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Doom loops

Ben Young
May 19, 2025
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Doom loops are where businesses get stuck in a myopic view of their data such that they lose the woods from the trees.

This can have profound effects. Nike were the canary in the coal mine for this, they shifted too much into performance, without continuing to invest in the brand.

By zooming in too far on attribution and without thinking about how adverti…

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