Channel economics · The loaded cost · Element

The production

What making the material costs.

The part

What it is

Creative, copy, video, design and the approval cycles around them. For some channels this exceeds the media spend by a multiple.

It is also the cost that scales with the number of channels rather than with spend, which is an argument for fewer channels done properly.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.