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How Marketers Are Spending Their Budgets in 2023

In a downturn there’s always pressure to divert dollars to tactics that directly drive sales. Retailers shouldn’t lose sight of brand building in the process.
Marketers will have to work with fewer resources to capture consumer attention this year.
Marketers will have to work with fewer resources to capture consumer attention this year. (Getty Images)

Marketers are entering 2023 in a gloomy mood.

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Diana Pearl
Diana Pearl

Diana Pearl is Senior News and Features Editor at The Business of Fashion. She is based in New York and drives BoF’s marketing and media coverage.

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