The Andrew Faris Podcast Taylor Holiday: Your Ecom Brand Is Ignoring Powerful Revenue Streams
Feb 5, 2026
Taylor Holiday, CEO of Common Thread Collective and ecommerce strategist, explains why many DTC brands miss big revenue streams. He dives into incrementality testing, practical AI uses for forecasting and operational playbooks. They also explore events, apparel, and experiences as scalable brand touchpoints that expand revenue and customer relationships.
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AI Creates Information, Not Decisions
- Taylor Holiday says AI surfaces far more information than any human can hold and that overwhelms decision-making.
- He uses an AI-generated daily podcast to condense company signals into actionable highlights each morning.
Turn Conversations Into Predictive Signals
- Build data systems that centralize call transcripts, Slack, and performance signals to predict renewals instead of relying on subjective estimates.
- Use LLMs and structured models to generate concise daily briefs for leadership.
No Single Objective Blocks AI Media Buyers
- Media buying AI lags because there isn't a single universal optimization endpoint across brands.
- Unlike hedge funds, ad performance objectives vary by business, making agentic media buyers hard to validate.