Author: Samantha Greene
Samantha Greene
Samantha is a Chicago-based market researcher with a knack for spotting the next big shift in digital culture before it hits mainstream. She’s contributed to major marketing publications, swears by sticky notes and never writes with anything but blue ink. Believes pineapple does belong on pizza.
A benchmarking breakdown of how small agency networks are pricing AI-augmented services, and what it means for brand buyers negotiating scopes.
WARC-Lions data shows 85% of marketers now trust community signals over AI output for creative strategy. Here’s what that means for your budget.
Why smart brands now repurpose one UGC asset across TikTok, Reels, and Shorts instead of building platform-native campaigns from scratch.
Shoppable Reels, live-stream commerce, and AR are merging into one checkout layer — here’s how brands should budget and staff for it.
Agencies are ditching top-heavy rosters for networks of thousands of small creators — here’s how sourcing models are being rebuilt.
TikTok Go ties creator pay to sales and views, not follower counts. Here’s what it means for brand budgets and risk.
Affiliate-link data shows why micro-creators now claim nearly half of US influencer budgets, and how brands should reallocate spend.
As creator studios scale like production houses, brands need new partnership standards for vetting, contracts, and risk.
Brands are merging TV, streaming, and social into one AI-optimized distribution plan to cut waste and prove cross-channel ROI.
71% of consumers distrust AI-personalized ads. Here’s what CMOs must fix to close the trust gap before it erodes ROI.