Steal From Paid: The Hidden ROI of Repurposing Media Spend Into Buyer-Led Content
Most CMOs treat paid media budgets as sacred cows, untouchable and sacrosanct, despite clear evidence that those dollars often underperform. The dirty little secret? They’re hemorrhaging ROI by refusing to reallocate even a fraction of that spend toward content that actually converts. And it's not because they don't know it's broken, it's because they're stuck in old mental models and quarterly budget inertia. The irony? The budget they claim they don’t have to fund VoCaaS content strategy is sitting right there, being torched.