Indian marketing has always thrived on speed and scale. Over the course of 2025, GenAI moved from novelty to necessity. And now we foresee agentic AI and quantum are set to gain momentum in 2026. Today, 51% of marketers plan to invest in agentic AI, a technology that will soon run parts of the workflow on its own across testing variants, optimizing journeys, and reallocating spend with human oversight. And just beyond that curve lies quantum computing, a technology that promises to make even today’s AI look slow.