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mawlid mubarak! bringing a little extra sweetness into the office today (and by a little, we mean entire boxes of حلاوة المولد). wishing everyone a wonderful celebration with their loved ones.

Celebrating the people behind the performance.
Here’s to our top performers who kept raising the bar.

Most ecommerce brands don't scale from 3M to 10M in monthly revenue by increasing ad spend.

They scale by building around product demand, restructuring categories, identifying repeatable creative patterns, and making disciplined budget decisions.

One of the biggest creative myths in performance marketing:
"Video is always the best-performing ad format"

The best format is the one that helps your audience make a buying decision faster.

Because great creatives aren't chosen by trends. They're chosen by strategy.

More ad spend doesn't always mean more growth.

If creative testing isn't structured, product mix is limited, targeting is too narrow, and retention isn't connected to acquisition, a bigger budget won't fix it. It just pushes more money through a system that isn't built to convert it.

Fix the system first. Then scale it.

in performance marketing, increasing the budget isn't always the right move.

sometimes the smartest decision is to pause and reassess.

if operations, customer experience, or inventory aren't ready, more sales just means more exposed problems.

real growth starts when the business is ready to scale, not when the budget is.

that's the difference between running campaigns and building a growth strategy.

AI made ex*****on easier.
It never made strategy optional.

The brands pulling ahead aren't winning because they use AI.
They're winning because they have a strategy worth accelerating.

Consistency deserves recognition.
Congratulations to our Hives of the Month for your dedication and contribution. Thank you for everything you bring to the team.

We keep asking if AI will take our jobs, but maybe that’s not the real question anymore