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25%
25% -- share of non coding time on content creation for Developers (2026)
Content creation accounts for roughly 25% of developers' non-coding time.
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25%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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B
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50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
eMarketer
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Tier C
https://applaunchpartners.com/developers-reclaim-your-time-from-marketing-tasks/ ↗
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Stop Devs Wasting 13 Hrs/Wk on Marketing
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eMarketer
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Developers: 25% share of non coding time on content creation. Source: eMarketer (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/developers-content-creation-time-25-percent
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