Performance Forced By Agentic To Take New Ride Through Funnel by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, January 12, 2026 Marketers and technologists have spent years developing omnichannel strategies, only for AI to change everything. As many have pointed out, autonomous agents don’t browse sites they find the products and make the purchase. It’s changing performance … Continue reading Performance Forced By Agentic To Take New Ride Through Funnel
As AI accelerates decisions, brands endure by investing in the human layers of experience that technology can’t generate. Angela Vega on December 15, 2025 As AI agents collapse the consumer funnel and mediate more decisions, brands must strengthen the distinctly human moats — loyalty, trust, community, ecosystems of convenience and meaningful human care. Consumers … Continue reading The customer funnel is gone, and trust is the new moat
Self-directed buyers, shrinking budgets and embedded AI are redefining what effective marketing leadership looks like in 2026. Tanya Thorson on December 8, 2025 For decades, marketing leaders guided buyers through a neat sequence from awareness to purchase. Today, that linear funnel model is breaking down. Buyers now chart their own course — jumping between … Continue reading Why today’s buyer journey no longer fits the funnel
Today’s B2B buyers don’t follow a straight line — here’s what you need to change to keep up. MarTechBot on December 1, 2025 In MarTech’s “MarTechBot explains it all” feature, we pose a question about marketing to our very own MarTechBot, which is trained on the MarTech website archives and has access to the … Continue reading How a customer-centric B2B journey breaks the funnel model
Learn how AI tracking tools combine synthetic and real-world data to restore visibility into the AI marketing funnel and enable actionable strategy. Semrush Enterprise on September 26, 2025 For two decades, marketing was a game of visibility and performance metrics. We built funnels, tracked clicks and optimized journeys because we could see what was … Continue reading How to see inside the AI funnel by Semrush Enterprise
Forget funnels. Today’s customer journeys are fractured, AI-driven, and nonlinear. Here’s why signal-based marketing is your winning move. Semrush Enterprise on September 12, 2025 Today’s customer journeys look less like funnels and more like works from Jackson Pollock; splashes of touchpoints across dozens of channels. Digital transformation has “fractured consumer journeys into unpredictable, nonlinear … Continue reading From Funnel to Signals: Break Siloes With the Five-Pillar Framework by Semrush Enterprise
Level up your email marketing strategy with gamification, polls, embedded videos and other high-impact interactive tools. Alexander Melone on July 1, 2025 Ecommerce is more competitive than ever, so your emails need to work harder by being more fun. In a sea of special offers and near-identical services, something happier, zanier and unexpected makes your … Continue reading Interactive emails give your sales funnel a competitive edge
Your leads deserve better than generic follow-ups. See how email automation personalizes every touchpoint, improving efficiency and ROI. Brianna Miller on February 27, 2025 Building efficiency in a B2B sales funnel is no small task. Between tracking the buyer’s journey, engaging multiple decision-makers and ensuring marketing and sales alignment, the process can quickly become … Continue reading How data-driven email nurturing transforms the B2B sales funnel
B2B brands focus too much on the customer journey and not enough on how to be top-of-mind before that journey even begins. Constantine von Hoffman on October 30, 2024 Far too many content marketing programs fail to connect the brand to customer problems before the customer starts looking for a solution. At this crucial … Continue reading Beyond the funnel: A new approach to content marketing
Here’s how marketing can impact business through measurement, common goals and improvement to the customer journey. Chris Wood on May 29, 2024 How should marketers approach the daunting task of reining in and improving the marketing funnel? Recently at The MarTech Conference, two marketing leaders discussed this precise task. (Free registration to view the … Continue reading 3 ways to optimize your marketing funnel for driving revenue and leads
