The past year has been a defining moment for B2B’s adoption of programmatic ad buying. B2B companies have become more knowledgeable about programmatic as data-driven targeting has moved into the marketing mainstream. At the same time, programmatic tools are now more capable of delivering the kinds of lead generation and content-focused campaigns that are essential to B2B success. Indeed, almost two-thirds of B2B marketers in the survey said their organizations were currently using programmatic (Fig. 1). That was an increase of more than 10 percentage points over Dun & Bradstreet’s prior survey, in which 54 percent said their companies were buying ads programmatically.

adweek-inline
“In the last year to 18 months, there’s been a shift with B2B companies doing more programmatic media buying,” says Ashu Garg, general partner at Foundation Capital, a venture capital firm that has invested in a range of ad tech firms including TubeMogul.

Download the Adweek Brandshare B2B Programmatic Becomes A Reality: Outlook 2017 sponsored by D&B to read more about B2B programmatic advertising trends:

· The state of B2B programmatic

· Top B2B programmatic challenges

· B2B’s programmatic future

Get it Now

adweek-report-cover-image