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Compare salaries, budgets, team structures, investment priorities, and leadership trends with technology, and marketing, leaders from HotTopics' global C-suite community.
The HotTopics Benchmarking Hub brings together both annual benchmarking reports created by the community, for the community. Built from the experiences of senior executives across industries, each report helps you understand how your organisation and teams compare, where the market is heading, and how your peers are approaching the challenges that matter most.
Whether you're reviewing budgets, planning your team, investing in AI, or shaping strategy, these reports provide practical insight to support better decisions.
B2B Marketing benchmark
Created for CMOs, marketing directors, VPs, and heads of marketing responsible for brand, demand generation, and commercial growth, and more.
What you will learn:
- Where marketing leaders are investing for growth
- The biggest barriers to delivering impact
- Where AI is performing best, and also where it's falling short
- Which channels and technologies are delivering the strongest results
- How leading teams are adapting their strategies for the year ahead

Technology leaders benchmark

The Technology Leaders Benchmark Report 2026. For CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, CDOs and those leaders shaping tech strategy and digital transformation.
What you will learn:
- How technology leaders are balancing transformation with operational efficiency
- Where organisations are investing across AI, cybersecurity and digital transformation
- The changing role of technology leaders and AI accountability
- Trends in budgets, team structures, salaries and talent
- The biggest barriers to aligning technology with business strategy