Enterprise SaaS
The SaaS Marketing Playbook That Worked in 2019 Is Hurting You in 2026
The 2019 SaaS marketing playbook — paid acquisition, gated forms, MQL scoring, retargeting — is now actively hurting 2026 unit economics. CAC hit $2 for every $1 of new ARR, Google CPC up 33% in 2025, buyers self-directed through Gartner/Forrester/Reddit/AI syntheses. The updated playbook: organic search as primary channel (44.6% of B2B SaaS revenue), GEO alongside SEO, expansion revenue as marketing responsibility, and brand as performance multiplier.