{"id":15084,"date":"2026-08-05T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/?p=15084"},"modified":"2026-08-04T14:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:08:55","slug":"2026-association-benchmarking-report-ai-adoption-surges-as-revenue-strategy-gets-more-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/2026-association-benchmarking-report-ai-adoption-surges-as-revenue-strategy-gets-more-complicated\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Association Benchmarking Report: AI Adoption Surges as Revenue Strategy Gets More Complicated"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"15084\" class=\"elementor elementor-15084\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-da184f3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"da184f3\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2f252303\" data-id=\"2f252303\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4c95d87b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4c95d87b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15086 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Benchmarking-2026-Report-is-Here_jm-1200x1200-px-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Benchmarking-2026-Report-is-Here_jm-1200x1200-px-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Benchmarking-2026-Report-is-Here_jm-1200x1200-px-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Benchmarking-2026-Report-is-Here_jm-1200x1200-px-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Benchmarking-2026-Report-is-Here_jm-1200x1200-px-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Benchmarking-2026-Report-is-Here_jm-1200x1200-px.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p><p>Every year, our Association Benchmarking Report offers association leaders a clear view of what&#8217;s happening across the sector. The 2026 Association Benchmarking Report, now in its 15th year, is officially available for download, and this year&#8217;s data tells a noticeably different story than last year&#8217;s.<\/p><p>We heard from 665 association professionals this year\u2014our largest response rate yet. Here\u2019s what you told us.<\/p><h3><strong>AI Adoption Accelerated<\/strong><\/h3><p>Heavy AI use\u2014meaning associations using AI-powered communication tools frequently or daily\u2014nearly tripled, from 12.5% in 2025 to 33.5% in 2026. Just as telling, the share of associations reporting no AI use at all was cut roughly in half, from 42.3% to 21.0%. In just a year, AI has shifted from a pilot program to a tool showing up in daily workflows.<\/p><h3>The Top Challenges Reshuffled<\/h3><p>Likely no surprise, generating non-dues revenue is still the No. 1 challenge, cited by 51.9% of respondents, and communicating member benefits held at No. 2 (49.5%). But leveraging data for strategic decisions climbed into the top three (47.7%), edging past engaging young professionals for the first time. As data becomes easier to collect (perhaps with the assistance of AI), associations leaders are shifting their focus to strategic deployment.<\/p><h3>Revenue Mix Kept Shifting<\/h3><p>Job posting sales nearly tripled, from 3.6% to 10.0% of non-dues revenue, while sponsorship&#8217;s share slipped from 29.7% to 25.3%. Associations are clearly diversifying where their non-dues dollars come from. That said, more than a quarter of respondents also pointed to fragmented sponsorship and advertising opportunities, or a lack of data to prove sponsor ROI, as real barriers, so the strategy behind the mix still has room to grow.<\/p><h3>Staffing Pressure Eased, Mostly<\/h3><p>Reported understaffing dropped sharply, from 51.3% to 35.1%, and just over half of associations now call their staffing levels &#8220;just right.&#8221; The one holdout is data and strategy, still the most understaffed function at 38.5%. More capacity overall hasn&#8217;t closed that particular gap, which lines up with the challenge around leveraging data mentioned above.<\/p><h3>Engagement Tools Held Steady, and Video Broke Out<\/h3><p>Email remains the most valued engagement tool (83.4%), followed by association websites (80.6%), enewsletters (80.2%), and webinars (79.1%). But the real mover was video: high-frequency use jumped nearly eightfold, from 3.2% to 24.5% of associations communicating 11 or more times a month. Video is also starting to pay for itself. More than one in five associations now agree it generates revenue through sponsorship, advertising, or paywall access.<\/p><h3>A Few Tools Are Climbing Fast<\/h3><p>Online buyers&#8217; guides (+24 points), SMS messaging (+22.5), AI tools (+17.5), and association apps (+17.1) posted the biggest year-over-year gains in perceived value as member engagement tools. None of these cracked the top 10 overall, but the growth curve is worth watching if you haven&#8217;t invested in any of them yet.<\/p><h3>Outsourcing Expanded Across the Board<\/h3><p>Associations are leaning on outside partners more than they used to, and association management led the way, more than doubling from 9.9% to 22.7%. Email marketing and education and training weren&#8217;t far behind. These trends suggest more deliberate resourcing for specialized or ongoing work, not just filling gaps.<\/p><h3>Hybrid Still Wins, But In-Person Is Back<\/h3><p>Hybrid work remained the dominant model at 52.0%, but fully in-person work more than doubled, from 10.4% to 25.5%, while fully remote arrangements declined. The association sector is moving from short-term workplace decisions into more intentional work environment design.<\/p><h3>The Sector Snapshot<\/h3><p>Naylor&#8217;s composite Best Practices Score, which tracks how effectively associations adopt high-performing engagement, measurement, and revenue strategies, rose from 42.8 to 48 this year. Taken together, these numbers point to a sector that&#8217;s more data-informed and operationally mature than it was 12 months ago, even if the path to get there looks different from association to association.<\/p><p>This is a fraction of what&#8217;s in the full report, which also covers event format preferences, social platform performance, how to get a personalized Best Practices Score Card for your own association, and more.<\/p><p>If you&#8217;re setting strategy for 2027 or just want to see how your association stacks up against the sector, I think you\u2019ll find it&#8217;s worth your time.<\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/content.naylor.com\/BenchmarkingReport26.html?utm_source=linkedin&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=AAarticle080526\">Download the full 2026 Association Benchmarking Report here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"author-info row\"><div class=\"col col-3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/Tamara_Approved-Leadership-Background-Working-Files-768x512-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><div class=\"col col-9\"><div class=\"author-info-content\"><h3>About The Author<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<strong>Tamara Perry-Lunardo<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>is the Vice President of Content Services with Naylor Association Solutions. Reach her at <a href=\"mailto:tplunardo@naylor.com\">tplunardo@naylor.com<\/a> or connect with her on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tamara-perry-lunardo\/\">LinkedIn<\/a>.\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Photo courtesy of 3rdtimeluckystudio\/<a href=\"http:\/\/Shutterstock.com\">Shutterstock.com<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, our Association Benchmarking Report offers association leaders a clear view of what&#8217;s happening across the sector. The 2026 Association Benchmarking Report, now in its 15th year, is officially available for download, and this year&#8217;s data tells a noticeably different story than last year&#8217;s. 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