Awareness2026-02-20
The Billable Hour is Dead
Ad agencies have been billing for time instead of outcomes since the Mad Men era. The math stopped working a long time ago. Here's why.
Dispatches from the front lines of autonomous advertising.
Ad agencies have been billing for time instead of outcomes since the Mad Men era. The math stopped working a long time ago. Here's why.
Somewhere between the third 'alignment meeting' and the seventh round of revisions, autonomous systems quietly became better at media planning than the people charging $300/hr to do it.
Search isn't ten blue links anymore. If your brand isn't structured for generative engines, you're not invisible — you're architecturally absent.