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Marketers Spend on New Technologies While Battling Usage and Impact Challenges

The CMO Survey

The 32 nd edition of The CMO Survey examines reoccurring questions related to marketing spending and performance, marketing leadership, and marketing jobs. In addition, managing marketing technology, generative AI, growth, and sustainability are special topics covered in this edition. Companies spend 19.9% in one year and to 30.9%

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New Results from the Fall 2023 Edition of The CMO Survey

The CMO Survey

B2B (which favor LinkedIn and company blogs) and B2C (which favor Instagram and Facebook) companies use influencers differently. Despite these investments, influencer contributions to company performance remain weak, likely due to a mix of measurement and management challenges associated with this marketing strategy.

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Top Ten Results From The CMO Survey – August 2019

The CMO Survey

Here are my top ten results from the August 2019 CMO Survey. Consistent with this, marketing budgets as a percentage of overall firm budgets match the highest level in history of The CMO Survey at 12%, which is also 9.8% B2C companies are most likely to take a stance. B2C Services companies expect to hire the most at 8.6%.

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Why you don’t need a CMO… yet

Martech

However, most likely, you don’t need a CMO. There are plenty of reasons to hold off on hiring an in-house CMO, ranging from the effect on your bottom line to a CMO’s inability to build successful marketing efforts without an established sales cycle to extrapolate from — let alone a team to build out content and campaigns.

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CMO of the Future: 5 Ways Marketing Leaders Are Stepping Up to Navigate Their New Destiny

Litmus

Businesses need CMOs more than ever before, but the role of the CMO itself has changed. Being a CMO is no longer simply about being great at marketing strategy: The CMO is now a direct influence on business growth and a critical driver of transformation. The evolution of the CMO. 5 essential CMO pivots.

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Marketing Spending and Hiring Growth Slows Amidst Economic Uncertainty

The CMO Survey

Results from the 30 th edition of The CMO Survey indicate that inflation and economic uncertainty are harming marketing spending as the C-suite retrenches and cuts costs. In the B2C Product sector, superior product quality is now ranked as the top customer priority by 41.2 Sign up to participate in the next CMO Survey here.

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Survey: 70% of marketers feel overwhelmed by AI changes

Search Engine Land

Otherwise, millions and billions invested in AI will be wasted,” said Monica Ho, CMO of SOCi. Soci surveyed 317 digital marketing professionals, 55% of whom were decision-makers (including marketing managers, marketing analysts, marketing directors, CMOs and VPs), working at U.S. B2C companies. No training or education.

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