About AMA
As the leading global professional marketing association, the AMA is the essential community for marketers. From students and practitioners to executives and academics, we aim to elevate the profession, deepen knowledge, and make a lasting impact. The AMA is home to five premier scholarly journals including: Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, and Journal of Interactive Marketing. Our industry-leading training events and conferences define future forward practices, while our professional development and PCM® professional certification advance knowledge. With 70 chapters and a presence on 350 college campuses across North America, the AMA fosters a vibrant community of marketers.
The association’s philanthropic arm, the AMA’s Foundation, is inspiring a more diverse industry and ensuring marketing research impacts public good. The AMA Foundation strengthens and elevates the marketing profession by advancing knowledge, building a global community of marketing leaders, and supporting marketing initiatives that drive innovation and societal impact. Gifts to the AMA Foundation empower the next generation of marketing students, develop forward-thinking faculty, support passionate professionals, build a dynamic community, and celebrate influential and transformative marketers and their work. Learn more about the AMA Foundation’s impact and ways to get involved here.
AMA views marketing as the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large. You can learn more about AMA’s learning programs and certifications, conferences and events, and scholarly journals at AMA.org.
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Marketing Research + Resources
Marketing Industry Stats and Information
Report–Marketing in the Age of Disruption: The Skills Marketers Need in 2025 and Beyond (AMA Research)
Report–The Bottom Line: A New Era of Top-Down Digital Transformation (Research with AMA partner, Lightricks)
Generative AI Takes Off with Marketers (Research with AMA partner, Lightricks)
Best Cities in the U.S. to Launch a Marketing Career in 2025 (AMA Research)
Considering a Marketing Major? Essential Facts for Prospective Students (AMA Research)
AMA Annual Report (FY25)

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Press Releases
- AMA Announces 2025 Chapter Excellence Award Winners
- AMA Foundation Kicks Off Year-End Fundraising Campaign
- December Learning Opportunities and Events at the AMA
- AMA Announces New Partnership with DECA
- AMA Foundation Celebrates Emerging Marketing Leaders
- AMA Honors Outstanding Higher Education Marketers
- November Learning Opportunities and Events at the AMA
- AMA Foundation Names 2025 Nonprofit Marketers of the Year
- Join AMA for the 2025 Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education
- Call for Papers Now Open: 2026 AMA Summer Academic Conference
- AMA Releases Season 6 of Marketing / And Podcast
- AMA Launches Digital Credentialing Program to Empower Marketers
- October Learning Opportunities and Events at the AMA
- AMA to Host 2025 Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education
- AMA’s Marketing / And Podcast Named a Finalist in The 4th Annual Signal Awards
- Call for Papers Open: 2026 AMA Marketing and Public Policy Conference
- September Learning Opportunities and Events at the AMA
- AMA and the Foundation Celebrate Marketing Scholars and Professionals Innovating Marketing’s Future
- AMA Foundation Names 2025 Charles Coolidge Parlin Marketing Research Award Winner
- AMA Foundation Announces New Board of Advisors Members
- 2025 AMA Summer Academic Conference Comes to Chicago
- Call for Papers Now Open: 2026 AMA Winter Academic Conference
- August Learning Opportunities and Events at the AMA
- AMA Welcomes New Members to the Board of Directors
- AMA Partners with LinkedIn Learning to Launch New Generative AI for Marketing Professionals Certificate
AMA in the News
- Accelerate Podcast: Serve. Trust. Scale.
- Fast Company: Why it can be good for business to fight with your rival (AMA Journal of Marketing Research)
- Harvard Business Review: Why Understanding AI Doesn’t Necessarily Lead People to Embrace It (AMA Journal of Marketing)
- Marketing by Design Podcast by AMA Columbus: AMA CEO Bennie Johnson: What He Sees for Marketers in 2025
- Highroad Solutions: The Evolution of Partnerships: From Solo Flights to Strategic Wingwo(man)
- MarTech: The skills marketers need in 2025 and beyond
- Field Notes Podcast: The Magic of Marketing
- Association Conventions & Facilities: Capture Your Audience
- CEO Update: Associations adopting AI at different rates, for many tasks
- Wired: The Less People Know About AI, the More People Like It
- The Washington Post: Six ways to make friendships easier – and more fun
- FastCompany: Starbucks beat expectations last quarter. It credits the humble handwritten note.
- MarTech: AI adoption gap found between executives and entry-level marketers
- MediaPlanet: Marketing for Small Business Owners
- Lead Marvels: How Three Associations Are Boosting Member Engagement with Content
- The Hill: Plastic bag bans can sometimes backfire: Study (AMA Journal of Marketing)
- Science Says: Take Advantage of Rude Complaints (AMAs Journal of Interactive Marketing)
- Associations100 Podcast: Leading with Agility: Thriving Amidst Rapid Industry Shifts
- The Washington Post: Should influencers think twice before disabling their comments? (AMA Journal of Marketing)
- Heart of Giving Podcast: Marketing Charity
- Deloitte Report: On the cutting edge: Sharp leaders drive business transformation with creativity
- Podcast: Social Pros Podcast: How Bennie Johnson Amplifies Magic at the American Marketing Association
- Podcast: 6 Degrees of Association’s: Integrating Core Marketing Strategies with Cutting-Edge Technologies
- Podcast: You Did What!
- Fast Company: There’s a simple reason you don’t believe the influencers in your feed
- Harvard Business Review: How Ratings Systems Shape User Behavior in the Gig Economy
- ASAE Associations Now: Keys to a Successful Partnership
- Fast Company: The nostalgia factor: Why vintage-looking typefaces make products seem safer
- Association Leadership Radio: Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Marketing: Insights from the American Marketing Association
- Volt Podcast: Change and the Future of Higher Ed Marketing – Bennie F. Johnson
- University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business: AMA CEO Shares Vision for the Future of Marketing During CEO at Smith
- CEO Update: Taking ‘road less traveled’ to the C-suite
AMA Community
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Research
The Skills Marketers Need in 2025 and Beyond
Based on a survey of 1,200+ marketers, over 450 job postings and interviews with industry experts, this report lays out the new realities shaping the field of marketing—including the AI transformation, shifting consumer expectations and unprecedented changes to marketing channels—as well as the skills marketers will need to stay ahead.
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Leveraging Nostalgia: Vintage Typography's Impact on Consumer Behavior
What connects the recent Barbie movie, the return of McDonald’s Grimace, Pepsi’s adoption of an ’80s style logo, and Clairol’s partnership with Amazon Prime’s “Daisy Jones & The Six?” They all tap into the past, reminding us of simpler and happier times.
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Marketing / And Podcast
Season 6, Why Kindness if a Superpower
Islam ElDessouky, Global Vice President Creative Strategy & Content for Coca-Cola, joins AMA’s CEO and podcast host, Bennie F. Johnson, for a conversation about how kindness can change the world, what it means to be given the keys to an iconic brand, and why it’s important to find the unexpected in a partnership.

AMA Academic Journals
AMA Academic Journals publish the latest peer-reviewed research aimed at advancing our industry and equipping business professionals with the insight needed to make better managerial decisions. Digital access to all five of our journals is an included benefit that comes with being an AMA member.
Learn more about AMA’s Academic Journals
Read the AMA Journal of Marketing Scholarly Insights