30-second summary: 94%of content marketers think they succeeded in adopting their content marketing strategy to the COVID-19 pandemic Only 25% think that the COVID-19 outbreak had a major impact on their marketing strategy. A Minor 15% of feel the pandemic will have a major long-term impact on their organization’s overall marketing success. Global content marketing is projected to decline 1.9% in 2020. Overall, marketing professionals tend to be overconfident and downplay the impact of this global crisis. Self-deception is defined by Wikipedia as “a process of denying or rationalizing away the relevance, significance, or importance of opposing evidence and logical argument. Self-deception involves convincing oneself of a truth (or lack of truth) so that one does not reveal any self-knowledge of the deception.” Savvy B2B marketers often have the reputation of being able to praise the products and services they are pushing regardless of their real value. But these days …

30-second summary: Ceros polled a thousand industry professionals to see what works (and what doesn’t work) when it comes to creating compelling content. The poll found that immersive content was overwhelmingly used by the most effective marketers, versus static content like PDFs. Immersive content is defined as words, charts, data visualizations, and other content that a reader interacts with or experiences, rather than reads passively. Most companies don’t develop enough immersive content due to a lack of resources, in-house skills and buy-in from leadership and instead stick with static content such as blog posts and e-books. Ceros is an experiential content design platform whose clients include a variety of top-tier organizations like Red Bull, CBRE, and Bloomberg. These companies use the platform to collaborate on, create, and publish compelling visual content without the need for code. Ceros recently polled a thousand marketing, PR, and design professionals to better understand how …

30-second summary: The driving force behind many B2B marketing initiatives is content creation, but all content is not equal. Some content types are better for closing the deal than others. Tying content to specific stages of the buying cycle has been shown to increase b2B buyer engagement and lead to more deals. B2B buying groups spend most of their time researching new solutions independently. They use content to help facilitate this process. By creating content that matches different needs on the buying cycle, B2B marketers can help guide buyers in their increasingly self-guided buying process. Marketers who understand the job inherent in the buying funnel are in a better position to create content that helps buyers complete them. B2B marketing teams are juggling a million balls, with responsibilities that include driving demand gen and awareness through outbound marketing, creating compelling messaging for their company’s unique audience (not to mention defining …

We analyzed 502 B2B companies to better understand how they approach content marketing. And to help identify content marketing approaches work best in the B2B space. Specifically, we looked at: How many B2B companies have a blog The types of content are they publishing How much organic traffic B2B blogs receive each month The characteristics of top performing B2B content And more Now it’s time to share what we discovered. Our summary findings are as follows: 1. 72% of B2B companies have a blog. Put another way, 28% of B2B companies don’t have a blog. 2. Only 8% of B2B companies solely use their blogs for sharing company-focused, PR-style content. 3. B2B blogs that create education content receive 52% more organic traffic than those that mainly publish content about their company. 4. Only 29% of B2B companies allow comments on their blog posts. 5. 65% of B2B companies use stock …

30-second summary: Content marketing has the key to a lot of opportunities, NetLine Corporation analysed their first-party data sources and the outcomes strongly support this statement 76% of marketers saw webinars as a good source to drive more leads Ebooks, whitepapers, and guides topped the content demand list, but there’s a twist Who’s most likely to demand more content? C-Suite executives vs Senior VPs The magic time window to reach a CEO was… read on to find out “Content & Experience” technology peaked marketers’ purchase interest in March, April, and May Only 8% of respondents across industries said their AI-relevant data are accessible by systems across the organization AI spotlight: Growth rate, front-runners, and content marketing Recent times have increasingly added emphasis on “adding value” and “being at the right place at the right time”. Today’s article shows exactly how these can be achieved through content marketing, a great marketing …

B2B marketers were prioritizing digital advertising as part of their 2020 strategy even before COVID-19 disrupted business as usual and forced marketers to shift even more of their focus onto digital. So, it’s not surprising that even amid the uncertainty the pandemic has caused, new data from eMarketer shows that B2B digital ad spending in… Read More » The post B2B Marketers Turn to Digital Advertising in Greater Numbers appeared first on Marketing Charts .

Organizations continue to see video as a viable form of content. The latest State of Video report [download page] from Demand Metric and Vidyard finds that even more organizations are seeing its value, with 76% of the marketers and sales professionals surveyed – largely targeting B2B or B2B and B2C equally – saying that video… Read More » The post B2B Video ROI Reportedly Improving; Use in Sales Conversations Climbs appeared first on Marketing Charts .

30-second summary: Consumers are becoming more conscious of how they shop, with an increased focus on small, minority-owned, women-owned, and Black-owned businesses. Shopping this year has more sentimental value as shoppers look for a morale boost. Nearly, half, (43%) of consumers used shopping as a means to cheer up family and friends. Mastercard predicted that 77% of Americans will choose to shop local while 75% of consumers intend to prefer shopping from businesses that share their personal values. Email and content marketing have stood as pillars for brands through 2020, these will be a make or break factor for businesses to succeed in 2021. Email marketing has an average ROI that is 4X higher than any other channel with APAC getting the highest open rates and EMEA winning the highest CTR. The top seven industries in terms of open rates and CTR revealed. Top priorities businesses must-have for email 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: COVID-19 and world recession eclipse the UK consumer sentiment as McKinsey & Company track a 46% growth in pessimism about their economic recovery The five most positive shifts and how they are here to stay Majority of marketing professionals believed that BAU will return in a year 2020 is the year for perfect vision in terms of CXO (customer experience optimization) How many SEO tools do marketers use? Feed your curiosity and discover more on local SEO and strategies. The COVID-19 waves have brought upon a unique fashion of ebb and flow in the marketing sea. Our key insights continue to reflect the new developments in the face of marketing as 2020 progresses. Pessimism continues to eclipse UK consumers Consumer behavior is a mosaic that has continued to shape up a new abstract in recent months. McKinsey & Company have continually been observing consumer thoughts and trends and …