Collecting and analysing marketing data takes humans a long time, but AI-enabled insight instantly identifies data patterns and enables marketers to match people to the products/services they want, at the right time and at top speed. So is 2017 the year AI becomes the age of acceptance for marketers?
The news is full of how artificial intelligence will transform the world around us, but as marketers, how will it impact our industry specifically? Here we explore why one technology in particular holds a lot of promise for data-driven marketing. Because in all that big data we produce, there are countless hidden insights that we’re missing every day — and deep learning is the key to unlocking them.
Technology has created a new era for marketers, says Pini Yakuel. But the move from traditional media to the web is not as simple as putting ads online – they must be carefully targeted so as not to bombard and provoke the viewer into deploying ad-blockers and shifting their loyalty elsewhere. Customer data should be carefully individualised and detailed, segmented into specific personas; the art of advertising has morphed into the online marketing science of data analytics.
For too long, brands have focused on the who and the where of advertising and, along the way, have lost sight of the ‘what’. In today’s AI insight driven world, technology is at the forefront of helping put the right ads in front of the right people at the right time. Rocket Fuel’s Joe Peters looks at how dynamic creative optimisation is helping to end the guesswork.
The arrival of the digital age has flummoxed many marketers – some of whom still call decade-old technology (such as smartphones) new tech. Three-quarters of the web’s sites are inactive, full of graveyard content, and there’s a deluge of data as yet unprocessed. Get with it and pick up the pace, says author Minter Dial; don’t let your business get left behind. Look to the future . . .
Be not afraid! Instead of a revolution that routs and destroys, artificial intelligence is driving a marketing revolution that will make our industry more intelligent and empowering. It will free-up marketers from the mundanity of day-to-day tasks, enabling ever deeper analytics and insights and creating finer personalisation and customer service. Here’s how:
Ten years on from the first airing of the hit TV series Mad Men, about a ‘golden age’ of advertising – a world of sexism, racism, hard drinking and even harder smoking – Dale Lovell looks at how the ad world changed after Mad Men and why the modern era of technology, appropriate data targeting and creative must coexist in order to maximise today’s advertising campaigns.
Clever PR tactic or high-level marketing strategy? Does this new weather personalisation tool highlight how innovative data analytics and personalisation can elevate consumer engagement? Personalisation is among the year’s biggest trends and a shopper’s experience is becoming as important as product and price, says Michelle Huff. With the right technology, personalisation can be integrated into any marketing strategy quickly and effectively.
Not too far into the future, many of us will live in smart cities, where technology and data will combine – proving that data insight is a driving force for growth and innovation. This and more was explored at the recent Webit 2017 in Sofia. The GMA attended and here we sum up the fascinating data driven perspective from that event.
Imagine making advertising appear magical to viewers. Imagine being able to hyper-scale ads – make them the size of skyscrapers. Important digital out-of-home technologies are developing; emerging tech trends marketers should be watching closely.