Always-on orchestration using AI can increase marketing ROI by 30% and cut execution time from up to 70% down to as little as 10–15% of a marketer's time

Workflow & automation

30%

increase in marketing ROI is possible with always-on AI orchestration, per McKinsey

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Sample:: Mixed source. The article combines several McKinsey surveys and case examples, including an AI Discovery Survey (August 2025, n=1,927), a McKinsey Global Survey on marketers (March 2026, n=521), and a McKinsey Global Survey on marketing executives (May 2026, n=26). Selection details are not disclosed in the article.

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10%

of organisations are realising significant ROI from agentic AI in Deloitte’s 2025 survey of 1,854 EMEA executives

24–56%

of marketing tasks are currently performed using AI or ML, rising to over half in three years according to US CMOs (2026 survey)

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90% of CMOs are experimenting with AI but fewer than 10% have scaled it or realized value across marketing workflows

42.3%

of wrong AI answers were overridden with incentives and item-level feedback in Study 3 versus 20.0% in the control group

14%

average increase in sales productivity reported from using AI in marketing by US companies (2026 survey)

77% of brands say AI-assisted influencer campaigns perform better