I love Econsultancy’s industry reports. They’re always chock full of interesting data and…pretty charts.

The latest UK Search Engine Benchmark Report is now out and it’s good news for those in SEO, PPC and Social Media Marketing (SMM).

First, social marketers will love this:

More than half the companies plan to boost budgets by 20%–15% plan an increase of 100% or more!

Next, SEOs will enjoy this stat:

You’re seeing 92% of companies planning to increase their SEO budget by 20% or more. PPC expects to see gains too, though not quite as impressive–a third of companies plan increases of 20% or more.

Lastly, it’s not quite so rosey for copywriters.

OK, so I’m drawing my own conclusions from this one, but a 4% decline in the use of copywriting? I thought that was the holy grail of SEO? Maybe it’s an anomaly or perhaps we’re realizing that copy is important, but that we can leverage social media and have others generate it for us.