Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, B2B marketers have seen a shift towards digital when it comes to content consumption – and their own sales model. As such, it’s not surprising that the majority of B2B marketing leaders surveyed for a report [download page] from Gartner are expecting to increase their marketing budgets for… Read More » The post The Majority of B2B CMOs Expect to Increase Their Spending on A Variety of Digital Channels Next Year appeared first on Marketing Charts .

30-second summary: 35% of marketers said their marketing budgets were decreasing, the slump, however, shows signs of recovery in the past week On the contrary, 36% increasing spend on marketing technology while 40% of marketers chose to maintain the same budgets for martech spending ‘Content and experience’ and ‘data’ are the top two technologies marketing leaders are keen on purchasing The least preferred technologies were ‘Social and relationships’ and ‘Management’ We’ve been tracking six core marketing trends since May 1st to identify industry dynamics and project marketing leaders’ thoughts about their budgets, marketing technology spend preferences and more. There have been some remarkable shifts since the first report was released. Read on to derive some exciting insights. Marketing budgets overall see a recovering uptick As the global recession continues to surge, the figures mentioned below reinstate the downward movement trend for marketing budgets. However, if you observe the graph shared …

Only 1 in 3 B2B marketers and demand generation professionals agree that event marketing budgets will return to normal once the COVID-19 pandemic is over. These figures come from Activate’s latest State of Demand Generation Report [download page], produced in partnership with MarketingCharts, and suggest that this year’s reallocation of budgets following cancellation of B2B… Read More » The post Only 1 in 3 B2B Demand Gen Marketers Believe Event Marketing Budgets Will Return to Normal appeared first on Marketing Charts .

Content marketing enables B2B marketers to achieve many goals, and as time goes by more marketers are seeing the benefits of using content marketing successfully. The most recent B2B content marketing benchmarks report [download page] from the Content Marketing Institute (CMI) along with MarketingProfs and ON24 shows that more marketers report this year having achieved… Read More » The post B2B Content Marketers Getting More Successful in Building Credibility appeared first on Marketing Charts .

From content marketing to budgets, metrics, and processes, our collection of 2019’s top B2B marketing charts reveals some of the most important trends in the B2B marketing space from both the marketer and buyer perspective. Head on over here to download your copy of the deck, which contains our most popular charts of the year… Read More » The post New Deck: Top 20 B2B Marketing Charts of 2019 appeared first on Marketing Charts .

30-second summary: As of August, nearly 42% of marketers reported decreasing marketing budgets. Interestingly, 33% of marketing budgets are allocated to marketing technology. 44% of CMOs experienced mid-year budget cuts with 11% expecting significant budget cuts. Top marketing technologies on marketers’ minds that will win wallet share. CMOs’ plans, strategic preferences, and intentions to give 2021 revenues that extra push. Will they explore beyond their existing markets? Find out what’s in store. All things new, exciting, and technology that happened at ClickZ this month Businesses are now acclimatizing as focuses shifted from surviving COVID-19 to co-existing with the pandemic. We’ve been tracking six-core marketing parameters and this week’s insights give you a quick snapshot of where the industry is headed and how CMOs plans are looking for 2021 growth. The marketing budget situation The market has been highly volatile due to the COVID-19 pandemic and following the global recession. Marketing …

Among the myriad impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the professional world, B2B digital content engagement has increased significantly since lockdown directives were put in place, with asset views up by 40%. So finds PathFactory’s recent report exploring the state of B2B content engagement since the outbreak based on surveys fielded before (January… Read More » The post B2B Buyers’ Engagement With Digital Content Has Grown During the Pandemic, With Some Behavior Changes appeared first on Marketing Charts .

30-second summary: Board members, C-level, and Director+ level executives from retail and ecommerce, technology, media and publishing, and other businesses participated in our ClickZ and Search Engine Watch: Benchmark survey 2020 29.3% marketing leaders thought their current marketing technology stack is average in terms of achieving their marketing goals 46.3% said their marketing budgets are staying the same, while 28.4% said their marketing budgets are increasing Marketing leaders are planning to increase their marketing technology spends The top six technology marketers want to evaluate and invest in were – Search and social advertising, ecommerce marketing tools, experience building and management Lots more to discover in a quick snapshot We picked the brains of Director+ level executives to bring you juicy data insights on martech spending budgets, the technology they are keen on buying with a further detailed drill-down of each segment. More observations from the industry’s biggest acquisitions in the …

Despite the impact of COVID-19, budgets for demand generation are holding up more than B2B marketing as a whole. Fewer than 1 in 5 (18%) B2B marketers say that they expect their budgets for demand generation to decrease, whereas 3 in 10 (31%) say their overall marketing budgets will fall. These figures come from Activate’s… Read More » The post How B2B Demand Generation Has Adapted in 2020 appeared first on Marketing Charts .

30-second summary: Marketing technology spend has risen from the March slump towards the early phase of June A seven-day rolling of the statistics showed that 41% are increasing their marketing technology spend budgets Our benchmark survey revealed that 62% of marketers are confident about achieving their goals Search & Social Advertising, Ecommerce marketing, SEO, and Mobile & Web Analytics stand strong as marketers’ favorite technologies across April, May, and early June The chariot is only as fast as the slowest horse, so how will marketers achieve their goals? The world has moved from lockdown to an unlock phase into the new normal, and as that happens here’s a quick look at the progressions of the marketing mix. Current marketing technology stacks haven’t won confidence The chariot is only as fast as the slowest horse, so how will marketers achieve their goals? Our benchmark survey revealed that 62% of marketers are …