D2C Diaries

By Loukas Hambi and Olly Hudson

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Join Olly Hudson and Loukas Hambi in a laid-back yet insightful podcast, where we dive into the heart of D2C and e-commerce. With a combined experience of managing over £150 million in ad spend across Meta and TikTok and helping scale over 200 brands, we bring you a digestible blend of performance, operational, and creative wisdom.


Episode Date
Q1 2026 D2C Debrief: AI Animation, Attribution Updates, and the Creative Gap Brands Are Missing
Apr 14, 2026
The Persona Mastermind: How Top 1% DTC Brands Drive Incremental Reach on Meta
Mar 16, 2026
M&A Secrets for selling your DTC brand in 2026
Mar 05, 2026
How to Make AI UGC Ads in 2026: Sora 2, Claude and the Full Workflow
Feb 26, 2026
Meta Insider Reveals How £100M+ Disruptor Brands Scale With Andromeda
Feb 17, 2026
Meta Algorithm Update: How to Adjust Your Organic and Paid Media Strategy
Feb 05, 2026
The 2026 Meta Playbook: Creative Formats, Personas & Scaleable Structures
Jan 29, 2026
How to Hire (or Create) Elite Creative Strategists for DTC Brands | Meta Ads & Creative Strategy
Jan 23, 2026
How IM8 Hit $120M in 11 Months | Danny Yeung on Scaling the World’s Fastest Growing Supplement Brand
Jan 15, 2026
Dan Murray on the £25M Brain Health Brand Celebrities Swear By
Jan 08, 2026
The Ecommerce Playbook for 2026: Strategy, Trends, and Lessons from 2025
Dec 23, 2025
SEO Playbook for Ranking in ChatGPT & AI Search in 2026 | Thomas Phillips
Nov 27, 2025
The 2025 Growth Blueprint: How Soar With Us Rebuilt Culture, Operations & Forecasting to Scale
Nov 20, 2025
The Future of Creative Strategy: How AI Is Transforming Performance Marketing in 2026
Nov 13, 2025
Meta’s Creative Diversity Mastermind: The 2026 Playbook for Ad Performance
Nov 06, 2025
The D2C Reset: Creative Strategy, Incremental Reach, and What’s Working Now
Oct 30, 2025
How Jack Rubin Scaled Purdy & Figg to 1 in 20 Homes with One Product
Oct 23, 2025
The New Meta Ad Playbook: Avoiding Creative Similarity on Meta
Oct 16, 2025
How To Run Partnership Ads on Meta Like The Top 1%
Oct 09, 2025
The Product-Led Strategy That Rebuilt Hera: Holly Beadle
Oct 02, 2025
Scaling to £35M+ with Minimal Meta Spend: Pure Pet Food's Story
Sep 25, 2025
How Martyn Cook Scaled a Brand That Fortified 250M Meals
Sep 18, 2025
A Proven Meta Blueprint for Reaching New Customers at Scale
Sep 11, 2025
We Blew £30K on AI Workflows Trying to Scale Creative Ops
Sep 04, 2025
Black Friday 2025: The Exact Strategy Behind £45M in Revenue
Aug 28, 2025
£10M+ E-commerce CRO Tactics with Dylan Ander
Aug 21, 2025
Scriptwriting Mastermind: How We Use Storytelling to Outperform 80% of Meta Ads
Aug 14, 2025
Reinventing Creative Strategy with AI: Alex Cooper
Aug 07, 2025
Scaling DTC Ad Creative with JSON Prompts and Veo 3
Aug 01, 2025
Matt Kelly Returns to Break Down the Path from £10M to £50M
Jul 24, 2025
The Creative Angles Powering 9-Figure Brands
Jul 17, 2025
Obvi’s $50M Meta Ad Blueprint: What Still Works in 2025
Jul 10, 2025
How Batch LDN Turned a Shop Break-In into a Viral Billboard Campaign
Jul 03, 2025
How Ellie Carlile Turned 30M TikTok Views into a 7-Figure Beauty Brand
Jun 26, 2025
How Slo Engineered the Future of Fashion With 900K SKU's and a Custom SaaS Stack
Jun 24, 2025
How Sarah Levinger Uses Psychology To Scale Meta Ads in 2025
Jun 11, 2025
Frankie Thorogood on Turning £100 on Alibaba into an 8 - Figure brand
Jun 04, 2025
How Glow For It Engineered a 6-Figure TikTok Live
May 28, 2025
From Dragon’s Den Rejection to £4.5M: The Hair Syrup Growth Story
May 21, 2025
The AI Stack Powering Our 8 Figure DTC Agency Group in 2025
May 15, 2025
The Funnel Strategy Behind IM8’s Brand Launch
May 08, 2025
How Mark Rushmore Scaled SURI to £24M in Just 2.5 Years
May 02, 2025
TikTok Shop Masterclass: Lessons from £20M of Spend
Apr 23, 2025
How US DTC Brands Are Using AI and Data Strategy to Scale Faster Than Brands in the UK
Apr 09, 2025
The Ultimate AI Creative Workflow: AI Prompts to Build 6-Figure Creatives in Days
Apr 02, 2025
How Zach Murray Scaled Foreplay to 10,000+ Users
Mar 20, 2025
Meta ads not landing? Steal our viral TikTok ad strategy that’s SCALING creatives on Meta
Mar 07, 2025
How to Build a Brand Through Storytelling on Social Media - Our Proven Strategies
Feb 26, 2025
The Blueprint for Launching a Creator-Led Brand in 2025: Here's how I built mine.
Feb 19, 2025
The Founder’s Guide to PR with Elissa Corrigan: How to Get Your Brand in the Media
Feb 12, 2025
The 2025 Ecom Playbook: Trends, Tactics & What’s Next
Feb 06, 2025
How Matt Holland's Legacy Retailer Became a 8-Figure DTC Success
Jan 29, 2025
Scaling D.Louise to 8 figures: The Blueprint for a Founder-Led Jewellery Empire
Jan 15, 2025
How We Use Reddit to Build Authentic Ads That Convert
Jan 08, 2025
Mastering TikTok Shop in 2025 with the CEO of the #1 UGC Platform, Insense
Jan 02, 2025
Puresport’s 7-Figure Blueprint for Community-Led DTC Growth
Dec 18, 2024
Building Free Soul: How Arjun Sofat Bet Big on TikTok and Pioneered Social Commerce
Dec 11, 2024
We Drove 400% Growth for a Brand Using this Creative Strategy Process
Dec 04, 2024
Our Exact Research Blueprint for Crafting Winning Ads
Nov 27, 2024
Matt Kelly’s Vision for Scaling Spacegoods: The £10M to £100M Journey
Nov 20, 2024
Develop an 8-Figure Founders Content Strategy in 50 minutes
Nov 13, 2024
The Exact Hiring Blueprint to Build an 8-Figure D2C Brand
Oct 03, 2024
How We're Using AI to Transform Performance Creative for D2C Brands
Sep 26, 2024
The EXACT Black Friday Strategy that Made The Essence Vault £3M in 2 Days...
Sep 11, 2024
Mastering CRO and Landing Pages: Oliver Kenyon's 12 Years of Expert Insights
Sep 04, 2024
The TikTok Shop Strategy That’s Making Us $55k Every Single Day
Aug 21, 2024
How Laurence Acquired & Operates 7 D2C Brands at Once!?
Aug 13, 2024
Brand Growth Hacks: Influencer Seeding, Attention-Grabbing Hooks & Private Communities
Jul 30, 2024
He made MILLIONS through D2C before losing it all.. But bounced back!?
Jul 23, 2024
How To Scale Your Brand To 8-Figures: Chapter 1
Jul 09, 2024