How B2B Marketers Can Respond to AI-Accelerated Buying Cycles

AI Reshapes How and When B2B Buyers Evaluate Brands

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AI is speeding up B2B buying without making decisions easier. Buyers move through early research faster and with less vendor contact. Marketers need clear, specific, consistent information across touchpoints—or risk losing ground in evaluation.
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AI is speeding up B2B buying during the early research stage, but with less direct vendor contact. To stay competitive (and make AI work for them), B2B marketers must strengthen brand materials and the buyer experience—or risk losing ground during evaluation.

Key Question: How should B2B marketers respond to AI’s acceleration of the buyer journey?

Key Stat: 43% of US B2B buyers use AI tools during consideration, the highest share across the path to purchase, per Google and National Research Group (NRG).

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Kelsey Voss

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Erika Huber
Director, Report Editing
Kyndall Krist
Senior Copy Editor
Penelope Lin
Director, Data Visualization
Johann Valderrama
Data Visualization Editor
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