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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Leaked audio from Meta's All Hands: Zuck wants to train AI on employee behavior. DraftKings CEO goes scorched earth on Kalshi. Publicis bought LiveRamp. Chinese brands are quietly acquiring Everlane, Blue Bottle, and Salomon. Airbnb will have to embrace AI agents. The feed is fake. And someone put their CPA on Meta Ray-Bans.

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This week ADSN goes bicostal for the first time. Daniel is live from Upfronts in New York and James is holding it down in LA.

They kick off with Kalshi odds on a Tesla-SpaceX merger hitting 50%, then get into why ChatGPT shipping an ad manager is kind of a joke — they literally told Codex to build it. Eric Tilbury defines outcomes in a single sentence that should be written in stone.

The conversation moves into why brands need more ads (not just better ones), how Gen Z doesn't subscribe to anything and just uses the algo, and why there are more car dealerships than car makers in the Fortune 500. James drops his Shopify thesis (it's a headless walled garden, not a SaaS business), they cover the Cameo x TikTok partnership, and close out with Spencer Pratt's AI-powered political campaign as a blueprint for creative.

Plus: Duolingo's new Focus Mode that locks your apps, the data center land flip arbitrage, and why the future of AI is in the suburbs.

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Ryan Cohen wants to buy eBay with half cash, half stock. Parker Card raised $200M and vanished overnight. OpenAI shipped a full ads manager. Shopify, Meta, Mercury, and Spotify all launched AI connectors in the same week. Stripe Atlas data shows new AI-era companies are 2x the size of last year's cohort. Plus: why Unilever is betting on 300K creators, and the one skill creative strategists are missing.

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Private equity firms are spending weekends rebuilding acquisition targets in Claude Code. If the clone works, the deal dies. It's the cheapest moat test in human history.This week James and Daniel dig into:• Why token pricing today looks exactly like mobile data pricing 15 years ago• Sam Altman rethinking OS design and the OpenAI phone rumors• GPT Image generating LEGO sets with real BrickLink part IDs• SpaceX acquiring Cursor for up to $60 billion• China blocking Meta's Manus acquisition. Is this the balkanization of AI talent?• Anthropic paying $400K/year for an events role• Chinese micro-dramas: this year's ad platform growth driverPlus: Evan Spiegel called software dead 15 years ago, Sean Frank asks why you still aren't building, and AI agents negotiating your BNPL rates in real time.Thank you to our sponsors:

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Sequoia just dropped a thesis that's shaking up the industry: the next trillion-dollar company won't sell software — it'll sell work. Meanwhile, founders are cutting SaaS tools to pay for AI tokens, Block built a "Claude for money" inside Cash App, and OpenAI can't figure out how to spend advertisers' money.This week James and Daniel dig into:• Sequoia's bold thesis: sell work, not software — and what it means for the SaaS era• Why founders are cutting SaaS tools to pay for more AI tokens• Block's Moneybot and what a "Claude for money" looks like• The clipping economy explosion — MTS, the 24/7 show trying to replace TBPN• OpenAI's ad inventory problem: $200K committed, barely $2K spent• Notion's 2026 "no roadmap" strategy• Breaking: Tim Cook steps down as Apple CEO — hardware leaders are the futurePlus: Why AI without a clear plan is actually dangerous for your productivity, Olympic fencing now looks like a lightsaber fight, and Larry Ellison's legendary defense of Elon Musk.Sponsors:• AdQuick — Making OOH advertising as easy to plan, buy, and measure as digital. adquick.com• Thrad.ai — Building the advertising infrastructure for AI. thrad.aiSTAY CONNECTEDJames on Twitter & LinkedIn – /jamesborowDaniel on LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok – /danieldrugerSubscribe & leave a 5-star review on Spotify & Apple Podcasts. It takes 10 seconds and helps others discover ADSN.