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Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Jordan Gordon runs CRO and retention at Pilothouse and hosts TWBERP, The World’s Best Email and Retention Podcast. He has audited somewhere in the range of 400 to 500 brands and been inside more Klaviyo accounts than almost anyone in DTC. In this All Killer No Filler episode he…
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Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Most DTC brands put the bulk of their paid budget where attention is thinnest. Viewers spend about 99 minutes per session on Connected TV and 8 minutes per session on social, yet only 9% of standard marketing budgets go to CTV. This episode is about closing that gap on…
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Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Dan bootstrapped Unbound Merino from a Reddit-fueled obsession with merino wool into a brand approaching nine figures in lifetime revenue, with a warehouse sale, a growing women’s line, and zero outside funding. In his second appearance on the DTC Podcast, the Unbound co-founder gets specific about what actually moved…
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Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup This week on All Killer No Filler, we’re giving you a preview of Agency Confidential, the new podcast from our co-founder Jeff, and this episode’s is a truly killer. Jeff sits down with Nick Shackelford, who’s everywhere in DTC. Three agencies (Structured, Konstant, Lucid), an events business, and a…
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Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Gifting is one of the biggest reasons people buy online, and most brands never build for it on purpose. Matt Heckathorn runs digital marketing at Wolfe, the company behind Gift Card Granny, PerfectGift.com, and GiftYa. His ICP is close to everyone, which kills the usual narrow-audience playbook and forces…
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Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Meta used to let you pick your customer in the backend. Those days are over. Post-Andromeda, the creative itself carries the targeting signal, which means the old spray-and-pray playbook now works against you. Rafael Gi spent a decade in traditional creative agencies, then led marketing at a nine-figure apparel…
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Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Most list-growth advice assumes you have a website people visit. Cove Soda doesn’t. They sell zero sugar soda in roughly 7,000 retail doors with no real DTC store, which means no site traffic, no purchase pop-ups, and no easy email capture. Zoe Kahn runs marketing for Cove as interim…
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Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Google search is changing under everyone’s feet. AI overviews are eating the top of the funnel, exact match stopped being exact years ago, and shoppers now type full paragraphs instead of two keywords. Doug, who leads Google at Pilothouse, breaks down what actually came out of Google Marketing Live…
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Most brands expand into the US and treat it like the same business with a different shipping label. Outway learned it is not. Taylor Fraser is the Chief Growth Officer at Outway, the Canadian performance sock brand. In this episode he breaks down why Outway now runs Canada and the US as two distinct businesses,…
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Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Braydon from Pilothouse joins for a fast AI check-in on what the team is actually shipping right now. Not theory. The exact tools, prompts, and workflows behind their current creative output. If you run growth or creative at a DTC brand or agency, this is a look at how…
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