Forrester's Five Year Forecast on Interactive Marketing Spend

No big surprise, but overall advertising budgets are declining. The biggest increase of 34% CAGR will be in social media which is quickly becoming what marketing never had the ability to be before which is the most efficient and scalable conversation strategy available. Interactive marketing now represents over 20% of all marketing spend and close to $55 billion.

This speaks to the need to put more thought into how marketing is contributing to the efforts of revenue generation and the long term reputation of the company. The C-level wants marketing to be productive AND efficient. It can be done.

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