# Klarna cut sales and marketing spend 11% in Q1 2024 while running more campaigns, attributing 37% of the savings (about $10 million annualised) to generative AI for images and copy

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20240528-marketing-specialist-1
Date: 2024-05-28 · Stage: Deployment
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Occupation: https://flyvolo.ai/en/careers/marketing-specialist

## Scope

One fintech's in-house marketing team; spending on external marketing suppliers (translation, production, CRM and social agencies) fell 25%. Company-reported; the release gives no headcount figures.

## Source

- Klarna — press release — https://www.klarna.com/international/press/ai-helps-klarna-cut-marketing-agency-spend-by-25-and-run-more-campaigns/ (primary source)

## What this means

A deployment record on the campaign-content task with a budget attached: one company ran more campaigns on 11% less sales-and-marketing spend, credited 37% of the saving to generative images and copy, and cut spending on external marketing suppliers 25%. On the deployment layer it shows where the hours went — content production moved from agencies to an in-house team using generative tools — not that the marketing team shrank.

## What it does not show yet

Klarna reported no headcount figures, so this cannot be read as fewer marketers; the saving is largely agency invoices. The 37% attribution is the company's own accounting, and the release does not say whether the extra campaigns performed. It describes a well-funded fintech's in-house team in 2024, not agencies, small businesses or regulated-claims marketing.

## How to verify it yourself

Ask whoever owns your marketing budget what share of last quarter's spend went to external agencies for production (not media), and whether that line moved year on year; the agency line is where this record says the first savings appear, and your company's number tells you whether it is happening where you work.


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