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Manufacturing Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends: Outlook for 2025

Manufacturing Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends: Outlook for 2025 [Research]

Manufacturing marketers face challenges in everything from content strategies to creation and measurement. In this new research, discover their hurdles, preferred content types, use of AI, paid channel effectiveness, and more.
Don’t Start an Original Research Project Before Answering These 8 Questions

Don’t Start an Original Research Project Before Answering These 8 Questions

Original research presents unique benefits for your content marketing strategy. But not just anyone or any AI tool can do it well. Before you get started, read through — and answer — these eight questions.
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39+ Content Marketing Statistics To Help You Succeed in 2024

The end of the year is a time to reflect on the year behind and anticipate the year ahead. Use these statistics and related resources to make a case for the budget and other resources you need, document a winning content strategy, and decide how big a role video will play in your 2024 plans.
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Why Most Video Content Fails To Reach Its Full Potential [New Research]

An important tool for creating human connections, video stands as a top priority in most content marketing programs. New CMI research explores how marketers are using this format – and what they need to achieve better results.
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Surprising and Expected Results From Tech Content Marketers [New Research]

Tech marketers, take note. How does your content marketing relate to your peers? CMI’s newly released Technology Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends: Insights for 2023 shares the answers.
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Video Grows in Importance But Doesn’t Reach Full Potential [New Research]

Video remains a top priority in content marketing programs. But how well are marketers using the popular format? What do they need to do better? Find out that and more in the newly released 2022 Video and Visual Storytelling survey.
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Tech Marketers Shine But Face a Big Hurdle: Content Operations [New Research]

Tech marketers have a good handle on content marketing, according to the latest CMI research. But that doesn’t mean they’ve avoided the challenges and growing pains experienced by their colleagues in other industries.
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Manufacturing Marketers: 5 Ways to Keep Your Momentum [New Research]

Manufacturing marketers still struggle with getting people in their companies to understand content marketing. But they saw progress in 2021 when traditional sales methods were less useful. See what else these marketers had to say.
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7 Things Content Marketers Told Us About Video [New Research]

Video’s role in content marketing has elevated in the past two years. Find out what types deliver the best results, why you shouldn’t give up every other content format, and more in the latest CMI Video & Visual Storytelling Survey.
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How Well Does Content and Marketing Help Sales Teams? [New Research]

Sales enablement boils down to helping your sales team be successful. How well are marketers working with sales to do that with content? Check out the findings from CMI’s latest research.
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Conversions Attract Attention of More Tech Marketers [New Research]

More tech content marketers are looking to numbers directly tied to outcome – demand generation, leads, and conversions – to evaluate their content performance. Learn more of what they had to say in CMI’s newly released research report.
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Manufacturing Content Marketers Shift Gears in a COVID-19 World [New Research]

In today’s turbulent times, manufacturing content marketers have done the big things to adapt in a COVID-19 world. Learn from CMI’s latest research what they’re doing differently, what’s kept pace, and what’s growing as you wrap up 2020 and prepare for 2021.