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What should your media
budget actually be?

Watch the session on sizing your media budget against the evidence — and setting a number that’s built to win.

  • Recorded Wednesday 15 July
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  • 30 min

WHAT THIS SESSION COVERS

Most media budgets are set by last year’s number, a benchmark, or a best guess — none of which tell you whether the number is sized to move market share. New IPA research from Les Binet and Will Davis found marketers rate budget at 35% of what drives effectiveness, when it actually explains 89% of the variation in profit payback. In this 30-minute session, Cos Mingides shows why budget is the most important growth lever you have, and how to turn a market-share goal into a number you can defend. Drawn from the evidence base behind True’s IPA Effectiveness Accreditation.

WHAT WE COVERED

  • The belief-evidence gap — new research on why marketers rate budget at 35% of effectiveness, when the data says 89%.
  • The efficiency trap — how chasing tighter ROI and narrower targeting quietly caps profit, and the death spiral that follows when budgets get cut in response.
  • Building the number — turning a market-share goal into a defensible budget, using category context, share of voice and share of search.
  • The CFO conversation — presenting budget as an investment sized to a growth goal, not a cost to trim for efficiency.
  • A worked example — a real budget, built from a growth goal, end to end.

WHO IT’S FOR

  • CMOs and Heads of Marketing setting or defending a media budget
  • Marketers who have to justify the number to a CFO, CEO or board
  • Brand and media leaders who want spend tied to growth, not precedent
  • Anyone who’s ever struggled to win the argument for a bigger budget

WANT TO GO FURTHER?

If you’d like us to run this on your own numbers, that’s what the Media Budget Setter Sprint does. Book a 20-minute call to explore it.

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YOUR HOST

  • Cos Mingides

    Cos Mingides

    Founding Partner & Head of Effectiveness at True

    A recognised leader in B2B effectiveness, Cos authored the first B2B paper to win an IPA Effectiveness Award — also earning the inaugural Best B2B prize and a WARC Award for Global Effectiveness in association with Cannes Lions. He’s a regular speaker at major industry events, a contributor to leading marketing publications, and a frequent judge for some of the industry’s top awards.

THE FIVE-POINT WEBINAR SERIES

Five webinars. One question: is your marketing roadworthy?

What should your media budget actually be?
01 · Budget

What should your media budget actually be?

Wednesday 15 July

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How hard is your creative really working?
02 · Creative

How hard is your creative really working?

Wednesday 22 July

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Is your content built for the way AI now buys?
03 · Content

Is your content built for the way AI now buys?

Wednesday 29 July

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Which moments win your category?
04 · Category

Which moments win your category?

Wednesday 5 August

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What space can only you own?
05 · Position

What space can only you own?

Wednesday 12 August

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ABOUT TRUE

True was founded in 2012 to be a different type of B2B agency — to break free from the short-term performance marketing that swamps the industry, with little impact. We’re in the business of making a difference, and we do it by building brands: creating powerful brand associations that deliver tangible business value and generate fame for our clients. True is the only B2B agency with IPA Effectiveness Accreditation, the UK partner of BBN — the world’s largest B2B agency network — and recognised by the ANA as Global B2B Creative Agency of the Year.

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