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The Tribe
Journal.

Field notes on programmatic, rich media, attention economics and the West African advertising market — written by people who plan, build and ship the work.

  • №048

    Why SMS still outperforms email in Nigeria's HNI banking segment

    Three years of programmatic SMS data across four tier-1 banks. The result isn't what consultants tell the boardroom.

  • №047

    The supply-path problem nobody talks about in West African programmatic

    A walk through DV360 logs, the publishers that actually pay back, and where the spend leaks.

  • №046

    Rich media isn't a format. It's a creative discipline.

    A short manifesto for craft inside an IAB unit — written for clients who keep asking why ours convert.

  • №045

    What an MTN gamified unit taught us about second-screen behaviour

    Six weeks of dwell-time logs from a playable banner — and the unexpected pattern at the 47-second mark.

  • №044

    Attention is a function of craft, not budget

    A long-running thesis — and the eleven years of receipts that put it on the wall of the studio.

  • №043

    Why we built our own DSP, and what we still buy through DV360

    An honest walk-through of the IDA DSP build decision — and the categories where Google still wins.

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