Marketing Skills Survey 2025
Our Marketing Skills Survey 2025, sponsored by Demandbase, reveals how marketing leaders are tackling one of the biggest challenges facing B2B marketing today: building high-performing teams that are fit for the future.
Based on insights from over 100 CMOs – including 43% from $1B+ organizations – the report uncovers a clear disconnect in how marketing enablement is structured, funded, and delivered – and how high-growth organizations are closing the gap.
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Despite marketing’s evolution, too many teams are held back by fragmented, underpowered enablement. Ownership of learning and development initiatives often sits outside of marketing. Training is reactive and trigger-based. And internal capabilities are stretched thin. But high-performers are doing things differently – they’re twice as likely to own enablement within marketing, aligning it with strategy and driving measurable results. This is just one of the key factors setting leading organizations apart.
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57%
of CMOs say it's challenging to attract and retain B2B marketing talent
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56%
of enablement functions sit outside of marketing
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59%
of enablement teams identify training needs ad hoc
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$1,341
per FTE is spent on marketing enablement, on average – less than half that of sales teams
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