This year saw a record number of top marketers being fired. The CMO brand is under attack. More worryingly, as everybody seems busy with digital porn, marketers are losing C-suite traction. I don’t want to sound overly negative, but this stuff is real.
Belkin, Beats, Citi, Coty, Cisco, Dropbox, EY, GAP, GNC, Intuit, Hitachi, JC Penney, Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg’s, Kimberly-Clark, Kraft Heinz, Lyft, Marriott, McDonald’s, Mitsubishi Motors, Mondelēz International, Netflix, Nissan, PayPal, Rite Aid, Samsung, Sephora, Sisheideo, Subway, Suntory, Spotify, Taco Bell, Ticketmaster, Tyson, Uber, Walgreens, Wendy’s – these are just a few brands from consultancy Spencer Stuart’s latest CMO movements list (‘movement’ is their term for firing).
Lees deze column van Thomas Barta op Marketingweek