B2C Marketing
B2C marketing is navigating choppy waters. The tactics that drive short-term gains are alienating customers over the long-term, eroding loyalty and affinity. Read our insights to learn more about how B2C marketing teams can thrive in the midst of this tension.
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Announcing Forrester’s Consumer Intelligence Platforms Landscape Report
It’s hard for marketers to keep track of the tools and platforms designed to help brands understand their consumers. As the demand for a more holistic view of the consumer and speed to insight grows, so does the scope of the platforms that support these needs. One notable shift has been the transformation of social […]
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Meet Your CRM Marketing Services Match
CRM marketing services may be a mouthful, but this market encompasses a broad range of capabilities: combining data, customer insights, and technology to infuse first-party data across the customer lifecycle. As brands strive to deliver data-driven campaigns and personalized experiences, B2C CRM marketing services have responded in kind, expanding from direct mail and email marketing […]
New For 2026! 2026 CX Budget Planning Guide + Workbook
Stop guessing — start planning! Learn where to prioritize CX tech, partner smarter, use AI for scalable results, and prove ROI with actionable insights, benchmarks, and templates for 2026 success.
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AI Pricing, Outcome-Based Pricing, Developer Productivity
As the annual budgeting and planning season comes into full swing, we drill down into two unique pricing trends. We then take a detailed look at how to measure developer productivity.
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Disney Plays More Sports
Sports is the big headline coming out of Disney’s latest earnings report, and for good reason. Learn why Disney is prioritizing programming with the highest ad revenue potential in this post.
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CMO Fortunes Falter Amid Economic And Role Uncertainty
The past 12 months have seen a noticeable decline in the number of CMOs in the Fortune 500. While economics is partly to blame, we’re witnessing a deeper transformation for marketing leaders.
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Meet Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf: Forrester’s New Adtech Analyst
Generative AI, signal loss, regulation, and macroeconomic volatility are colliding to give rise to a new era that threatens the viability of open web publishers’ business models. I’m excited to join Forrester as the B2C marketing team’s newest adtech analyst to help clients navigate it all.
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Meta: So Long, Metaverse; Hello, Superintelligence
Meta is hopeful that superintelligence will empower people and not replace large swaths of society. Is that realistic?
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Inside Club Med’s Conversational AI Strategy: An Interview With Siddhartha Chatterjee
Learn how Club Med designed, implemented, and continuously refined its conversational AI strategy — starting with a WhatsApp chatbot in Brazil.
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AI Regulation In The US, Vibe Coding, Click To Cancel Hits Home
July heats up with a look at the impact of some regulatory moves in the US and a deep dive into a new AI trend for developers that may be more useful than you think.
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The Secret To Martech Success? Think Like A Product Manager
Marketing technology is the backbone of modern customer engagement. It enables businesses to generate customer insights, personalize experiences, and orchestrate campaigns.
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Adtech’s Inflection Point Signals More Compelling Customer Experiences
Advertising technology is overly complicated — and everyone is fed up. Here's how adtech can right-size and refocus on compelling customer experiences.
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Leverage Cocreation To Accelerate Sustainability Innovation
Cocreation is a powerful tool to help CMOs orchestrate multiple internal teams and external partners to drive innovation. Because environmental sustainability demands a systemic approach with multiple stakeholders, CMOs can apply some of the lessons learned to help drive an ambitious cocreation agenda for environmental sustainability. The CMO’s position — at the intersection of business […]
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Budget Boom Or Budget Bust? Be Ready For Both In 2026
Though volatility has tempered budget expectations, business and tech leaders should prepare for the unexpected. Forrester’s 2026 Budget Planning Guides can help you make the right strategic moves this budget planning season.
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Social Commerce Shows Promise But Still Hasn’t Hit Critical Mass In The US
Forrester’s 2022 assessment of the state of US social commerce uncovered widespread consumer mistrust in social media, which fizzled social media platforms’ commerce ambitions. In our latest report, a 2025 look at “The State Of Social Commerce,” we maintain our reservations around social commerce “taking off” in the US, especially compared to emerging markets.
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GenAI Reshapes Shopping And Revives SEO
The multibillion-dollar question I’m often asked is: Will a critical mass of consumers shop and check out on Google’s AI Mode, ChatGPT, and Perplexity? Consumers’ loyalty to convenience makes a “yes” most likely. Thirty-eight percent of US online adults, according to Forrester’s Retail Topic Insights 1 Survey, 2025, checked how fast products would arrive before […]
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How Yves Rocher Integrates Sustainability Into Its Business
After studying for a certificate in business sustainability management from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, I pivoted part of my research at Forrester to the intersection of marketing, AI innovation, and environmental sustainability. Back in 2021, I interviewed dozens of leaders about sustainability disruption and how to transform their business. I interviewed Guy Flament, […]
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Parting Lessons From CX Summit North America To Help You Deliver The Total Experience
As another CX Summit North America draws to a close, it’s time to get to work. Use these takeaways to help you create your action plan for transforming the experiences you offer.
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TV Options For B2C, GenAI For CRM, Data Centers Go Nuclear
From pickleball to nuclear energy, this week’s episode covers a lot of ground. Listen in as Forrester analysts put three recent business headlines into context for sales, marketing, and technology leaders.
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Modern Loyalty Requires A Diversified Approach To Engagement
This blog explores how programmatic loyalty is a spectrum that shifts from traditional loyalty strategies to a modern approach that focuses on offering a diversified loyalty engagement strategy.
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Power, Precision, And Production Create A New Media Agency Landscape
It’s a new media agency landscape. The last six months have witnessed more change in media agencies than what’s occurred over the last six years.
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