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Are You Building Strategy or Just Optimizing Buttons?

The speaker argues that paid media as a discipline isn't dead, but the role of 'button-pushing' media buyers is. Marketers who fail to adapt to converging roles—combining product, design, engineering, creative and retention—will be at risk as automation and AI change workflows. Employers are cutting large portions of staff, increasing the need for versatile professionals who can produce scalable AI-driven creative and oversee strategy rather than just campaign execution. The takeaway: paid media specialists must broaden skills into creative, AI, and strategy to remain valuable.