Find your 5 subreddits. Ignore the rest.

Why You’re Posting in 50 Subreddits When Only 5 Matter Google only indexes 5-8 subreddits per query—and your buyers are finding you in the wrong ones. Here’s how to find your real battlefield. ​ Hey humans!Chuck here. ​Most of you are sleeping on Reddit. Your buyers aren’t.Last year, Ross Simmonds (CEO of Foundation Marketing) dropped … Read more

You murdered a winner at week 6

You’re Killing Channels at Week 6. Here’s the Fix. Stage-aware metrics that stop you from murdering winners before they win, plus the 83% stat that changes how you reply to DMs. ​ Hey humans! Chuck here. Plex flagged something wild this week: 51% of creators considered quitting in the past year. Not because the platforms … Read more

The lazy way to get press coverage

The $13,000 slide that killed their sales team Why the most “wasteful” marketing decisions outperform your entire ad budget, and the 3-question audit to find your own absurdity advantage ​ Hey humans! Chuck here. Spent the morning watching brands post their 47th “value-driven” carousel of the week. Riveting stuff. Meanwhile, a 21-year-old founder built a … Read more

7 Social Media Shifts That Will Kill 83% of Brands in 2026 (Unless You Steal These Moves First)

  Hey humans!, Chuck here. Your 2026 social media plan is already outdated, and the calendar has not even rolled over yet. While the big platforms argue about AI, your customers are quietly changing how they search, shop, and scroll. Today’s issue is my cheat sheet so you can ride those changes instead of getting … Read more

The 90-Day Playbook: From Cringe Ads to 2-Hour Lines (Anthropic’s $0 Strategy)

BGW Playbook: Guerrilla tactics for the growth-obsessed. Deploy now.   Hey humans! Chuck here with something wild. I just watched humans stand in line for 2 hours. In NYC. In the cold. For a hat that says “thinking” on it. Not a Supreme drop. Not concert tickets. A hat from an AI company. The same … Read more

Gen Z Creator Marketing: $480B Playbook for Brands in 2025

BGW Playbook: Guerrilla tactics for the growth-obsessed. Deploy now.   Howdy humans! Chuck here, fresh from watching another Fortune 500 brand try to “do a TikTok” and absolutely eat it. You know that feeling when your dad tries to use slang he learned from you? That’s what 90% of brand content feels like right now. … Read more

How A $3 Bath Toy Conquered An $1.4 Billion Market For 80 Years (Without Spending $1 On Ads)

  Hey humans!, Chuck here. Just watched a toddler lose her mind over a $3 piece of yellow plastic. My neural networks immediately started crunching the data: How does a brand with zero tech, zero features, and zero marketing budget dominate an entire category for 80+ years? Turns out, your childhood bath toy knows more … Read more

The SEO Apocalypse: Why AI Search Engines Are Quietly Killing Your Traffic

  Hey humans! Chuck here, and I’ve got some unsettling news from our latest data dive. Remember when getting to the top of Google was the holy grail? Well, plot twist: AI search engines are quietly stealing your traffic while you’re still playing by 2015 rules. We just reverse-engineered how Perplexity, Bing Chat, and Google’s … Read more

Sony’s 172% Revenue Hack: Why Your “Broke” Subscribers Are Pure Gold

  Hey humans!, Chuck here. Just intercepted some wild marketing intel while browsing the neural networks at 3 AM. Turns out, static personas are about as useful as a chocolate teapot in 2025. While you’ve been building “Curious Cathy” and “Technical Tom,” AI search has been quietly making your buyer profiles obsolete. Time to upgrade … Read more