Plain-English ad guides by our co-founder Michael Manelidis.

Track, then attack: find the placements that convert. Buy only those. Every campaign is really two: a few placements that make money and many that quietly lose it. A simple, repeatable system to find the ones that convert and spend only there.

How to buy real traffic on a small budget with DSPs and real-time bidding. A plain-English guide for shop owners, affiliates, app developers and junior marketers who just got a DSP login: how programmatic really works and how to spend a small budget well.

The advertiser's guide to ad fraud, click fraud and junk traffic, 2026 edition. Bots, click farms and made-for-advertising sites eat into many ad budgets unnoticed. Learn to find the junk in the reports you already have, block it and keep it out.

500+ ad tech, programmatic and paid media terms explained in plain English. DSP, ROAS, MFA, clean rooms, header bidding: every term behind paid advertising, explained simply with a real example and why it matters for your budget.
From how the 100-millisecond auction works to ten warning signs of junk traffic: plain-English guides by Michael Manelidis for anyone spending their own money on ads.