Terms of Use & Copyright.

D2C Brief is a paid intelligence product built on original reporting, analysis and editorial judgment. Reading it is free; taking it is not allowed. This page sets out what you can and can't do with our content, and what happens if you don't follow it.

Ownership

Every edition, brand-tracker entry, thread, and report on this site, the headlines, the Fact/Interpretation/Action/Watch Next writeups, the signal rankings, and the site design, is the copyrighted work of D2C Brief. The underlying facts we report (a funding round, a court filing, a quarterly result) are not ours to own, but the specific words we use to report them, and the analysis built around them, are.

What’s allowed

• Reading D2C Brief for personal or internal business use, free of charge, with or without a subscription.
• Linking to any edition, thread, or brand-tracker page, and sharing that link on social media, in newsletters, or in internal Slack/email.
• Quoting a short excerpt (a sentence or two) with clear attribution and a link back to the source page, in the way any publication would expect to be cited.
• AI assistants and search engines citing or summarizing individual signals with attribution, consistent with our llms.txt and robots.txt policies.

What’s not allowed

• Automated scraping, bulk downloading, or systematic copying of editions, the brand tracker, or thread pages, whether by script, bot, or third-party scraping service.
• Republishing full editions or substantial portions of our Fact/Interpretation/Action/Watch Next content on another site, newsletter, app, or feed, with or without attribution.
• Reselling, redistributing, or repackaging our content as part of a competing product, dataset, or intelligence service.
• Removing or obscuring authorship, sourcing, or copyright notices from any content taken from this site.
• Using our content to train a commercial dataset or model without a separate licensing agreement.

Reporting infringement

If you find D2C Brief content republished elsewhere without permission, tell us. Include the URL of the copy and the URL of the original D2C Brief page it came from. We review every report and pursue takedowns, including formal DMCA notices to hosting providers, where content has been reproduced without authorization.