AI productivity gains flow to every competitor. Content converges. Differentiation gets harder precisely as production gets faster. Only 12% of B2B marketers rate their content highly effective per CMI.
Dark social is the largest unmeasured channel in B2B pipeline. Slack DMs, LinkedIn shares between buyers, podcast recommendations, peer text threads. The buying conversation happens where attribution can't follow.
B2B has its own influencer infrastructure — and it runs through LinkedIn and podcasts, not TikTok. The playbook for founder publishing, practitioner partnerships, podcast appearances, and measuring pipeline impact.
The most capital-efficient B2B demand generation strategy doesn't require a media budget. It requires a founder willing to share what they actually know, in public, consistently. Here's the playbook — including what scale actually looks like.
Most sales enablement content doesn't get used. The fix isn't more content — it's starting from where deals lose. Battle cards, sales-grade case studies, ROI calculators, and objection guides that reps actually open.
Most B2B marketing budgets are built to capture demand that already exists. That's the problem. Demand creation expands the pool. Demand capture harvests from it. Here's why the distinction matters — and what the research says about the right balance.
A favorable Gartner Magic Quadrant placement can materially influence enterprise buying cycles and vendor shortlists for years. Here's how the evaluation process works — and how to build the AR program that earns the placement.
The MQL has lost strategic relevance. Account-Based Marketing has replaced it — treating target accounts as markets of one. Here's how the discipline actually works in 2026, from 6sense and Demandbase to the AI buyer layer.
The Marketing Qualified Lead is a comfort blanket, not a performance indicator. Complex buying cycles. Anonymous decision-making. The dark funnel. Why B2B marketing kept reporting on the wrong number.
Ineffective 2026 cybersecurity marketing is characterized by desperation — fear-based messaging, feature overload, AI buzzwords without substance. The brands that fell into the traps and why trust collapsed.
