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Content continues to sit atop the list of priorities in most marketing strategies, and there is plenty of evidence to support the reasoning.
Simply put, content marketing is crucial to any digital marketing strategy, whether running a small local business or a large multinational corporation.
After all, content in its many and evolving forms is indisputably the very lifeblood upon which the web and social media are based.
Modern SEO has effectively become optimized content marketing for all intents and purposes.
This is when Google demands and rewards businesses that create content demonstrating experience, expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (E-E-A-T) for their customers – content that answers all of the questions consumers may have about their services, products, or business in general.
Content marketing involves creating and sharing helpful, relevant, entertaining, and consistent content in various text, image, video, and audio-based formats to the plethora of traditional and online channels available to modern marketers.
The primary focus should be on attracting and retaining a clearly defined audience, with the ultimate goal of driving profitable customer action.
Different types of content can and should be created for each stage of a customer’s journey.
Some content, like blogs or how-to videos, are informative or educational. Meanwhile, other content, like promotional campaign landing pages, gets to the point of enticing prospective customers to buy.
But with so much content being produced and shared every day, it’s important to stay updated on the latest trends and best practices in content marketing to keep pace and understand what strategies may be most effective.
Never has this been more true than in 2024, when we’re in the midst of a content revolution led by generative AI, which some feel represents both an opportunity and a threat to marketers.
To help you keep up, here are 35 content marketing statistics I think you should know:
How many businesses are leveraging content marketing, and how are they planning to find success?
What strategies are content marketers using or finding to be most effective?
Content marketing was synonymous with posting blogs, but the web and content have evolved into audio, video, interactive, and meta formats.
Here are a few stats on how the various types of content are trending and performing.
Creating helpful, unique, engaging content can be one of a marketer’s greatest challenges. However, innovative marketers are looking at generative AI as a tool to help ideate, create, edit, and analyze content quicker and more cost-effectively.
Here are some stats around content creation and just how quickly AI is changing the game.
It is not simply enough to create and publish content.
For a content strategy to be successful, it must include distributing content via the channels frequented by a business’s target audience.
Once content reaches an audience, it’s important to understand how an audience consumes the content or takes action as a result.
One of the primary reasons content marketing has taken off is its ability to be measured, optimized, and tied to a return on investment.
Budget changes and the willingness to invest in specific marketing strategies are good indicators of how popular and effective these strategies are at a macro level.
The following stats certainly seem to indicate marketers have bought into the value of content.
All forms of marketing come with challenges related to time, resources, expertise, and competition.
Recognizing and addressing these challenges head-on with well-thought-out strategies is the best way to overcome them and realize success.
As you can clearly see and perhaps have already realized, content marketing can be a highly effective and cost-efficient way to generate leads, build brand awareness, and drive sales. Content, in its many formats, powers virtually all online interactions.
Generative AI is effectively helping to solve some of the time and resource challenges by acting as a turbo-powered marketing assistant, while also raising a few procedural concerns.
However, the demand for content remains strong.
Those willing to put in the work of building a documented content strategy and executing it – by producing, optimizing, distributing, and monitoring high-value, relevant, customer-centric content, with the help of AI or not – can reap significant business rewards.
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