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Content debt is costing businesses billions. dolar-icon

What's your bill?

Storyblok research in collaboration with FT Longitude estimates the global cost of unmanaged content at $4.63 trillion. But every organization pays a different price.

Use our calculator to estimate what outdated, duplicated, and underperforming content could be costing your business.

Calculate Your Content Debt
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The numbers behind content debt

Content debt is the accumulated weight of outdated, duplicated, orphaned, off-brand, and underperforming content.

  • 62%
    of organizations do not have visibility on everything they've published
  • 5.9%
    average revenue at risk from content debt for each organization
  • 34%
    of content budget is spent just fixing bad content—and it's still not working

Calculate Your Content Debt

See how much unmanaged content could be costing your organization—in wasted effort, unnecessary spend, and missed opportunities.

🔒Your answers stay private. Nothing you enter is stored or shared.

Pace

~2 Minutes

Quick to complete, no sign-up required.

Form

4 Questions

A short, honest self-audit at your own pace.

Outcome

Instant Verdict

See your estimated annual content debt.

Your estimated annual content debt amounts to

$0

Wasted spend on stale/outdated content

Annual content spend × % that is content debt

$0

Annual content spend × % that is content debt

Revenue compromised by poor content

Annual revenue × % of conversions affected

$0

Annual revenue × % of conversions affected

The figure above is an estimate — a candid mirror, not a courtroom verdict.

Most organizations underestimate the cost of unloved content. The first step is admitting the ledger exists.

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Include all relevant costs across websites, apps, campaign pages and other owned digital channels — internal labor, agencies, freelancers, content technology, supporting platforms. Exclude paid media spend.

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Content that is outdated, duplicated, misleading, hard to find, poorly structured, off-brand, not optimized for search or AI discovery, or difficult to update and publish efficiently.

%

Top-line figure for the most recently reported financial year.

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Customers abandoning purchases, delaying decisions, failing to convert, or choosing a competitor because content is unclear, inaccurate, incomplete, hard to find, or unpersuasive.

%

Go deeper into the research

The calculator is based on Storyblok research conducted in collaboration with FT Longitude on the cost of unmanaged content. Explore the report to learn how the estimates were developed, review the key findings, and see why content debt has become a growing business challenge.

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