The survey shows that CMOs still put the greatest faith in two hard measures, sales and revenue.
They also put faith in measures like site traffic, number of fans and number of customer comments.
However, a whopping 93% of CMOs now plan to use "customer-generated content" when arriving at new-product decisions.
The preferred forms of customer-generated content are customer stories, product ideas, polls and customer reviews.
"CMOs have moved beyond fear and skepticism to embrace social media as the source for strategic intelligence that can transform their products, brands and business," says Erin Mulligan Nelson, Bazaarvoice's own CMO.
The survey also found that more than half of CMOs currently don't see any ROI from three of the most popular social media tools, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
