What content do B2B buyers value most in a white paper?
35%
35% of business buyers say original research about organizations like theirs is the most valuable content a white paper can contain.
n = 945 business buyers · Fielded October 2024 · Cherry Data Signals
Breakdown
Original research about organizations like mine35%
Practical steps I could apply30%
Comparisons of available approaches15%
Expert interpretation of emerging developments10%
Detailed customer examples6%
Cost and return-on-investment analysis3%
None of these1%
0%50%100%
Figures are rounded and may not total exactly 100%.
What it means
Original research beats every other ingredient, including practical steps and expert commentary. Buyers want evidence about organizations like their own.
Methodology
- Sample
- 945
- Population
- business buyers
- Country
- United States
- Fielded
- October 2024
- Research by
- Cherry Data Signals
- Study
- What B2B buyers actually want from white papers
Cite this statistic
Cherry Data Signals (October 2024). "What content do B2B buyers value most in a white paper?" Survey of 945 business buyers, United States. https://cherrysignals.com/statistics/most-valuable-content-in-a-b2b-white-paper
Free to reproduce with attribution to Cherry Data Signals and a link to this page.
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