💊 Boots is giving its brand a bold new direction with “Give it Some Boots.”

🤖 Autodesk’s CMO is putting people ahead of AI.

🥤Publicis really didn’t have to choose between Coke and Pepsi.

🐪 GEICO brings back its “Hump Day” camel for the NFL kickoff.

🏈 Caesars gives an NFL legend a “looksmaxxing” makeover.

🧪 A man says he used ChatGPT to design a schizophrenia drug in his garage.

📱 Apple just unveiled its first foldable iPhone — and it starts at $1,999.

For fintech marketers, getting someone to sign up is only the beginning.

An application, account opening, or card activation can tell you that someone converted, but it doesn’t tell you whether that customer actually became valuable. As fintech companies mature, marketers need to look further down the customer journey and understand what happens after that first action.

So what should marketers be measuring?

• Activation: Track whether new customers actually start using the product.
• Retention: Look at which acquisition sources bring in customers who stick around.
• Lifetime value: Connect acquisition costs to the revenue a customer is expected to generate over time.
• Product usage: Bring CRM and product data into your marketing measurement.
• Customer stages: Build campaigns around what customers need after acquisition, not just what gets them through the door.

A conversion is a starting point, not the finish line. The better question isn’t just “Did they sign up?” It’s “What happened next?”

Head to Carney for the full scoop.

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Built-in AI Insights reads each dashboard and writes up the summary, the wins, the opportunities and the issues, so you walk into the client call with the story already drafted.

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Don’t miss the latest episode of The Daily Carnage Show, here’s what we’re covering:

🔒 Apple’s secret blocklist: How Safari’s restrictions work and which ad tech companies have been affected.

📉 The impact on advertisers and publishers: Why disruptions to ad delivery and audience signals could affect campaign performance, publisher revenue, and programmatic advertising.

📊 The measurement problem: Why winning an ad auction doesn’t always mean an ad actually appeared on a user’s screen.

⚖️ Privacy vs. platform power: What happens when the company controlling the browser also operates an advertising business?

🛠️ What marketers should do next: Audit your ad tech dependencies, verify campaign delivery, strengthen your first-party data strategy, and ask vendors about their contingency plans.

Apple’s approach raises a bigger question for the open web: How do we protect user privacy while maintaining the infrastructure that supports digital advertising?

🎙️ Plus, catch up on Season 2:

• AI Is Killing Entry-Level Marketing Jobs (12:55)
• Microdramas Are Taking Over Marketing (10:43)
• AI CEOs Want to Slow Down. The AI Race Won’t. (11:39)
• Reddit Is Changing SEO & AI Search (10:55)
• The Creator Economy Rules Gaming (43:53)
• Dark Patterns Are Becoming a Legal Problem for Meta (12:06)
• Dissecting the Brand Apology (11:35)
• Google Image Search is… Pinterest? (9:26)
• Sony & The Death of Physical Media (8:57)

🎙️ Now streaming on Youtube, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Apple Music.

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Klinger Viajes takes that idea to the extreme in its latest campaign. A man is lying in a hospital bed when his heart monitor flatlines — until a doctor starts listing everything waiting for him at an all-inclusive resort.

Pool. Food. Drinks. Relaxation. Suddenly, his heartbeat is back.

And honestly, who wouldn’t come back for that?

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