Winterberry Group & Lifesight

The State of Unified Marketing Measurement 2026

Winterberry Group surveyed enterprise marketing leaders to find out how brands measure, attribute, and optimize spend today, and why 83% call unified measurement a leading priority while only 9% say they do it extremely well.

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Marketers, Strong Single-Channel Measurement isn’t Enough Anymore

Why platform dashboards can’t show you the full picture

Discover why 93% of brands rely on platform-native reporting, and why walled gardens that grade their own homework leave CMOs without an independent view of how channels work together.

The priority-capability gap holding back cross-channel growth

See why enterprise brands rank unified measurement as their #1 measurement need, and why optimizing spend across paid and owned channels shows the widest gap between ambition and ability.

How AI and unified measurement will shape the next era of marketing

Learn where 79% of brands already use AI in measurement, the three barriers that stop them from acting on its insights, and Winterberry Group’s roadmap for building a causal, cross-channel measurement practice that marketing and finance can both trust.

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