B2B Marketing News: B2B Ad Spending Sizzles, Salesforce Slack Buy Complete, C-Suite Marketing Survey, & Clubhouse Opens To All

US B2B ad spend set to pass $30b in 2023, nearly half the dollars will go to digital In the U.S. alone B2B advertising spending is expected to top $30 billion by 2023, with almost half going to digital, while display advertising spending is expected to surpass that of search advertising by 2023 — two of several insights of interest to digital marketers in newly-released forecast data. The Drum Salesforce completes $27.7B Slack acquisition Salesforce has put finishing touches on its $27.7 billion acquisition of business communication platform Slack, with the now-official purchase set to combine Salesforce’s data platform Customer 360 with Slack, Salesforce recently announced. Venture Beat Zenith: Online Video To Lead 2021 Global Ad-Spend Growth, At +26%; Digital To Take 58% Share Of Total 2021's most robust growth in global digital advertising spend is set to come from online video, climbing some 26 percent to $63 billion, according to recently-released forecast data. Overall ad spending growth is expected to reach 6.9 percent in 2022 and 5.6 percent in 2023, the forecast data also shows. MediaPost Twitter Posts Steady Increases in Users and Revenue for Q2, with Good Growth in Ad Spend Twitter saw an 11 percent rise in its monetizable daily active user (mDAU) count compared to last year, an increase of some 7 million users since the first quarter of 2021, while also recording a 69 percent increase in international revenue, Twitter recently announced. Social Media Today C-Suite Survey: The Top 5 Marketing Org Deficiencies 84 percent of senior management executives say they are interacting either closely, regularly, or increasingly with marketing teams, while 52 percent noted that interim or fractional marketing leaders bring new thinking, ideas, and innovations to marketing departments, according to recently-released survey data. MarketingProfs Clubhouse is now out of beta and open to everyone After a year of restricted waiting-list access, and following up on May's Android version release, audio-call-based communication app Clubhouse has opened its digital doors to the public, accompanied by an updated logo, the firm recently announced. TechCrunch Consumers want control, not ad blocking, in online advertising 80 percent of consumers say they don't trust online ads, and 74 percent report that they hate them, while 67 percent of the Gen Z demographic said that online ads serve an important purpose — two of several findings of interest to online marketers contained in recently-released survey data. AdAge Google now shows why it ranked a specific search result A new list of factors taken into account by Google for individual search results has been launched by the search giant, highlighting some of the top areas businesses can look to for improving their search rankings, Google recently announced. Search Engine Land 2021 U.S., Worldwide Consensus Jumps On Zenith Ad Revisions Global and U.S. advertising spending forecasts for 2021 have recently gotten stronger, with worldwide ad spend growth predicted to reach 13.1 percent and U.S. growth 14.6 percent, each revised to greater levels than earlier predictions, according to joint forecast data from Dentsu, GroupM, Magna, and Zenith. MediaPost What B2B Buyers Want From Vendor Websites When it comes to B2B buyers seeking insight from online vendors, the top three criteria affecting purchase decisions include easy website access to relevant content, pricing and competitive information, and site content that directly demonstrates expertise around industry needs — one of numerous findings of interest to digital marketers contained in newly-released B2B buyer research. MarketingProfs ON THE LIGHTER SIDE: A lighthearted look at the “the personalization privacy paradox” by Marketoonist Tom Fishburne — Marketoonist The Internet Is Rotting — The Atlantic TOPRANK MARKETING & CLIENTS IN THE NEWS:

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