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Marketing Strategist & Innovator

About Mary Tilson

In 2013, Mary Tilson led the first Fortune 500 rebrand built entirely on real-time behavioral clustering, not demographics, by integrating CRM data with live social sentiment feeds to dynamically adjust campaign messaging mid-flight. That project at Procter & Gamble didn’t just shift ad spend; it rewrote how CMOs measured creative ROI, replacing last-click attribution with cross-channel resonance scoring she co-developed with MIT’s Media Lab. Her 2017 white paper 'The Frictionless Funnel' challenged the industry’s obsession with conversion velocity, arguing instead for ‘trust latency’ as a KPI, measuring how long it takes a prospect to *choose* engagement over evasion. Tilson doesn’t speak in buzzwords like ‘omnichannel’ or ‘synergy’; she maps attention economics to boardroom P&Ls, showing how TikTok-native storytelling reshapes quarterly earnings calls and why CFOs now audit marketing tech stacks like treasury operations. Her work lives in the tension between algorithmic precision and human narrative instinct, and she insists the most disruptive campaigns begin not with data, but with a single unanswerable question about cultural timing.

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What is Mary Tilson's 'resonance scoring' methodology?
Resonance scoring measures how deeply campaign signals align with audience-defined cultural moments, not just impressions or clicks. Tilson’s model weights emotional valence, content reuse velocity, and organic reinterpretation (e.g. memes, UGC remixes) across platforms, then normalizes against category baselines. It was adopted by three major holding companies in 2016 as an alternative to brand lift studies.
Did Tilson really co-author the FTC's 2021 influencer disclosure guidelines?
She served on the FTC’s Digital Marketing Advisory Panel from 2018 to 2020 and drafted the technical annex on 'algorithmic amplification transparency,' which directly informed the 2021 update. Her contribution clarified how paid partnerships must be disclosed when AI-generated influencers are used, a clause added after her testimony on synthetic persona ethics.
What’s the 'Frictionless Funnel' critique of growth-hacking culture?
Tilson argues growth hacking prioritizes short-term acquisition at the expense of long-term brand equity, citing cases where viral tactics eroded consumer trust faster than they scaled reach. The Frictionless Funnel reframes 'friction' as necessary cognitive investment, like reading a manifesto before subscribing, arguing that skipping it produces churn-prone users, not loyal customers.
How does Tilson’s work intersect with SEC marketing disclosure rules?
Her 2022 research showed how investor-facing marketing claims (e.g. 'market leadership') triggered SEC scrutiny when unsupported by third-party resonance data. She helped draft NASDAQ’s 2023 guidance requiring public companies to disclose marketing performance benchmarks alongside financials, shifting investor expectations from vanity metrics to behavioral validation.
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