The Funnel Isn’t Broken, It’s Obsolete
Why CMOs Must Rebuild Demand Gen Around In-Market Buyers If you’ve been running a B2B demand engine recently, you’ve felt it: the traditional funnel isn’t producing a reliable pipeline anymore. Email engagement has eroded. Outbound feels like shouting into a void. What used to take 8–10 touches now takes 12–14 and still doesn’t move the […]
Smarter GTM Alignment Starts With Unified Market, Account, & Buyer Insight
Effective GTM alignment requires more than teamwork; it demands a shared intelligence foundation. By unifying market intelligence, account insights, and buyer intent signals, sales, marketing, strategy, and RevOps teams can operate from a single source of truth. This approach fuels data-driven GTM planning, sharper ICP definition, and coordinated execution across account-based strategies, territory planning, and pipeline growth. […]
Altitude Over Speed: How CMOs Are Rewriting Their AI Flight Plans
Just a few blocks away from Dreamforce, HG Insights transformed El Dorado Latin Fusion into a private runway for its second CMO Huddles panel, “First-Class CMOs: Staying on Course in the Age of AI.” It wasn’t a massive crowd, and that was intentional. Between lively conversations and Latin-fusion appetizers, CMOs from CultureAmp, Wrike, and HG […]
Dark Funnel, Bright Signals: How CMOs Are Using AI to See What Buyers Want
Overview In today’s B2B world, buyers prefer to research independently and often make decisions before engaging with sales teams. Understanding this hidden part of the journey, known as the dark funnel, is now essential for marketing leaders. At a recent HG Insights and CMO Huddles panel, “Mapping the Buyer Journey: Navigating the Dark Funnel with […]
The New Divide: Why the Future of GTM Belongs to Companies That Master Data + AI
At OpsStars 2025, HG Insights’ Francis Brero and Avalara’s Mike Marek showcased a new reality for go-to-market leaders: AI isn’t evening the playing field — it’s widening the gap between those who operationalize it and those still experimenting on the sidelines. The companies mastering data-driven automation today aren’t just becoming more efficient. They’re redefining execution […]
HG Insights Joins Bombora’s Curated Ecosystem Audiences as Founding Data Partner
I have been a marketer for many years and, like many other marketing leaders, recognize that we don’t just need data to have a business impact. We need data that leads to creating opportunities, closed deals, and revenue growth. I get bombarded with info about tools that allow me to track signals, clicks, and intent […]
From Boomers to Zoomers: Gen Z Enters the Software Buying Process
Several years ago, we reported on the rise of the millennial software buyer and how their preferences differed from previous generations. Now it’s Gen Z’s turn. While millennials still make up the majority of software buyers (55%), Gen Z is making its presence known. And in 2025, for the first time, Gen Z buyers (born […]
Unlock GTM Precision with Accurate Corporate Hierarchies
It is one of the biggest blind spots for go-to-market teams: a lack of accurate visibility into the corporate hierarchy. When subsidiaries run their own systems, legal names don’t match what reps search for, and employees often list parent companies inconsistently on LinkedIn. As a result, you deal with the chaos of duplicate records, you […]
Completing Your Market Intelligence Picture: How HG Insights Complements Industry Analysts
From illuminating how macroeconomic trends impact customer behavior to unpacking aggregated user feedback, the traditional industry analyst firms play a major role in technology vendors’ business strategy and data-driven marketing efforts. In addition to consuming qualitative-research driven advisory services, many vendors also make use of quantitative data from the analysts that covers broad stroke metrics […]
Unified Revenue Growth Intelligence Fabric & Agentic Ecosystem
HG Insights announced its new agentic strategy, unveiling AI-powered copilots and agents, alongside two major acquisitions—TrustRadius and MadKudu—to strengthen its Revenue Growth Intelligence platform. Over the past year, the company addressed customer pain points like data silos and disconnected go-to-market (GTM) tech stacks by unifying firmographics, technographics, spend, contract, contact, and intent data into a single Revenue Growth Intelligence Fabric. Key […]