B2B Summit
North America

April 26–29, 2026 · Phoenix

Blogs

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Multiply B2B Growth: Why Your Ideal Customer Profile Alone Isn’t Enough

Stephanie Sissler 5 days ago
If ICPs alone were enough, pipelines wouldn’t stall and growth wouldn’t slow. Learn what's missing and what to do about it.
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Social Media Takes Center Stage In B2B Buying — Even In The AI Era

Karen Tran 6 days ago
Generative AI may dominate headlines, but when it comes to business buying, social media is shaping the journey in powerful ways. Forrester’s latest research shows that social media has become the second most meaningful source of information for buyers — just behind generative AI search tools.
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B2B Buyers Make Zero-Click Number One

John Buten January 22, 2026
As buyers lean more on answer engines in their purchasing processes, marketers must evolve their content and messaging approaches to break through.
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How AI Raises The Stakes For CMO-CIO Collaboration

Thomas Husson January 22, 2026
Marketing and technology have never been more intertwined, yet effective collaboration between these functions remains elusive for many organizations. As AI accelerates transformation across workflows, this misalignment can become a liability. While collaboration improved during the pandemic, progress has stalled due to lack of goal alignment, communication failures, and conflicting priorities and budgets. GenAI And […]
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The State Of Business Buying: Risk-Averse Buyers Demand Proof, Not Promises

Barbara Winters January 21, 2026
Our latest Buyers’ Journey Survey of nearly 18,000 global business buyers describes a buying climate in which AI is everywhere, scrutiny is the norm, and trust is paramount. Read about the key findings and how organizations can succeed with today’s wary buyers.
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Hello, GTM Singularity: Turn Ideas Into Action At B2B Summit North America

Dave Frankland January 15, 2026
Buyer autonomy and the prevalence of AI are collapsing go-to-market fault lines. This isn’t just a catalyst to change — it’s an opportunity to reset with a new, resilient, and connected GTM approach.
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Four Takeaways On The State Of Social Suites

Kelsey Chickering January 14, 2026
These platforms have come a long way from their original incarnation as social media management tools with light social listening features. Read the key highlights from our latest landscape report on these suites.
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Navigate 2026 With A Measurement-Centered Marketing Culture

Brad Haag January 12, 2026
A measurement-driven culture builds confidence and allows for pivots when needed. Learn three key tenets of this type of culture.
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Is AI In Sales A Sustainable Competitive Advantage Or Just Table Stakes?

Anthony McPartlin January 9, 2026
The uncomfortable truth is that AI in sales can quickly become table stakes, unless it fundamentally transforms how your organization learns and decides. Learn how leading orgs achieve sustainable advantage when they integrate AI into how they operate.
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AEO Changes What Content Must Do: Help Buyers Decide

Lisa Gately December 24, 2025
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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Five Practices That Make The CMO-CPO Partnership Work

Lisa Singer December 23, 2025
When marketing and product align around buyer needs and shared commercial priorities, growth follows. Learn how to strengthen this alliance.
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Seven Roles, One Goal: How To Organize For Answer Engine Optimization

Nikhil Lai December 19, 2025
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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Why B2B CMOs Must Prioritize Product Leader Alignment

Matthew Selheimer December 19, 2025
CMOs who prioritize alignment with product leaders more effectively drive growth initiatives and improve efficiency. Find out which best practices these CMOs consistently apply in this preview of a new report.
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Podcasts Go From Niche Audio Format To Media Powerhouse

Kelsey Chickering December 18, 2025
Podcasts are having a moment (that will last). Once considered a subset of streaming audio, podcasts have evolved well beyond that. This content now spans audio, social media, and — very importantly — video. Netflix just announced a deal with iHeartMedia to bring 14 video podcasts to Netflix in 2026. Netflix also made a deal […]
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Trust: The Hard Currency Of B2B Partner Ecosystem Success

Maria Chien December 15, 2025
For business buyers, trust often determines purchase intent. For partner ecosystems, establishing trust fuels partner loyalty. Learn what it takes to build and sustain trust in these relationships.
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Forrester Analyst Takes For Digital Content In 2026

Chuck Gahun December 1, 2025
Digital content will continue to be shaped by enterprises both investing in and looking to gain practical business value from genAI solutions. Here’s how we foresee digital content evolving.
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From Prompts To Presents: The Marketer’s Guide To Answer Engine Optimization

Nikhil Lai November 24, 2025
Answer engines such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s AI Mode will deliver convenience to holiday shoppers. Brands: Provide resonant, technically sound, fresh content to improve your chances of persuading shoppers throughout their journeys on answer engines’ results pages.
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SEO’s Hype-Fueled Move To The Center Of The Marketing Mix

Nikhil Lai November 24, 2025
AEO is significantly, but not fundamentally, different from SEO. Find out how the practices are aligned and where they have differences in this preview of an upcoming report.
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How To Master Answer Engine Optimization

Nikhil Lai November 14, 2025
Consumers’ rapid shift to natural language and adoption of multimodal search, the voracity of answer engines’ bots, and answer engines’ ability to fill the top of the funnel require marketers to significantly adapt content, technical, and measurement practices. But how? Get answers to the three most frequently asked questions we get from clients around answer engine optimization.
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It’s Time To Reinvent B2B Influencer Relations

Ian Bruce November 10, 2025
Today’s B2B buyers are often armed with clear insights about the products or solutions they need and the providers they prefer before they directly engage. And it’s frequently the growing impact of external influencers — independent third-party organizations and individuals such as the business press, review sites, industry analysts, and academics — that reshape the decision-making process.
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What Sets Leading B2B Marketers Apart?

Matthew Selheimer October 28, 2025
Forrester’s most recent Marketing Survey revealed a sharp divide between leading and lagging B2B marketing organizations. Find out what why leading marketers report significantly stronger revenue and profit while lagging marketers fall short.
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Five Ways To Engage The B2B Buying Network With Messaging

Barry Vasudevan May 15, 2025
Messaging in the era of the buying network requires a more thoughtful approach — one that prioritizes building connected messaging that engages not only our buyers but all of the stakeholders and AI tools that they are increasingly turning to.

B2B Summit North America · April 26 – 29, 2026 · Phoenix

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