Your next marketing dollar could go anywhere. Where it goes matters less than how much is already there.
Six sections on where Food & Beverage money goes, what each channel returns, and the decisions worth winning before the 2027 plan is signed off.
Food & Beverage spends more on trade than on media. Only one of those is yours to decide.
Linear TV lost nearly fifteen points of share. Search absorbed more of it than anything else.
Return is not a property of a channel. It is a property of how much you put into one.
Nine retailers carry reportable volume. The one taking the most money returns the least of the five largest.
Three years of steady returns, and a platform reallocation that is still running.
The split gets signed off. The weeks get delegated. The weeks are worth more.