The CMO Survey

APRIL 1, 2025

The 34th edition of The CMO Survey reveals a complex landscape for marketing leaders: While their organizational influence grows and AI adoption accelerates, they face increasing pressure to demonstrate ROI amid slowing budget growth and performance metrics. Customer retention and brand value metrics hit two-year lows.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 22, 2024

Are You Ready to Be a Fractional CMO? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I do a solo show exploring the misconceptions surrounding the role of the Fractional CMO. 05:44] One word: Branding!

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Martech

MAY 8, 2025

If these organizational elements aren’t designed for integration, no amount of technology can deliver transformative results. I remember a major retailer replacing its entire integration platform after a failed digital transformation. ” That transforms integration from a technical exercise to a strategic imperative.

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Martech

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This transformation poses both challenges and opportunities for marketers. To stay visible and relevant, brands must adapt and thats where generative engine optimization (GEO) comes in. It helps brands optimize content for AI systems that think and respond like consumers. Think of GEO as SEOs smarter sibling.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 12, 2024

As a co-founder of TACK and author of B2B Influencer Marketing: Work With Creators to Generate Authentic and Effective Marketing , Bennett reveals the transformative power of authentic creator partnerships in today’s competitive business landscape. Like you bring to your CMO, we need to do influencer marketing in all sense.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

And the impact of these experiences spans from the largest brands and institutions to students and artists everywhere.”. Inside Adobe’s Digital Transformation. Adobe, Narayen said, has spent the past few years going through its own significant transformation–one that has spanned every part of the organization. What’s next?

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SmartBrief - Marketing

MARCH 24, 2025

I’ve spent decades studying what makes brands tick. And, that comes from brand culture. ” The answer lies in brand culture — specifically, how teams work together to deliver exceptional experiences. The strongest brands have always been built on simple, compelling ideas.

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Last month, we shared the Social Transformation Report which analyzed the results of our survey of 2,162 marketers conducted with Altimeter Group. Download the full Social Transformation Report to find out how 2,162 marketers are using social media in their organizations in the wake of COVID-19. It’s all about knowing the customer.”.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 15, 2019

Customer experience management (CXM) is the next stage of the customer-centric business transformation. It is a grand orchestration of customer experiences (CX) involving everyone in the C-suite—CIOs, CMOs, chief digital officers, among other customer-facing functions. But I think of CX as the CMO’s game to lose. …

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Martech

AUGUST 21, 2024

Company technology Customer technology Purpose: Digital Transformation 1.0 Purpose: Digital Transformation 2.0 Non-customer-facing departments rely on company technology, which helped streamline operations during the first wave of digital transformation. If your brand were a real human, it would be time to consult a shrink.

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SmartBrief - Marketing

MARCH 26, 2025

The implications are profound not just for CMO job security, but for marketing’s ability to fulfill its potential as a core driver of business growth and transformation. According to PWC’s recent CMO study, “CMOs face a complex landscape. 2x in revenue growth.

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Hubspot Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

So instead of fighting for attention in crowded channels, you’re placing your brand in front of people when they’re most receptive and primed to pay close attention. In fact, one of HubSpot’s most successful ad campaigns for both brand awareness and conversion came from testing WiFi ads on airplanes.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2023

Fractional CMO Benefits: Transform Your Business Marketing Strategy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Discover How Fractional CMOs Are Transforming Marketing Strategies for Businesses and Why It's Time to Jump on Board The idea of the fractional CMO has been gaining traction recently, and it's easy to see why.

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In a recent episode of Marketing Against the Grain , I break down Vonnegut’s three story arcs and give brand storytelling examples of how you can apply them to your marketing strategy. I also dig into popular story archetypes and tactics for keeping your brand narrative authentic and compelling. Here are 4 tips to get you started.

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Set Up

MAY 1, 2025

The CMO Spotlight offers an inside look into the minds and journeys of high-performing marketing leaders. Q4 | What Brand inspires you? Nike is Sims favorite brand. Sims described Nikes ability to create superfans and relationships that transform their fans is aspirational for a marketer. That's why I love the brand Nike.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

While IT and marketing departments have long implemented martech solutions with high expectations, proving their transformative impact remains challenging. CMO-Marketing-CX group Focuses on finding new martech use cases to drive future revenue. This highlights a deeper issue: a lack of trust in martech’s value. Both need each other.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The business leaders of today must embrace digital transformation if they’re going to stay competitive and make the most of the opportunities available to them. But what exactly is digital transformation, and who should be responsible for taking charge of it in your company? What Is Digital Transformation? Key Takeaways.

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Martech

DECEMBER 28, 2022

It seems that currently it’s all about how sneaky smart the bot is, not about how it can help lead customers to discovering your brand. And what other inroads will be made in customer experience for retailers and brands? as well as the messages they give to brands through email, social media, and even what they say to chatbots.

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Hubspot Marketing

JULY 11, 2024

One suggestion from ChatGPT that we love is to shape your brand messaging by highlighting your audience's specific challenges and pain points. HubSpot recognized these pain points, built a brand strategy around them, and then presented their inbound marketing solution as a superior alternative. The rest is history.

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Martech

DECEMBER 26, 2024

While these specific updates target government entities and healthcare providers, they set a precedent that other industries should take seriously, said Chad Sollis, CMO for web accessibility platform AudioEye. Brand safety tools do more than ever to evaluate and rate content to avoid placing ads in the wrong context.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 30, 2025

Tulani Andr, VP of Social, National Geographic Tulani Andr is the Vice President of Social Media at National Geographic, a brand that boasts over 800 million followers on social. They find moments to participate in (and create) culture on social , and pave new paths forward for their brand. Yes, you read that right.

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Martech

APRIL 15, 2025

As marketing complexity accelerates and the volume of data expands exponentially, the marketing analyst role is transforming into a hybrid strategist, technologist and translator between humans and machines. But transformation doesn’t happen in isolation. Email: Business email address Sign me up! Processing.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 29, 2025

Its the channel where your brands success is determined, and the new center of gravity for your entire business. In todays chaotic social landscapemarked by platform uncertainty, shifts in consumer behavior and the exponential rise of AISprout stands out as the trusted leader, paving the way for brands.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The use of social media in sports marketing has transformed the way fans interact with their favorite athletes, teams and sporting events. This diverse range of athletes has sparked a global sports marketing renaissance, and is giving brands a way to expand their reach (especially to new audiences). million views on TikTok.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 29, 2020

When COVID-19 first started impacting the industry earlier this year, GDS Group took the decision to transform a portfolio of 50+ physical events into digital summits, which required quick decision making and agility to complete the transformation before the digital summit season launched in May. Email: Georgie.Beer@gdsgroup.com.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Brand Marketing: Back to Basics 6. Smart brands are building smaller, engaged communities around shared interests. Brand Marketing: Back to Basics With AI and algorithms changing SEO and ad platforms, brand marketing is more critical than ever. Brand trust is vital; 81% of consumers say trust influences buying decisions.

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OnDemand CMO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

At OnDemandCMO, weve seen firsthand how embracing change with confidence can transform a companys trajectory. Keep your brand voice authentic and ensure your messaging resonates both emotionally and rationally. So, lets dive into the big shifts we see coming for 2025and how you can thrive. AI is HereAre You Ready?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 18, 2016

Here are three ways that technology is transforming marketing: 1. According to a survey by The Economist Intelligence Unit, 86% of CMOs and senior marketing executives believe they will own the end-to-end customer experience by 2020. This implicates that the CMO’s definition of success is being redefined.

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Orbit Media Studios

APRIL 30, 2025

By Andy Crestodina Each of us is on a transformational journey. We can all acquire new AI skills and guide our own transformational journeys. Youre ready for the next stage in your transformational journey. Nicole Leffer, CMO AI Advisor “The edit prompt button is the most under-rated button in AI. Or opportunity?

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Martech

JANUARY 6, 2023

While evaluating a short list of CMO candidates, I noticed something interesting. CMO candidates and selection committees don’t have it easy. CMOs have one of the most difficult jobs on an executive team. Companies must triangulate the changing business landscape, mixed CMO responsibilities and varied candidate pools.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 29, 2020

The following marketing quotes from todays leading CMOs and Marketing influencers describe their pandemic experiences and how they’ve adapted to this extreme culture shock. Four major marketing trends emerge from these CMO quotes: Communicating to connect (not promote). Perseverance. Giving back.

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Martech

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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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Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Welcome to HubSpot's Expert Edge Series , where we interview top execs at major brands to explore their perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the industry. Yap and Google certainly aren’t the only ones thinking about how brands can help consumers feel safer online.

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Martech

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Look for more enterprises to adopt composable architectures in 2023 to mitigate the costs of digital transformation. Generative AI will see rapid adoption in 2023, with AI replacing SEO-focused content historically created by human beings,” said Venkat Nagaswamy, CMO at Canadian telecommunications company Mitel. “So

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Litmus

OCTOBER 5, 2021

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. The evolution of the CMO.

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The CMO Survey

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Results from the February 2022 edition of The CMO Survey examined three topics on the minds of many marketing leaders and stakeholders—climate, privacy, and spending. Despite this fact, marketers are still taking some actions to increase trust in their brands in the face of privacy concerns, including 63.1 percent over the next year.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 10, 2016

Digital Transformation for Tomorrow’s Marketer. Marketers have transformed from being a service component of the business, with the purpose of feeding leads to sales and the perception of being a cost center, into a critical competitive foundation of the business with a seat at the revenue table. And, it’s already begun.

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