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Shifting From Creator Tools To Creative Participation: Adobe MAX Takeaways

Lisa Gately 17 hours ago
Creativity has always extended beyond creative and content teams. But for years, many marketers and other employees lacked the tools, time, or skills to participate fully in shaping ideas and content. I just attended Adobe MAX 2025 and now see that reality changing. Adobe’s latest innovations aim to close those gaps by enabling anyone involved […]
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What Sets Leading B2B Marketers Apart?

Matthew Selheimer 3 days ago
Forrester’s most recent Marketing Survey revealed a sharp divide between leading and lagging B2B marketing organizations. Find out what why leading marketers report significantly stronger revenue and profit while lagging marketers fall short.

Capture & Prove Marketing’s True Value Beyond Sourcing Metrics

Download our measurement toolkit to discover demand performance indicators and metrics to reveal marketing’s real business impact across complex buyer journeys.

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LocWorld54 Shows Why Localization Can Be The Next Strategic Powerhouse — And What’s Holding It Back

Kathleen Pierce 3 days ago
For decades, B2B companies have viewed localization as an operational necessity to translate words, keep websites up to date, and support global product launches. That outdated view doesn’t hold up anymore. Businesses today need to evolve localization in the age of AI. Find out how in this review of the recent LocWorld54 conference.
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Predictions 2026: Trust Gets Tested For B2B Marketing, Sales, And Product Leaders

Renee Irion 3 days ago
AI adoption, changing buying dynamics, and persistent volatility are rewriting go-to-market playbooks. Learn what B2B leaders and teams must do to navigate the year ahead.
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AI’s Impact On B2B Customer Service: What I’ve Found So Far

Laura Ramos October 24, 2025
For a category with such long-established commercial software applications, you would expect the status quo to reign. The opposite is the case.
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Field Marketing In 2025: Time To Break The Cycle Of Misalignment

Daryl Wright October 21, 2025
Field marketing is undergoing a shift and not necessarily in the right direction. Strategic responsibilities are expanding, yet performance metrics remain stubbornly anchored in outdated demand generation models. Learn five key actions field marketing leaders can take now to avoid being trapped in a downward spiral of misalignment.
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Stop Optimizing, Start Reinventing: Three Imperatives For Marketing Leaders In 2026

Lisa Gately October 21, 2025
Learn three imperatives coming out of MAICON 2025 for marketing leaders looking to reimagine how marketing creates growth.

Predictions 2026: Your Planning Starts Here

2026 will demand proof, not promises. Explore Forrester’s Predictions resources — guides, webinars, and blogs — to plan smarter, lead with trust, and stay ahead of disruption.

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What Factors Are Driving B2B Marketing’s AI Adoption?

Ian Bruce October 20, 2025
Beneath all the sound and fury, what is driving AI adoption across B2B marketing? How are marketers using AI productively today, and what can early adopters teach us about using AI technologies successfully? Most organizations have advanced significantly beyond the initial stages of education and experimentation and are now actively implementing AI-powered technologies across various use cases.
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The Next Wave: DSPs Become Omnichannel Ad Platforms

Nikhil Lai October 16, 2025
The conditions that sustained demand-side platforms (DSPs) are no more. Learn what's changed, and how we evaluated vendors in our recent Landscape report.
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Reimagine Your Event Strategy With AI At Forrester’s B2B Summit APAC

Conrad Mills October 15, 2025
AI presents real opportunities for event marketers to do more with less. Learn how to get started at our upcoming B2B Summit APAC.
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Personalization Makes Every Postsale Journey Your B2B Customers’ Own

Amy Bills October 10, 2025
We have such high hopes for customers, don’t we? They’ll breeze through onboarding like champions. Collaborate on a success plan with a level of excitement appropriate to the new season of “The Pitt.” Explore every feature, deploy every asset, exceed all expectations, and attain ROI in record time. That would be wonderful, but perfection is […]
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From Chaos To Clarity: How B2B Marketing Leaders Can Organize AI Responsibilities For Business Impact

Mavis Liew October 8, 2025
In the rush to adopt AI, many marketing leaders assign resources on the fly, without a formal structure or accountability. This “just in time” approach may feel agile — but it creates silos, duplicates effort, and introduces governance risks.
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New Agile Messaging Cycle Helps B2B Marketers Respond Faster To Buyer Needs

Barry Vasudevan October 3, 2025
The Messaging Gap: Why B2B Teams Feel Behind Every year, I speak with dozens of clients about their messaging. And every year, I hear the same refrain: “We’re behind.” Whether it’s new buyers, changing regulations, shifting tariffs, or the latest genAI model, something is always changing — and messaging is always out of date. The […]
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Zero-Click Search Comes For Checkout: Agentic Commerce Automates Retail’s Next Frontier

Nikhil Lai October 2, 2025
Agentic commerce is spreading as OpenAI launches Instant Checkout offering shoppers conversational shopping from curiosity to checkout without redirecting consumers to merchants’ sites. Find out what this means and how B2C marketers are responding in this post.
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Build Your Foundation First: The Hard Truth About Successful AI Deployments

Katie Linford October 2, 2025
AI can improve efficiency for go-to-market teams but only if core processes are in place. This blog explores how to identify and fix issues such as siloed workflows, disconnected systems, and inconsistent data so that AI can deliver real impact instead of amplifying inefficiencies.
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From Keywords To Context: Impact And Opportunity For AI-Powered Search In B2B Marketing

Jessie Johnson October 2, 2025
AI-powered search is rapidly reshaping how B2B buyers discover, evaluate, and engage with providers during the purchasing process and postsale experience. Today’s buyers ask questions that require more than simple keyword matches. They expect modern search environments — from generative AI-based answer engines to AI agents — to understand their intent and deliver responses that […]
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H-1B Visa Changes, Agentic Commerce, Optimizing Customer Reviews

What It Means October 2, 2025
Heading into the fourth quarter, there are no signs of a slowdown in developments that will keep business and technology leaders on their toes. This episode dives into the latest impacts of geopolitics on the tech industry and AI’s impact on commerce and buying networks.

Are You Ready For The B2B Reckoning?

Join Forrester's live webinar to uncover our 2026 marketing predictions. Learn how to succeed with AI, win trust, and drive real value in a skeptical market.

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Everyone Wants To Grow — Few Want To Do The Work

John Buten September 25, 2025
Portfolio marketers at high-performing organizations are 65% more likely to spend at least 40 hours a year on professional development and more than twice as likely to dedicate 100 hours annually. Learn about a four-step model that can help your organization create real opportunities to practice, collaborate, and apply new skills.
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Sales Leadership: Why Now Is The Time To Embrace Revenue Process Transformation

Christina Schmitt September 25, 2025
Discover why outdated sales models are holding businesses back and how embracing revenue process transformation can unlock faster growth, better buyer engagement, and stronger sales leadership. Join us at Forrester’s B2B Summit EMEA to explore bold strategies for leading change.
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Revolutionizing B2B Practices: Bridging Generational Gaps To Accelerate Revenue Growth

Naomi Marr September 23, 2025
Millennials and Gen Zers are reshaping B2B buying with digital-first expectations, leaving traditional sales and marketing tactics behind. If your revenue is flatlining, it might be time to rethink your approach.
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