Content Strategy & Operations
Insights
Blog
Predictions 2027: Humans Reclaim Content Creation; Machines Dominate Content Consumption
AI is changing not just how content gets created, but who, or what, consumes it. In 2027, brands will prioritize authentic human expertise while adapting content strategies for a world increasingly mediated by machines.
Blog
When Case Studies Are Too Much Of A Good Thing
When new customer advocacy programs are building a library of customer success stories, the selection process goes something like this: Successful customer? Check. Willing to share results? Check. Available in the right time frame? Check. Casting a wide net is the right call when building a foundation. But higher volume doesn’t necessarily improve buyer trust. […]
A Third Of Consumers Will Reject Content They Can't Verify
Explore Forrester's 2027 Predictions guide for B2C, CX, and digital leaders to uncover the five shifts putting new pressure on brands to earn trust and regain control.
Blog
Marketing’s Next AI Challenge: Scale What Works Without Losing Control
At this year’s Marketing AI Conference (MAICON), I noticed a shift in how marketing leaders are approaching AI transformation. The conversation is moving beyond AI literacy and individual productivity toward building repeatable workflows, developing AI agents, and making these capabilities part of everyday work. Many of the sessions highlighted marketing’s next challenge: empowering teams to […]
Blog
Unily Unite 26: The Launch Of Content Studio, An AI-Powered “Creative Engine For Enterprise Content”
Unily’s Unite 26 was held in London on September 29 and 30, bringing together digital workplace leaders representing internal communications, IT, and HR. In the opening keynote, Unily CEO Lokdeep Singh announced the launch of Content Studio. Described as a “creative engine for enterprise content,” this new standalone offering is intended to help organizations turn […]
Blog
The Content Bottleneck Has Shifted: Why Enterprise AI Isn’t Enough
The constraint marketing leaders are running into is no longer about content generation. It’s scaling marketing without losing trust, quality, or control.
Blog
AEO Changes What Content Is Worth Creating
The question is no longer how to optimize more content, but what content is worth creating. In an AEO-driven world, marketers gain visibility by investing in original evidence that demonstrates expertise, builds credibility, and contributes something new to the market conversation.
Blog
Answer Engines Will Select Your Content. Your Digital Experience Has To Do More.
As AI intermediates how buyers discover and interact with content, competition is shifting from ranking to being selected — and from visibility to delivering context-rich, credible experiences. Organizations must align content, data, and systems now to compete in AI-mediated journeys where inclusion is only the starting point.
2027 Predictions: Will AI Come Between You And Your Customers?
Join Forrester analysts on Dec. 8 to explore how AI will reshape B2C, CX, and digital decisions around content creation, brand discovery, and agentic journey orchestration.
Blog
Hyland CommunityLIVE 2026: A Call To Action For Enterprise Content Management Leaders
Hyland CommunityLIVE 2026 was held in Orlando last week, bringing Hyland’s customers together from across its product portfolio — OnBase, Alfresco, Nuxeo, and Perceptive. CEO Jitesh Ghai, CTO Tim McIntire, and CPO Michael Campbell delivered the next iteration of Hyland’s vision and roadmap, evolving its positioning of the Content Innovation Cloud and Hyland’s role in […]
Blog
Leading With Intention: What Women Leaders Told Us About AI And The Future Of Work
The Forrester Women’s Leadership Program was designed around a simple but powerful idea: Focus fuels intentional action, and intentional action drives transformation. This year, the result was a deeply human counterbalance to the accelerating pace of AI adoption.
Blog
Enterprise Content Moves From Tools To Systems: Adobe Summit Takeaways
Enterprise content leaders are under pressure on three fronts. They need faster time to activation as buyer behavior outpaces traditional campaign cycles. They need greater scale as content volumes rise across channels, formats, geographies, refresh cycles, and personalization needs. And most importantly, they need stronger returns. Improving relevance for priority audiences and increasing share of […]
Blog
Canva Recasts Itself As An AI Platform For Enterprise Work
For years, Canva’s advantage was accessibility. It made design easier, faster, and available to more people. At its recent Canva Create 2026, the big story was a deliberate repositioning: Canva aims to evolve from a design platform with AI tools into an AI platform with design tools. That changes how buyers should evaluate Canva. For […]
Blog
Most Content Doesn’t Build Credibility: Let’s Fix That
The gap between what buyers need and what content delivers is becoming more consequential. Learn how leading teams build credible, proof-based content in an AI-driven buying environment.
The B2B GTM 2027 AI Challenge Isn't Scale. It's Control.
Join Forrester analysts on December 3, 2026, to learn which B2B GTM predictions could reshape buyer engagement, sales, marketing, and product strategy.
Blog
Announcing Forrester’s 2026 B2B Programs Of The Year Award Winners For North America
Our 2026 B2B POY Awards recognize companies that have raised the bar in marketing, revenue, product, and customer engagement. Get a preview of the stories they will share at B2B Summit North America.
Blog
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 […]
Blog
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, […]
Blog
Rules In The Agentic Shipyard: Desired Agents Must Twist-Lock
Forward-looking companies aren’t necessarily choosing among AI agent vendor offerings — they’re building their own agentic frameworks in house. This has significant implications for CMOs, marketing teams, and vendors.
Blog
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.
Surface Your B2B Brand In AI Results
Answer engines are shaping vendor evaluation earlier in B2B buying. Learn how to gain visibility in AI-generated recommendations, build credibility, and attract higher-intent buyers through AI-powered discovery.
Blog
How HCLTech Won A Forrester B2B Programs Of The Year Award — And How Your Team Could Be Next
B2B marketers face growing pressure to produce personalized content that truly connects and resonates with buyers, and their organizations need smarter, faster, and more scalable ways to deliver this. Next week, we’ll publish a case study about HCLTech — a global technology leader — that demonstrates how delivering this type of content is possible when […]
Blog
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.
Blog
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.
More posts