For the first time in its history, dentsu’s B2B marketing study finds that brand awareness is now more important to future strategy than performance marketing – which is sliding quickly into reverse. As corporate buying committees expand, and millennials and digital natives gradually replace Gen X as key decision-makers, another tipping point has been reached, per the study: Personal decision drivers have overtaken professional ones – and they have a very different set of buying criteria. Dentsu execs, B2B marketers and other agency bosses weigh in on the new B2B dynamic and where next from here for both marketing and sales.
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