The exact workflow to test generative ai creative variations while keeping brand safety intact

When a scaleup reaches the point where customer growth and marketing complexity start to outpace spreadsheets and single-person operations, the question of martech architecture becomes inevitable: do you centralize on an all-in-one platform, or stitch together a best-of-breed stack? I’ve helped teams make this call enough times to know there’s no one-size-fits-all answer — but there are reproducible trade-offs and a framework you can use...

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I’ve reviewed enough creative briefs to fill a small archive room. The ones that ship projects forward quickly are rare; most are either a dense PDF nobody reads or a vague Slack thread that spawns three rounds of “clarifying” feedback. If you’re frustrated by slow approvals, missed creative intent or endless revision cycles, the problem usually isn’t the creatives — it’s the brief.Why most creative briefs failFrom my experience...

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I run product reviews for a living, and over the years I’ve learned that a high production budget isn’t a prerequisite for building trust or earning affiliate revenue. What matters is consistency, transparency, and an approach that treats reviews like a helpful conversation rather than a sales pitch. In this piece I’ll walk you through a practical, low-cost framework to launch a review series that builds credibility, grows an audience, and...

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I’ve been running creative projects that mix in-house teams and external freelancers for years, and the single biggest time sink we used to fight was iteration friction: handing off work, getting feedback, updating files, re-sharing versions, and repeating. Figma changed a lot of that, but only when we paired the right file structure, component strategy and collaboration rules with a simple handoff and feedback process. Over time I refined a...

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Most social listening dashboards promise a single pane of truth: sentiment over time, share of voice, and a neat green-yellow-red indicator that supposedly tells you how people feel about your brand. In practice, those signals are noisy, misleading, and often dangerously overconfident. I’ve built and audited listening setups for brands and agencies for years, and I keep seeing the same failure modes: missed sarcasm, ignored context,...

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I remember the first time I had to migrate an entire event tracking setup from Universal Analytics (GA3) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4): it felt like defusing a bomb while trying to keep the lights on. The key to getting it right is planning, mapping and running both systems in parallel until you're confident the new implementation is capturing everything you need. Below is the step-by-step plan I use with clients to migrate event tracking without...

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I run a small product review lab at Mediaflash Co where the emphasis is simple: test like a skeptical user, measure like an analyst, and write like a peer. Over the past few years I’ve iterated a process that balances speed and rigor — fast enough to keep up with product cycles, rigorous enough that readers can actually rely on the recommendations. Below I walk through the testing methodology I use, the scoring rubric that keeps reviews...

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On subscription products, the onboarding flow is where you win or lose customers. I’ve spent years instrumenting flows for SaaS and content subscription businesses, and one thing keeps coming up: teams either track too little (so they can’t diagnose churn/handoff points) or they track too much (raw data with no action). Below I share the exact analytics events I recommend for subscription onboarding on Next.js sites — what to capture, when...

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I used to get asked all the time: “Why does our brand voice feel...forgettable?” It’s a polite way of saying “generic.” I’ve seen teams pour hours into tone of voice documents, only for social posts to end up sounding like a bland corporate echo of every other brand in their category. The problem isn’t always a lack of creativity — it’s a lack of constraints that make creativity repeatable and recognisable.Why brand voice...

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The end of third-party cookies didn’t come as a single knockout blow — it was a slow, predictable squeeze. But for many teams, the real challenge isn’t the headline change; it’s the messy, fragile plumbing of first-party data that suddenly matters a lot more. If you want ad targeting to survive and thrive in a cookieless world, you need to audit your first-party data flow end-to-end. I’m going to walk you through a pragmatic, hands-on...

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