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Updates, news, marketing data truths, and the questions nobody else is asking out loud.

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Updates, news, marketing data truths, and the questions nobody else is asking out loud.

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CPM Formula: How to Calculate Cost Per Mille Across Platforms

CPM is spend divided by impressions times a thousand. Across platforms, averaging your platform CPMs overstates the aggregate; here's the formula that proves it.

Aug 18, 2026

CPM Formula: How to Calculate Cost Per Mille Across Platforms

CPM is spend divided by impressions times a thousand. Across platforms, averaging your platform CPMs overstates the aggregate; here's the formula that proves it.

Aug 18, 2026

CPM Formula: How to Calculate Cost Per Mille Across Platforms

CPM is spend divided by impressions times a thousand. Across platforms, averaging your platform CPMs overstates the aggregate; here's the formula that proves it.

Aug 18, 2026

Agencies now fly on technically correct, structurally misleading data with ads MCPs

A fast ROAS number can be technically correct and still wrong to show a client. The trust gap MCP leaves open for agencies.

Jun 15, 2026

Agencies now fly on technically correct, structurally misleading data with ads MCPs

A fast ROAS number can be technically correct and still wrong to show a client. The trust gap MCP leaves open for agencies.

Jun 15, 2026

The agency-client relationship has a delivery problem. We're fixing it.

Why the fastest growing agencies stopped sending reports, and started building shared surfaces clients open on their own.

Apr 2, 2026

The agency-client relationship has a delivery problem. We're fixing it.

Why the fastest growing agencies stopped sending reports, and started building shared surfaces clients open on their own.

Apr 2, 2026

Case Study: Archrival's data is now a pleasure

Archrival's data team replaced a three-tool stack with Summer, joined Facebook, TikTok, and CreatorIQ data in one place, and freed analysts from engineering to focus on strategy.

Nov 20, 2025

Case Study: Archrival's data is now a pleasure

Archrival's data team replaced a three-tool stack with Summer, joined Facebook, TikTok, and CreatorIQ data in one place, and freed analysts from engineering to focus on strategy.

Nov 20, 2025

We raised $7M to Make Data a Pleasure

Agencies that own their intelligence layer will win the next decade. We started Summer to make that possible.

Jun 12, 2025

We raised $7M to Make Data a Pleasure

Agencies that own their intelligence layer will win the next decade. We started Summer to make that possible.

Jun 12, 2025