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Episode 5: An Interview with John Coyle, Head of Professional Services at Triple Whale

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I got fired with one kid, a wife in school, and a second baby on the way.

John Coyle, head of operations at Triple Whale, discusses the e-commerce marketing landscape through the lens of attribution data. He shares his journey from freelance consultant to agency owner to W2 employee managing billions in ad spend data. Key insights include: Meta dominates at 70% of e-commerce spend despite industry chatter about decline; conversion-based campaigns outperform awareness; ad platform reps often incentivized against brand profitability; brands naturally cluster into buckets (zero-to-one, growth, scale), each requiring different strategies; large data sets reveal actual trends after a confidence valley with moderate sample sizes; emerging opportunities exist in TikTok Shop for sub-$15K monthly revenue brands; and the challenge of keeping large financial figures emotionally grounded as 'real money' rather than abstraction.

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A practical look at attribution, breakout channels, and the bridge from a spike to something more durable.

John Coyle's conversation gives a grounded view of attribution, paid media, and the point where growth stops being easy. It moves from his agency background and the fall 2017 firing into creator-led momentum, breakout channels, and the harder work of turning a spike into…

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For when you want a blunt growth-marketing story about attribution, creators, and the zero-to-one grind.

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