Global Digital Marketing Statistics and Facts

Statistics are useful when planning and understanding your market. Results 2Day have compiled a list of statistics and facts that we hope you find interesting and helpful with your planning. We have broken them into Global Digital Marketing Statistics and Facts, Australian statistics, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and Google + statistics as well as a group of statistics to help you post.

In this post we concentrate on global digital marketing statistics:

  • Aligning content to stages in the buyer’s journey can yield 73% higher conversion rates, on average (Aberdeen Group)
  • 4% of B2B marketers said they have generated leads from social media. (CMO)
  • 80% of brands advertised on social media sites in 2014. (DashBurst)
  • Only 20% of CMOs use social networks to engage and collaborate with customers. (MarketingLand)
  • 24% of brands say they do “social listening.” (DashBurst)
  • 78% of companies now have a dedicated social media team, only 26% integrate social media fully into their business strategies (DashBurst)
  • 92% of marketers said that social media was important to their businesses (Social Media Examiner)
  • Only 42% of marketers agreed they are able to measure their social activities (Social Media Examiner)
  • 4 out of 10 social media users have purchased an item online or instore after sharing it or marking it as a favourite on Twitter, Facebook or Pinterest (Social Media Today)
  • 74% of consumers rely on social media to making a buying decision (Social Media Today)
  • Photos give verified users a 35% bump in retweets, compared to what they would get anyway (Twitter)
  • Photos were the most common content posted by Facebook pages, accounting for 75% of posts worldwide – emarketer
  • On average, companies respond to only 30% of social media feedback.What? If almost 90% of businesses are on social, and they are not responding to social feedback, what are they doing? (Investp)
  • Only 44% of questions submitted to companies in tweets are answered within 24 hours and 56% of customer tweets are ignored.(Investp)
  • 81% of Forbes survey respondents admitted that recommendations and posts from family and friends directly impacted on their buying decisions, while 78% of people said that social media posts of companies influence their buying decisions.
  • 66% of marketers plan on increasing their use of Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn in the future (Social Media Examiner)
  • 3% of marketers are using Facebook, 68% want to learn more about it and 62% plan on increasing Facebook activities. 
(Social Media Examiner)
  • 91% of marketers want to know the most effective social tactics and the best ways to engage their audience with social media 
(Social Media Examiner)
  • 28% of people say they get their news from social media compared to 60% from TV and 29% from newspapers (Digital Information World)
  • 75 of the top 100 brands have a presence on Google+ (Social Media Slant)
  • LISTENING via social media, rather than shouting/broadcasting is crucial in understanding the opportunity social media may represent to a small business (LinkedIn)
  • 83% of B2B marketers use content marketing for lead generation. (Content Marketing Institute)
  • Only 20% of CMOs leverage social networks to engage with customers. (IBM)
  • Only 20% of CMOs leverage social networks to engage with customers. (IBM)
  • 80% of B2B social media leads come from LinkedIn. (B2C Marketing)
  • 20% of B2B marketers don’t measure the ROI of their inbound marketing efforts. (HubSpot)
  • 82% of marketers who blog see positive ROI for their inbound marketing. (HubSpot)
  • 75% of companies using marketing automation see ROI within 12 months, 44% within 6 months. (Salesforce)
  • 80% of marketing emails are never opened. (Marketingprofs)
  • 66% to 90% of the buying journey is complete before prospects contact a vendor. (Forrester)
  • Inbound marketing delivers 54% more leads into the marketing funnel than traditional outbound marketing. (HubSpot)

We hope you enjoyed these facts and statistics.

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