As marketers look for ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their efforts, it’s no wonder they are turning to artificial intelligence to help. So, how is AI being used in marketing, how common is it, and where is adoption growth expected?
There are 3 clear strategies that marketers are turning to AI for help: audience targeting, creative effectiveness, and campaign spend.
Retailers have long known that the experience within their stores can greatly affect shopping behaviors. Lighting, music, end caps, and more all affect both the mood and what lands in the shopping cart. And while you can’t control the lighting or the music, the user experience is just as important for shoppers online.
Attention is at an ever increasing premium. For marketers to be effective, their content cannot be a digital diversion, but rather must be an integrated component of a larger engagement experience. Welcome to a new generation of native advertising – so targeted and relevant it may as well be speaking directly to you. Performance marketers have always known that to stand out they must blend in. In that spirit, native advertising has become more personalized than ever before.
Better ad experiences foster better ad engagement. It’s a quintessential truth of digital advertising, and a central force behind a migration to native advertising.
Read MoreAdvertising has always been associated with creative thinking and eye-catching visuals. Every year we discuss the best Super Bowl ads more than the game itself. The biggest award show in advertising is focused on creative. The best scenes in the most famous TV show about advertising were often the creative pitches that wowed the clients.
Ask any business owner where they are headed in the next few years, and the responses will contain a mix of optimism, determination, and caution. When asked what the biggest impact will be on their business, the responses lend themselves to two top areas: marketing and tech.
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In the midst of the daily hustle to drive growth, marketers are often left with little time to reflect on what they would’ve done differently if they had the chance. Indeed, most of us have little time to deploy new technologies, much less pontificate about how those experiences could be improved.
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The customer journey is a long and winding road, but so often marketing attribution models only look at a small sliver of the path to conversion.
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As advertisers demand more transparency and consumers demand more privacy, data quality becomes evermore important. How are marketers adjusting to improve accuracy in their campaigns and measurement while maintaining compliance with an ever increasing array of privacy laws? In short, they are investing more heavily in data.
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As traditional retailers struggle to maintain the excitement they drummed up over the holidays, there is much to be learned from the marketing tactics of the direct to consumer brands successfully engaging their ever-growing audiences.
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