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74% -- content marketing demand lead generation effectiveness for B2B marketers (2025)

2025  · Content Marketing Institute

74% of B2B marketers reported that content marketing generated demand and leads in the previous 12 months.

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74%
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2025
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B2B marketers
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75
Source Trust
60
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Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Content Marketing Institute Primary Tier B
https://designcloud.app/blog/creating-a-winning-content-marketing-strategy ↗
Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2025 Channel: Deep Crawl
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Content Marketing Strategies and How to Build One | Design Cloud
Content Marketing Strategies: The Best Tactics and How to Build a Strategy Content marketing strategies are the plans and tactics a business uses to attract and keep an audience with useful content, then turn that attention into leads and sales. They matter because good content earns trust, brings i…
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B2B marketers: 74% content marketing demand lead generation effectiveness. Source: Content Marketing Institute (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/b2b-content-demand-leads-2025
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