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Channel mix & planning
- Reader Note:
- Flywheel's own point of view in the report, not a measured result.
- Evidence:
- Expert judgment
- Vendor interest:
- Moderate — This comes from a company with a commercial interest in this market, so it is not a neutral source.
- Sample:
- Aggregated Flywheel client data, plus third-party research and industry insider conversations; no sample size or selection details disclosed.
Reader Note:
Evidence:
Vendor interest:
Sample:Good for
Hearing how someone who knows the field reads it, and deciding what to check yourself.
Not for
- Anything that needs a measurement. Nobody counted or tested this.
- This comes from a company with a commercial interest in this market, so it is not a neutral source.
- The source says how much it looked at, but not how any of it was chosen.
- The source never says how this number was measured.
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