Verified 2026 marketing salary and employment data from BLS OEWS May 2025 and Projections: wages by role, state, and metro, plus 2024-34 growth.
Verified 2026 CMO and marketing budget statistics from Gartner and The CMO Survey: budget as a percent of revenue, allocation, martech, and AI spend.
Verified 2026 social media stats: US platform adoption (Pew), global users and time spent (DataReportal), ad spend forecasts, and Meta platform scale.
US digital ad revenue hit $258.6B in 2024 (+14.9%). Verified 2024-2026 stats on search, social, retail media, CTV and platform ad revenue.
Original 2026 study of 419 live US small-business websites: 22% are effectively invisible to AI search, only 4.3% use FAQPage schema, 91% state no AI-crawl
2026 CPL and CAC benchmarks by industry and channel for high-ticket services: what a lead and a client really cost. Legal, financial, HVAC. Fully sourced.