Insights

What we're seeing in the market.

Notes from the risk-routing engine, the regions we operate in, and the platform changes that actually move CPA, written by the people doing the work, not a content calendar.

Google killed manual language targeting. Here's what that means for your CPA.

The platforms didn't get worse at serving multilingual ads. They stopped telling you when something's wrong.

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Transcreation

The KFC problem: what a famous mistranslation still teaches performance marketers

Why "Finger Lickin' Good" becoming "Eat Your Fingers Off" is still the clearest case study in the industry.

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Commercial

Why per-word pricing is the wrong model for ad localization

What campaign bundles and AI-efficiency pricing get right that a word count never could.

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Regional

GCC ad compliance: what clears in the US and gets flagged in Riyadh

A practical look at where Gulf advertising rules diverge from what US-market creative assumes.

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Sectors

Gaming UA in APAC: Discord, Reddit, and the subculture problem

Why player acquisition copy fails when it's translated instead of written by people who actually post there.

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Platform

Full-funnel localization: why your landing page can sabotage a perfectly localized ad

The continuity problem nobody budgets for, and what it costs when the click and the landing page speak different languages.

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