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Steve St. Germain

15 years in the media trenches. Strategist, builder, and appreciator of creative that actually sells. Turning a career's worth of frustration into practical tools. Powered by espresso.

πŸ“ Detroit, MI.
An unusual pairing. Feature Image

An unusual pairing.

We love this collab between Ritz and Jeep.

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Welcome to Media Drive: The Toolkit for Modern Buyers Feature Image

Welcome to Media Drive: The Toolkit for Modern Buyers

If you work in media today, you know the landscape is shifting under our feet. Algorithms are black boxes. CPMs are volatile. The difference between a profitable campaign and a wasted budget often comes down to a fraction of a percentage point. Yet, finding reliable tools and clear, no-fluff analysis

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Traffic Report: 3 Hard Truths form the 2025 US Media Consumption Study Feature Image

Traffic Report: 3 Hard Truths form the 2025 US Media Consumption Study

Most industry reports are 30 pages of fluff to justify a consulting fee. We read the 2025 Attest Media Consumption Report so you don’t have to. If you are currently building flowcharts for Q3/Q4, the data shows a massive bifurcation in how age groups consume content. Here is

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Spotify Drops the Barrier to Audio: Gen AI & Programmatic Are Here Feature Image

Spotify Drops the Barrier to Audio: Gen AI & Programmatic Are Here

Audio advertising has historically had two massive friction points: high production costs and clunky, manual buying. Spotify just solved both with their new Generative AI tools that script and voice ads in seconds, coupled with a robust programmatic buying infrastructure. This means you can now test audio creative as fast

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SSP (Supply-Side-Platform) Feature Image

SSP (Supply-Side-Platform)

The technology platform publishers use to manage, sell, and optimize their advertising inventory yield.

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DSP (Demand-Side-Platform) Feature Image

DSP (Demand-Side-Platform)

The centralized software interface used by advertisers to purchase digital advertising inventory programmatically.

· 2 min · Wiki