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42% -- genai adoption rate sales marketing for B2B decision makers (2026)
According to McKinsey, 42% of B2B decision-makers are already productively using GenAI use cases in sales and marketing.
- Refers to productive use specifically, not general experimentation
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42%
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2026
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B
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50
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60
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20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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McKinsey & Company
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https://www.arvana.io/blog/was-macht-ein-gtm-engineer-eigentlich ↗
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McKinsey & Company
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Share of B2B decision makers productively using GenAI use cases in sales and marketing, per McKinsey as cited
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B2B decision makers: 42% genai adoption rate sales marketing. Source: McKinsey & Company (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/b2b-genai-adoption-sales-marketing
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