Content marketing and traditional advertising are different strategies for achieving the same goal – communicating with a target group and influencing their buyer behavior. Both come with advantages and disadvantages, but much points to the fact that content marketing is in many cases more effective than traditional advertising.
When times are good you should advertise. When times are bad you must advertise.
In a recession, the marketing budget is often the first to be tightened, but is that really the right way to go? Yes, if in the long term you want to reduce your brand awareness, customer loyalty and lose market share to competitors.