CMO Perspectives

AI marketing strategy, brand positioning, and marketing leadership for CMOs navigating the AI era.

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CMOSeptember 28, 202610 min read

How AI Search Is Changing CMO Strategy: From SEO to AEO and GEO

Search used to mean earning a place on a results page. Increasingly it means earning a place inside an AI-generated answer.

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CMOSeptember 28, 202610 min read

What Should CMOs Report to the CEO and Board About AI?

A practical scorecard for what CMOs should bring to the CEO and board: spending, deployment, productivity, economics, risk and the next decision.

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CMOSeptember 28, 20269 min read

How AI Is Changing Marketing Team Structure and Headcount in 2026

AI is changing which tasks marketing jobs require, and that is what shows up in headcount and team structure.

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CMOSeptember 28, 20269 min read

How Should CMOs Measure AI ROI in 2026?

Time saved is not the same as financial return. A framework for measuring AI ROI in marketing.

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CMOSeptember 7, 20265 min read

Past the Pilot, Split Three Ways: The September CMO AI Leverage Report

81 percent of marketing leaders are past exploring agents.

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CMOAugust 11, 20269 min read

Best CMO Events and Marketing Conferences in San Francisco

Senior marketing summits, private CMO dinners and go-to-market gatherings, from the CMO Alliance and Marketers That Matter to Dreamforce.

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CMOAugust 10, 20268 min read

Best CMO Communities and Marketing Executive Networks in Silicon Valley

Senior marketing peer rooms for AI-driven go-to-market and growth: CMO Alliance, Marketers That Matter, the CMO Council and selective executive forums.

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CMOAugust 9, 20267 min read

Best CMO Communities and Marketing Executive Networks in San Francisco

Where San Francisco marketing leaders find peers on AI in marketing, agentic go-to-market, demand generation and measurement.

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CMOJuly 9, 20263 min read

Introducing the CMO AI Market Map

A workflow-based map of 64 marketing AI vendors, paired with first-party demand signals from 55 Open Future Forum survey responses.

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CMOJuly 3, 20266 min read

Open Future Forum Launches the CMO AI Leverage Report

A standalone operator-research report on how CMOs and marketing leaders buy, fund, and get leverage from AI. Marketing holds the largest AI budget of any function, and not one of sixteen founders surveyed named the CMO as their buyer.

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CMOJuly 4, 20265 min read

The Top CMO Reports to Read in 2026

Marketing budgets are flat and AI expectations are not. Five CMO research reports worth your time this year, what each covers, and who should read it.

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