Lane Ellis

The Growing Innovation Gap Is Costing B2B Brands
Despite 68 percent of B2B marketers noting that they considered themselves “advanced,” a mere four percent achieved scoring at that level, according to newly-released report data, also showing some of the reasons that fostering innovation can be more difficult for B2B marketers, creating an innovation gap. ANA

How Well Do B2B Firms Handle Routing Sales Leads? [Report]
Some 32 percent of B2B professionals said that greater automation was the lead management capability they most desired, while 60 percent noted that leads were occasionally assigned to the incorrect owner within their organization — two of several statistics of interest to B2B marketers contained within recently-published survey data. MarketingProfs

Google Shares Sneak Peek At New Advertising Features
Google has offered a look inside several of its new forthcoming Google Ads features, including responsive display and mobile ads that animate static imagery and better white space formatting, highlighted in a showcase of examples from firms that have tested the new tools, Google recently announced. Search Engine Journal

Twitter is testing a new ‘Liked by Author’ label for tweets
Twitter has tested the ability for tweet replies on the platform that have been liked by the post’s author to show a red heart liked-by-author badge and similar text designation, with the aim of making it easier to spot top tweet replies in lengthy reply chains, Twitter recently announced. TechCrunch

B2B Marketing and Sales Leaders Focus on Pipeline Growth
48.8 percent of B2B sales and marketing professionals have said that an expanded pipeline was their top priority in 2022, followed by building and staffing teams at 22.4 percent, and expanding addressable market with 8.3 percent, according to newly-released survey data. MarketingCharts

B2B Brands Deploy ‘Always-on’ Marketing Strategy to Keep Up with Buyers [Dow Jones / WSJ Report]
When it comes to the B2B content types that senior executives prefer when choosing new technology product or service providers, 31 percent chose case studies, the same percentage chose videos, while 28 percent said they preferred thought leadership and research — one of numerous findings of interest to B2B marketers contained in recently-released B2B trust survey data. WSJ Intelligence/B2B International

B2B marketers adjust to shifts in buyer behavior
83 percent of B2B marketing leaders have said that brand purpose was important to new buyers, while meeting the challenges of changing buying behaviors was seen as the top priority in the next year — two of several findings of interest to B2B marketers contained in newly-released Forrester survey data. SmartBrief

The Video Content B2B Buyers Find Most Helpful
58 percent of B2B purchase decision makers pointed to learning about a product or service as the most helpful benefit of viewing video content, with 40 percent using videos to solve existing problems, and 36 percent using video to better understand a problem, according to recently-released B2B buyer video content study data. MarketingProfs