CLEVELAND, April 24, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Content marketers are awash in new technology options but primarily still use brute force to find their way to deeper and more meaningful strategies. That’s the key finding in Content Marketing Institute’s newly released 2019 Content Management and Strategy Survey sponsored by Vennli. Now in its third year, this research provides a snapshot of how marketers are using technology to help create, manage, deliver, and scale enterprise content and marketing, as well as how their teams use it to more precisely target and engage audiences across the customer journey. The survey was conducted to support CMI’s ContentTECH Summit.

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“This year’s research suggests that while many organizations have a handle on the physical management of content assets with nearly 70% having undertaken content inventories and audits, there is a great need for optimizing the use of technology to make content flow more quickly and seamlessly throughout the enterprise—and to get that content in front of the right audiences at optimal times,” explains Robert Rose, chief strategy advisor, Content Marketing Institute.

OTHER KEY HIGHLIGHTS

• Businesses are taking strategic content more seriously: More than three-quarters (76%) of those surveyed say they take a strategic approach to content management. Further, 59% say they have a documented content management strategy.
• There is still a lot of manual work involved: In terms of scalability of their content-related efforts, 78% report their organization has some systems in place, but there is a lot of manual work.
• Many lack the right technology to manage content across the organization: 42% report their organization hasn’t acquired the right technology to manage content across the enterprise. Another 42% say they have the technology but aren’t using it to its potential.
• Prioritizing audiences and knowing what is important to them are top challenges: Many respondents, when thinking about the audience(s) within their market, say they are challenged with prioritizing marketing effort toward one audience over another (71%) and knowing what is most important to the audience (61%).
• In many organizations, communication between teams is an issue: Respondents anticipate their organization’s biggest strategic content management challenge in 2019 will be communication between teams (e.g., content, marketing, IT, creative, sales).

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About Content Marketing Institute
Content Marketing Institute is the leading global content marketing education and training organization, teaching enterprise brands how to attract and retain customers through compelling, multichannel storytelling. CMI’s Content Marketing World event, the largest content marketing-focused event, is held every September in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and ContentTECH Summit event is held every spring. CMI publishes Chief Content Officer for executives and provides strategic consulting and content marketing research for some of the best-known brands in the world. Watch this video to learn more about CMI.  Content Marketing Institute is organized by UBM, which in June 2018 combined with Informa PLC to become a leading B2B information services group and the largest B2B Events organizer in the world. To learn more and for the latest news and information, visit www.ubm.com and www.informa.com

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