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65% -- effective teams citing content relevance for B2B marketing teams describing marketing as effective (2026)

2026  · Content Marketing Institute

65% of teams that described their marketing as effective pointed to content relevance and quality as a factor.

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65%
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B2B marketing teams describing marketing as effective
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Content Marketing Institute Primary Tier A
https://writingdetective.com/2024-content-marketing-trends/ ↗
Confidence: 57/100 Vintage: 2026 Channel: Deep Crawl
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Content Marketing Trends 2026: What Matters Now
A review of content marketing trends 2026 reveals a clear shift: publishing volume alone is a poor content goal. Useful, recognizable, and trusted work has a better chance of reaching people wherever they look for answers. That may be a search results page, an AI assistant, an email inbox, YouTube, …
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Content Marketing Institute 2026 survey

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B2B marketing teams describing marketing as effective: 65% effective teams citing content relevance. Source: Content Marketing Institute (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/cmi-effective-content-relevance-2026
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/cmi-effective-content-relevance-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>65%</strong> -- effective teams citing content relevance for B2B marketing teams describing marketing as effective<br><small>Source: Content Marketing Institute (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/cmi-effective-content-relevance-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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