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Notes from the floor.

What we learn running our own brands and the systems behind them: attribution, AI in marketing, and the parts of ad tech nobody puts in a deck.

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specifics over slogans

A new mark for a new chapter After seven years we retired our logo. Here is what changed, what did not, and why we did it now. AI creative at scale is a supply chain, not a design task Generative tools made ad production cheap. The advantage moved to whoever industrializes testing without losing the brand. Why we sell the software we built for ourselves Obscale runs on two engines: our own e-commerce operation, and the software it forced us to build. How the loop works. Measurement in 2026 is triangulation Attribution, incrementality, and MMM stopped competing and started specializing. How the three fit together on a real P&L. Black-box buying: operating inside PMax and Advantage+ The platforms took the steering wheel. These are the controls that still exist, and the discipline it takes to use them. The cookie that refused to die, and why it stopped mattering Google spent five years deprecating the third-party cookie, then kept it. The teams that prepared won anyway. AI did not replace media buyers. It replaced their dashboards. What actually changed in the day of a performance marketer between 2021 and 2026, from a team that spends its own money. Attribution in 2026: what iOS broke stayed broken Five years after App Tracking Transparency, the platforms adapted, the dashboards did not. Notes from running attribution on our own 9-figure spend.

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