Content Strategy and Operations
Content is the core of B2B marketing: It conveys brand promise, helps drive demand, and keeps customers engaged. Explore our content strategy and operations insights to build and maintain a content strategy that delivers on marketing goals.
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Zero-Click Is Only Half The AI Story
The headlines concerning AI have been focused on traffic: When buyers use AI instead of search, they are one-tenth as likely to click through to your website, and with business buyers rapidly adopting AI, B2B companies are feeling the impact in the form of traffic declines of between 10–40% over the past year. That is […]
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AI Can Make You Multilingual Overnight — Or Create Chaos Just As Fast
GenAI and machine translation promise instant multilingual reach across websites, apps, support flows, and internal tools. But when leaders treat localization AI as a switch to flip rather than a strategy to design, they quickly erode quality, safety, and brand trust. Research shows that large language model (LLM) safeguards don’t reliably carry over beyond English, […]
Win AI‑Era B2B Buyers Before They Ever Click
Join Forrester analysts John Buten and Renee Irion on March 11 to learn how AI search and answer engine optimization (AEO) can keep your B2B brand visible, credible, and chosen in zero‑click buyer journeys.
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Machines Are Your Content’s New Audience
As AI accelerates and agentic systems begin to orchestrate more digital journeys, machines are simultaneously content creators and — in deciding what buyers see — a primary content consumption audience. Learn what this means for the future of content.
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AEO Changes What Content Must Do: Help Buyers Decide
Answer engine optimization (AEO) exposes a gap that’s long been hiding in plain sight. Most content is designed to explain — but when marketers stop at answering questions and avoid framing comparisons, trade-offs, and decisions, they hand that responsibility to AI systems and third-party sources.
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Seven Roles, One Goal: How To Organize For Answer Engine Optimization
AEO demands broader, more intensive collaboration than SEO. Learn how roles should change and where they should intersect in a zero-click world.
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Shifting From Creator Tools To Creative Participation: Adobe MAX Takeaways
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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LocWorld54 Shows Why Localization Can Be The Next Strategic Powerhouse — And What’s Holding It Back
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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Stop Optimizing, Start Reinventing: Three Imperatives For Marketing Leaders In 2026
Learn three imperatives coming out of MAICON 2025 for marketing leaders looking to reimagine how marketing creates growth.
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From Keywords To Context: Impact And Opportunity For AI-Powered Search In B2B Marketing
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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The Evolving DAM Landscape: From System Of Record To System Of Action
Read highlights from the Forrester report, “The Digital Asset Management Systems Landscape, Q3 2025,” which covers how organizations use DAM systems to deliver cost-effective and performant digital experiences, democratize content access and transformation, and secure and extend brand value.
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Brand Manufacturers: Explore Dynamic Commerce Before Retailers Eat Your Lunch!
For brand manufacturers, the contextualized interactions enabled by dynamic commerce are becoming a blueprint for growth. Learn how to leverage this now to maintain a competitive edge.
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Today’s Leaders Must Heed AI Advice For Future Disruptors
Startup founders, investors, technologists, and operators are all working frantically to get an early jump onto the AI train. Find out why and get more of the key takeaways from the recent Startup Boston Week event.
Will You Stay On The Sidelines — Or Lead Big Change?
Turn ideas into action at Forrester’s 2026 global events, designed for leaders ready to move fast. Gain fresh thinking, real-world strategies, and skills to make breakthroughs happen now.
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Your Competition Is Using New Commerce Transformation To Siphon Your Customer Base
As the commerce landscape quickly evolves and shows new potential, The Commerce Services Landscape, Q3 2025, can help you identify and shortlist the vendors that can best drive your commerce transformation.
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Translation Management Systems, Q3 2025, Our Inaugural Evaluation Of The Market
Localization in 2025 is about delivering personalized, context-aware experiences at every touchpoint. It’s more outcome-oriented than ever, aimed at helping businesses thrive in multilingual, multicultural global markets.
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Search Is Changing — Is Your Content Strategy Ready?
The traditional search-to-click path has collapsed — yet many B2B marketing teams still rely on outdated content strategies. APAC marketers: Learn a better path forward at Forrester’s B2B Summit APAC this November.
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Hyland Community Live 2025 — It’s All About Content, Context, And Community
Has Hyland finally found its groove? Get a review of the key announcements from the recent Hyland Community Live user conference in Las Vegas.
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Advance Your B2B Content Engine Maturity In The Age Of AI
As AI transforms all phases of the content lifecycle, it’s critical for organizations to perform a status check. Our B2B Content Engine Maturity Assessment offers a starting point.
Meet The GTM Singularity: A Shift You Can’t Ignore
AI-driven buyer autonomy is collapsing GTM models — and rewriting the rules for growth. At B2B Summit North America, reinvent your strategy with frameworks to drive measurable growth in the AI era.
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Europe-5 Markets Chart Their Own Path To Commerce Growth
By front-loading exports and remaining largely insulated from US tariffs in H1 2025, Europe-5 (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK) businesses are planning for 10% US tariffs on many UK goods and 15% US tariffs on many EU goods for the next several years.
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Stop Reacting To GenAI Tool Requests And Lead With A Content Decision Framework
Discover why B2B leaders must understand the current state of people and workflows in content before moving forward with investments in generative AI for content creation.
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Navigate The DXP Revolution For Impact With The New Executive Guide For Digital Experience Platforms
We’re seeing some wildly exciting things happening with digital experience platforms (DXPs) that present both opportunities and significant challenges for modern enterprises. They are becoming the backbone of how we connect with customers. To harness these exciting possibilities, technology and business leaders must move beyond just knowing about the trends and instead translate and mold […]
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