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2 SponSored by Chief Content
Officer MarketingProfs Founder & Executive Director Content Marketing Institute

3 SponSored by Percentage of
B2B Respondents Using Content Marketing 91% use content marketing 9% do not use content marketing 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks–North America: CMI/MarketingProfs

4 SponSored by B2B marketers
use an average of 12 content marketing tactics. AverageNumberof Tactics B2B Marketers Use 11% 14% 19% 28% 0 10 20 30 40 7% 20+Tactics 16-19Tactics 13-15Tactics 20% 10-12Tactics 5-9Tactics 1-4Tactics Average: 12 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks–North America: CMI/MarketingProfs

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Marketing Usage (by Tactic) 0 20 40 60 80 100 Social Media – Other than Blogs Articles on Your Website eNewsletters Blogs Case Studies Videos Articles on Other Websites In-person Events White Papers Webinars/Webcasts Research Reports Microsites Infographics Branded Content Tools Mobile Content eBooks Print Magazines Books Virtual Conferences Podcasts Mobile Apps Digital Magazines Print Newsletters Annual Reports Licensed/Syndicated Content Games/Gamification 87% 83% 77% 78% 70%70% 69% 61% 59% 44% 40% 38% 38% 33% 32% 31% 29% 28% 27% 26% 26% 25% 24% 20% 11% 71% 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks–North America: CMI/MarketingProfs

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Content Marketing Benchmarks–North America: CMI/MarketingProfs The use of certain B2B content marketing tactics has risen greatly.

7 SponSored by Confidence Gap
Effectiveness Ratings of Tactics Among B2B Users 67% 33% 36% 39% 41% 42% 42% 43% 43% 45% 47% 50% 50% 64% 61% 59% 58% 58% 57% 57% 55% 53% 50% 50% BelieveIt’sEffective BelieveIt’sLessEffective 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 In-personEvents CaseStudies Webinars/Webcasts Blogs Videos eNewsletters ResearchReports WhitePapers eBooks Microsites ArticlesonYourWebsite ArticlesonOtherWebsites 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks–North America: CMI/MarketingProfs

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B2B Marketers Using Social Media to DistributeContent 2012 2011 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 87% 74% More B2B marketers are using social media to distribute content. 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks–North America: CMI/MarketingProfs

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40 60 80 100 83% 71% 74% 70% 56% 13% 20% 10% 80% 80% 61% 39% 26% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 12% 23% 10% 10% 8% 7% 7% 6% LinkedIn Twitter Facebook YouTube Google+ Pinterest SlideShare Vimeo Flickr StumbleUpon Foursquare Instagram Tumblr Quora B2B 2012 2011 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks–North America: CMI/MarketingProfs

10 SponSored by Organizational Goals
for B2B Content Marketing 79% 74% 71% 64% 64% 63% 60% 45% 43% BrandAwareness CustomerAcquisition LeadGeneration CustomerRetention/Loyalty ThoughtLeadership Engagement WebsiteTraffic Sales Lead Management/Nurturing 10 0 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 More B2B marketers are using content marketing to achieve organizational goals. 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks–North America: CMI/MarketingProfs

11 SponSored by MeasurementCriteria for
B2B Content Marketing Success 51% 45% 43% 41% 41% 41% 39% 35% 26% 24% 22% 13% 5% 60% 10 0 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 WebTraffic SalesLeadQuality SocialMediaSharing SalesLead Quantity DirectSales SEORanking InboundLinks Cross-selling CostSavings BenchmarkLiftofCompanyAwareness IncreasedCustomerLoyalty BenchmarkLiftofProduct/ServiceAwareness Time Spenton Website Qualitative Feedback from Customers 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks–North America: CMI/MarketingProfs

12 SponSored by B2B Content
MarketingSpending (Over Next 12 Months) 9% 45% Significantly Increase Decrease 34% Remainthe Same 2% Unsure 10% Increase More than half of B2B marketers plan to increase their content marketing budget over the next 12 months. 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks–North America: CMI/MarketingProfs

13 SponSored by Total Marketing
Budget Spent onB2BContentMarketing 42% 34% 26% 23% 20% 31% 2012 2011 22% 24% 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Micro(FewerThan10Employees) Small(10-99Employees) 26% 33% Overall Midsize(100-999Employees) Large(1000+Employees) 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks–North America: CMI/MarketingProfs 33% of B2B marketing budgets are now allocated to content marketing.

14 SponSored by Insourcing vs.
Outsourcing of B2B Content Creation 56% 38% 4% 58% 1% 2012 2011 43% 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 In-HouseOnly OutsourcedOnly Both More companies are creating B2B marketing content in-house. 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks–North America: CMI/MarketingProfs

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Companies that Outsource B2B Content Creation 33% 53% 60% 62% 74% 42% 2012 2011 53% 65% 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Micro(FewerThan10Employees) Small(10-99Employees) 58% 44% Average Midsize(100-999Employees) Large(1000+Employees) 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks–North America: CMI/MarketingProfs On average, 44% of companies outsource B2B content creation.

16 SponSored by How B2B
Organizations Tailor Content 59% 57% 51% 39% 12% 52% 2012 2011 42% 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 ProfileofIndividualDecisionMakers CompanyCharacteristics 8% None StageintheBuyingCycle N/A 23% PersonalizedContentPreferences Nearly all B2B marketers segment their content. 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks–North America: CMI/MarketingProfs

17 SponSored by Challengesthat B2B
Content Marketers Face 64% 52% 14% ProducingEnoughContent ProducingtheKindofContentthatEngages 39% LackofBudget 22% LackofBuy-in/Vision 26% LackofKnowledge,Training,andResources 45% ProducingaVarietyofContent 33% InabilitytoMeasureContentEffectiveness FindingTrainedContentMarketingProfessionals 25% LackofIntegrationAcrossMarketing 10 0 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Producing enough content is now the #1 challenge faced by B2B content marketers. 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks–North America: CMI/MarketingProfs

18 SponSored by Biggest B2B
Content Marketing Challenge 29% 20% 41% 18% 12% 18% 2012 2011 14% 7% 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 ProducingEnoughContent ProducingtheKindofContentthatEngages N/A N/A 6% LackofKnowledge,Training,andResources LackofBudget LackofBuy-in/Vision 7% 5% ProducingaVarietyofContent 5% InabilitytoMeasureContentEffectiveness N/A 4% LackofIntegrationAcrossMarketing N/A 2% FindingTrainedContentMarketingProfessionals 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks–North America: CMI/MarketingProfs

19 SponSored by How B2B
Marketers Rate the Effectiveness of Their Organization’s Use of Content Marketing 6% 30% 45% 15% 2% Very Effective Not At All Effective 10 0 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 5 4 3 2 1 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks–North America: CMI/MarketingProfs

20 SponSored by Comparison of
Most Effective B2B ContentMarketers with Least Effective B2B ContentMarketers Percentageofmarketingbudget allocatedtocontentmarketing Averagenumberoftacticsused Averagenumberof socialplatformsused Percentagethatplanstoincrease contentmarketingspendnextyear Tailorcontenttoprofileof decisionmaker Challengedwithproducing engagingcontent Challengedwithlackofbuy-in/vision fromhigher-ups MostEffective Overall/Average LeastEffective 46% 33% 16% 14 12 8 6 5 3 54% 54% 53% 71% 59% 41% 39% 52% 70% 12% 22% 14% 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks–North America: CMI/MarketingProfs

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22 SPONSORED BY B2B Industry
Classification Advertising/ Marketing 25% Other 22% Consulting e Manufacturing Internet/Online Services Publishing/ Media 12% 12% 6% 6% 5% 5% 4% 3% Business Services (Other) Healthcare/Medical/ Pharmaceutical Banking/Accounting/ Financial Size of B2B Company (by Employees) Micro (Fewer than 10 Employees) 39% Small (10-99 Employees) 28% Midsize (100-999 Employees) Large (1000+ Employees) 17% 5% B2B Job Title/Function Advertising/Marketing Communications/PR 37% Corporate Management/Owner Content Creation/Management 31% 7% Other 3% Marketing Administration/ Support 6% Sales Administration/ Support 1% Website/Technology Programmer 1% 6% 5% Consultant Sales/Business Management 5% General Management

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