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Is paid social advertising still worth it in 2023?

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Our benchmark report found the average cost per opportunity (CPO) on LinkedIn and Facebook to be $3,162.89 Those numbers can eat into your budget quickly, but accepting that you’re locked into that CPL or CPO forever and writing off paid social as “too expensive” is a mistake. Before meeting Joe, I’d lost faith in lead gen.

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B2B Paid Social Benchmarks: What We Learned From $15M in Spend on Facebook and LinkedIn

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For example, an $82 CPC could be great for a company that only targets CEOs of maritime engineering companies with a $100k ACV product, but horrible for a company selling task management software to developers for $12/month. You’ll optimize to this metric if you’re running a brand campaign, while you’ll optimize to CPL for lead gen.

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B2B Paid Social Benchmarks: What We Learned From $15M in Spend on Facebook and LinkedIn

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For example, an $82 CPC could be great for a company that only targets CEOs of maritime engineering companies with a $100k ACV product, but horrible for a company selling task management software to developers for $12/month. You’ll optimize to this metric if you’re running a brand campaign, while you’ll optimize to CPL for lead gen.