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How Much Creative Are You Wasting?

Three inputs. Thirty seconds. See what your production budget is actually buying — and what's burning in a folder.

$25,000

What you pay for UGC, photography, video, agency creative — all sources combined.

$5K$100K
40

Total deliverables across all partners. Rough count is fine.

5200
40%

What percentage makes it into an ad, an email, a landing page, or a social post?

5%95%
Your Waste Number
$180,000/year

in creative you paid for that never reached a customer

Creative Yield Rate

40%

For every 10 assets you produce, 4 go live. 6 sit in folders.

Cost Per Activated Asset

$1,563

You're paying $625 per asset to produce. But each one that actually runs costs you $1,563because more than half never deploy.

The industry average is 48–55%. Most brands don't know their number until they measure it.

What if you deployed 85% instead of 40%?

Today
At 85% Deployment
Assets going live
16 of 40
34 of 40
Annual waste
$180,000
$45,000
Cost per activated asset
$1,563
$735

$135,000/year recovered

Same spend. Same partners. Same production. More of it actually working.

This is a Guess. Want Your Real Number?

You estimated your deployment rate. What if you could see the actual number — pulled from your real assets matched against your real ads?

A Marshal audit maps every creative source, every deployment destination, and every asset in between. One week. You keep the full report. No commitment.

Industry Benchmarks

52%

of core creative assets never activate

CreativeX, 2024

65%

of content goes unused

Forrester

$100B+

wasted industry-wide annually

CreativeX