performance marketing

8 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Sep 1, 2022 by Yuriy Timen · across every show →

Everything said about performance marketing, oldest first

Sep 1, 2022 neutral
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Timen: Grammarly was over-reliant on performance marketing before diversifying
“In the case of Grammarly, it was performance marketing, kind of over-reliance on performance marketing during, you know, part of the company's life cycle. And so it was like, okay, this thing is working. It's efficient. So you don't want to stop pouring fire o…”
Yuriy Timen Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 39:13 How to grow a subscription business | Yuriy Timen (Grammarly, Canva, Airtable)
May 7, 2023 positive
Insight
Technical and math backgrounds strongly indicate aptitude for performance marketing roles
“So if you're making your first hire, you probably want them to be, to have the ingenuity and capability to solve a lot of the problems that you're going to run into within the context of tracking, attribution, data visualization, and then campaign management. …”
Jonathan Becker May 7, 2023 ▶ 1:18:02 Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)
May 7, 2023 neutral
Insight
Companies pursuing performance marketing should hire in-house expertise before engaging an agency
“The reality is you're going to need expertise and you probably should start in-house and then hire an agency.”
Jonathan Becker May 7, 2023 ▶ 1:13:33 Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)
May 7, 2023 neutral
Insight
Years of experience is an unreliable indicator when hiring performance marketing practitioners
“I've seen people who have, like, 10 years of experience in the industry not be that great, and then I've seen people who have, like, one year of experience be absolutely phenomenal, so I would say that, like, again, like, you know, the years of service under t…”
Jonathan Becker May 7, 2023 ▶ 1:21:23 Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)
May 7, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Every unicorn from the 2010s era scaled using performance marketing
“Every unicorn from like the, you know, 20 tens era that that scale did performance marketing, but not everyone during that time who did performance marketing scaled.”
Jonathan Becker May 7, 2023 ▶ 24:07 Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)
May 7, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Google and Facebook automated most technical performance marketing levers over a decade
“So a lot of the levers, so to speak, around performance have been automated by Google and Facebook over the last, you know, seven to 10 years.”
Jonathan Becker May 7, 2023 ▶ 33:25 Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)
Nov 12, 2023 bearish
Insight
Chesky: Performance marketing does not build accumulating advantages
“Performance marketing though, Doesn't create very good accumulating advantages because it's not an investment.”
Brian Chesky Nov 12, 2023 ▶ 12:57 Brian Chesky’s new playbook
Nov 17, 2024
Insight
Marketing leadership uniquely combines completely uncorrelated disciplines and functions
“When you're a marketing leader, you manage, like, you manage performance marketing, which is a numbers game. You manage designers and brand, and then you manage, like, events and field. Like, there's nothing in between those things that is deeply correlated, a…”
Raaz Herzberg Nov 17, 2024 ▶ 36:05 Building Wiz: the fastest-growing startup in history | Raaz Herzberg (CMO and VP Product Strategy)
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