Media & Growth Architect — New York

Most brands don't have a media problem.

They have a context problem.

The plan looks professionally assembled. It's usually aimed at the wrong thing — because no one connected the media team to the sales data, the product pipeline, or the pricing reality before a dollar was spent.

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Audience Planning · Reach & Frequency Modeling · Media Mix Modeling · Multi-Touch Attribution · Retail Media · Connected TV · Paid Social · Geographic Intelligence · 3P Measurement · Forecasting & Scenario Modeling · Budget Optimization · Channel Strategy · Audience Planning · Reach & Frequency Modeling · Media Mix Modeling · Multi-Touch Attribution · Retail Media · Connected TV · Paid Social · Geographic Intelligence · 3P Measurement · Forecasting & Scenario Modeling · Budget Optimization · Channel Strategy ·

Work across the whole business before touching a channel.

Sales, product, creative, finance — all of it feeds the plan before a single dollar is allocated. The result is a media system that's defensible to the CFO, not just the CMO.

Twenty years across agencies, brands, and ad-tech taught me one thing clearly: most plans fail not because of bad media decisions, but because the inputs were wrong from the start. Wrong objectives. Wrong signals. Wrong assumptions about what the business actually needs.

What I build isn't a deck, a recommendation, or a handoff. It's infrastructure your team understands and owns after I'm gone. GrowthOS is what makes that possible.

Growth
OS

A unified intelligence system connecting media investment, audience dynamics, and business outcomes across every channel — built to replace the disconnected dashboards and siloed spreadsheets most brands are still running on.

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Audience Planning
Reach, frequency, and audience dynamics across all paid and owned channels
Media Mix Modeling
Bayesian MMM with probabilistic confidence intervals and seasonality
Multi-Touch Attribution
Deterministic and probabilistic methods mapped to tactic type
Retail Media
Pure play and omnichannel retail integrated and measured in one system
Geographic Intelligence
BDI/CDI, store-level lift, awareness-to-conversion by market
52-Week Forecasting
Scenario modeling, spend curves, and outcome ranges with confidence bands
3P Measurement
Numerator, Upwave, Measured, Rockerbox, IRI, and more — all in one view
Budget Optimization
Spend allocation tied to business conditions, not convention or habit

Agency. Brand. Ad-tech. Not as a generalist — as someone who needed to understand each world to build something that finally connects all of them.

Holding Co.
Zenith
Media planning & investment at scale
Verizon · JPMorgan Chase
Holding Co.
Carat
National media strategy & planning
General Motors
Independent
Barkley
Full-service integrated media
Motel 6 · Delta Faucet
Brand Side
ekaterra
In-house media & marketing leadership
Lipton · Global brand P&L
Ad-Tech
Tatari
TV attribution & streaming measurement
Deterministic + probabilistic modeling
Independent
Now
Select engagements — retainer & project
Currently accepting new work
01

Mid-market brands with real complexity

Meaningful budgets. Omnichannel presence. Data that isn't talking to itself. Big enough to have real problems — smart enough to know a bloated holdco relationship isn't the answer.

02

Independent agencies that need a senior embedded resource

You have strategy and creative covered. You need someone who builds the media architecture from the brief forward — alongside your team, not instead of it.

Let's work together

Is the problem
interesting enough?

I'm selective about engagements — which means the ones I take get my full attention. If the fit seems right, start here.

rdavidson21@gmail.com

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