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?
Providing customers with personalised content can lift revenue by 15%, according to Harvard Business Review, so why is it that businesses so often settle for producing generic marketing – or, worse, create messages that simply do not translate? Robert Berkeley says they need to do more to localise content if they are to draw in customers and grow their businesses.
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.
It’s not just another handle for key account marketing, but a different way of viewing and doing and being effective; actioning your B2B marketing strategy. Read our reasons for deploying an account-based marketing strategy.
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:
Consumers demand immediacy – they want their chosen product/service promptly and they want brands to respond to their demands NOW! That means real-time marketing is essential. But how and when is it appropriate? Anthony Botibol has advice on speedy personal service.
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.
Storytelling – specifically, video storytelling – is the ‘big thing’ when it comes to content marketing, says Bob Dearsley – who cuts through the noise to bring advice on when and how to add video to your content marketing strategy.
One was a masterclass and one a bit of a mess: Burger King and Walkers, their risk-taking personalisation strategies and their campaign results, are explored here. But marketers, be warned: learn from these experts, but be cautious – assess all potential outcomes (and don’t underestimate the quick-witted public) – before rolling out risky advertising.
New regulations come into force next May around data consent, but what will be the marketing consequences of GDPR? Robert Howells makes some predictions on who will benefit and who will struggle with the effects of GDPR.