Journal

Field notes from
the current.

May 2026

Compounding is a brand strategy

Why most brand investments quietly out-earn paid media if you measure them on a long enough timeline.

Ipung Gani

Apr 2026

The end of the campaign era

Always-on content engines are eating the marketing calendar. What replaces the launch playbook.

Mar 2026

Share of search beats share of voice

A simple, public KPI we now run for every brand client and why most CMOs ignore it.

Feb 2026

How to brief a creative team

A one-page template that has saved our clients an estimated 11,000 hours of revisions.

Jan 2026

AI search is rewriting your funnel

What changes when 30% of discovery happens inside a chat window — and what stays exactly the same.

Dec 2025

We stopped saying 'agency'

An internal note about why we call ourselves a studio, and why the words you choose shape the work.

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