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Most people daydream about starting their own agency. Shachar Aylon actually did it. After years helping shape culture for brands like Amazon, Lyft, Google, Intel, and even Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl Halftime Show, Shachar made the leap that scares most creatives: he walked away from big titles and big budgets to build something of his own. In this episode of Run The Play, Shachar and host David Hampian break down the real story behind starting a creative agency from scratch.

Learn how to build a marketing budget case that leadership will approve. This guide walks you through a step by step system to quantify brand and content impact, model customer LTV, identify High Value Actions, and prove the real ROI of your marketing work.

Last night, we got to check off a bucket list item.  Courtside NBA seats. I'd love to tell you I played it cool. I didn't. I was grinning like a little kid the entire game. What made it special wasn't just the view. It's that it was a reflection of my beliefs on relationships.

What does it take to launch one of the biggest products in entertainment history…in the middle of a global pandemic? In this episode of Run The Play, David Hampian sits down with Scott McAdams, former Head of Brand Partnerships at PlayStation (and now VP of Strategic Partnerships at the Association of Pickleball Players), to break down the behind-the-scenes strategy that made the PlayStation 5 a global success story.

I'm very proud of the traction we're seeing after only 3 months in the game. But, here's what you don't see: 📧 The countless emails that never get a reply 🚫 The number of pitches that get a swift "NO" 👻 The former colleagues and partners who put on that ghost costume long before Halloween Yep, this is the journey. And I love it.  Doing something new doesn't start with applause. It starts alone. In the dark. But when you're proud of what you do, even in the dark, that's whe

TwitchCon week always reminds me of a core truth I learned firsthand: the smartest brands don’t predict the future. They build systems that reveal where it’s going. That system, for me, is called SCORE. It’s a framework I’ve created over the course of my career helping brands grow into new, emerging areas of business and audiences. At Twitch, this new area of business was Music. Early experiments spiked, then fizzled, and nothing was sticking. SCORE became the playbook that t