Digital Marketing Benchmarks: The Challenge
Digital marketing data tends to be heavily siloed. Companies jealously guard their information, and unless you’re a sizable agency or an ad vendor, it’s unlikely you have access to large amounts of online marketing data from many different sources.
In this reality, it’s difficult to create reliable digital marketing benchmarks (except against oneself, using historical marketing statistics). As a result, how can you compare your performance to others?
Creating Effective Digital Marketing Benchmarks
We addressed this challenge by aggregating the real-time performance data of the GoConvert customer network and 1,672 digital marketing benchmarks from 166 other sites and reports.
Our Goal
To create an authoritative, publicly-accessible, always-up-to-date list of digital marketing benchmarks that visitors can use to evaluate their own marketing data.
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I. Awareness-Stage Digital Marketing Benchmarks
CPM
CPM (“cost per mille”) is the rate one pays for one thousand ad views or, more commonly, impressions. We’ve benchmarked agency CPM’s at $25.00. That’s what you can expect to pay if you work with an agency. If you buy ads yourself, directly from a vendor like Facebook or Google, you can expect to pay about $9.31.
Advantage
Currently, our customer network pays $7.66 per thousand impressions. That’s 69.36% below the agency benchmark and 17.72% below the ad vendor benchmark.
Case Study: GoConvert vs. Traditional DigitalDigital Marketing Benchmarks Insight
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II. Interest-Stage Digital Marketing Benchmarks
CTR
CTR (“click-through rate”) is the percent of users who click on an ad vs. the number who view the same ad. We’ve benchmarked average CTR at 2.27%.
Advantage
Currently, our customer network sees 4.96% CTRs. That’s 118.50% above the benchmark.
Case Study: GoConvert vs. Traditional DigitalDigital Marketing Benchmarks Insight
One source we like suggests:
CPC
CPC (“cost per click”) is the amount you pay per ad click. We’ve benchmarked average CPC at $1.46.
Advantage
Currently, our customer network is paying just $0.25 per click. That’s 82.88% below the benchmark.
Case Study: GoConvert vs. Traditional DigitalDigital Marketing Benchmarks Insight
One source we like suggests:
While campaign managers may think that they should always strive for the lowest CPC, that’s not necessarily the best strategy. Sometimes it’s necessary to bid higher to get more clicks and/or conversions. Therefore, if you’re paying more than these industry CPC benchmarks, don’t get down on yourself because your overall campaign performance may be better as a result — CPC is just one piece of the puzzle.
III. Engagement-Stage Digital Marketing Benchmarks
Lead Conversion Rate
Lead conversion rate (LCR) is the percent of site visitors who submit a lead form vs. the number who visit and take no action. We’ve benchmarked average LCR (or, what we call “RCR” or “relationship conversion rate”) at 4.63%
Advantage
Currently, our customer network sees 19.77% LCRs. That’s 327.00% above the benchmark.
Case Study: GoConvert vs. Traditional DigitalDigital Marketing Benchmarks Insight
One source we like suggests:
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CPL
CPL (“cost per lead”) is the amount you pay per lead. While lead costs vary by industry, we’ve benchmarked average CPL (or, what we call “CPR” or “cost per relationship”) at $119.34. See the table below for industry specifics.
Advantage
Currently, our customer network pays just $1.24 per lead. That’s 98.96% below the benchmark.
Case Study: GoConvert vs. Traditional Digital| Sector | Low | High | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Media & Publishing | $11.00 | $25.00 | $25.01+ | $18-25 | < $17.99 |
| Education | $26.00 | $50.00 | $50.01+ | $38-50 | < $37.99 |
| Healthcare & Medical | $26.00 | $50.00 | $50.01+ | $38-50 | < $37.99 |
| Consulting | $26.00 | $50.00 | $50.01+ | $38-50 | < $37.99 |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | $26.00 | $50.00 | $50.01+ | $38-50 | < $37.99 |
| Travel & Tourism | $26.00 | $50.00 | $50.01+ | $38-50 | < $37.99 |
| Consumer Products | $26.00 | $50.00 | $50.01+ | $38-50 | < $37.99 |
| Software | $51.00 | $100.00 | $100.01+ | $75.50-100 | < $75.49 |
| Information Technology and Services | $51.00 | $100.00 | $100.01+ | $75.50-100 | < $75.49 |
| Marketing Agencies | $51.00 | $100.00 | $100.01+ | $75.50-100 | < $75.49 |
| Financial Services | $51.00 | $100.00 | $100.01+ | $75.50-100 | < $75.49 |
Digital Marketing Benchmarks Insight
One source we like suggests:
A successful marketing strategy has many components, but the overall efficacy always boils down to one question: Are you acquiring new customers in a cost-efficient manner?
It’s the ‘cost-efficient’ part of the question that is crucial. Anyone can throw a ton of money into a campaign and come away with leads. But that’s like using ten gallons of gasoline to start a campfire when a single match will do. One match is less wasteful and far cheaper. By knowing your cost per lead, you can optimize your marketing campaigns so that you are using just the right amount of matches.
IV. Conversion-Stage Digital Marketing Benchmarks
Win Rate
Win rate (or close rate) is the percent of customers you convert vs. the number of leads you generate. Traditional, non-digital win rates tend to be 32.89% while digital marketing benchmarks tend to be 3.43%
Advantage
Currently, our customer network sees 1.93% win rates. That’s 43.73% below the digital benchmark.
Case Study: GoConvert vs. Traditional DigitalDigital Marketing Benchmarks Insight
One source we like suggests:
Visitors’ intent as they browse your website has a direct impact on your conversion rates. Are visitors coming to your website to research products with the intention of buying online? Or are they taking information from your site back to brick-and-mortar stores to buy there? It depends on the nature of the product you offer and how visitors view it. This answer is focused on visitor-centric information and not on factors you control, such as website messaging, design, copy, etc.
ROI
ROI (“return on investment”) is the amount of gross revenue you generate for every dollar you spend. We’ve benchmarked average marketing ROI at 3.62x. That is, for every $1 you spend on marketing, you want to generate $3.62 worth of income.
Advantage
Currently, our customer network sees a 6.36x ROI on its marketing spending. That’s 75.69% above the benchmark.
Case Study: GoConvert vs. Traditional DigitalDigital Marketing Benchmarks Insight
One source we like suggests:
in Real Time vs. Traditional Digital
Curious about how the GoConvert customer network is currently performing against traditional digital benchmarks? Review the real-time data below.
| Metric | |
Traditional Benchmark | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPM ?Cost Per 1k Impressions | $25 ?Agency Rate | ||
| CTR ?Click Through Rate | 2.27% | ||
| CPC ?Cost Per Click | $1.46 | ||
| RCR ?Relationship Conversion Rate | 4.63% ?Lead Conversion Rate | ||
| CPR ?Cost Per Relationship | $119.34 ?CPL | ||
| IGRCR ?Income-Generating Relationship Conversion Rate | 3.43% ?Digital Win/Close Rate | ||
| ROI ?For every dollar I spend, how many will I get back? | 3.62x |
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