B2B Marketing ROI Benchmarks: What “Good” Looks Like by Channel
ROI benchmarks are noisy. They are also necessary. Not because they tell you what to do, but because they help you spot when something is deeply off.
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Isaiah Studivent is the Video Marketing Manager at Directive, responsible for creating high-impact video content that drives brand awareness, pipeline influence, and reduces cost per SQO for Directive's marketing engine. With a background as Founder of Evron, a demand generation agency, Isaiah brings deep operator experience in paid media, full-funnel campaign architecture, and CRM systems to his video strategy work.
ROI benchmarks are noisy. They are also necessary. Not because they tell you what to do, but because they help you spot when something is deeply off.
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Most B2B marketers run generic video, measure completion rates, and then have that lost, blank stare when pipeline doesn’t move.
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If you can’t tie your programmatic spend to pipeline, you’re not doing audience targeting…you’re guessing with a bigger budget. B2B
You can keep running static LinkedIn ads that blend into the feed and wonder why CAC keeps climbing. Or you





