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5 key trends we’re seeing in B2B marketing

Martech

One of the best known B2B video campaigns, Caterpillar’s “Built for It,” became quite a media darling at its peak in 2014-2015, as explained by Cat’s Archie Lyons, creative director of global brand marketing. Clearly, this campaign took a major investment of time, money and creativity.

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China leads the world in generative AI use

Martech

China is leading the way from a patent perspective when it comes to generative AI with more than 38,000 filed between 2014 and 2023. . “There are a lot of governmental mandates for the use of generative AI. filed 6,300 in that same time period.”

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Canva User and Revenue Statistics

Backlinko

Heres a table with Canvas monthly active user growth since January 2014: Date Canva Monthly Active Users January 2014 150 thousand July 2014 600 thousand 2015 1.5 Heres a table with details of Canva funding rounds since 2014: Date, Funding Round Funding Amount 2014, Seed $6.6 million 2016 3.6

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5 takeaways from Amazon Prime Day advertising: An insider look at the birth of a retail revolution

SmartBrief - Marketing

In 2014, I was just a few months into my job as an executive creative director and head of Amazon’s internal creative agency – then known as D1 – when I found out we would be creating a global Amazon Prime Day advertising campaign promoting the world’s biggest single-day sales event across nine countries.

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CMO Spotlight | Sergio Pérez - Emmy Squared

Set Up

Set up CEO + Founder, Joe Koufman , spoke with Sergio Prez, the Chief Marketing Officer at Emmy Squared, a pizza restaurant founded in 2014 with 10 locations across the East coast. The CMO Spotlight is a chance to get an inside look into the minds and journeys of high-performing marketing leaders.

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WhatsApp advertising is officially happening

illumin

One of the world’s most popular messaging services, WhatsApp, is finally getting ads, marking its entry into direct ad revenue for the first time since Meta acquired them in 2014. Before its $19 billion acquisition by Facebook in 2014, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton famously championed the motto: “ No ads!

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60 social media statistics marketers need to know in 2025

Hootsuite

Snapchat and Instagram showed large gains in usage among this age group from 2014 to 2024, while usage steeply declined for others. In 2014, 71% of teens used Facebook, but only 32% do today. Similarly, X (Twitter) usage dropped from 33% in 2014 to 17% in 2024. Source: Pew Research 10. 63% of U.S. Source: Pew Research 11.

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