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18% of Marketing Leaders Have Cut Roles to Automation. Gartner Sees the Bottom Rung Gone by 2030.
18% of marketing leaders have already eliminated roles because of automation. Gartner predicts that by 2030, AI will let the majority of high-performing marketing teams eliminate the traditional bottom rungs of the corporate ladder.
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Manufacturers Expect Sales Up 4.3% and Costs Up 5.0%. Prices Get Only 3.7%.
Manufacturers expect sales to rise 4.3% over the next 12 months, the fastest pace in four years. They expect input costs to rise 5.0% and their own prices only 3.7%, according to NAM’s Q3 2026 Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey.
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IMTS 2026 Draws More Than 90,000 Registrants and a Record Floor Density
IMTS 2026 drew more than 90,000 registrants and 1,788 exhibiting companies, 400 of them new. Floor density reached 1.65, an all-time show record. AMT reports metalworking machinery orders of $4 billion through July, up 37%.
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B2B Marketers Put AI First and Headcount Last in 2026 Budgets
Content Marketing Institute’s annual benchmark of 1,015 B2B marketers finds 45% plan to spend more on AI tools next year and 9% on people. Nearly all use AI already. Barely half say it made the work better.
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Buyers Use AI to Research. 69% Want a Rep to Confirm It.
Gartner’s survey of B2B buyers finds 45% used generative AI in a recent purchase, mostly for vendor and product research, and 69% prefer to validate what the AI told them with a sales rep. The rep’s job is moving from…
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Two-Thirds of B2B Buyers Would Rather Not Talk to a Rep
Gartner surveyed 646 B2B buyers between August and September 2025. 67% prefer a rep-free purchase, and 45% used AI tools during a recent buy. Digital Commerce 360’s read: manufacturers and distributors will step up spending on digital commerce, self-service, and…
Source: Digital Commerce 360Read →: Two-Thirds of B2B Buyers Would Rather Not Talk to a Rep
