Top ten results from the August 2019 CMO Survey include new insights on marketing spending, marketing leadership, marketing analytics, artificial intelligence and marketing, customer experience (CX), marketing and societal metrics, mobile marketing, and how technology is replacing marketing jobs.
Recessions are never easy to predict—except in hindsight. However, the most recent CMO Survey, published in February 2019, points to CMOs’ fears that a recession is approaching fast. In past blogs we highlighted CMOs’ focus on...
Marketers are smart, innovative people. They were early into digital technology and have used marketing automation solutions, CRM platforms and social media to deepen customer relationships and drive measurable business value. They also regularly defend planned...
The February 2019 CMO Survey finds CMOs preoccupied with the same imperative: growth. When asked for their top challenge in 2019, 37.9% of marketing leaders ranked growth as their #1 challenge and another 28.9% of marketers ranked it as either #2 or #3. Here are 9 strategies CMOs reported using to meet the growth challenge and opportunity.
Optimism among U.S. marketers has fallen to the lowest level in 7 years, according to the Feb-2019 CMO Survey. On a scale of 1 to 100, with 100 being the most optimistic, CMOs ranked their optimism at 57.0, a 21% drop from 68.9 reported one year ago.