Digital Advertising

  • How to structure a Meta ads account for a premium brand

    How to structure a Meta ads account for a premium brand Are your Meta ads getting more expensive while bringing in fewer new customers? For most premium brands, the creative isn’t the problem. The structure underneath it is. Meta has rebuilt how it decides who sees your ads. Your creative now does much of the […]

  • Festive advertising for premium brands: how to run Christmas Meta ads that convert

    Festive advertising for premium brands: how to run Christmas Meta ads that convert

    Festive advertising for premium brands: how to run Christmas Meta ads that convert Are your Christmas ads costing more than ever while converting less than they used to? You’re not imagining it. Festive advertising has always been the most competitive season of the year, but the ground has shifted. Ad costs are up. Accounts are […]

  • Boring doesn’t stop the scroll. Here’s what does.

    Boring doesn’t stop the scroll: how premium brands get seen when everything sounds the same If your content doesn’t stop the scroll, it’s not because your packing-orders Reel lost to a better one. It lost to the four hundred similar versions that came before it, which had already taught her that packing videos contain nothing […]

  • Why Meta Has It In For Premium Brands Right Now (And What To Do About It)

    In early March 2026, Meta restructured its entire attribution model – and the change has disproportionately punished premium ecommerce brands because of the way considered buyers actually shop. In this episode, Catherine unpacks what happened, why premium brands got hit hardest, and the strategic foundation shift that lets premium brands stop chasing platform updates and […]

  • Why eCommerce Founders Are Quietly Burning Out On Their Own Marketing

    Marketing is the hat that doesn’t come off. If you’re running a premium eCommerce brand and you’ve been quietly burning out – not from the hours but from the cognitive weight – this episode is for you. We explore three structural properties that make the marketing function qualitatively different from every other hat a founder […]

  • Decoding Why Your Meta Ads Aren’t Converting (Hint: It’s Not Your Creative…)

    Decoding Why Your Meta Ads Aren't Converting (And It's Not Your Creative)

    If you’re a premium eCommerce founder and your Meta ads aren’t converting the way they should, I want you to read this before you fire your agency, redo your creative, or pay for another expensive course on hooks and angles. Because in my experience working with premium brands every day, the reason your ads aren’t […]

  • Facebook Ads Not Converting? The 2026 Diagnostic for Premium eCommerce Brands

    Facebook Ads Not Converting? The 2026 Diagnostic for Premium eCommerce Brands

    Facebook Ads Not Converting? The 2026 Diagnostic for Premium eCommerce Brands Hands up if your Facebook ads have stopped converting and you’re quietly losing your mind… Look, using Facebook ads has been a tried-and-true growth lever for eCommerce brands for years now. But it’s never without issues along the way. I often joke that a […]

  • ChatGPT Just Became a Shop. Is Your Brand Actually in It?

    ChatGPT Just Became a Shop. Is Your Brand Actually in It? Shopify just put your products in front of 880 million ChatGPT users. Here’s why most of them still won’t find you. Three weeks ago, every eligible Shopify store became discoverable inside ChatGPT by default. No app, no setup, no ad budget required. Your products […]

  • Why Temu Is Trying to Become a Premium Brand — And What That Tells You About Yours

    Why Temu’s Growth Is Good News for Premium eCommerce Brands   Something interesting happened at the REED Gift Fair in Sydney back in February. An Australian representative of Temu — yes, that Temu — was doing the rounds of exhibitor stalls, pitching premium brand founders on the idea of listing their products on the platform. […]