A 20-year-old reseller making £20k a month on TikTok and a $100M+ CPG marketing machine represent two very different approaches to media: channel discovery versus channel loyalty. This article argues that the reseller's advantage isn't bigger budgets or better creative, but the ability to constantly test where attention is undervalued, move money quickly, and abandon channels when the economics change. It shows how enterprise marketers can adopt the same mindset through competitive ad intelligence, small explicit channel bets, and a rapid spy → test → decide loop.
