Sprout Social

JANUARY 4, 2022

The sheer number of available formats and venues for social media video illustrates the point well (think TikTok, Instagram Reels and Facebook Stories, just to name a few). Of those social media marketers who use video, 93% say it’s a vital component of their strategies. Social media video marketing statistics. landscape).

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Forrester B2B

MAY 13, 2022

Business decision makers are making the shift to anywhere work and spending more of their time with digital media. How much time are B2B buyers spending with digital media? About half of the business decision-makers in Forrester’s Q4 2021 B2B Advertising Trends Survey said they […].

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The Point

JULY 18, 2014

Over at Forrester Research, Vice President Laura Ramos recently talked to Advertising Age (“ Marketers Still Struggling to Get Results from Content Marketing “) about what she perceives as a general lack of return from the investment so many companies are making in content marketing.

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Although the level of marketing spend doesn’t usually correlate to marketing effectiveness, it is useful to know how others in your industry or other companies of similar size are spending their money on marketing. It’s worth trying out: Forrester Benchmarking Tool. Five Benchmarks. Measure Yourself (Free!).

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Summary: Here are links to about twenty studies with statistics on online media consumption and advertising spend. Many are contradictory, but it's clear that marketers need to invest in social media, which might eventually replace search as the primary way that customers find them. of the total.

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Top Rank Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Social Media Today U.S. advertising market recorded a rise in year-over-year ad spending, with a scant 0.1 Ad Market Posts Third Consecutive Gain In September, Albeit Marginally September marked the third consecutive month that the U.S. MediaPost Pew Research: Brands Not Targeting Gen X Are ‘Leaving Major Revenue On The Table.’

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Top Rank Marketing

DECEMBER 29, 2023

B2B growth plan: perfecting partner ecosystem marketing 45 percent of B2B marketing decision-makers at typical B2B organizations have said that new or renewed ecosystem partners were their primary revenue source, as more B2B companies have moved towards broadening their partner ecosystems, according to newly-published Forrester Research data.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 6, 2017

It’s not every day that you hear someone saying, “The return on my social media strategy is outstanding!” ” In fact, new research from eMarketer shows that less than 20% of B2B marketers know for sure that their social media is generating positive results, and I’d guess the B2C data is similar.

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Martech

APRIL 12, 2024

Fully 75% of global 100 organizations say CX is a top priority, according to Forrester Research. Annual spending on CDPs is predicted to grow from $2.13 BlueConic For B2C and B2B companies with significant experience across consumer goods, retail/ecommerce, media and publishing, telecommunications and financial services sectors.

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Madison Logic

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Forrester research finds that 67% of B2B marketers say buyers are taking longer to commit to purchases than last year. Thirty percent of VPs and other functional leaders spend more than seven hours a week reviewing business topics and trends.

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Vidyard

MARCH 11, 2016

It only makes sense then to see companies slowly ramping up their content spend. Forrester has been following marketers to ask them how those efforts were going, and the answer is… not so well. Read on for solutions to the content funk such as: Putting content investment ahead of media and program choices.

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Madison Logic

MAY 24, 2023

Forrester evaluated 14 providers against 26 criteria across three categories, including data coverage, data acquisition and processing, data security and compliance, and analytics capabilities. Click here to access a complimentary download of The Forrester Wave™: B2B Intent Data Provider, Q2 2023 report.

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Madison Logic

MAY 24, 2023

Forrester evaluated 14 providers against 26 criteria across three categories, including data coverage, data acquisition and processing, data security and compliance, and analytics capabilities. Click here to access a complimentary download of The Forrester Wave™: B2B Intent Data Provider, Q2 2023 report.

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Martech

JULY 25, 2022

And it’s not just marketing department jobs and media budgets that are at stake. Seventy-one percent of B2C marketing executives expected that demonstrating the value of marketing to the CEO, CFO and the board would be “very challenging” or “extremely challenging” in 2022, a Forrester survey found.

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Top Rank Marketing

JUNE 30, 2023

media spending came from the digital sector during May, 2023 — up from 56 percent a year earlier, as the overall ad spending level increased for the first time in 11 months, according to recent ad index data. MarketingCharts U.S. Ad Index Expands For First Time In 11 Months In May 60 percent of overall U.S. Bureau of Labor data.

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KoMarketing Associates

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Having the ability to fully leverage data allows marketers to make faster and better decisions, reduce spending waste, and improve customer experiences and targeting. On the other hand, the inability to use valuable and accurate data will lead to wasted marketing spend and lost customers. Don’t forget about social media.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 23, 2023

We can’t control consumer spending or the economy at large. In 2023, 77% of consumers report being more likely to increase their spending with brands they feel connected to. In uncertain times, we might want to stick to what’s comfortable—and Forrester predicts that most CMOs will go that route this year.

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SmartBrief - Marketing

JULY 25, 2023

Because of the volatile economic climate and rising inflation costs, many are trimming their marketing spend. In contrast, less than 15% of the marketing leaders surveyed by Forrester said they planned to cut their marketing technology budget or social media marketing spend.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Global spending on cognitive and AI systems will reach $57.6 Forrester predicts cognitive technologies such as robots, AI, machine learning, and automation will replace 16% of U.S. Forrester predicts cognitive technologies such as robots, AI, machine learning, and automation will create 9% of new U.S. AI Priorities and Plans.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 14, 2019

According to research from Forrester , CMOs are spending more on tech than any other C-suite members. Through 2022, CMOs are projected to increase their spend on automation, data, and tools by up to 11%. Over that timeframe, they’re expected to boost their agency services spend by 2.4%.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 29, 2020

Content marketers typically know much they spend, but understanding how much they help the company earn requires a bit more investigation. Don’t get too hung up on vanity metrics , such as views and likes on your social media posts. Compare the differences between engaged customers and disengaged.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 22, 2021

If you manage a marketing budget, you know how much money goes into two critical areas: paid media and marketing technology. Results certainly vary and different advertising tactics work better at different times, but Bizible benchmark data showed that, on average, LinkedIn Ads provided the #1 ROI among major paid media platforms.

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ScanmarQED

MARCH 17, 2021

These learnings when applied to optimizing media budgets help drive long-term performance.?But?it Forrester coined the term “Unified Measurement” in 2016 to describe this?process. You also support your brand through Online Display Ads, Paid Search, Paid Social Media,?and all spends change, but?for you can compare?all

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 8, 2023

It outlines the timing, frequency, and type of communication (such as emails, phone calls, social media interactions, and follow-ups) to systematically move a prospect through the sales process. In fact, you should avoid outright selling on social media. A heads up: you won’t achieve this by moving your sales pitch online.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 2013

There is a ton of interesting insights in the report, which I emphatically recommend you download for free : Here’s some of what I wrote in my analysis: Social media is categorically NOT a meaningful source of direct traffic to ecommerce websites or of direct purchase conversions on those sites. that would be a viable hypothesis.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

According to Gartner, worldwide IT spending growth has been revised upwards to 2.6% Moreover, a major "sea change" has occurred in technology spending and purchase decision-making - with significant implications for your organizations sales and marketing strategy. Although the current forecast is lower than the original 3.2%

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Top Rank Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2023

Forrester ON THE LIGHTER SIDE: A lighthearted look at “Third-Party Cookiepocalypse” by Marketoonist Tom Fishburne — Marketoonist Adobe and Microsoft break some old files by removing PostScript font support — Ars Technica TOPRANK MARKETING & CLIENTS IN THE NEWS: Lane R.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 1, 2016

Gartner recently published their latest worldwide IT spending forecasts, and with a likely economic slowdown on the horizon, are projecting an anemic 0.6% Most technology spending decisions are now driven and controlled by business groups vs. formal IT. Sources: Gartner Says Worldwide IT Spending is Forecast to Grow 0.6

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Contently

AUGUST 22, 2017

While the Google trends chart is very useful when you’re making the case for content marketing, it’s not nearly as telling as a different chart from Forrester, which maps the hype cycle of marketing technologies. Look where content marketing falls—smack dab in what Forrester calls the trough of disillusionment.

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ClickZ

APRIL 29, 2020

marketers now spend more on marketing technology than on salaries for internal staff. In 2018, 29 percent of their budgets, excluding media spend and agency fees, went to martech while just 24 percent went to paying staff. Forrester projections show spending on global marketing automation tech hit $13.4

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EveryoneSocial

JUNE 10, 2020

Below, I’ll explore the concept of brand equity, how it pertains to social media engagement, and tips for maximizing your brand’s equity through employees today. While I don’t want to spend too much time on this preliminary section, it’s important we still cover some basics as to why brand equity is increasingly important.

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Only B2B

MARCH 27, 2024

B2B marketers spend countless hours crafting campaigns, social media posts, and targeted ads, all in the name of capturing potential customers. Ah, the never-ending quest for qualified leads! But what happens after that initial spark of interest? Do all those website visitors and content downloads translate into sales conversations?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Labeled “Mass Influencers&# this army of 29 million opinionated chatterboxes may very well be the key to your social media success. million followers on Twitter? Fly more miles, get priority seating on an airline.

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Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 147

Sprout Social

MAY 3, 2023

We are the lens into how we can better position ourselves, our company and our product for future growth—a viewpoint that depends on social media. In the current climate, whether you’re a CMO with a background in strategy or demand generation, you will be called upon to communicate the value of social media to your CFO.

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QuanticMind

JUNE 22, 2023

Who knows: A new report from Forrester predicts that artificial intelligence will lead to the loss of 33,000 US advertising agency jobs by the end of the decade. powerhouse: It’s forecast to overtake YouTube in daily screen time, and 75% of US brands are planning to increase their spend on the channel this year.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 18, 2011

People say social media is unicorn, but it’s really just a horse. Sure, social media empowers customers like nothing before it. And of course, social media creates a new level of real-time accountability for companies previously accustomed to asynchronous communication. These are the ways social media is different.

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Vidyard

MARCH 20, 2018

Forrester reports that social selling is no longer optional–it’s required. They’re using messaging apps, social media, and video to gain an extra edge. They’re using messaging apps, social media, and video to gain an extra edge. Select The Right Social Selling Tools. Why social selling tools beat email.

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