drive Purchases
Your brand might be well-known, but are you remembered when customers are ready to buy? This gap between awareness and action frustrates marketers across every category. The problem isn't that people don't know you exist, it is that you don't come to mind at the...
The Creative Performance Gap: How Fast Brands Win the Scroll
The Evolution of Attention and Creative Performance In the age of short-form video and hyper-fragmented feeds, the social creative game has changed. Audiences scroll faster than ever, spending less than two seconds per post, and if a brand doesn’t deliver value...
