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Elevate B2B Marketing News Weekly Roundup: B2B Sales Rising, Google’s AI Ad Tools, LinkedIn’s Video Success & More

Posted on Apr 7th, 2023
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    Very Few B2B Salespeople Say They Typically Deal With A Single Decision-Maker
    30 percent of B2B salespeople have said that their sales teams generally deal with between two and four people, with seven percent interacting with just one person, while 14 percent pointed to intra-departmental buying committees of five or more people — three of the findings of interest to B2B marketers contained in newly-published survey data. MarketingCharts

    Some B2B agencies see a spike in business as market conditions remain unclear
    46 percent of B2B marketers are placing more emphasis on expanding services with existing customers, with 37 percent increasing marketing budgets to boost market share, as some B2B agencies are seeing an uptick in business, with more marketing tools being put to use to help counter economic uncertainly, and DigiDay takes a look. DigiDay

    “There’s a blurriness between sales and marketing in B2B that you don’t see in consumer ad spending.” — Brian Wieser @BrianWieser Share on X

    What B2B Marketing Teams That Outperform the Competition Do Differently
    25 percent of B2B marketers at high-performing firms have said that their brand activation efforts are extremely creative, compared to just eight percent of firms in lower-performing categories, while 20 percent at high-performing firms said they had a common plan and worked as a team with sales, compared to some 13 percent noted by lower-performers, according to recently-released survey data. MarketingProfs

    Google Ads Tests AI To Help You Create Ads
    Search giant Google has conducted tests that allow artificial intelligence (AI) to aid in the creation of ads within its Google Ads platform, including using the technology to suggest ad headlines and descriptive information, Google recently announced. Search Engine Roundtable

    The secret sauce behind LinkedIn’s $5bn advertising business
    Microsoft-owned LinkedIn (client) will reach its 20th birthday during May, and expects to top the one billion user threshold during the next few years, and The Drum has taken a look at how the professional social media platform continues to enhance marketer opportunities specifically in the B2B sector. The Drum

    Despite All The Hype, Dentsu Survey Finds Just 27% Of Consumers Have Used Generative AI Tools
    42 percent of U.S. consumers have said that they are interested in generative AI, while over 70 percent said they believed that brands should disclose its use — two of several findings of interest to B2B marketers contained in newly-published survey data. MediaPost

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    New Study Highlights Key Tips for LinkedIn Video Campaigns, Based on Analysis of 16k Campaigns
    When it comes to what works in LinkedIn video efforts, the inclusion of relevant statistics, data-rich notes, and highlighting key campaign points early on were all seen as helping to increase video engagement rates, according to recently-released joint LinkedIn and VidMob study data. Social Media Today

    Agencies’ Confidence in Instagram and Facebook’s Effectiveness Wanes
    45 percent of marketing agency professionals have said that they are either confident or very confident in Instagram when it comes to driving marketing success during the first quarter of 2023, which is a six percent drop from the same period in 2022, with fellow Meta-owned firm Facebook seeing a drop in confidence from 59 percent last year to 44 percent this year, according to recently-published survey data . MarketingCharts

    LinkedIn Adds Algorithmically Suggested Posts to Boost Engagement
    LinkedIn has rolled out expanded suggested posts within its users’ content feed, in a move that could increase new and trending content exposure opportunities for brands on the professional platform, LinkedIn recently announced. Social Media Today

    How Video Consumption is Changing in 2023 [New Research]
    A robust 91 percent of businesses have said that they utilize video in marketing efforts, with consumers being 52 percent more likely to watch video content than other types, while 66 percent said they had watched video content in order to learn about a product or brand during 2022 — three of numerous statistics of interest to B2B marketers contained in newly-released HubSpot report data. HubSpot

    ON THE LIGHTER SIDE:

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    A lighthearted look at “Navigating AI Hype” by Marketoonist Tom Fishburne — Marketoonist

    Facebook Entirely Memorialized Accounts — The Onion

    TOPRANK MARKETING & CLIENTS IN THE NEWS:

    • Lee Odden — This Week in Marketing: Redefining the Qualified Lead — LinkedIn (client)
    • Lee Odden — Tips for partnering with a B2B influencer on LinkedIn — CPA Australia

    FRIDAY FIVE B2B MARKETING FAVORITES TO FOLLOW:

    Charlene Li @charleneli
    Duena Blomstrom @DuenaBlomstrom
    Efi Pylarinou @efipm
    Cathy Hackl @CathyHackl
    Kimberly Bryant @BlackGirlsCode

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