B
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44% -- share of marketers increasing budget for marketers (2026)
44% of marketers surveyed in HubSpot's 2025 State of Marketing report plan to increase short form video spending in 2026.
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44%
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Data Vintage
2026
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B
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50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
greenfroglabs.com
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Tier C
https://greenfroglabs.com/blog/short-form-video-examples ↗
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Short form video is the dominant content format on every major social platform. TikTok reported 1.9 billion monthly active users in Q3 2025. Instagram Reels account for 50% of time spent on Instagram, according to Meta's Q4 2025 earnings call. YouTube Shorts surpassed 70 billion daily views in 2025,…
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greenfroglabs.com
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HubSpot 2025 State of Marketing report cited secondhand
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marketers: 44% share of marketers increasing budget. Source: greenfroglabs.com (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/short-form-video-roi-hubspot
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