Channel mix is the combination of marketing channels a brand uses to reach its audience — including paid, earned, owned, and shared channels — and the alloca…
Channel mix is the combination of marketing channels a brand uses to reach its audience — including paid, earned, owned, and shared channels — and the allocation of budget and effort across them based on audience behavior, competitive dynamics, and business objectives.
AI search is an increasingly important addition to channel mix analysis. As a share of discovery shifts from traditional search to AI assistants and social platforms, channel mix decisions that ignore AI search visibility are optimizing for a narrowing share of total discovery. Fractional CMOs incorporating AI search into channel mix analysis help clients understand not just where their audience is today, but where discovery is shifting — and build the entity, content, and social infrastructure to capture that shift before competitors do.