The document summarizes a marketing conference presentation about digital business transformation and marketing spend management. It discusses trends in marketing budgets across industries and challenges in managing resources and consumer journeys. Key areas of focus for CMOs are improving marketing data and analytics, customer understanding and experience management, and investing in marketing technology tools like AI for tasks such as predictive analytics, content management, and ROI tracking to better allocate resources.
2. Agenda
State of Marketing Budget
Resource Mix
Consumer Journey Challenge
Areas of Focus
Capability building
Investments in AI tools
Summary
3. State of Marketing Budgeting
6.4%
9.5%
10.9%
FinServ, Travel, Tech
CPG, R. Estate, Health
4. Resource Mix Unchanged
Challenges
1. Slow evolution in Agencies
2. Increasing cost & decreasing impact of digital media
3. Push to build in house capabilities
4. High switching cost of MarTech| Latest = Unproven