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The Signature Economy: Why Perfect Images Became Worthless and Named Humans Became the Asset
AI made visually perfect images infinite, and their market value collapsed toward zero, which the art market could have predicted centuries ago: value was never in the surface, it was in the signature. What provenance economics means for brands.
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The Feed Is Leaking From Both Ends: What the Scroll Decline Actually Means for Your Media Plan
Social media time peaked in 2022 and is down roughly 10% in developed markets. AI is involved twice: slop is pushing people out of the feed while assistants absorb the jobs they scrolled for. What the shift from impressions to answers means for marketing budgets.
One Option, Never Three: Why Choice Became a Tax and Deciding Became the Product
Space presents clients one recommendation, sometimes two, never three, because in a world where AI makes options infinite and free, the decision is the product. The choice-overload science, the confession about the agency three-option ritual, and what curation requires.
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The AI Fluency Ladder: How Space Hires, and How to Vet Any Agency Claiming to Be AI-Native
The Space AI Fluency Ladder is the five-level standard we hire against: Analog, Dangerous, Capable, Fluent, Transformative. We hire at level 4 and above. Here's the ladder, and how to use it to vet any agency's AI-native claim.
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The Bubble Wrap Study, Explained: The Science of Why Constraints Beat Budgets
In a famous Journal of Consumer Research study, people merely primed to think about scarcity produced significantly more creative ideas than those primed with abundance. The mechanism, the funded-startup paradox it predicts, and how to install constraints on purpose.
Tasteslop, Explained: Why the Death of Taste-as-Costume Is the Best News Distinct Brands Ever Got
Tasteslop is Emily Segal's term for taste markers extracted from context and redeployed generically: the Rimowa, the skinny kettle, the Dieter Rams book. What it means for brands, why "taste is commercially dead" gets it wrong, and the test for whether your moodboard is slop.
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The CMO Isn't Dying. The Job Description Is. Here's the New One, From a 6x CMO.
The campaign-calendar CMO is over, but the role isn't: it's converting from campaign management to system ownership. The five responsibilities of the AI-era CMO, the brand engineer role emerging underneath, and why the politics finally die. Written by a six-time CMO.
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What Anthropic's Head of Growth Does With AI All Day (and the Agency Version of Every Move)
Anthropic grew from $1B to $19B+ ARR in 14 months, and its head of growth just revealed how he works: prototypes over PRDs, AI scanning 20-25 dashboards every morning, and weekly coaching from an AI simulating his manager. The agency version of all three, from Space.
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The AI Rules of an AI-Native Agency: Where We Let the Machines Work, and Where We Don't
Space runs 127 AI agents and 362 agentic workflows, and still bans AI from doing the thinking. The five rules that govern AI in our creative work, and why an AI-native agency needs them more than anyone.