B2B Content Marketing 2012

B2B Content Marketing:
2013 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends–North America
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Overview: The State of B2B Content Marketing IN NORTH AMERICA
More. If one word could describe content marketing at the end of 2012, that would be it. According to the latest findings
from the Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs, B2B marketers are spending more, using more tactics, and
distributing their content on more social networks than they have in years past. Unfortunately, there is also more uncertainty.
B2B marketers are more uncertain whether they are using various content marketing tactics effectively.
 On average, B2B marketers are spending 33% of their marketing budgets on content marketing, which is up from
26% last year. 54% plan on increasing content marketing spending next year.
 All content tactics are being used more frequently, with research reports, videos, and mobile content seeing the
largest increases.
 On average, B2B marketers are using 5 social distribution channels, the most popular being LinkedIn (Twitter was the
most popular the previous 2 years).
This year, B2B marketers are most challenged with producing enough content, which is different from years past, when the top
challenge was producing engaging content.
We applaud you for doing more and trying new tactics, although we must say we are pretty sure that throwing more content
at customers is not the answer. But it’s all part of the progress we are making as we evolve from marketing departments into
what are starting to look like B2B publishing departments.
On with the content marketing revolution...
Ann Handley
Chief Content Officer
MarketingProfs
Joe Pulizzi
Founder & Executive Director
Content Marketing Institute

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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
91% of B2B marketers use content marketing.

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B2B marketers use an average of 12 content
marketing tactics.
 In general, the larger the company,
the more tactics used. Companies
with 10,000 or more employees use
an average of 18 tactics, while the
smallest companies use an average
of 11.
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

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B2B Content 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%
 Social media is now the most popular
content marketing tactic, knocking
articles out of the number one spot.
 The use of all tactics has risen across
the board, with one exception: Print
magazine use has stayed the same at 31%.

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The biggest jumps in tactics have
been in the use of:
 Research Reports
 Videos
 Mobile Content
 Virtual Conferences
The use of certain B2B content marketing tactics
has risen greatly.

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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
 B2B marketers continue to rate in-person
events as the most effective tactic they use.
 Case studies have inched slightly past
webinars/webcasts in terms of effectiveness,
while blogs have inched slightly past
videos.
 Social media just missed the list of top
tactics in terms of effectiveness, with 49%
rating it “effective” or “very effective.”
CONTENT MARKETING TACTIC EFFECTIVENESS

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Percentage of 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.

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0 20 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
 B2B marketers use an average of 5 social
media sites to distribute content.
 LinkedIn has bumped Twitter out of
the top spot as the site B2B marketers use
most to distribute content.
 Pinterest is being used by more than
25% of B2B marketers.

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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
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0 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
 Brand awareness, customer acquisition,
and lead generation remain the top
B2B content marketing goals.
 Compared with last year, more B2B marketers
are using content marketing to achieve all of
these goals, with one exception: Slightly fewer
are using content marketing to generate sales.
More B2B marketers are using content marketing
to achieve organizational goals.

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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
B2B marketers still use web traffic and sales lead quality most
often to measure the effectiveness of content marketing.
 In this the first year respondents could select
social media sharing as a measurement tool,
45% said they use it to measure effectiveness
of B2B content marketing.
 The objectives of increased customer loyalty,
benchmark lift, cross-selling, and cost savings
all decreased year-over-year.

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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.
 54% of B2B marketers say they will increase
their content marketing spending.

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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)
 The average amount of marketing budget
spent on B2B content marketing is 33%,
up from 26% in 2011.
 Most companies are spending more on
B2B content marketing, with the exception
of midsize companies, which are spending
slightly less.
33% of B2B marketing budgets are now allocated
to content marketing.

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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.
 B2B marketers still use a combination of
insourcing and outsourcing to create content,
but they are outsourcing it less frequently.
 The number of B2B marketers creating
content in-house has risen by 18 percentage
points.

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Percentage of 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)
 The larger the company, the more likely
it is to outsource content creation;
nevertheless, even among larger
companies, fewer are outsourcing.
On average, 44% of companies outsource
B2B content creation.

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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.
 91% of B2B content marketers
tailor their content in at least one
way, compared with 88% last year.

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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.
 64% of B2B content marketers say
they are challenged with producing
enough content.

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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
 Producing enough content has surpassed
producing the kind of content that engages
as the top challenge faced.
 Producing content that engages is still a
challenge; however, the number of
marketers who said it was their biggest
challenge decreased by 23 percentage points.
 More higher-ups are buying into content
marketing, and lack of budget is not as much
of a challenge as it was last year.

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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
Just 36% of B2B marketers believe they are effective
at content marketing.

Last year, 40% of B2B marketers
identified their content marketing
as “Effective” or “Very Effective”
(defined as an answer of 4 or 5 on a
scale of 1 to 5).

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Profile of a best-in-class B2B content marketer.
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%

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Profile of a best-in-class B2B content marketer.
The most effective B2B content marketers:
 Spend a higher percentage of their marketing budget on content marketing (note,
however, that slightly over half of B2B marketers across all groups plan to increase
content marketing spend next year)
 Use more tactics and distribute content on more social networks
 Tailor content to specific profiles/personas much more frequently
 Are far less challenged in terms of producing engaging content
 Are less challenged by lack of buy-in/vision from higher-ups

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B2B Content Marketing: 2013 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends–North America was produced by
Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs and sponsored by Brightcove. The survey was mailed
electronically to a sample of B2B marketers from among members and subscribers of MarketingProfs
and Content Marketing Institute. A total of 1,416 responded from North American companies in August
2012, representing a full range of industries, functional areas, and company sizes.
B2B Industry Classification
Advertising/
Marketing
25%
Other
22%
Consulting
Software
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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About Content Marketing Institute:
Content Marketing Institute (CMI) is the leading global content marketing education and training organization.
CMI teaches enterprise brands how to attract and retain customers through compelling, multi-channel
storytelling. CMI’s Content Marketing World event is the largest content marketing-focused event. CMI
also produces the quarterly magazine Chief Content Officer, and provides strategic consulting and content
marketing research for some of the best-known brands in the world. Get more content marketing resources at
ContentMarketingInstitute.com. CMI is a division of Z Squared Media, a 2012 Inc. 500 company.
About MarketingProfs:
MarketingProfs is a professional development resource that offers actionable know-how designed to make
you a smarter marketer. More than 423,000 MarketingProfs subscribers rely on us to stay up-to-date on the
most important trends in marketing—from social media and content marketing to lead generation and email
marketing. MarketingProfs delivers enhanced professional development training via online seminars and
short webcasts, in-depth how-to reports, research, interactive planning tools, online courses, and in-person
events. Subscribe to our actionable daily newsletter at MarketingProfs.com.
About Brightcove:
Brightcove Inc. (NASDAQ: BCOV), a leading global provider of cloud content services, offers a family of
products used to publish and distribute the world’s professional digital media. The company’s products
include Video Cloud, the market-leading online video platform, App Cloud, a pioneering content app platform,
and Zencoder, a leading cloud-based media processing service and HTML5 video player technology provider.
Brightcove has more than 4,650 customers in over 50 countries that rely on Brightcove cloud content services
to build and operate media experiences across PCs, smartphones, tablets, and connected TVs. For more
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