CMO Trends
The chief marketing officer (CMO) role is more difficult than ever, in a world where tried-and-true tactics are aging out and their replacements are hard to pin down. Read insights that help CMOs thrive in the Age of the Customer.
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The Paid Media Paradox
Digital marketers like digital marketing much more than consumers do. A new report explores in greater depth how consumers’ behaviors contradict marketers’ investments.
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For Brands, The Olympics Is Unlike Any Other Sporting Event
The Olympics are global, prestigious, vast, and a tribute to extraordinary grit. Companies looking to leverage the games to promote their brands need to recognize the event's uniqueness.
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The Global State Of B2B Events — Eight Key Findings On Event Trends From Forrester’s Recent Survey
Over the past four years, marketers have navigated unprecedented change in the B2B event sector as first the pandemic and then inflation impacted their plans. To help leaders better understand this dynamic landscape, Forrester’s Q1 2024 State Of B2B Events Survey gathered responses from over 200 event decision-makers to identify and analyze the key trends. […]
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2024 Paris Olympic And Paralympic Games: A Big Opportunity For Brands
Despite the post-election trauma in France, brands sponsoring the 2024 Paris Olympic Games should be able to leverage their investments. There is a huge contrast between the current political context today in France and the universal message that the Olympic Games will convey in about three weeks. Despite traditional French skepticism and pessimism, the momentum […]
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Apple’s New Intelligence Is Here
Apple, famously reticent about AI, broke its silence at its 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) and Forrester was there. Learn more about Apple Intelligence and find out what we gathered from the grand reveal.
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Learning From Limes And Forrester’s Creative AdTech Landscape
Last year, the world’s most-awarded creative was Skittles’ “Apologize the Rainbow” produced in collaboration with DDB Chicago. It profusely apologized for Skittles changing its green candy’s flavor from lime to apple and, to citrus lovers’ delight, announced lime’s return in a pantomime press conference live streamed on Twitch and X. The campaign relied on social […]
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Apple Is About To Cross Its AI Rubicon
Apple’s early reticence toward AI was entirely on brand. But that all changes on June 10 at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the perfect occasion for Apple AI’s coming-out party. Learn how Apple will change its tune in this post.
Harness The Power Of A NEW Customer-Centric Revenue Framework
Watch our webinar replay to unlock the potential of Forrester's NEW Opportunity Lifecycle Framework. Revolutionize your revenue process by breaking down barriers that neglect customers, fail buyers, and distort focus.
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2024 B2C Marketing Priorities And Challenges
B2C marketing decision-makers have many conflicting short- and long-term priorities while facing increasingly tough challenges. Welcome to marketing, right? Improving brand perception and customer experience (CX) while achieving a positive ROI is a particularly daunting task in 2024 because: A turbulent economy makes it tough to improve marketing’s ROI. Forty-five percent of global B2C marketing […]
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VivaTech & The New French Tech Next40/120: When AI Meets Green Tech
Paris will be the center of innovation and technology this week. Get a unique preview of the 2024 edition of the VivaTech conference in Paris.
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Call For Entries: Forrester B2B Summit APAC 2024 Awards
APAC B2B marketers: If you have a cross-functional alignment success story or have achieved exceptional results from a single function, we want to hear from you. Learn more about our B2B Summit APAC awards and how to apply.
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Accelerating Advertising With AI Comes At A Cost
It’s mathematically obvious to apply AI to advertising, but its efficiencies can come at the expense of advertisers’ control and transparency. Learn more about how AI benefits the advertising process and why advertisers must curate AI.
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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Is Apple’s Blue Bubble Too Big To Burst?
Consumers aren’t sold on the DOJ’s argument that Apple is an anticompetitive monopoly against which action should be taken. Find out why.
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The Green Consumer Paradox
Learn the five most common barriers impeding widespread customer adoption of sustainable offerings and how to encourage sustainable behaviors among B2C buyers.
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Why Brand And Reputation Programs Should Be More Than Just Air Cover
There’s more to planning and executing reputation programs than what we typically see at the usual “air cover” level. Learn more about the Forrester Reputation Program Decision Model in this preview of B2B Summit North America.
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Daniel Kahneman Changed How We Think About Consumer Choice And Brand Strategy
The way we think about how consumers choose brands owes a huge debt of gratitude to the pioneering and unexpected insights of Daniel Kahneman. Learn more about how Kahneman’s work has influenced brand energy and the Forrester Brand Energy Framework.
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What I Learned About GenAI From Over 100 Indian CMOs
Discussions with 100 CMOs and key marketing leaders in India revealed the massive transformation genAI is already bringing to many marketing organizations across the Indian subcontinent. Read some of their comments in this post.
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“Change Now” For Sustainable And Profitable Solutions
Educating executives about the environmental impact of their business is still a challenge. Learn why and several other key takeaways from the recent ChangeNOW solutions summit in Paris.
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Five Key Insights Into Consumers’ Use Of Generative AI
As is often the case with new technology that promises to change the world, consumer use of generative AI has raised some questions and concerns. Learn five of the key trends we see emerging around the consumer use of generative AI in this preview of a new report.
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The Justice Department Accuses Apple Of Smartphone Monopoly
Apple is being accused of smartphone monopoly but its "walled garden" principles have helped build brand devotion and customer loyalty. Learn more about this complex situation in this blog.
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