Marketers in every industry are always looking for ways to better reach their target audiences. For industrial marketers, TREW marketing’s latest report [download page], produced with GlobalSpec, provides some key insights into the state of marketing to engineers in...
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Most B2B Exhibitors Will Continue Virtual Events Post-Pandemic
Some 4 in 10 B2B event organizers plan to hold a virtual event in 2021, according to a new report [download page] from the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) on trends in the virtual event space. Based on a poll of more than 340 executives at organizations...
The B2B Exhibition Industry Remained Grounded in Q3
Third-quarter data reveals that 2020 continued to be a terrible year for the B2B exhibition industry. This is per findings from the Center of Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR), which shows that their Total Index saw a decline of 98.1% over the same quarter in 2019....
How Do People Come to Be “Visible Experts” in Their Field?
The majority (56.1%) of Visible Experts’ clients say they learn just from working with the expert, but they also experience a variety of other benefits, according to a recent report [pdf] from Hinge. Per responses from the 220 Visible Experts and 275 clients surveyed,...
B2B Video ROI Reportedly Improving; Use in Sales Conversations Climbs
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 -...
Manufacturing Content Marketers Turn to Video
Manufacturing marketers are more likely to turn to video as a content type than content marketers overall, according to a recent report [pdf] from Content Marketing Institute (CMI), MarketingProfs and GlobalSpec The report outlines a range of content and channel...
B2B Marketers Pick Up New Skills During the Pandemic
This year has brought about a lot of changes for B2B marketers, with a new survey from MarketingProfs finding that in the last 6 months B2B marketers have had to deal with balancing work and changes to home life (58%), working more hours than ever before (42%) and...
Virtual Events Are A Part of “Core Strategy” For 1 in 3 Marketers Now
Some 8 in 10 (79%) marketers report that they are currently running webinars. So says a survey [webinar sign-in page] of 1,000 marketing professionals from BrightTALK, which also revealed that 84% have increased their frequency of webinars due to COVID-19. This year...
Half of B2B Marketers Say They’ve Recently Felt Burnt Out
It’s safe to say that 2020 has been a challenging year for most individuals, and it appears that the events of the year have had an impact on marketers both personally and professionally. In a recent RollWorks survey [download page] of more than 200 B2B marketing and...
Here’s What B2B Marketers Using ABM Say They’re Getting for Their Efforts
Half (51%) of B2B marketers employing account-based marketing (ABM) have seen better sales and marketing alignment as a result of their organization’s ABM initiatives, according to Demand Gen Report’s latest ABM benchmark study [download page] for 2020. Laying out the...
How Can You Improve Your B2B Virtual Event’s ROI?
Virtual events are on the up, but there are challenges inherent for organizations shifting to them, per a new report [pdf] from PathFactory. Here’s a roundup of recent changes, barriers faced and best practices, according to the study. In the aftermath of the COVID-19...
B2B Content Marketers Getting More Successful in Building Credibility
Content marketing enables B2B marketers to achieve many goals, and as time goes by more marketers are seeing the benefits of using content marketing successfully. The most recent B2B content marketing benchmarks report [download page] from the Content Marketing...

3 in 4 Want to See Female Empowerment in Ads
But… the types of categories where they see an impact from these ads are based in stereotypes.

Execs Recognize Importance of Digital CX but Struggle in Some Areas
Only 1 in 3 are very confident that they have a fully-detailed understanding and/or map of each customer’s digital journeys.

Music & Audio App Downloads Declined in the US Last Year
The number of Radio app downloads also declined in the US, bucking the global trend.

97% of B2B In-Person Events Originally Scheduled for Q4 Were Cancelled
Data from Q4 2020 shows that the B2B exhibition industry did not see any relief from months of in-person event...

US Offline Media Spend in 2020 and the Outlook for 2021
Total US advertising and marketing spend in 2020 dropped by 10.2% year-over-year to total $340.3 billion — $39 billion...

B2C Content Marketers Turn to Livestreaming in Greater Numbers
The pandemic made it necessary for B2C content marketers to think on their feet and pivot from what they had...