Preparing for Change: 5 Practical Tips For 2022 Marketing Budget Success
How can B2B marketers weigh confidence for the future with adequate caution and still plan thoroughly for 2022 budgeting success?
Confidence is rising for 2022 marketing spending, and as B2B brands move forward after the turmoil and uncertainty of the pandemic, savvy marketers benefit from embracing budgeting optimism while simultaneously seasoning budgeting strategy with a healthy dose of vigilance and care.
Digital advertising budget optimism has risen significantly since the initial months of the global health crisis, and recent report data is showing this increased confidence.
A net 76 percent of marketers plan to expand their media budget for digital video during 2022, representing the top area of media expansion planned for next year, followed by branded content by influencers at 71 percent and social media story ads at 70 percent — several of many statistics of interest to B2B marketers contained in recently-released budget trend survey data from Kantar and MarketingCharts.
When it comes to B2B-specific digital advertising spending, 2021 will see a jump of 25 percent, according to eMarketer’s U.S. B2B Advertising Forecast data, and there has been a shift from search spending to display advertising, newly-released data from the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) shows.
According to data from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), some 61 percent of U.S. advertising executives are confident or very confident in the stability of their advertising budget for the rest of 2021 — sharply higher than the 22 percent who expressed the same levels of confidence in November of 2020.
Our own groundbreaking report, the 2020 State of B2B Influencer Marketing Report, revealed that B2B brands expected influencer marketing to weather the pandemic better than other forms of marketing. 90 percent of B2B brands said that they expected their budget for influencer marketing to increase or stay the same. If you’re currently among those utilizing B2B influencer marketing and haven’t yet taken our 2021 State of B2B Influencer Marketing Survey, make your voice heard and take a few minutes to complete it.
The recently-released twelfth annual B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends research report from Content Marketing Institute (CMI), MarketingProfs, and ON24 also offers a look at budgeting trends. 75 percent of those at the most successful organizations expect content marketing budgets to increase in 2022. We took a look at this report recently in, “10 Actionable B2B Content Marketing Insights From New Research.”
Where does this all lead for B2B marketers looking to prepare for these changes and build a successful 2022 marketing budget?
Let’s step right up and examine five practical tips that will make your 2022 marketing budget a successful one.
1 — Strong Budgets Maximize ROI
Strong budget strategy pays attention to maximizing return on investment (ROI), through frequent performance monitoring and the ability to quickly jettison under-performing marketing elements.
Measurement is key for learning what’s working and what isn’t, and for finding emerging growth opportunities. Having accurate performance data at hand can make budget decisions that much easier, yet many firms struggle with data overload — or worse yet — lack of any relevant performance data.
Staying on top of the latest research to identify industry trends helps drive successful ad campaigns and typically leads to more informed business insights and budgeting decisions. B2B marketing industry news sources, such as our long-running weekly TopRank Marketing digital marketing news each Friday, can help marketers stay abreast of the shifts that show how budgets are being affected throughout the industry.
Despite their best efforts, B2B marketers can find themselves facing forecasting difficulties, and often also come up against varying budgeting requirements among organizations. Keeping the future needs of marketers in mind, or even potential needs, can pay off, as Steve Petersen, marketing technology operations manager at subscription-as-a-service (SaaS) platform Zuora recently shared with MarTech. “Marketers should think ahead to what they and their fellow marketers will potentially need in the next year or so. While they may not know specifics yet, if budget hasn’t been set aside for such needs, acquiring new tech at the desired time will likely prove difficult,” Petersen observed.
[bctt tweet=”“Marketers should think ahead to what they and their fellow marketers will potentially need in the next year or so.” — Steve Petersen, Zuora” username=”toprank”]2 — Efficiency is a Timeless Investment
Budgets can oftentimes achieve higher levels of efficiency when the decision is made to partner with an agency — and with more report data than ever showing the benefits of such partnerships, in 2022 we’re likely to see even more of those looking to maximize their budget ROI begin new agency partnerships.
Indeed, the previously mentioned CMI, MarketingProfs, and ON24 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends research report shows that 65 percent of B2B content marketers have said that finding partners with adequate topical expertise is their top challenge. A full 40 percent also said that budget issues were their top challenge, a decrease from 51 percent in 2020, yet still a major issue faced by B2B marketers today.
Overall, some 66 percent of the B2B content marketers surveyed expected their 2022 content marketing budget to increase from 2021 levels.
Getting the most marketing bang-for-the-buck is where the efficiency of forming agency partnerships really shines.
Greater alignment with brand priorities brings increased value to agency partnerships, according to Forrester report data, which also showed that some 75 percent of brand decision-makers were satisfied or very satisfied with their agency rosters, and that over the next three years more functions are expected to be performed by external agencies.
3 — Agility & Swift-Footedness Speed Budget Planning Cycles
As our own vice president of client accounts Alexis Hall has encouraged in articles such as “Planning for Change: How to Set Your 2021 Marketing Budget,” an agile and swift-footed approach to budget planning cycles offers numerous benefits — a strategy that will be as valuable as ever in 2022.
Flexibility will be every bit as important in 2022 as it was during the most uncertain times over the past two unprecedented years, and savvy marketing budget planners have become aware that tactics aren’t ever likely to return to the way they were.
With the market changing as rapidly as ever, and digital marketing shifts taking place daily — especially when it comes to social media platforms and advertising opportunities — a swift yet flexible budget planning cycle is crucial.
Successful marketing budget plans are able to adjust on the fly to take into account industry changes, often accomplished through having annual, quarterly, monthly, or even more frequent reviews.
Long-range budget planning on the annual level holds its own value, focusing on big goals, while more frequent reviews utilize a range of leading indicators, and together such reviews help budgets scale up or down as necessary.
Optimizing and refining 2022 budgets offer many advantages, as James Delande, director of product marketing at enterprise software firm BrandMaker, recently told MarTech. “Finance and budget management allows organizations to plan, iterate, control and optimize budgets and spends aligned to their major strategic objectives,” Delande said. “This empowers CMOs, CFOs, and CEOs and their teams to optimize projects, saving time and money while improving efficiency, agility and performance,” Delande added.
[bctt tweet=”“Finance and budget management allows organizations to plan, iterate, control and optimize budgets and spends aligned to their major strategic objectives.” — James Delande, BrandMaker” username=”toprank”]4 — Build & Benefit From Long Term Brand Investment
B2B marketers are keenly aware of often lengthy buyer journeys, and when it comes to budgeting the same long-term outlook can successfully be incorporated.
Budgets that allow for a regular cadence of marketing messages to continue on a long-term basis can be critical to success in the B2B environment, where always-on marketing efforts that utilize the power of influence have proven especially effective.
Budgeting, too, should have a long-term scope element, to keep the bigger picture and major goals on track.
[bctt tweet=”“89% of B2B marketers implementing always-on influencer programs expect their budgets to increase or remain the same vs. 73% for marketers running campaign-based programs.” — Lee Odden @LeeOdden” username=”toprank”]5 — With Loss Comes Newfound Opportunity
When planned or unforeseen budget cuts come down the pike, it can be a great time to reassess past strategy and place newfound energy into opportunities ahead.
By overcoming the challenges we’ve all faced over the past years, B2B marketers have gained a new type of resiliency and strength — qualities that may take time and reflection to fully appreciate.
As we reach the end of 2021, it’s helpful to look back and reflect on the marketing hurdles we’ve faced and overcome during the past year, whether in budgeting or elsewhere, and use both our successes and failures to bring a fresh zest to 2022 efforts.
Some find that making a comprehensive list of the obstacles they have survived helps to bring into clearer focus the progress that will infuse our 2022 marketing budget efforts with new strength and opportunity.
Strong Budgeting Creates Long-Term B2B Marketing Successes
When well-executed budgeting collides with smart planning and preparation, B2B marketers can achieve an energy that’s greater than the sum of all its individual elements.
Even the best planning can face unforeseen challenges, as the world has witnessed since the global health crisis began. With a robust budget strategy in place, however — one that is open and pliable enough when such obstacles arise — you’ll be ahead of the game in making needed adjustments.
By using the five elements we’ve explored — maximizing ROI and efficiency, the power of agility, holding a long-term outlook, and being open to new opportunities — in 2022 B2B marketers can be well-positioned ahead of the competition and poised for marketing budget success.
No matter how you slice it, creating award-winning B2B marketing takes considerable time and effort, which is why many firms choose to work with a top digital marketing agency such as TopRank Marketing. Contact us today to learn how we can help, as we’ve done for businesses ranging from LinkedIn, Dell and 3M to Adobe, Oracle, monday.com and others.
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New climate and art experiments with Google Arts & Culture
Art and storytelling can play a vital role in helping people understand the key issues facing our society—and art can also help people see them in new ways. This is especially true for climate change, where scientific data and information can at times seem overwhelmingly difficult to comprehend. This is why for the past two years, Google Arts & Culture has developed a range of collaborations aiming to use art and technology to make the science of climate change more accessible and tangible. Our main program, called Heartbeat of the Earth, was built in collaboration with the UNFCCC and features online experiences by eight artists that interpret scientific climate data—from microplastics in the air to rising sea levels, to the CO2 footprint for individual diets.
Today, as COP26 unfolds and global leaders have gathered in Glasgow to decide on the future of the planet, we are thrilled to announce two new collaborations, Voices for Change with Project Everyone and Pollinator Pathmaker with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, that we hope will inspire people around the world to learn more about the climate crisis and to take action.
Immerse yourself in people’s Voices for Change, with Project Everyone
Kate Garvey, co-founder of Project Everyone: “Visitors to voicesforchange.world will discover a magical virtual world populated with powerful voice messages of the transformations people want to see in support of the UN’s Global Goals. The viewer can navigate around the world, hear different voices and learn about the Goals as they move through the space. These 17 Goals — agreed in 2015 by 193 world leaders — are the most ambitious plan the world has to end poverty, fight inequality and tackle the climate crisis. They are the answer to the multiple interconnected challenges our planet faces.
The project has been a huge collaborative, creative endeavor. It began with Forest For Change – an installation of 400 trees in June 2021 in the heart of London by Es Devlin and Project Everyone. As part of the interactive experience at the Forest, visitors were invited to choose a Goal and record a message of the change they wanted to see in the world. Thousands did so — with Goal 13: Climate Action emerging as the most popular Goal. These were added to by voices from over 60 countries gathered by a network of Civil Society Organizations. Google Arts & Culture then came on board to craft an immersive, digital world for these voices to inhabit—a world that will forever represent a barometer of passions across the world at a key moment in our planet’s trajectory.
With COP26 — the most critical climate summit, yet — taking place this month, this beautiful world will give a platform to thousands of voices and raise awareness about the urgent need to take climate action in order to achieve all the Global Goals. We are very proud and we hope this world will live on — gathering more voices for change at major moments on the road to 2030.”
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How mind mapping can help creators make better content
Creativity can be a messy process. Great ideas and inspiration don’t come easily on command, or in any organized way. And even when we’re in the creative zone, our brains can sometimes get too overloaded and overwhelmed to actually get anything done. That’s why some people use mind mapping, or visual brainstorming, to stay on top of their game.
Markus Müller-Simhofer, founder of the digital mind mapping app MindNode, saw major changes when he started visualizing his creative process. He recalls the first time he realized what a powerful tool mind mapping could be. While developing an app, Markus found that although he had tons of ideas, he wasn’t making any progress. “Out of this frustration, I started to look into techniques to sort my ideas and find focus. Mind mapping best fit how my brain works,” he says.
Mind mapping worked so well for Markus that he eventually scrapped his original app idea and started developing MindNode. “This was 14 years ago and today, I am still working on it — together with a team of 10 people.”
We recently chatted with Markus about how creators can use mind mapping to make better content.
Prioritize and fix issues in the new Policy center
A few years ago, we introduced the Policy center in Ad Manager, AdMob and AdSense to provide publishers with a single, centralized hub to review and monitor policy violations and appeals. This helps ensure they have the information they need to monetize their inventory and remain policy compliant.
Starting today, our Policy center has a brand new look. As part of this update, we’re introducing new features — like the ability to report the number of ad requests affected by policy issues, and advanced filters that are designed to help you better understand, prioritize and resolve issues.
What’s changing?
Improved account health summary
The new and improved account health summary now provides a quick overview of the total number of sites and apps with issues, highlighting the number of issues that are a “Must fix.” This can help publishers better prioritize the issues that require their attention. The account health summary also shows the impact on ads serving for any given page where ads have been disabled or restricted.
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Come NON includere tutti in una risposta a un tweet
Piccola comunicazione di servizio: se rispondete su Twitter a un antivaccinista o altro fantademente che ce l’ha con me e mi includete nella vostra risposta, vi silenzierò. Scusate se il gesto vi sembra drastico, ma sono stufo di vedere risposte piene di odio e battibecchi interminabili e inconcludenti. Per carità, litigate con questi imbecilli, se volete, ma non tiratemi in ballo. Grazie.
Visto che sembra che molti utenti di Twitter non sappiano come si esclude qualcuno da una risposta e quindi mi tirano in ballo nelle loro litigate con i suddetti fantadementi, ecco un piccolo tutorial spiccio e sporco per Twitter versione web.
Cliccate sul fumetto in basso a sinistra per rispondere a un tweet, come consueto (questo è un tweet qualsiasi preso ad esempio, ignorate il contenuto).
Compare la finestra di composizione della risposta, con l’elenco dei destinatari.
Cliccate sull’elenco dei destinatari: compare questa finestra.
Cliccate sulla casella di spunta per escludere chi volete.
Ta-da! Ora la vostra risposta arriverà solo alla persona al cui tweet state rispondendo invece che a tutti.
Se tutto questo è troppa fatica, potete fare una cosa ancora più efficiente: non rispondere ai fantadementi. Farete un favore a me e a voi stessi.
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Performance Max campaigns launch to all advertisers
In an unpredictable year, change has been a reliable constant. And we’ve seen this clearly in online consumer behavior. For example, Google Image searches for “yard landscaping ideas” have grown globally by over 80% YoY1 as people look for more ways to spruce up their homes. Meanwhile, searches for “best all-inclusive resorts” have grown globally by over 200% YoY2 as people get inspired to travel again.
Thankfully, advertisers don’t have to predict the future to be ready for it. If change is the challenge, automation is the solution businesses and agencies are using to stay ahead of ongoing shifts in consumer demand. Last year, we introduced Performance Max campaigns as a new way to buy Google ads across YouTube, Display, Search, Discover, Gmail and Maps from a single campaign. They complement your keyword-based Search campaigns to help you grow performance across Google’s full range of advertising channels and inventory.
After strong beta results, Performance Max campaigns will roll out to all advertisers around the world starting today. They will also become the next generation of Smart Shopping and Local campaigns, which will both upgrade to Performance Max next year.3
Performance Max campaigns help you increase conversions across Google’s full range of advertising channels and inventory.
Find more customers where they are
Consumers are moving seamlessly between online experiences to find buying inspiration. 70% of U.S. shoppers report buying from a brand after seeing it on YouTube,4 and 91% of Google feed users say they took some kind of shopping or product-related action immediately after discovering new products, services or brands on their feed.5
Performance Max allows you to promote your business across all Google Ads inventory. As a result, you can show up for more customers and drive more conversions based on your goals. In fact, advertisers that use Performance Max campaigns in their account see an average increase of 13% total incremental conversions at a similar cost per action.6 Whether you’re focused on increasing online sales, generating leads, or growing offline sales, Performance Max helps you achieve your goals in four main ways:
1. Increasing conversions and value: Automation optimizes your budget and bids across channels to help you capture new conversion opportunities in real time.
Performance Max has helped us activate a complementary, full-funnel strategy. Thanks to advanced machine learning capabilities, we’ve been able to gain incremental reach and conversions very efficiently.
2. Finding new customers: Unlock new audience segments by using Google’s real-time understanding of user intent, behavior and context to show up in the right moments with more relevant ads.
Performance Max can be activated quickly and at scale to optimize the web journey and drive more subscriptions. It delivers strong targeting signals for a more competitive CPA and dynamic budget optimization by channel.
3. Gaining richer insights: Performance Max campaigns are now part of the Insights page to help you understand how automation is working and how you can improve your campaign. Using the Combinations report, you can also see how your top-performing assets are being combined to build creatives.
4. Working together with automation: Steer automation by providing high-quality creative assets and sharing your expertise about which audiences are most likely to convert.
The results from Performance Max campaigns were amazing. They helped us enter a new market to grow potential customers in a short period. We’d like to roll out Performance Max to other markets as well!
Get new features designed for retailers and local marketers
Performance Max campaigns allow retailers and local marketers to access new ad inventory and formats not currently available with Smart Shopping or Local campaigns — including on channels like YouTube, Search and Discover. To help you increase sales, Smart Shopping and Local campaigns will both upgrade to Performance Max in 2022. We’ll work closely with you and your partners to get feedback and build the right tools to help you easily transition your campaigns. Stay tuned for more information early next year.
We know the holidays are a critical time of year for your business. You should continue using Smart Shopping and Local campaigns to reach more shoppers across online and in-store experiences this holiday season. However, when the time is right for your business, you can start testing Performance Max campaigns before next year’s campaign upgrades.
Not only did Performance Max outperform our previous Smart Shopping campaigns, but it also took our efficiency to the next level, and allowed us to grow our revenue in a more profitable way.
Performance Max became such a significant contributor towards our marketing objectives that we are now planning to roll it out across all of our accounts.
In the next few months, we’ll introduce new features in Performance Max specifically for retailers and businesses with store locations. For example, you’ll have the option to focus your campaigns to exclusively optimize for new customer acquisition. If you’re a retailer with a local inventory feed, you’ll also see new Search and Maps ad formats powered by your products to help drive more foot traffic to your stores.
Upgrading Smart Shopping and Local campaigns to Performance Max next year will help you get more value from Google Ads while simplifying the number of campaigns you use to achieve your goals. We’ll continue investing in Performance Max and improving our automation technology over time to help you get better results.
To set your Performance Max campaigns up for success, check out our new best practices guide and video. You can also take the Skillshop e-learning course for Performance Max campaigns to get more tips on how to use them to their full potential. And explore the Demystifying Automation interactive demo to learn how different automation technologies can supercharge your marketing capabilities.
1. Google Data, Global English, Jun 22, 2021 – Aug 20, 2021 vs Jun 22, 2020 – Aug 20, 2020
2. Google Data, Global English, Jun 22, 2021 – Aug 20, 2021 vs Jun 22, 2020 – Aug 20, 2020
3. In Europe, Performance Max campaigns can be used with any Comparison Shopping Service (CSS) you work with. The ads will show on general search results pages and on any other surfaces the CSS has opted in to.
4. Google/Talkshoppe, US, whyVideo study, n=2000 A18-64 Genpop video users, Feb 2020
5. Google/Ipsos, Google Feed Consumer Insights, June 2020, Online survey. Americans 18+ who made a discovery on at least one Google feed (feeds defined as Google app, Chrome app, YouTube, Gmail) on a mobile device. Base: Feed users n=1,053
6. Google Data, Global, Ads, July – September 2021