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Budget Planning 2027: B2B Marketing Leaders Must Prioritize Focus For Resilience
B2B marketing leaders entering the 2027 planning cycle must rethink traditional budget planning and shift toward focused, outcome-driven investment strategies. In an era of AI-driven disruption and market volatility, success will depend on where organizations concentrate spend, divest low-impact initiatives, and invest in resilience-building capabilities.
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New Analysis Suggests The CMO’s Role In The Fortune 500 Is At A Crossroads
For years, the chief marketing officer has been one of the most scrutinized roles in the C-suite, and that scrutiny isn’t easing, according to Forrester’s third annual analysis of CMOs in the Fortune 500. But the data suggests that the prevailing narrative of CMO decline masks the real story: reinvention.
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Net Zero In 2026: Why Pragmatism Drives Companies To Take Different Paths
Long‑term net-zero commitments, typically framed as emissions reductions aligned with a 2050 timeframe, were a fad across global companies in the past decade. It was the de facto way to signal virtue to both customers and investors. Recently, however, the signals have become more mixed. Some organizations have scaled back or stopped emphasizing these targets, […]
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AI Agents Are Your New Customer, But Can You Target And Grow Their Trust In Your Brand?
AI agents are forcing change to marketing strategies. Learn how to get ahead of the shift.
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Developer Relations Is Not (Just) Marketing
If you’ve got a product that’s aimed at developers but consider developer relations as solely a marketing function, you’re making a mistake. You might find: Competitors appear to have insights that your marketing team misses. Your products lack key features compared to others on the market while you spend time building things that your metrics […]
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From Walled Gardens To Working Media: The Rise Of Commerce Media
In less than a decade, retail media evolved from a monetization tactic piloted by margin-seeking mass retailers into one of advertising’s fastest-growing channels. By nearly every surface-level metric, retail media works. Marketers shifted billions of co-op funds into it, lured by the promise of closed-loop measurement and higher return on relationships with merchants. But beneath […]
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The GTM Singularity Is Here, And We’re Ready: Parting Thoughts From B2B Summit North America
B2B Summit North America made one thing clear: Leaders know the ground is shifting, and they’re ready to adapt. Across three days, conversations centered on navigating the GTM singularity with confidence, alignment, and optimism.
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Your Growth Strategy Isn’t Broken. The Problem Is That You’re Avoiding Decisions.
Many B2B growth strategies fail not because the ambition behind them is wrong, but because leaders avoid or defer making critical decisions.
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Americans Feel Miserable. Why Do They Keep Spending?
Consumer confidence languishes near historic lows, surveys drip with despair, and media narratives fixate on fragility. And yet, consumers open their wallets, and corporate profits roll in. This is not a passing contradiction. It is the defining paradox of today’s “pessimism economy.” Our new research — Down But Not Out: Growth Strategies For The Pessimism […]
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Volatility Isn’t Temporary — Account For It In Your Leadership Playbook Going Forward
For many B2B leaders, volatility no longer feels like an interruption to “normal.” It is now the standard operating environment. Economic uncertainty, geopolitical shocks, AI-driven disruption, and shifting buyer behavior are colliding, exposing weaknesses in traditional go-to-market models and leadership assumptions. The good news? Volatility can benefit those who adapt faster, focus harder, and lead […]
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Stop Pretending 2026 Will “Stabilize” — Continue To Build For Volatility
If marketing, CX, and digital leaders have learned anything in the past year, it’s mastering the art of finessing how to plan and execute — for growth! — under highly fluid conditions. Since we first published Forrester’s Leading Through Volatility series a year ago, consumer leaders have steered their organizations through rapid evolution across geopolitical events, technology (hello, agentic commerce and artificial general intelligence), role evolution (good to meet you, AI CMO), and consumer sentiment.
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It’s Time To End Disconnected GTM Efforts
A mighty revenue storm is coming. While adopting a connected GTM approach can feel unfamiliar and risky, having a guiding framework can help.
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Why Marketing Plans Fail And How A Plan Of Record Fixes It
Marketing teams invest heavily in annual planning — but once execution begins, reality starts to drift from it. Learn how a marketing plan of record can help teams stay focused.
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CMOs’ “AI Creative Leap”: From Making Ads To Designing Meaning
As AI absorbs execution at scale, creativity returns to its highest value. The brands that win will automate production while doubling down on insight, narrative, and the judgment that protects meaning.
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End The Corporate-Regional Tug-Of-War Over Campaign Control
End the corporate-regional tug-of-war over campaign control. Explore four operating models that clarify decision rights and speed execution.
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Marketing Chaos Is Our Calling: Why CMOs, Agencies, And Martech Have Forrester On Their Side
Forrester uniquely covers the entire marketing ecosystem and its underlying business. 2026 heralds a monumental shift in marketing and advertising, surpassing the decades-long “digital” transformation. AI will upend commercial models, reshape brand expectations from partners, and demand new measures of efficient growth. CMOs face the herculean task of rewiring the marketing function. Martech leaders must […]
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Why An AI Event Strategy Is Becoming A Leadership Issue, Not A Technology One
B2B event teams are operating under sustained pressure. Budgets are constrained, audience expectations are evolving, and large volumes of event content and data remain underused. At the same time, leaders are under pressure to demonstrate clearer impact from every event they run. AI offers a way to respond to these pressures. It can improve team […]
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AI Is Reshaping Marketing, And CMOs Must Lead The Transformation
AI represents an unparalleled opportunity to drive innovation, efficiency, and scale. But it isn’t a shortcut to progress — rather, it’s a stress test for leadership clarity.
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Putting The Market Back In Marketing
Have you ever found yourself at an international airport where the announcements are in an unfamiliar language and gate changes feel constant? Even when the announcement system works properly, communication can feel ineffective. What if that unfamiliarity appeared at your home airport? You’re in the right place but can’t make sense of the setting. Marketing […]
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