Limelight CMO Survey Confirms that Globalization of Digital Presence is a Strategic Priority
91% of respondents noted that globalization produced meaningful improvements in web engagement, lead generation & revenue
Phoenix, AZ – August 23, 2012 – Limelight Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:LLNW), a leader in Digital Presence Management, today released results from a recent survey that confirms that the development and implementation of regional websites is a strategic, high-priority initiative for both B2B and B2C companies. In a survey of 200 U.S.-based CMOs and VPs of Marketing, respondents stated that they are adding multiple regional websites and languages within the next year to build global brand awareness and drive revenue. However, respondents noted challenges to efficiently adding and managing regional websites, including lack of sufficient internal human, technical, and budgetary resources.
“Our goal with this survey was to gain insight on CMOs’ plans for and experiences with expanding their digital presence globally, including understanding their objectives and the challenges they face,” commented Kirby Wadsworth, CMO, Limelight Networks. “Respondents (57%) noted that their biggest challenge to website globalization is using multiple platforms to manage sites and content. Publishing web and mobile sites using several disparate solutions is timely and costly, especially when managing multiple regional sites that are in different languages. Enterprise marketers can streamline internal processes and ultimately improve the end user experience if they leverage one integrated platform to build, manage, and optimize a global digital presence across all channels.”
“The explosive growth of global online commerce and the ever more competitive worldwide landscape make it imperative for companies to expand and improve the globalization of their digital presence,” said Jeff Freund, VP and GM, Web Content Management, Limelight Networks. “Globalizing a web presence entails more than simply translating a company’s primary site – it also includes developing, deploying, localizing, and regularly maintaining sites with regionally-specific content. Marketers face the challenge of deploying multiple regional sites in multiple languages and featuring custom content that is unique to each region – while still ensuring brand consistency worldwide.”
Respondents are Managing and Adding Many Regional Websites
For the survey, website globalization was defined as launching an adapted, multilingual version of a company’s core website into different regions throughout the world. A regional website was defined as an adapted version of the company’s core website whose content has been translated and/or altered to match the region that it serves.
Link to Website Globalization White Paper: Web Globalization Whitepaper (pdf)
In this whitepaper you’ll learn:
- The results of a comprehensive survey to 200 CMO’s regarding their biggest web challenges
- Why US-based CMO’s are globalizing their digital web presence like never before
- How regional specific content is improving site engagement, lead generation, and revenue
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