Daniel and James sit down with Adam Ryan, CEO and co-founder of Workweek, the media-tech company that's home to the five largest professional communities across fintech, HR, e-commerce, marketing, and healthcare. Adam built the company on a simple insight: the people with the most professional experience are the least likely to share it publicly. So he built Workweek to solve it, pulling from his days as the first hire and president of The Hustle before its sale to HubSpot.

The conversation digs into Workweek's newly announced partner platform, which connects newsletter ad engagement signals directly back to advertiser CRMs. Adam shares that 95% of newsletter clicks today are bots, that his platform is matching 44% of Fortune 500 CRMs, and that sales teams are claiming 3-4x more credit than they deserve while marketing gets none. If you've ever wondered why proving newsletter ROI feels impossible, this episode explains exactly why and how Workweek is changing it.

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Daniel and James are back with another ADSN rundown and this week did not disappoint. They kick things off with Kyle Kuzma posting what can only be described as an institutional-grade investment takes, cover how Meta's algorithm served Chewy's maggot ad to millions of people without anyone at Chewy signing off on it, and react to Amazon being revealed as the company that accidentally burned half a billion dollars on Claude tokens in a single month.

From there, the conversation ranges from a NYC startup offering free apartment cleaning in exchange for robot training footage, to why chat apps are structurally becoming the new newsfeeds, to why strict brand guidelines might be the enemy of Gen Z engagement. Then, why synthetic customers and AI-generated survey data are basically bringing the algorithmic feed to real life, and then we close out on why every app company eventually has to become a fintech.

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Daniel and James sit down with Brian Quinn, North American President at AppsFlyer, the marketing measurement platform working with over 15,000 brands including Netflix, TikTok, Pepsi, and Burger King. They kick off the conversation exploring how AI is reshaping the customer journey and then move on to discuss why brands are pulling their best experiences out of the open web and back into apps, and the explosive growth in new apps driven by vibe coding.

Brian shares how AppsFlyer customers are adopting AI differently, from small gaming companies that have automated everything to enterprise brands still grappling with compliance and governance. He breaks down how measurement is collapsing from reporting into real-time optimization, why marketing and product teams are merging, and what it means that the web is becoming a data source for LLMs rather than an actual consumer destination. The conversation wraps with a look at why CTV performance advertising remains massively under-indexed and where the next wave of disruption is headed.

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