Scaling Smarter: How Google Cloud Marketplace Is Reshaping Partner Sales and GTM Strategy
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In our latest market study, Scaling Smarter: How Google Cloud Marketplace Is Reshaping Partner Sales and GTM Strategy, Futurum uncovers the strategies and results from top-performing ISVs and channel partners leveraging the Google Cloud Marketplace as a transformational sales platform.
Futurum's Alex Smith and Tiffani Bova,
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Alex Smith and Tiffani Bova, The Futurum Group, "Scaling Smarter: How Google Cloud Marketplace Is Reshaping Partner Sales and GTM Strategy," July 7, 2025. https://preview.erikbethke.com/research-reports/scaling-smarter-how-google-cloud-marketplace-is-reshaping-partner-sales-and-gtm-strategy/
In today’s rapidly evolving cloud ecosystem, software vendors and channel partners are turning to cloud marketplaces to accelerate growth, streamline procurement, and reach new customers. The Google Cloud Marketplace, in particular, has emerged as a powerful go-to-market (GTM) platform, helping partners deliver larger deals, close sales faster, and retain customers longer.
The marketplace’s unique value proposition is driving this shift—combining simplified procurement, integration with cloud commit incentives, and proactive co-sell support from Google Cloud field reps. As a result, organizations are not only enhancing revenue, but also embedding themselves more deeply into customer workflows, resulting in stickier and more strategic engagements.
In our latest research study, Scaling Smarter: How Google Cloud Marketplace Is Reshaping Partner Sales and GTM Strategy, Futurum uncovers the strategies that leading ISVs and channel partners are using to grow their marketplace business. Based on a study of 30 high-performing Google Cloud partners, this report reveals the marketplace tactics driving revenue acceleration and partner innovation.
In this report, you will learn:
- How ISVs are driving 112% increases in deal size through Google Cloud Marketplace
- Why 70% of partners are structuring multi-year deals with committed cloud spend
- How procurement cycles are being shortened by up to 4 weeks
- What investments successful partners are making in training, incentives, and field engagement
- How Google Cloud’s Marketplace Channel Private Offer (MCPO) program is driving channel-centric growth
- What’s next for the agentic AI ecosystem and its evolution on the Marketplace
If you’re ready to reimagine your partner sales strategy, download your copy of Scaling Smarter: How Google Cloud Marketplace Is Reshaping Partner Sales and GTM Strategy today.
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