Age of ambiguity

Get comfortable with the unclear

The 25-year-old media planner

And the screenshot industrial complex

Moving past ZIRP

Plus: The privacy boogeyman

Retail media rising

The hottest ad sector skips the content part

Mary Meeker was wrong

Plus: Mike Shields on Advertising Week contradictions

‘Screw the algorithm’

Christopher Kimball’s rules of media

1440's moneyball approach to media

1440’s Tim Huelskamp on flywheels, unit economics and EBTIDAG

Old playbooks

The game has changed

Product people

The Rick Rubins of tech

The publisher/agency model

Team Whistle's Joe Caporoso on the evolved MCN

Serious People

CEO interviews are set pieces for narratives

Back to the future

Bustle’s Bryan Goldberg leaves the scale era behind