A town hall with your CMO is one of the few moments in the corporate calendar where the power dynamic shifts slightly. You have the floor, or at least access to it. Most people waste it by asking nothing, or by asking something so safe it barely registers. The questions below are designed to get…
SaaS growth rate measures how quickly a software-as-a-service business is expanding its recurring revenue over a defined period, typically expressed as a percentage change in ARR or MRR month-over-month or year-over-year. It is the single metric most investors, boards, and operators use to judge whether a SaaS business is healthy, stalling, or dying. Get it…
The IBM CMO Study is one of the most widely cited pieces of research in marketing leadership. It surveys thousands of chief marketing officers across industries and geographies, and it consistently surfaces the same themes: rising complexity, pressure to prove ROI, and a widening gap between what CMOs are expected to deliver and what they…
A platform that cannot scale with your business does not announce itself. It reveals itself slowly, through friction you learn to work around, reporting gaps you stop questioning, and integration workarounds that quietly become someone’s full-time job. By the time the problem is obvious, it has already cost you months of growth. The signs are…
Impressing a CMO in an interview means demonstrating commercial judgment, not just marketing knowledge. CMOs are under more pressure than ever to show business impact, and they hire people who make that easier, not harder. The candidates who land the role are the ones who speak the language of growth, accountability, and trade-offs, not the…
High revenue per employee is a measure of how efficiently a business converts its workforce into commercial output. It tells you whether your go-to-market model is structurally sound or quietly bleeding value through headcount that doesn’t compound. Most marketing teams track pipeline, CAC, and ROAS. Very few track revenue per employee, and that gap is…
The CDO and CMO are both C-suite titles with overlapping territory, but they are not interchangeable. A Chief Marketing Officer owns brand, demand, and commercial growth. A Chief Data Officer owns the infrastructure, governance, and strategy that makes data usable across the organisation. Where they intersect is real, but so is the gap between them….
SaaS companies typically spend between 15% and 35% of revenue on marketing, though early-stage companies burning toward growth often push well above that. The range is wide because the right number depends almost entirely on where a company sits in its growth curve, how much of its growth comes from product-led motion versus sales-assisted, and…
The Dentsu CMO Navigator is an annual research programme that surveys senior marketers across major markets to map how the CMO role is evolving, where CMOs feel confident, and where they feel exposed. It covers priorities, pressures, capability gaps, and the relationship between marketing leadership and business performance. If you want a data-backed view of…
AI-native go-to-market platforms are changing how product marketing teams map, monitor, and respond to competitors. Unlike traditional tools that required manual data pulls and quarterly reviews, these platforms continuously ingest signals from across the market and surface competitive shifts in near real-time. The question for most product marketers is not whether to adopt them, but…
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