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15.3%

15.3% -- ai share of marketing budget for CMOs (marketing budget allocation to AI) (2026)

Name: AI Share Of Marketing Budget Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-06

2026 · ascendlymarketing.com

The mean marketing budget allocation to AI tools is 15.3%.

Cited from Gartner 2026 CMO Spend Survey via secondary source

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15.3%

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Percentage

Data Vintage

2026

Entity

CMOs (marketing budget allocation to AI)

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ascendlymarketing.com Primary Tier C

https://ascendlymarketing.com/ai-marketing-budget-optimization/ ↗

Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2026 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

AI Marketing Budget Optimization: A Practical Pilot Guide

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ascendlymarketing.com · Original study ↗

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Cited as a research finding in a secondary blog article; original study not named. Represents the mean share of total marketing budgets allocated to AI tools.

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CMOs (marketing budget allocation to AI): 15.3% ai share of marketing budget. Source: ascendlymarketing.com (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/cmo-ai-share-of-marketing-budget-15-3

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