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DTC Podcast | Ep 622: How Outway Runs Canada and the US as Two Separate Businesses

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...

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DTC Podcast | Ep 622: How Outway Runs Canada and the US as Two Separate Businesses
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DTC Podcast | Ep 621: Anything is possible now – The AI Creative Stack

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,...

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DTC Podcast | Ep 621: Anything is possible now – The AI Creative Stack
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DTC Podcast | Bonus: Top of Funnel Collapse: How AI & AEO Are Changing Consumer Behavior & How Marketers Can Adapt

Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup This episode, Kemberly Gong, VP of Marketing at Contentful, joins Eric to walk through what some marketing leaders are calling “The Great Content...

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DTC Podcast | Bonus: Top of Funnel Collapse: How AI & AEO Are Changing Consumer Behavior & How Marketers Can Adapt
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DTC Podcast | Ep 620: How Origin Runs E-Commerce With AI Agents, From Media Buying to Diagnosing Defects

Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Origin owns its entire supply chain. The thread, the brass, the leather, the denim, all of it made or sourced in America, in...

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DTC Podcast | Ep 620: How Origin Runs E-Commerce With AI Agents, From Media Buying to Diagnosing Defects
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DTC Podcast | Ep 619: Stop Growth Hacking Your Brand to Death with Duncan From Pilothouse | AKNF

Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Most brands are quietly killing themselves with growth hacks. Swapping button colors, chasing this week’s ROI, discounting to hit the number. Duncan, Strategy...

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DTC Podcast | Ep 619: Stop Growth Hacking Your Brand to Death with Duncan From Pilothouse | AKNF
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DTC Podcast | Bonus: How DÔEN, Origin & Universal Ads Actually Implement AI w/o Losing Their Brand | Whalies Panel

Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Recorded live at The Whalies. Enterprise brands are past the prompt-and-generate phase of AI. The conversation has moved to connected data, agentic media...

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DTC Podcast | Bonus: How DÔEN, Origin & Universal Ads Actually Implement AI w/o Losing Their Brand | Whalies Panel
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DTC Podcast | Ep 618: Inside Tumble – Scaling a Nine-Figure Rug Brand

Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Most founders want to be first in a category. Justin Soleimani and Zach Dannett did the opposite, and built Tumble into one of...

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DTC Podcast | Ep 618: Inside Tumble – Scaling a Nine-Figure Rug Brand
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DTC Podcast | Ep 617: How to Fix a Pooched Email Account: 10 Steps to Recover DTC Deliverability [TWBERP Preview]

Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup This Friday on AKNF we’re handing over the feed for a special preview of The World’s Best Email and Retention Podcast. Your email...

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DTC Podcast | Ep 617: How to Fix a Pooched Email Account: 10 Steps to Recover DTC Deliverability [TWBERP Preview]
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DTC Podcast | Bonus: 100% Agentic on Meta at a $1B Brand | True Classic’s Ben Diamond & Triple Whale’s Maxx Blank

Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Recorded live at True Classic HQ in Calabasas the day before the Whalies, this episode brings together two of the leaders most aggressively...

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DTC Podcast | Bonus: 100% Agentic on Meta at a $1B Brand | True Classic's Ben Diamond & Triple Whale's Maxx Blank
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DTC Podcast | Ep 616: How Neuro Built a Nine-Figure Smart Gum Brand Before Expanding to Retail.

Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Neuro didn’t fight for checkout shelf space first. They built a nine-figure online business through TikTok Shop, creator marketing, Amazon, and DTC, then...

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DTC Podcast | Ep 616: How Neuro Built a Nine-Figure Smart Gum Brand Before Expanding to Retail.
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DTC Podcast | Ep 615: Prepare Your Brand for Agentic Commerce (How LLMs Are Collapsing the Consideration Phase)

Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup The consideration phase is collapsing thanks to LLM shopping. Awareness still happens on Meta. Conversion still happens on a PDP. But the comparison...

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DTC Podcast | Ep 615: Prepare Your Brand for Agentic Commerce (How LLMs Are Collapsing the Consideration Phase)
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DTC Podcast | Ep 614: Creative Is the New Conversion, Not Just Targeting — Charlie Cole, Thuma

Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Charlie Cole watched FTD go from a $1.8 billion publicly traded company to a $60 million bankruptcy auction in eight months. His first...

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DTC Podcast | Ep 614: Creative Is the New Conversion, Not Just Targeting -- Charlie Cole, Thuma
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DTC Podcast | Ep 613: AI Is a Stack of Two-by-Fours. What Are You Building With It? (Plus Meet Gary and Blanche)

Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Braydon’s back on AKNF with the most tactical AI-for-agencies episode we’ve recorded. Eric opens with a Jeff Shannon line worth the whole listen:...

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DTC Podcast | Ep 613: AI Is a Stack of Two-by-Fours. What Are You Building With It? (Plus Meet Gary and Blanche)
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DTC Podcast | Ep 612: The Bootstrap Beauty Brand Going Up Against BlackRock in Target – Megababe

Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Katie Sturino built Megababe with 60,000 followers, two co-founders who’d never had chafe, and an MOQ of 20,000 units stacked in her parents’...

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DTC Podcast | Ep 612: The Bootstrap Beauty Brand Going Up Against BlackRock in Target – Megababe
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DTC Podcast | Ep 611: Velocity Isn’t Strategy – Pilothouse on the Andromeda Creative Trap

Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Abby and Taylor from Pilothouse settle the loudest debate in media buying right now: does velocity equal strategy? Short answer: no. Long answer:...

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DTC Podcast | Ep 611: Velocity Isn't Strategy – Pilothouse on the Andromeda Creative Trap
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