The Best CRM Software, Solutions, and Innovators: The 2025 CRM Industry Awards

Our 24th annual awards recognize the vendors and innovators that shone the brightest in the past year.

The Best CRM Software and Solutions: The 2025 CRM Industry Leader Awards

Our top five picks in 11 categories point the way forward with the best products and capabilities hitting the market in customer service, marketing, and sales.

Six Top Innovating CRM Companies for 2025: The CRM Conversation Starters

These vendors kept the industry abuzz with products, services, and integrations that add up to innovation in sales, marketing, and customer service.

The Best Customer Journey Orchestration Solution: The 2025 CRM Industry Leader Awards

Putting Revenue First: How B2B Marketers Can Lead with ROI

Stakeholders want to know if they're getting the most out of marketing spend. That's why more teams now say revenue is their main KPI.

As the Singularity Approaches, How Do Humans Stay Ahead of AI?

In CRM and marketing, the "mini-singularity" already happening is the automation of decision making. But marketers will still be held accountable for outcomes.

Buyer Beware: How Marketers Can Navigate More Complex B2B Buyer Journeys

The linear funnel is dead. Today's nonlinear, multi-stakeholder B2B journeys require a branded demand approach—AI-driven segmentation, personalized multi-channel nurturing, and steady brand building.

Embedded CDPs Emerge in Marketing

The MarTech world is moving quickly toward the concept of embedding customer data platform (CDP) capabilities within broader customer engagement and experience solutions.

Pickles, Profit, and a World Where Opportunity Can Be Manufactured

Content needs its own supply chain.

How Marketers Can Navigate the Zero-Click Era

As buyers increasingly rely on AI tools for faster decision making, more activities are starting to occur outside of your owned channels. Here's how to adapt.

AI Goldfish or AI Dolphin—Which One Is Your Organization Ready to Be?

Beware of memory scars from past attempts to leverage AI.

Call Me a Shadow Buyer

Consumers like me make every effort to stay under the radar, invisible to traditional sales and marketing funnels.