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A New Year’s wish: let’s ditch brand marketing

A New Year’s wish: let’s ditch brand marketing

by Thomas Barta | Jan 21, 2026 | Growth leadership

Performance marketing has an evil twin: brand marketing – another term that promises clarity, but mostly delivers the opposite Just before Christmas, I wrote a column arguing that performance marketing should be retired. It’s a misleading label for direct response...

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