Marketers say that AI ambitions get stuck in ‘Pilot Purgatory’ | Farmer

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According to a new report from the font, there is an increasing gap between AI aspiration and implementation between marketing teams.

The “2025 Typeface -Signal report”Discovered that marketing teams realize that AI should go beyond the first experiments to keep pace with market expectations.

The report, which is based on a study among 200 American marketers, showed that marketing leaders are confronted with unprecedented pressure, by 95% that reports the increasing demand for content. This question crisis is illustrated by a gap of 81 percentage point between what is being asked and what teams are able to deliver.

Despite the need for fast output, 47% of the leaders cannot deliver real campaign personalization, and only 14% feel completely sure that they can keep track of it.

AI acceptance also creates a significant “efficiency division”, the report showed. AI users are four times more likely to keep track of the content of the content (66% versus 14% of non-users), and 27% of the AI ​​users can launch campaigns in two weeks or less, a speed that is not to be found by non-users.

Nevertheless, the industry lags behind, with 69% of the campaigns that currently last three to four weeks, despite the fact that 85% of the leaders want a change of one to two weeks.

Despite the clear benefits, the report showed that the AI ​​acceptance gets stuck due to “pilot vagatories” – an inability to go beyond the experimental phase. While 82% of marketers used AI for campaigns, most are stuck in experiments. A striking 82% of these users remains in pilot or experimental phases, so that the transformation about the company can be scaled. The majority, 61%, mainly uses AI on an individual level, instead of taking cooperation platforms.

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