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Sparking MarTech Migration + Digital Innovation Progress Report $50 US*
Learnings and insights from EMEA marketing leader invention sessions held in Dubai, London and Johannesburg.
The CMO Council hosted three interactive EMEA roundtables with digital marketing transformation leaders in London, Dubai and Johannesburg. The discussions were focused on the Sparking MarTech Migration + Digital Innovation mandate and focused on the struggles to centralize, protect, share, and better use customer data, brand assets, market intelligence and best practice knowledge across their glob...
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Revenue Gain From The Local Demand Chain $50 US*
Using Digital Transformation to Power Partner + Field Marketing Performance
With limited digital marketing resources and expertise, local businesses are falling behind in digital transformation. They need a better understanding of digital marketing tactics such as search, social and online review management — critical areas for building brand awareness in an increasingly digitalized customer journey. There’s a big opportunity for national marketers to help lo...
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Instant Interaction Driving Business Traction $50 US*
How the Live Mobile Chat Commerce Revolution Is Powering Fast, Frictionless Transactions, Secure, Lower Cost Customer Engagement and Stronger Brand Affinity
Chat Commerce is taking the world by storm. This emerging digital channel of engagement delivers fast and frictionless customer interactions with a brand’s chatbot or live agent conducted mostly over popular messaging platforms, such as Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. It leverages these trusted social connections and engages localized audiences seeking to satisfy real-life needs.Chat Commer...
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Rising Above The Fray $50 US*
Self-reliant buyers, shifting behaviors and digital disarray have upended sales. But marketers can right the revenue ship.
A chaotic customer journey has flipped much of the sales action to the top of the funnel, making marketers responsible for nearly half of a company’s revenue. It’s a big ask with even bigger challenges to overcome. Marketers face immense pressure, scarcity of resources, a data literacy gap and a skeptical CEO. All of which puts marketers at serious risk of missing their revenue target...
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How Covid Has Changed The Channels Of Engagement $50 US*
What You Need to Know to Better Engage Your Customers in the "New Normal"
Consumers across generations and geographies are moving to digital channels, and running into all sorts of problems. Now 73% of frustrated consumers are considering spending their dollars elsewhere. Brands need to get ahead of this before it’s too late. Marketing leaders need to know where digital channels fail to meet expectations, what channels consumers turn to in critical situations, an...
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Measuring Marketing in the Moment $50 US*
Understanding How Shoppers React, Transact and Interact in Real-time
The pinnacle of personalization in marketing is delivering the right message to the right person in their moment of need. This requires a data-driven understanding of the customer, real-time buyer intent signals, masterful orchestration between team members and partners, and technology that closes the gap between insight and action. It’s no easy task, which is why four out of five marketers...
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Making Content Grow Into Customer Flow $50 US*
Improving Content Marketing Value from the Pipeline to the Bottom Line
Content marketers face challenges on multiple fronts — and they’re losing the battle. Marketers can spend a third of their marketing budget on content yet lack the capability to measure ROI. Content strategies are built on budget and time, not on customer and market trends. Content quality is hit or miss. Scattershot content distribution turns off customers. Marketers better turn thei...
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Reshaping Global Engagement Operations $50 US*
Optimizing the Resonance and Relevance of Localized Marketing Initiatives
Today’s digitally-connected consumer seeks more localized, personalized experiences that are relevant to their own cultural context and situation. Yet 73 percent of global marketers feel only partially prepared to deliver on those expectations. This report, produced in partnership with Worldwide Partners, reveals that marketing operational structures may actually be keeping the customer and...
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Critical Channels of Choice $50 US*
Meeting the Customer Expectation for Omnichannel Relationships
Omnichannel IS the critical channel of choice. No matter what the generation, from Gen X all the way to the Silent Generation, consumers want a blend of both digital and physical channel experiences. Yet only 13 percent of consumers believe that brands are fully meeting this expectation and delivering across both physical and digital channels. This report, produced in partnership with Pitne...
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Bringing a Human Voice to Customer Choice $50 US*
Rededicating Marketing to Serve the People in Front of the Data
Chief Marketing Officers believe brands like Amazon, Google, Apple, Nike and Starbucks are getting customer experience right, looking at omni-channel engagement as a means to guide and inspire customers on a journey, and not just push them forward in a buying process. And in fact, this human-first approach is not just developing better relationships, but driving significant profitability and growt...
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Turn Up The Volume $50 US*
Rethinking Where and How Customer Voice Enhances Experiences
In order to further customer experience strategies, marketers must implement strategic customer voice listening initiatives. Yet according to a survey of over 160 senior corporate marketers across Europe, while marketers are listening, they are not hearing the voice of the customer. Indeed, while 63 percent say they actively employ a listening program, only 10 percent feel these programs do an ex...
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Doing More With Data $50 US*
Discovering Data-Accelerated Revenue Traction
Charged with the mandate of elevating customer experience, marketers increasingly look to data to better engage with customers and identify new opportunities. Yet previous CMO Council research highlights that marketers admit their organizations could do more to transform the data supply chain to allow them to do more with internal data assets. To ignite real change, data needs to move beyond the ...
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Ingenuity in the Global eCommerce Community Detailed Findings $50 US*
How To Compete and Not Get Beat in the Digital Retail Marketplace
Large, global eCommerce communities are disrupting the retail marketplace by bringing together vast numbers of buyers and sellers in frictionless transactional environments. Inspired by their success, brand marketers are rethinking go-to-market strategies to better integrate digital advertising with personalized shopper engagement and more effective conversion programs. This report highlights per...
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Engage at Every Stage: An Investigation of Video Activation $50 US*
Reports about incomplete and inaccurate reporting of video performance on Facebook and Google and brand safety issues on YouTube are causing marketers to question their video investments and call for greater transparency and more reliable reporting on rich media contributions. According to this CMO Council study—conducted in partnership with ViralGains—more than 70 percent of marketers...
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Brand Protection From Digital Content Infection $50 US*
Safeguarding Brand Reputation Through Diligent Ad Channel Selection
While programmatic ad spend continues to increase exponentially year over year, the risk of digital display ads appearing next to offensive or objectionable content is becoming a top concern for marketers. In fact, this study—conducted in partnership with Dow Jones—reveals that 72 percent of marketers are concerned about brand integrity and control when it comes to their programma...
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Getting Serious About Omni-Channel Experience $50 US*
Making Customer Value Creation the New Competitive Equation
Today’s omni-channel consumer expects a seamless journey across both physical and digital channels. Personalization and real-time, always on experiences are a core demand for consumers who expect that each and every experience delivers value to their unique journey. But this expectation has shone a harsh spotlight onto two critical players in the omni-channel experience: the brands creating...
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The Responsiveness Requirement $50 US*
How Agile Marketers Act on Consumer Feedback to Drive Growth
Adept and timely response to consumer feedback, requests and preferences has become a key indicator of brand performance according to this study by the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council and Danaher Corporation's Product Identification Platform companies. According to survey participants, the ability to source, understand and then quickly react to feedback, preferences and needs is important, ...
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The Age of the Adaptive Marketer $50 US*
Meeting the Needs of the Connected Customer with Adaptive Brand Content
Presenting brand materials in a manner that maintains brand identity while also adapting to geographical and cultural customer preferences is a critical challenge for marketers today. Increasingly discerning consumers expect – if not demand – that the materials brands present across sales, marketing and service touch points are timely, relevant and reflect the customer’s unique c...
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How Brands Annoy Fans $50 US*
The Impact of Digital Advertising Experiences on Consumer Perceptions and Purchase Intent
While it is estimated that programmatic advertising will account for 80 percent of all digital display advertising in 2017, recent headlines and pronouncements by leading brand marketers highlight the significant limitations in this technology-driven ad buying process, with image-sensitive brands appearing next to offensive or irrelevant digital and video content. As a result of this digita...
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Adaptability in Branded Content Delivery: Background Research $50 US*
This presentation explores background research conducted by the CMO Council and other third party experts to explore the state of adaptability in the world's largest global brands. The presentation explores the localization mandate, benefits of adapting and localizing content, the need for platforms, and overcoming localization hurdles. ...
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APAC Digital Marketing Performance Dashboard 2015 $50 US*
The CMO Council and Adobe have partnered once again for our fourth annual study into the state of digital marketing across the Asia-Pacific region. This study reviews the state of adoption, readiness and maturity of organizations in Asia who are working to meet the demands of today’s digital customer, and it also provides comparisons to previous years’ studies to benchmark and measure ...
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Lead Flow That Helps You Grow $50 US*
Call it a lead, opportunity or prospect. No matter what the term, sales organizations can never get enough new business contacts from their marketing groups. The question is how wisely they are used and whether that new point of customer access is qualified, primed and ready to write orders.This detailed study from the CMO Council and the Content ROI Center finds that most companies are struggling...
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Quantify How Well You Unify $50 US*
Exploring the Business Impact of Marketing Technology Integration
This report explores how well chief marketers are taking ownership of digital marketing technology strategies and to what degree they are unifying and extracting value from multiplying customer data sources. The 38-page report summarizes the quantitative insights of 150 senior marketers and highlights insights from qualitative interviews with leading marketers at Wells Fargo, Charles Schwab, Disne...
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Mastering Adaptive Customer Engagements $50 US*
A Look Into How Today’s Marketing Leaders Are Driving Business Performance Across the Customer-Centric Enterprise
How customer-centric is your organization? Better yet, how customer-centric do your customers believe your organization is? The answers may surprise you. According to new research by the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council, only 14 percent of marketers say that customer centricity is a hallmark of their companies, and only 11 percent believe their customers would agree with that characterization...
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Maximize How You Individualize $50 US*
Map the Operational Gap in Customer Insight and Experience
Digital engagement has flourished in Asia, now home to more than 40 percent of the world’s Internet population. Social media, as a key example, has grown at the rate of 10 million new registered users per month. However, most critical to brands is that consumers across APJ are not just registering on social media channels, but they are actually engaging with brands and each other. According ...
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APAC Digital Marketing Performance Dashboard 2013 $50 US*
Exploring the State of Digital Marketing Across Asia to Benchmark Levels of Adoption, Traction and Success
Building on the findings of our study in 2012, this research seeks to identify where marketers are making improvements in their digital marketing efforts in APAC, as well as where challenges still exist. For this initiative, the CMO Council once again partnered with Adobe to explore the state of digital marketing across Asia in order to benchmark levels of adoption, traction and success. The stud...
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Japan Digital Marketing Performance Dashboard 2013 $50 US*
How Japan Compares to the Rest of Asia-Pacific as It Relates to Digital Marketing Traction and Success
The rapidly evolving nature of digital marketing presents increased challenges across Asia-Pacific and Japan, with many marketers struggling to integrate digital components in a way that is efficient, effective and measurable. This research seeks to identify how marketers are progressing in their digital marketing efforts in Japan, as well as where challenges still exist. For this initiative, the...
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Integrate to Accelerate Digital Marketing Value $50 US*
Driving Digital Marketing Performance With the Right Platforms, People and Processes
Most corporate management teams are fully supportive of digital marketing investments, with 20 percent of marketers stating they have a mandate and budget to execute, 42 percent saying they have strong interest and active support at a LOB level, and 18 percent noting it is an agenda item they have to address with their CEO, CIO, and CFO. Integration and alignment are the key challenges facing mar...
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More Gain, Less Strain $50 US*
Optimizing Marketing Partner Performance and Value in a Digital World
Just 9 percent of senior marketers believe traditional ad agencies are doing a good job of evolving and extending their service capabilities in the digital age, in contrast to 22 percent who view their agencies as struggling to transition their business models and service offerings. Another 51 percent of the 250-plus senior marketers surveyed in the CMO Council study see their agencies as playing ...
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Delivering Positive Impressions During Market Depressions $50 US*
How Banks Are Regaining Trust As the Financial Sector Readjusts
As the global financial crisis and US credit rating downgrade took grip, banks of all sizes were challenged to leverage and activate custom media channels to reassure, engage, inform, advise, and notify customers, stakeholders, and investors. Quick response to ever-changing conditions and market gyrations required nimble content provisioning and adept use of digital media channels for rapid versio...
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The Social Consumer Brand Compatibility Model $50 US*
Matchmaking Comes to Marketing: Social Media Insights Find the Right Fit Among Brands, Audience Types, and Channels
Social media has become one of the biggest, most dynamic parts of marketing. Brands across every vertical are scrambling to make up ground and develop and implement digital marketing strategies. While some brands scored huge early wins and established themselves as digital leaders, most marketers are still searching for how social channels can work for their companies and how they fit with the res...
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Variance in the Social Brand Experience $50 US*
The CMO Council set out to take a closer look at the state of affairs in the busy two-way street of social media marketing from both points of view: the consumer’s and the marketer’s. We surveyed 132 senior marketers and more than 1,200 consumers on the subject of social media, asking each how and why they are currently using it, what they get out of it, and what they’d like...
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What's Critical in the Vertical: Global Banking $50 US*
The latest report in the "Critical in the Vertical" series showcases research from more than 1,200 consumers and delves into the needs, expectations, and pain points of banking’s retail market. It also includes insight from over 120 senior-level marketers from around the globe, who outline where and how banks should invest, communicate, and address consumer concerns. (Published: 2001) As cu...
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What's Critical in the Vertical: Utilities $50 US*
Relevant Messaging That Engages a Targeted Audience
Generating loyalty at a time when consumers are making active decisions over which bills to pay makes marketing within the utility space an ever-changing and challenging role. The CMO Council interviewed over 1,000 utility consumers and 100 utility marketers to get an understanding of needs, requirements and sentiment. The end product? 30 pages of insight into customer engagement, advocacy and loy...
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What's Critical in the Vertical: Retail Banking In Australia $50 US*
Meeting the Needs of a New, Demanding Customer
Only 15 percent of marketers in Australia’s $2.5 trillion banking sector feel confident they have sufficient insights into customer profitability, value and retention. While Australia remained on steady footing through the global recession, bank marketers now face a younger, smarter banking customer with a desire for greater digital interaction and online engagement. The complimentary paper,...
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Leveraging Loyalty to Transform Publishing $50 US*
The Challenges Faced By Today’s Magazine Industry, and How Personalization and Relevance Could Save the Day
As marketers look for new channels of customer engagement, magazine advertising has been a casualty as online opportunities from ereaders to online publications become more cost-effective and trackable options. However, in this consumer survey, we see that customers aren't quite ready to abandon their magazines and they are certainly not ready for an onslaught of iPad-vertising to interrupt their ...
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Giving Customer Voice More Volume $50 US*
Turning Customer Pain into Competitive Gain
Customer experience is still very much a work in progress for senior marketers who participated in this study, fielded in late 2008. Despite overwhelming agreement on the importance of customer experience and word-of-mouth, the admit their companies are failing to take decisive, company-wide action to integrate customer voice and experience into key business and marketing processes. Sponsored...
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Routes to Revenue $50 US*
Routes to Revenue benchmarked the state of customer revenue realization, encouraging the adoption and the uses of technologies, solutions and professional services that drive deeper interaction and communication with customers...in one of the most challenged financial times. With fielding of the study starting on the day that Leihman's Brothers closed and financial collapse was immenent, mark...
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CLOSE: Scenarios and Solutions $50 US*
Mapping the Traps and Sales Effectiveness Gaps
In any sizeable company, the functions of marketing and sales are crucial to success. No matter the product or service, marketing must drive programs that stimulate demand and sales must develop and mazimize opportunities. Successful execution of these functions has always been challenging, hinging on the sometimes strained and troubled relationship between sales and marketing. The Chief Marketing...
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RetailFluency $50 US*
Impact of Online Research on Off-Line Retail Buying Predispositions & Outcomes
The CMO Council, in partnership with The ConsumerEdge Research Group, surveyed retail shoppers at three consumer electronics stores in four U.S. markets to study the impact of the Internet on in-store purchasing behavior. While the findings represent a single snapshot of consumer behavior, they paint a clear and dramatic picture of the shifting landscape of media influence. The Internet is climbin...
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