Marketing leaders face growing pressures as AI transforms how brands gain visibility, with only 49% of Fortune 500 top marketers holding the CMO title, down from 55% a year ago, according to a Forrester report cited in a MarTech article. Over one in five Fortune 500 companies have changed their entire marketing leadership in the past 12 months, and the average CMO tenure has fallen to 3.9 years, the shortest in the C-suite.
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