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      <title><![CDATA[Monday Briefing: Amazon Is Now Selling ChatGPT Ads]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Plus: Meta's new agent won't feed its ad machine, only 14% of brands grew consideration this summer, and Workday backfilled its CMO in 48 hours.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:08:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Has Your Purpose Ever Lost an Argument?]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ A values page with no decision behind it is copy.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Monday Briefing: Amazon Charged You Your Own Bid]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Plus: Google keeps its ad exchange, PepsiCo hands Publicis $1.7B without a pitch, and The Trade Desk cuts 585 jobs.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:08:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Bonus That Killed Blockbuster]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Antioco earned 200% of his 2006 target bonus under the board's own numbers. The board paid him none of it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:08:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Monday Briefing: Meta Just Put a Clock on Your Teen Audience]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Plus: Meta quietly deletes placement exclusions, Wendy's and Kohl's rewrite the CMO job, and 42% of social media manager postings sit open past 30 days.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:08:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Brand Is a Balance Sheet Item]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A CFO will pay eleven billion dollars for a brand in an acquisition and refuse to fund it with eleven million in a budget.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:08:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Monday Briefing: ChatGPT Ads Hit Europe This Morning]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Plus: Perplexity and Amazon fight over who controls the agent's front door, follower count ranks dead last, and Ritson asks who held the pen.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:32:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The RevOps Land Grab]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Whoever writes the definition of a qualified lead writes marketing's performance review.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:08:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Monday Briefing: Your Next Ad Won't Have a Landing Page]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Plus: Google starts force-migrating your search campaigns, Walmart's retail media catches up to 2019, and the creator economy's $15,000 problem.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:08:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pick Your P&L]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A budget is something the company gives you. A number is something it needs back from you. Only one of those survives a bad quarter. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:08:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Monday Briefing: Google Is About to Spend Your Whole Target]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Plus: Nielsen buys DoubleVerify for $2.15 billion, Diageo resets its ad-to-sales ratio, and Foot Locker goes back to the archive.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:08:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Board Doesn't Want Your Dashboard ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Amazon banned the deck. What that says about the marketing review you are walking into next quarter. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:08:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Monday Briefing: Nobody Has Priced the AI Yet]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Plus: Meta raised its ad prices 12%, Time started selling ads to robots, and Nike and Lululemon got sued over their strikethroughs.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:08:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nobody Gets Fired for Cutting Brand]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Everyone in that room already agrees brand works. They cut it anyway, because the structure pays them to.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:08:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Monday Briefing: Google Just Blinked on Performance Max]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Plus: creators outdrew celebrities at the World Cup, GM hands two brands to one outsider, and the Super Bowl came in under ask.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:08:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Cost-Center Trap]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[When value goes up and budget goes down at the same time, you're not underperforming. You've been reclassified.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:08:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Monday Briefing: The Open Web Is Running Out of Ads to Sell]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Plus: Meta's AI is redrawing live ads without permission, CTV's $29 billion trust gap, and Google flips a Shopping default.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:08:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Trust Premium]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As AI makes production free, the scarce asset stops being reach or quality. It becomes trust. Here's where to spend it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:08:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Monday Briefing: Your Ads Now Come With an AI Label]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Plus: Meta removes the off switch on its data, a $3.7 billion bid for Criteo, and the 82% keeping AI away from CTV.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:04:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[What's Your First-Party Data Worth Now?]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The cookie that was supposed to die is still alive. The thing you built to replace it is the part now at risk.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:06:39 GMT</pubDate>
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