How Much Will Brands Spend on Social Media in 2011?

Regardless of where your company or organization sits on the social media adoption curve, one thing everyone is interested in – from brands to vendors and agencies – is how much money is being spent on it.

Industry analyst Jeremiah Owyang of the Altimeter Group recently asked 140 corporate social media strategists how much they’d be spending this year. As one can see, the numbers vary greatly depending on the size of the organization:

Here’s what is interesting about these numbers.

The two biggest cost centers are rather traditional ones: staffing and ad/marketing spend.

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