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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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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Cannes Lions 2025: The AI Challenge For Brands And Agencies
The marketing and advertising industry is gathering for a couple of days at the International Festival of Creativity in Cannes, France, from June 16 to June 20.
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What To Expect At Viva Technology 2025
Expect a strong focus on AI, climate tech, and deep tech at VivaTech 2025, featuring top European startups in these areas.
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What Sets High-Performing Consumer Insights Teams Apart
How do the most successful consumer insights teams behave? Speed and strategy are the mandates. Get more details in this preview of a new report.
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Events Are Under Pressure — Six Findings From Forrester’s Q1 2025 State Of B2B Events Survey
Over the past year, B2B event teams have faced mounting challenges. A volatile economic and political climate has intensified existing pressures around inflation, budgets, and staffing. At the same time, competition for attendees and sponsors has grown fiercer, with leaders struggling to attract both the quantity and quality of participants needed to meet their goals. […]
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Marketing Best Practices For Ecodesign
Learn how companies are balancing reductions in environmental impact with meeting consumer demands.
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The Marketer’s Guide To Volatility
Navigating Volatility Businesses are no strangers to volatility. In the past two decades, the dot-com bubble burst, the financial crisis triggered the worst recession since the Great Depression, and the COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a global shutdown. But the level of confusion during this bout of economic volatility is unlike anything CMOs and other business leaders […]
Stand Out In A Zero-Click World
Watch our on-demand webinar with Principal Analyst Lisa Gately. Learn breakthrough strategies to reshape your B2B marketing for AI-driven search and complex buying networks.
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Power Growth With Your Total Experience
When companies improve both brand equity and CX in tandem, there is a significant revenue uplift. Learn more at CX Summit EMEA June 2–4, 2025, in London.
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Three Signs We’re In A Consumer Spend Slowdown
Though consumer behavior often lags behind sentiment, there are already indicators that they're pulling back on spending.
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To DOGE Or Not To DOGE — Tesla Hits A Roadblock
Tesla’s blazing-hot growth trajectory has come to a screeching halt. These three areas will indicate whether or not it regains its momentum.
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Despite Growing Consumer Optimism About GenAI, Concerns Are Still High
An update to ChatGPT made it easy to simulate Hayao Miyazaki’s style of animation, which has flooded social media with memes. Beyond the hype, this trend raises serious questions about copyright infringement.
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Apple Gets Tariff Relief — Just Kidding!
As tariff volatility is dialed up a notch, companies like Apple will find it best to hunker down and do nothing until the dust settles. Get five predictions on what happens next.
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Five Takeaways From B2B Summit North America 2025 To Help You Master Buying Mayhem
The B2B buying game has changed, and as marketing, sales, customer, and product leaders scramble to keep up, the mayhem is real. Get five key takeaways from the event mainstage that can help B2B professionals as they head into planning for the rest of the year.
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Apple Is In The Tariff Crosshairs. What Should It Do?
The US administration is convinced that Apple, one the biggest and most valuable brands in the world, can and should move its manufacturing infrastructure to the US. The reality, however, is far murkier. Let’s dissect what puts Apple in a precarious situation and how it might hope to manage through this volatility. Apple is in […]
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Confidence In Marketing Measurement Is Increasing, But The Job Is Getting Bigger
While B2C marketers are confident in their ability to measure impact, trends in marketing analytics aren't making it any easier. Find out why in this preview of a new report on the state of B2C marketing measurement.
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Brands, Take Cover: The Tariffs Have Hit The Fan
Consumers have begun to take several steps to manage the impact of tariffs on their pocketbooks. Learn the five buying behaviors to look out for among your customers and what steps to take in response.
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Consumers React To Tariffs With Concern And Caution
Our recent poll showed how consumers feel about and are responding to a slew of anticipated new tariffs.
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To Thrive Through Volatility, Master These Three Areas
There’s no end in sight for the current disruption, but making the right strategic moves will help you come out ahead.
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Are We Too Scared To Fly?
The recent spate of airline disasters has jangled flyers’ nerves. To get a pulse check on consumer sentiment, we asked respondents in the US, UK, and Canada how they felt about the state of air travel.
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Taming B2B Buying Mayhem
Changing buying dynamics and generative AI are bringing already strained B2B buying processes to a breaking point. This week on What It Means, VP and Research Director Steven Casey and VP and Principal Analyst Barry Vasudevan discuss these forces and introduce the concept of buying networks as they preview new research debuting at Forrester’s B2B Summit North America.
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