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5% -- content marketing effectiveness rate for B2B marketers (2017)

Name: Content Marketing Effectiveness Rate Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-10-03

2017 · Content Marketing Institute

According to CMI, only 5% of B2B marketers who have implemented content marketing found it to be very effective.

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Value

Unit

Percentage

Data Vintage

2017

Entity

B2B marketers

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

61/100 confidence

Single source - not yet corroborated

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Extraction

Source Trust

Citation Chain

Independence

Methodology

Freshness

Source

Content Marketing Institute Primary Tier C

http://b2bmetric.com/b2b-content-marketing/ ↗

Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2017 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

3 Ways Content Marketing Can Work For Your Company

Original Research

Content Marketing Institute · Original study ↗

Methodology

Cited from CMI

Methodology documented

Trend Over Time

Period	Value	Change
2017 (current)	5%
2026	5%	0%

Segmentation

Industrymarketing

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B2B marketers: 5% content marketing effectiveness rate. Source: Content Marketing Institute (2017). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/b2b-content-marketing-very-effective

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