{"id":73737,"date":"2026-10-13T16:53:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T14:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cronuts.digital\/?p=73737"},"modified":"2026-10-13T16:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T14:59:09","slug":"digital-marketing-ai-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cronuts.digital\/en\/digital-marketing-ai-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital marketing and AI budget 2027: how to build it in 5 decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-speakable=\"\"><strong>A digital marketing budget is the annual allocation of resources (media spend, technology, content, data and team) that a company dedicates to winning and retaining customers in digital channels, tied to measurable business goals.<\/strong> In 2027 it also has to include an explicit line for artificial intelligence and another for visibility in generative engines (GEO), two lines that most companies still do not budget for.<\/p>\n\n<p>If your 2027 budget is the 2026 budget plus 10%, the problem is not the figure: it is the method. This guide is designed so that the CEO, CMO and COO walk into the budget meeting with a defensible model, calculated from the revenue target and reviewable every quarter. Committees close budgets between October and November, so the time to prepare it is now.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A marketing budget is not defended with a number, it is defended with a method. If the committee does not understand where each euro comes from, it cuts it on instinct.<\/p><cite>Lola Rodr\u00edguez, Growth Manager at CRONUTS.DIGITAL<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<aside class=\"key-points\" aria-labelledby=\"key-points-digital-marketing-budget\">\n<p class=\"key-points__label\">Key points<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"key-points__title\" id=\"key-points-digital-marketing-budget\" data-speakable=\"\"><strong>The essentials of the 2027 <em>digital marketing budget<\/em>.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol class=\"key-points__list\">\n<li class=\"key-points__item\"><span class=\"key-points__item-n\">01<\/span><div><p class=\"key-points__item-title\">The average is now 7.8% of revenue<\/p><p class=\"key-points__item-text\">Companies spend on average 7.8% of their revenue on marketing in 2026, compared with 7.7% in 2025 and 9.1% in 2022-2023 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/en\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2026-05-11-gartner-2026-cmo-spend-survey-finds-cmos-allocate-15-point-3-percent-of-marketing-budgets-to-ai-but-only-30-percent-are-ready-to-scale-ai-capabilities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gartner CMO Spend Survey, 2026<\/a>).<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"key-points__item\"><span class=\"key-points__item-n\">02<\/span><div><p class=\"key-points__item-title\">AI already takes 15.3% of the budget, but few know how to scale it<\/p><p class=\"key-points__item-text\">CMOs allocate 15.3% of the marketing budget to AI and only 30% are ready to scale it (Gartner, 2026). Organisations with optimised AI processes invest 11% of their revenue in marketing.<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"key-points__item\"><span class=\"key-points__item-n\">03<\/span><div><p class=\"key-points__item-title\">Budgeting only for licences means budgeting for 10%<\/p><p class=\"key-points__item-text\">70% of the value of AI depends on people and processes, 20% on technology and data and only 10% on algorithms (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcg.com\/featured-insights\/the-leaders-guide-to-transforming-with-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BCG, the 10-20-70 rule<\/a>).<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"key-points__item\"><span class=\"key-points__item-n\">04<\/span><div><p class=\"key-points__item-title\">The figure is calculated bottom-up<\/p><p class=\"key-points__item-text\">Start from the revenue target, work back through the funnel and compare the result with your sector&#8217;s percentage of revenue.<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"key-points__item\"><span class=\"key-points__item-n\">05<\/span><div><p class=\"key-points__item-title\">Three levels of metrics, one for each question the committee asks<\/p><p class=\"key-points__item-text\">Business metrics for the CEO and CFO (CAC, payback, LTV\/CAC), funnel metrics for the CMO (cost per opportunity, incrementality, AI citation share) and efficiency metrics for the COO (adoption and hours saved).<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"key-points__item\"><span class=\"key-points__item-n\">06<\/span><div><p class=\"key-points__item-title\">Leaving 10% unallocated turns the budget into a system that learns<\/p><p class=\"key-points__item-text\">With a quarterly reallocation fund, any line that fails to move its metric in two quarters is cut and any line that beats its threshold gets more.<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/aside>\n\n<h2 id=\"2027-budget-is-not-2026-plus-x\"><strong>Why the 2027 budget cannot be the 2026 budget + X%<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><strong>Incremental budgeting works when the environment is stable<\/strong>, and digital marketing in 2027 is not. Three structural changes coincide in the same year and force you to rethink the method, not just tweak the figure.<\/p>\n\n<h3><strong>1. Search is splitting in two<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>A growing share of searches is resolved inside ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity or Google&#8217;s AI Overviews, without a click to any website. If your company does not appear in those answers, you lose demand without any report recording it: the user never reached your site, so no metric drops. We cover this in our article on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cronuts.digital\/en\/zero-click-searches\/\">zero-click searches<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<h3><strong>2. AI makes production cheaper, but not transformation<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>Producing text, creatives, video or code costs a fraction of what it did two years ago. But the savings in production do not turn into results if nobody redesigns the process, trains the team and measures the impact. That is where the real cost of AI sits.<\/p>\n\n<h3><strong>3. Paid media is saturated<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>CPCs are rising, platform attribution is less and less reliable and many companies pay for conversions that would have happened anyway. <strong>Without measuring incrementality, paid media becomes a tax.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>The conclusion for leadership is clear: the 2027 digital marketing budget must be built from business results, not from last year&#8217;s supplier list. To organise it, you need a simple framework.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"run-grow-transform-framework\"><strong>The Run \u00b7 Grow \u00b7 Transform framework for allocating the digital marketing budget<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><strong>Run \u00b7 Grow \u00b7 Transform is a framework that classifies every euro of the digital budget into three boxes (maintain, scale and bet) plus an unallocated fund.<\/strong> It adapts the classic 70\/20\/10 model to the digital and AI reality, and it lets you explain to the committee what each line is for.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"overflow-x:auto\">\n<table>\n<thead><tr><th>Box<\/th><th>Indicative %<\/th><th>What it includes<\/th><th>Committee question<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr><td><strong>Run (maintain)<\/strong><\/td><td>55-65%<\/td><td>Website and hosting, martech stack and CRM, measurement and tracking, baseline paid media, recurring content<\/td><td>What is essential so we do not lose what we already have?<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>Grow (scale)<\/strong><\/td><td>20-25%<\/td><td>Incremental paid media, SEO and GEO, conversion rate optimisation (CRO), new content formats<\/td><td>What has proven its return and can take more investment?<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>Transform (bet)<\/strong><\/td><td>10-15%<\/td><td>AI pilots, process automation, new channels or markets<\/td><td>Which bet, if it works, changes our cost or revenue curve?<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>Reallocation fund<\/strong><\/td><td>10%<\/td><td>Unallocated on 1 January<\/td><td>What has worked this quarter and deserves more?<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3><strong>Example: a \u20ac400,000 digital marketing budget<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<div style=\"overflow-x:auto\">\n<table>\n<thead><tr><th>Box<\/th><th>%<\/th><th>Amount<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr><td><strong>Run<\/strong><\/td><td>60%<\/td><td>\u20ac240,000<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>Grow<\/strong><\/td><td>20%<\/td><td>\u20ac80,000<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>Transform<\/strong><\/td><td>10%<\/td><td>\u20ac40,000<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>Reallocation fund<\/strong><\/td><td>10%<\/td><td>\u20ac40,000<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>The reallocation fund is the piece that adds the most value and the one fewest companies use.<\/strong> It is released in quarterly reviews in favour of the initiatives that have beaten their KPIs. That way the budget rewards what works instead of repeating what was decided in October.<\/p>\n\n<p>The percentages depend on maturity: a company with a weak digital base will need more Run in the first year; a very mature one can raise Transform to 20%. To know which case you are in, the first decision is to measure your starting point.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"decision-1-starting-point\"><strong>Decision 1: know where you start before setting the budget<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><strong>A digital maturity diagnostic is the analysis of a company&#8217;s measurement, website, channels, AI use and visibility before deciding how much to invest.<\/strong> A company at level 2 out of 5 that invests like one at level 4 buys tools it cannot use and campaigns it cannot measure.<\/p>\n\n<p>Before discussing figures, the committee needs answers to five questions:<\/p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Is measurement reliable?<\/strong> Do GA4, the CRM and the ad platforms tell the same story?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Does the website convert?<\/strong> What is its conversion rate and how does it compare with the sector?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Where do customers come from today?<\/strong> What % depends on a single channel?<\/li>\n<li><strong>What level of AI use does the team have?<\/strong> Individual and anecdotal use, or redesigned processes?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do we appear in AI answers<\/strong> when someone looks for a supplier like us?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p>If the answer to the first question is &#8220;no&#8221;, <strong>the first line of the digital marketing budget is fixing measurement<\/strong>. Everything else would be decided with false data.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"border-left:4px solid #D6103F;background:rgba(214,16,63,.06);padding:16px 20px;margin:24px 0;\"><p style=\"margin:0\">You can measure your starting point in five minutes with the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cronuts.digital\/scorecard-madurez-digital\/\">Cronuts digital maturity scorecard<\/a><\/strong> (in Spanish).<\/p><\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"decision-2-total-figure\"><strong>Decision 2: calculate the total digital marketing budget bottom-up<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><strong>The bottom-up calculation means starting from the revenue target and working back through the sales funnel to get the required investment, then comparing it with the percentage of revenue.<\/strong> The percentage of revenue works as a reference, but it does not explain why that amount is being invested.<\/p>\n\n<h3><strong>The calculation step by step<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<ol>\n<li>New revenue target \u00f7 average ticket = <strong>new customers needed<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Customers \u00f7 close rate = <strong>opportunities needed<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Opportunities \u00f7 lead-to-opportunity conversion rate = <strong>leads needed<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Paid leads \u00d7 cost per lead (CPL) = <strong>media investment<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<h3><strong>Worked example<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>A B2B services company with \u20ac10M in revenue that wants \u20ac1.5M in new revenue in 2027:<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"overflow-x:auto\">\n<table>\n<thead><tr><th>Step<\/th><th>Calculation<\/th><th>Result<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr><td><strong>New customers<\/strong><\/td><td>\u20ac1,500,000 \u00f7 \u20ac30,000 average ticket<\/td><td>50 customers<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>Opportunities<\/strong><\/td><td>50 \u00f7 25% close rate<\/td><td>200 opportunities<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>Leads<\/strong><\/td><td>200 \u00f7 20% lead to opportunity<\/td><td>1,000 leads<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>Paid leads<\/strong><\/td><td>60% of 1,000 (the rest organic and referrals)<\/td><td>600 leads<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>Media investment<\/strong><\/td><td>600 \u00d7 \u20ac80 CPL<\/td><td>\u20ac48,000<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>To that media investment you add the lines that make it possible: website, technology, content, SEO and GEO, AI and team.<\/p>\n\n<h3><strong>The top-down cross-check<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>According to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/en\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2026-05-11-gartner-2026-cmo-spend-survey-finds-cmos-allocate-15-point-3-percent-of-marketing-budgets-to-ai-but-only-30-percent-are-ready-to-scale-ai-capabilities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gartner CMO Spend Survey 2026<\/a><\/strong>, the average is 7.8% of revenue. That figure covers all marketing (team, agencies, media, technology), not just digital, and comes mostly from large companies.<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>If your calculation comes out well below<\/strong> the reference percentage, you are probably underestimating CPL or overestimating conversion rates.<\/li>\n<li><strong>If it comes out well above<\/strong>, the revenue target is not realistic with the current funnel. Before investing more, you need to improve conversion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<div style=\"border-left:4px solid #D6103F;background:rgba(214,16,63,.06);padding:16px 20px;margin:24px 0;\"><p style=\"margin:0\">To estimate CPL and the investment needed per channel, use our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cronuts.digital\/calculadora-paid-media\/\">paid media calculator<\/a><\/strong> (in Spanish).<\/p><\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"decision-3-website-infrastructure\"><strong>Decision 3: treat the website as infrastructure, not as a project<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><strong>Treating the website as infrastructure means budgeting for it as an asset that is amortised and improved every year, not as a one-off project.<\/strong> The usual pattern is to rebuild it every three or four years with a spending peak and leave it unimproved in between, when it is the asset on which every other line depends.<\/p>\n\n<p>The recommended approach has two components:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Amortised base investment:<\/strong> if the website needs a redesign, budget it as an asset and amortise it over 3-4 years, not as a single-year expense.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Continuous improvement line (CRO):<\/strong> between 10% and 20% of the website&#8217;s cost every year for A\/B tests, speed, forms and new landing pages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>One point of improvement in conversion rate usually delivers more than 20% extra media spend, because it <strong>makes every channel cheaper at once<\/strong>. And a website built for users and for language models is now part of that asset, as we explain in our guide to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cronuts.digital\/en\/website-with-ai\/\">building a website with AI<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"border-left:4px solid #D6103F;background:rgba(214,16,63,.06);padding:16px 20px;margin:24px 0;\"><p style=\"margin:0\">If 2027 requires a new or evolving website, you can estimate it with the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cronuts.digital\/en\/website-quote\/\">website budget configurator<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p><\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"decision-4-geo\"><strong>Decision 4: open a budget line for AI visibility (GEO)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><strong>GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is the set of actions that make a brand appear and be cited in the answers of ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google&#8217;s AI Overviews.<\/strong> In 2027 it deserves its own line within Grow.<\/p>\n\n<p>The question the CEO should ask in the committee is simple: &#8220;What does ChatGPT answer when someone asks for a supplier like us?&#8221;. Almost no company knows, and almost none has it budgeted.<\/p>\n\n<p>A GEO line usually includes:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A visibility audit<\/strong> across the main generative engines against your competitors.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Citable content:<\/strong> clear definitions, proprietary data, FAQs and comparisons.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Structured data (schema)<\/strong> and consistent company profiles across all platforms.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third-party mentions:<\/strong> media, directories and reviews, which is where models draw much of their answers from.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monthly tracking<\/strong> of citation share.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>GEO does not replace SEO: it extends it. Much of the work is shared, which is why it makes sense to budget them together. More context in our guide to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cronuts.digital\/en\/seo-geo\/\">optimising for generative engines<\/a><\/strong> and in our article on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cronuts.digital\/seo-para-ia\/\">SEO for AI<\/a><\/strong> (in Spanish).<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"border-left:4px solid #D6103F;background:rgba(214,16,63,.06);padding:16px 20px;margin:24px 0;\"><p style=\"margin:0\">Find out what AI says about your brand today with our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cronuts.digital\/auditoria-geo\/\">GEO audit<\/a><\/strong> (in Spanish).<\/p><\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"decision-5-ai-by-use-case\"><strong>Decision 5: budget AI by use case, not by licence<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><strong>Budgeting AI by use case means assigning money to specific processes with a success metric, instead of buying licences for the whole workforce.<\/strong> The costliest mistake of 2026 has been the latter: scattered individual use, no redesigned process and an ROI impossible to prove to the board.<\/p>\n\n<h3><strong>Step 1: prioritise use cases<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>Each candidate use case is scored on two axes:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Impact:<\/strong> hours saved, additional revenue, errors avoided or response speed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feasibility:<\/strong> data availability, technical complexity, risk and resistance to change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Start with those that have high impact and high feasibility. Common examples in marketing and operations: automatic lead qualification, sales proposal generation, first-line customer support, content and creative production, automated reporting and data reconciliation. If you want to see how far automation goes, look at what <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cronuts.digital\/en\/ai-agents-for-business\/\">AI agents for business<\/a><\/strong> cost and why they fail.<\/p>\n\n<h3><strong>Step 2: budget the five cost lines of each use case<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<div style=\"overflow-x:auto\">\n<table>\n<thead><tr><th>Cost line<\/th><th>What it includes<\/th><th>Typical weight<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr><td><strong>Licences<\/strong><\/td><td>Tools and user seats<\/td><td>Low<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>Consumption<\/strong><\/td><td>API and tokens depending on usage volume<\/td><td>Variable<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>Integration and data<\/strong><\/td><td>Connection to CRM, ERP or website; data cleaning<\/td><td>Medium<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>Training and change management<\/strong><\/td><td>Process redesign, training, support<\/td><td>High<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>Governance and compliance<\/strong><\/td><td>Usage policies, legal review, AI Act, data protection<\/td><td>Low-medium<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>Training and change management is the line everyone cuts and the one that decides success.<\/strong> BCG&#8217;s 10-20-70 rule sums it up: 70% of the value is in people and processes. In addition, the European AI Act already requires companies that use AI to ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy among their staff, so training is no longer optional.<\/p>\n\n<h3><strong>Step 3: measure with a business case<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>Every AI pilot in the Transform box must have, before it starts:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A success metric and its current value<\/strong> (for example, 4 hours per sales proposal).<\/li>\n<li><strong>A 90-day target<\/strong> (for example, 1.5 hours).<\/li>\n<li><strong>A scale-or-close criterion:<\/strong> if it delivers, it moves to Grow next year; if not, it is closed and the budget is released.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The board does not approve &#8220;AI&#8221;. It approves a starting metric, a 90-day target and a criterion to close the pilot if it falls short.<\/p><cite>Lola Rodr\u00edguez, Growth Manager at CRONUTS.DIGITAL<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div style=\"border-left:4px solid #D6103F;background:rgba(214,16,63,.06);padding:16px 20px;margin:24px 0;\"><p style=\"margin:0\">To identify and prioritise the AI use cases with the best return in your company, request the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cronuts.digital\/auditoria-digital-ia\/\">digital and AI audit<\/a><\/strong> (in Spanish).<\/p><\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"committee-questions\"><strong>What each member of the budget committee asks<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><strong>A good digital marketing budget answers four different perspectives at once: CEO, CMO, COO and CFO.<\/strong> Preparing them in advance shortens approval.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"overflow-x:auto\">\n<table>\n<thead><tr><th>Role<\/th><th>Their question<\/th><th>What they need to see<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr><td><strong>CEO<\/strong><\/td><td>How much do we grow with this money and how much do we risk?<\/td><td>Bottom-up calculation, scenarios and reallocation fund<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>CMO<\/strong><\/td><td>Do I have the right channel mix for the target?<\/td><td>Run \u00b7 Grow \u00b7 Transform split and CPL by channel<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>COO<\/strong><\/td><td>Which processes become more efficient and when?<\/td><td>AI use cases with a starting metric and a target<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>CFO<\/strong><\/td><td>How will we know it works before year-end?<\/td><td>Quarterly KPIs and reallocation criteria<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"digital-marketing-budget-metrics\"><strong>The metrics that make a digital marketing budget defensible<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><strong>Metrics are what turn a digital marketing budget into a management system: without them it is a forecast.<\/strong> Every line must have three things before 1 January: an owner, a metric and a threshold that decides whether it receives more money or less.<\/p>\n\n<p>The usual mistake is to take a single report with 40 indicators to the committee. A three-level dashboard works better, one level for each question leadership asks. If you need a wider catalogue, we have a guide to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cronuts.digital\/kpis-marketing-b2b\/\">B2B marketing KPIs<\/a><\/strong> (in Spanish).<\/p>\n\n<h3><strong>Level 1: business metrics (committee, CEO and CFO)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>They answer the question &#8220;does this money make us grow profitably?&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"overflow-x:auto\">\n<table>\n<thead><tr><th>Metric<\/th><th>How it is calculated<\/th><th>Indicative benchmark<\/th><th>What it decides<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr><td><strong>Customer acquisition cost (CAC)<\/strong><\/td><td>Total marketing and sales investment \u00f7 new customers<\/td><td>Should fall or hold while scaling<\/td><td>How much we can pay to grow<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>CAC payback<\/strong><\/td><td>CAC \u00f7 monthly gross margin per customer<\/td><td>In B2B, usually under 12-18 months<\/td><td>How much cash growth needs<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>LTV\/CAC ratio<\/strong><\/td><td>Gross margin of a customer over their lifetime \u00f7 CAC<\/td><td>Above 3<\/td><td>Whether to scale or slow down investment<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>Marketing-sourced pipeline<\/strong><\/td><td>Value of the opportunities originated by marketing<\/td><td>Coverage of 3-4 times the revenue target<\/td><td>Whether the funnel is big enough for the target<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3><strong>Level 2: funnel and channel metrics (CMO)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>They answer &#8220;which channels work and where is money being lost?&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cost per opportunity<\/strong> (not just cost per lead). A channel with the lowest CPL can be the most expensive if its leads never reach sales. It is the metric that should replace CPL in the conversation between marketing and sales.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lead-to-opportunity conversion rate by channel:<\/strong> measures lead quality.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Website conversion rate:<\/strong> the multiplier of every channel.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paid media incrementality:<\/strong> sales that would not have happened without the campaign, measured with geo or audience holdout tests.<\/li>\n<li><strong>AI citation share:<\/strong> in how many ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity answers your brand appears versus competitors.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Weight of the main channel in leads.<\/strong> If a single channel exceeds 50%, there is a dependency risk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3><strong>Level 3: AI and efficiency metrics (COO)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>They answer &#8220;is AI changing how we work or only how much we pay in licences?&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Adoption rate:<\/strong> % of the team that uses the redesigned process every week. It comes before savings: a use case with 20% adoption saves nothing, however well it works in the demo.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hours saved per process:<\/strong> (hours before \u2212 hours after) \u00d7 task volume.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cost per task,<\/strong> before and after, including licences, consumption and integration.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Quality:<\/strong> error rate or rework rate. Saving time while producing more errors is not saving.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3><strong>Metrics that should not reach the committee<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>Impressions, reach, followers, unsegmented total traffic or the number of AI licences bought. They are useful for the operating team, but <strong>they are not useful for deciding budget<\/strong>: they can rise while the business does not move.<\/p>\n\n<h3><strong>How each box connects to its metric<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<div style=\"overflow-x:auto\">\n<table>\n<thead><tr><th>Box<\/th><th>Deciding metric<\/th><th>Why<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr><td><strong>Run<\/strong><\/td><td>Cost per opportunity and website conversion<\/td><td>Measures whether the base is still efficient<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>Grow<\/strong><\/td><td>Marginal CAC (what the last customer won cost, not the average) and incrementality<\/td><td>Average CAC hides that the last euro invested is usually much more expensive than the first<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td><strong>Transform<\/strong><\/td><td>Use-case metric against its 90-day baseline<\/td><td>Decides whether the pilot is scaled or closed<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3><strong>The reallocation rule<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Monthly review<\/strong> of the metrics by the CMO and <strong>quarterly review<\/strong> in the leadership committee.<\/li>\n<li>A line that beats its threshold two quarters in a row receives money from the reallocation fund.<\/li>\n<li>A line that fails to move its metric in two quarters is cut or closed. That way the budget rewards what works and stops funding what is only renewed out of habit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<div style=\"border-left:4px solid #D6103F;background:rgba(214,16,63,.06);padding:16px 20px;margin:24px 0;\"><p style=\"margin:0\">If you do not know whether your current measurement lets you calculate these metrics, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cronuts.digital\/scorecard-madurez-digital\/\">digital maturity scorecard<\/a><\/strong> (in Spanish) tells you in five minutes.<\/p><\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"october-budget-mistakes\"><strong>6 mistakes we see every October when building the digital marketing budget<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><strong>Almost all budget mistakes come from the same place: deciding by inertia instead of by results.<\/strong> These are the six we repeat most often in October committees:<\/p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Budgeting by tools instead of by results.<\/strong> The question is not &#8220;what do we renew?&#8221;, but &#8220;what has to happen in the business?&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Buying AI licences without redesigning processes.<\/strong> It means investing in the 10% and forgetting the 70%.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deciding with broken measurement.<\/strong> If GA4, the CRM and the platforms do not match, any allocation is a hunch with decimals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Investing in paid media without measuring incrementality.<\/strong> Especially in brand and remarketing campaigns.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Having zero euros in GEO.<\/strong> It is the line with the lowest competition in the whole budget and the one that will grow most.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Allocating 100% of the budget in January.<\/strong> Without a reallocation fund there is no way to reward what works.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<section class=\"faq-block\" aria-labelledby=\"faq-title\" id=\"faq\">\n<p class=\"faq-block__label\">Frequently asked questions<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"faq-block__title\" id=\"faq-title\" data-speakable=\"\"><strong>What people ask us about the <em>digital marketing budget<\/em>.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"faq-block__lead\">8 specific questions with a direct answer in 80 words or fewer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"faq-list\">\n<details class=\"faq-item\" open>\n<summary class=\"faq-q\" data-speakable=\"\"><h3 style=\"font:inherit;color:inherit;margin:0;display:inline;\">What percentage of revenue should go to the digital marketing budget?<\/h3><\/summary>\n<div class=\"faq-a\" data-speakable=\"\">The 2026 average is 7.8% of revenue for all marketing, according to Gartner, and companies with mature AI reach 11%. In B2B SMEs it is common to sit between 3% and 8%. The percentage is a reference, but the figure should come from the revenue target.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"faq-item\">\n<summary class=\"faq-q\" data-speakable=\"\"><h3 style=\"font:inherit;color:inherit;margin:0;display:inline;\">How much does it cost to implement artificial intelligence in a mid-sized company?<\/h3><\/summary>\n<div class=\"faq-a\" data-speakable=\"\">It depends on the use cases, not on company size. A well-scoped pilot can cost between a few thousand and a few tens of thousands of euros, and most of it goes to integration, training and process redesign, not to licences. That is why it is budgeted by use case.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"faq-item\">\n<summary class=\"faq-q\" data-speakable=\"\"><h3 style=\"font:inherit;color:inherit;margin:0;display:inline;\">How do you split the digital marketing budget across channels?<\/h3><\/summary>\n<div class=\"faq-a\" data-speakable=\"\">With the Run \u00b7 Grow \u00b7 Transform framework: around 60% to maintain the essentials, 20% to scale what already shows a return, 10% for AI bets and new channels and 10% unallocated to reassign every quarter.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"faq-item\">\n<summary class=\"faq-q\" data-speakable=\"\"><h3 style=\"font:inherit;color:inherit;margin:0;display:inline;\">Which lines should a 2027 digital marketing budget include?<\/h3><\/summary>\n<div class=\"faq-a\" data-speakable=\"\">Website and CRO, technology and measurement, paid media, SEO and GEO, content, artificial intelligence (licences, integration and training) and team or partners. What is new compared with previous years are the GEO line and the AI-by-use-case line.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"faq-item\">\n<summary class=\"faq-q\" data-speakable=\"\"><h3 style=\"font:inherit;color:inherit;margin:0;display:inline;\">What is GEO and why should you budget for it?<\/h3><\/summary>\n<div class=\"faq-a\" data-speakable=\"\">GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) aims to make a brand appear and be cited in the answers of ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews. You should budget for it because a growing share of searches is resolved without a click, and that lost demand does not show up in any report.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"faq-item\">\n<summary class=\"faq-q\" data-speakable=\"\"><h3 style=\"font:inherit;color:inherit;margin:0;display:inline;\">How often should the digital marketing budget be reviewed?<\/h3><\/summary>\n<div class=\"faq-a\" data-speakable=\"\">Review KPIs monthly and hold a quarterly review in the leadership committee, which is when you decide which initiatives get the reallocation fund. Reviewing it only once a year makes it impossible to correct in time.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"faq-item\">\n<summary class=\"faq-q\" data-speakable=\"\"><h3 style=\"font:inherit;color:inherit;margin:0;display:inline;\">Which metrics should you use to control the digital marketing budget?<\/h3><\/summary>\n<div class=\"faq-a\" data-speakable=\"\">A three-level dashboard: business metrics for the committee (CAC, CAC payback and LTV\/CAC), funnel metrics for the CMO (cost per opportunity, incrementality and AI citation share) and efficiency metrics for the COO (adoption and hours saved by AI). Impressions and followers are not useful for deciding budget.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"faq-item\">\n<summary class=\"faq-q\" data-speakable=\"\"><h3 style=\"font:inherit;color:inherit;margin:0;display:inline;\">How do you justify the AI budget to the board?<\/h3><\/summary>\n<div class=\"faq-a\" data-speakable=\"\">With a business case for each use case: current metric, 90-day target, total cost (not just licences) and a scale-or-close criterion. The board does not approve &#8220;AI&#8221;; it approves specific results with a plan to measure them.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h2 id=\"2027-budget-starts-with-diagnostic\"><strong>Your 2027 digital marketing budget starts with a diagnostic, not a figure<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>A good digital marketing budget is not the biggest one, but the one you can defend in committee and correct during the year. The five decisions in this guide (know where you start, calculate the figure bottom-up, treat the website as infrastructure, open the GEO line and budget AI by use case) turn a negotiation over figures into a conversation about results.<\/p>\n\n<p>Companies that build this method now will accumulate a compounding advantage: every quarter they will know better what works and where to put the next euro. Those that repeat last year&#8217;s budget plus an increase will pay the cost of catching up.<\/p>\n\n<p>The first step takes five minutes: measure your company&#8217;s digital maturity with the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cronuts.digital\/scorecard-madurez-digital\/\">digital maturity scorecard<\/a><\/strong> (in Spanish) and walk into the committee knowing where the biggest return is. 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