E129: Two 2027 DTC Shifts: AI Retention Marketing & TikTok Creator Burnout

“We just had a hundred thousand people buy in the last 60 days.”

What does the future of retention marketing actually look like by 2027?

Connor MacDonald (CMO, Ridge) and Connor Rolain (Head of Growth, HexClad) unpack what Postscript’s AI memories mean for retention marketing’s future. They map out a 2027 playbook built on personalized experiences, even as TikTok Shop’s creator economy hits a breaking point.

Postscript is building unified profiles instead of fragmented SMS data. That shift promises holdout testing and customer lifetime value tracking. RCS already shows early lift in live tests. Meanwhile TikTok Shop’s incentive structure is pushing affiliates toward burnout.

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Chapters

00:00:00 Cody Skips for Winx

00:05:16 Postscript Goes Unified

00:11:14 Holdouts & Incrementality

00:17:21 How Shopper Was Born

00:23:32 Code Vs Intelligence

00:30:21 HexClad’s 2027 Playbook

00:34:56 RCS Delivers Real Lift

00:39:44 HexClad’s TikTok Takeoff

00:47:20 Ridge’s $29 Hero Product

00:53:10 Feedback Loop Problem

00:58:45 Two Lanes for Creators

01:04:03 Shoutout to Keegan