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Industry report · Annual

What a B2B campaignactually costs now.

Cost per lead, conversion rates and channel performance drawn from more than 500 campaigns we executed across technology, SaaS and enterprise markets — with the ranges shown rather than the averages that hide them.

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Campaigns analysed
500+
Industries covered
12
Channels benchmarked
6
No paywall, no drip sequence
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What the report coversThe findings that changed our own adviceHow the numbers were producedUsing it on your own numbersWhat the report coversThe findings that changed our own adviceHow the numbers were producedUsing it on your own numbers
Industry report · Annual · 2026 edition

B2B Demand Generation Benchmark Report

CPL, conversion and channel performance benchmarks drawn from 500+ executed campaigns.

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What the report covers

Benchmarks are only useful if you can find yourself in them. Every figure is broken out by channel, segment and region rather than reported as a single blended number that describes nobody's programme.

Cost per lead by channel, segment and region
Lead-to-opportunity and opportunity-to-won conversion
Channel mix of the programmes that outperformed
Budget allocation patterns by company size
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The findings that changed our own advice

Three results in this year's data run against advice that was standard eighteen months ago — including the widening cost gap between segments that used to be priced almost identically.

Enterprise and mid-market CPL have diverged sharply
Multi-channel programmes convert well above single-channel
Committee coverage predicts close rate more than lead volume
Speed of follow-up still outweighs almost every other factor
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How the numbers were produced

The data comes from campaigns we ran and can account for, not from a survey of what marketers believe their numbers are. That narrows the sample and makes it considerably more reliable.

Executed campaign data, not self-reported survey responses
Outliers shown rather than trimmed away
Ranges and quartiles reported, not just medians
Sample size stated for every individual benchmark
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Using it on your own numbers

A benchmark is a question, not a verdict. The useful exercise is finding where you sit outside the range and asking whether that is a deliberate choice or an unexamined one.

Compare against your segment, never the blended figure
Treat a gap as a question about targeting or follow-up
Use the ranges to sanity-check next year's budget
Re-run the comparison quarterly, not annually
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