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INSIGHTS FOR 2026 How Technology Marketers Can SharpenTheir Own Tools [Research] More tech marketers say they’re more effective than all B2B marketers surveyed. What do they dowell with strategy, AI, budgets, personalization, and experiential marketing? Where can they improve?CMI’s new study explores the answers. By Robert Rose the systems they’ve built. CRM, automation, analytics,and personalization engines all inhale AI and exhalecomplexity and insight. The opportunity isn’t separation(humans vs. machines); it’s integration. Technology marketers embody one irony: They liveinside the very storm they’re selling. As tech increasingly powers marketing, thesemarketers face double exposure. They must not onlymaster every new platform, plug-in, and promise of“automation at scale,” they must convince others todo the same. Between those dashboards and demos,they still have to market. That may be the ultimate irony of all: Tech marketers— the masters of integration — now face the challengeof reintegrating themselves, sharpening their tools toreconnect creativity, technology, and purpose in thework ahead. That’s what makes the tech segment of the B2Bworld fascinating. These marketers work inside thecompanies, building the very tools the rest of us arefiguring out how to use. If anyone should have marketingtechnology dialed in, it’s them. Let’s dig into the results. Use this table of contents tojump to areas of interest: •Marketing effectiveness: Machines exhaleconfidence•Content strategy effectiveness: Return to basics, butbe smarter•AI implementation: When everyone has a robot, noone does•Thought leadership: Everyone talks, but who actuallythinks?•First-party data and governance: Own theinformation, dodge the mess•Experiential marketing: Showing up is the newinnovation•Personalization: ‘Hi [first name]’ isn’t enough•ABM and ABX: Focus is the new scale•Marketing budget priorities: Sharpen tools, starvetalent•What to do now: 3 moves for tech marketers In many ways, they do. The Content Marketing Institute’slatest research shows technology marketers are moreconfident in their effectiveness, more aligned with sales,and more mature in data governance and AI adoptionthan their B2B peers in other industries. Yet, that samematurity comes with a new friction — an avalanche ofcomplexity, content overload, and the uneasy question:“Are we getting better or just getting faster?” The Content Marketing Institute’s Technology Contentand Marketing Trends: Insights for 2026 slices into thatquestion based on the responses of 266 technologymarketers in our annual content and marketing survey.(To read the study of 1,015 B2B marketers, see B2BContent and Marketing Trends: Insights for 2026.) Here’s the twist: AI serves as the oxygen in everymarketer’s room right now. However, for technologymarketers, it’s not just the humans breathing it; it’s Marketing effectiveness: Machines exhale confidence If one group should feel good about its marketing chops, it’s the people who build the tech the rest of us depend onfor innovation. And sure enough, they do: •16% say they’re highly effective (exceeded goals).•50% say they’re somewhat effective (met most goals).•29% say they’re neutral (mixed results).•4% say they’re somewhat ineffective (fell short of most goals).•1% say they’re highly ineffective (failed to meet goals). So, 66% of technology marketers rate their marketing as highly or somewhat effective (vs. 59% of all B2Bmarketers). Sixteen percent even say they exceeded their goals; that’s a quarter more than all B2B marketers (12%). Technology marketers’ effectivenessin the last 12 months Not surprisingly, their edge seems to come from alignment and maturity. When asked what improved their results,they say: •Content relevance and quality (63%)•Alignment with sales (53%)•Team skills and capabilities (52%)•Technology and tools (46%)•Measurement and reporting (44%)•Customer understanding and segmentation (41%)•Channel selection and optimization (35%)•Competitive positioning (28%)•Budget allocation (22%)•Market conditions (15%)•Regulatory compliance (6%) Factors that improved technology marketers' effectiveness Q: If there have been any factors that improved your marketing effectiveness in the last 12 months,please indicate. (Select all that apply.)Base: Technology marketers who rated their marketing effectiveness as highly or somewhateffective in the last 12 months.Source: Technology Content and Marketing Trends: Insights for 2026 That list tells you everything. Technology marketers aren’t waiting for a tech miracle — they’re getting sharper about thefundamentals: content that matters, sales relationships that work, and teams that know how to use the stack they’ve got. That’s the real shift. In a world obsessed with “what’s next,” these marketers quietly prove that basic stillwins. Tech helps, of course, but oxygen only matters if you know how to breathe it. Effectiveness isn’t aboutscaling bigger or moving faster; it’s