302 marketing leaders sounded off on how they're vibe coding.

Vibe Code Check: 300+ Marketing Leaders on How AI Code Generation Is Empowering Their Teams

We partnered with chiefmartec’s Scott Brinker to research and map how vibe coding is reshaping what marketing teams build, what they buy, and what they do next.

Marketing just got the keys to engineering

For most of marketing’s history, building something custom meant writing a ticket, waiting on a sprint, and hoping the engineers had a slow week. Not anymore.

In under 12 months, AI code generation went from a fringe experiment to a mainstream practice inside marketing organizations. Teams are building their own dashboards, automations, integrations, and internal tools without touching a line of code themselves. They’re replacing vendors. They’re changing how they hire.

“The arc we see is that people start out saying, ‘We’re going to conquer the world with this.’ Once they get deeper into it, they learn it’s a non-trivial undertaking. But after getting past that hump, they start to unlock tremendous benefit.”

Scott Brinker
chiefmartec

What 302 marketing leaders told us

This is the first quantitative benchmark of what marketing teams are building, who’s building it, what governance they’ve put in place, and what separates the high performers from the rest.

7 in 10

marketing teams are vibe coding with at least some structure (41% say it's already fully embedded in their workflows)

46%

have already replaced a dedicated SaaS tool they used to buy

76%

say their team's ability to vibe code has changed how they make hiring decisions

89%

plan to expand vibe coding usage in the next 12 months

Why marketing teams have to get this right

Emily Kramer
Co-Founder & Partner
“There’s been an explosion of data, especially when it comes to enrichment data and signals. With all this data we’ve made a bit of a mess…the most successful marketing orgs will use martech to reign it in.”
Scott Brinker
Martech Analyst & Advisor
“People are now able to vibe code interactive experiences and agents that can interact with customers and their agents. Going forward, I think that’s going to be a major dimension of competition and a source of creative differentiation.”
Jarod Greene
CMO
“We’re witnessing the same shift in marketing that we’ve been talking about in sales enablement and technical sales for years. The question is no longer ‘Can I buy a tool for this?’, but ‘Can I build exactly what I need’? The winning organizations will be the ones that can turn expertise into scalable systems faster than everyone else.”

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