B
Evidence Grade B
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28%
28% -- share of smb digital marketing budgets maintaining status quo for small and mid-sized businesses (2026)
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28%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
armworldwide.com
Primary
Tier C
https://armworldwide.com/cmos-what-percentage-of-marketing-budget-are-you-spending-on-content-creati… ↗
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What Should be your Budget for Content Marketing
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armworldwide.com
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GetResponse survey cited by publisher
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Industrymarketing
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small and mid-sized businesses: 28% share of smb digital marketing budgets maintaining status quo. Source: armworldwide.com (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/smbs-status-quo-budget-28pct
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