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PERSPECTIVE

Five years ago, marketing budgets took 11% of revenue.

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Now it’s 7.7%. That’s a 30% cut.

Gartner line chart of the average marketing budget as a percent of total revenue from 2019 to 2025, falling from 11.0% in 2020 to 7.7% in 2025.

Sales targets?

Still the same.

This is why marketing embraced AI before anyone else.

Not for fun. Not for hype.

For survival.

Pressure creates efficiency.

Efficiency creates adoption.

McKinsey chart of the business functions where organizations regularly use gen AI, broken down by industry, with marketing and sales highest overall.

If you’re in marketing today, you don’t have a choice.

You need to do more with less.

And AI is the way.

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