This presentation is from Affiliate Summit East 2018 (July 29 - July 31, 2018 in New York).
Session description: How AI is having a huge impact on marketing. How presenting the cross sell opportunity to your visitors can grow basket size. How AI can harness impulse, affordability and improve AOV.
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“The AI took away all of the bullsh*t.
We are no longer led by human ego or human bias but by
numbers and results.”
Virgin Holidays
Google Assistant - Voice or Conversational Commerce
Show of hands - how many of you have seen the video of google assistant booking a hairdresser? Deepmind have really nailed text to voice with a human quality voice + recognition
but in conversational commerce, here’s Google’s play
a user buys something in google assistant
it gets added to their shopping list on google express
if they don’t buy, it shows in sponsored ads in google shopping - remarketing
so again, google have seen this wide open opportunity. said another way, consumer problem, in voice/conversational commerce and their core technology to solve this is AI. in their assistant and within their google shopping algorithms
So if we ask the question, what will AI bring for performance marketing? The simple answer is
quotes such as ‘results beyond imagination’
We know retailers are very poor at cross selling
We know that what retailers really want is bigger aov and lifetime value.
We are using AI and specifically neural networking to solve this
and we are trying to do that for retailers on-site, in-marketing and in-store
the nexus is this - what amazon shows on every product page
product bundling drives 8% rev equating to 14 B /yr
Find what they want quickly without leaving the page
Configure it - size and colour
Buy
We use 25 sub modals of neural networking to do this
Individualised - personalisation and discounting
Designing for a world without screens - voice
Our platform is for on-site but also in marketing
Here we’re helping Bareminerals take 2 bites of the cherry - exposure for a single product but also a bundled product
Our platform is for on-site but also in marketing
Here we’re helping Bareminerals take 2 bites of the cherry - exposure for a single product but also a bundled product
quotes such as ‘results beyond imagination’
The focus on one problem - how to make headlines more effective in email marketing
driven by AI
NLP experts
work with several brands
there’s one aff business there - wowcher
Virgin holidays made the assumption that a discount in the headline (economic value) was more powerful that anything else for years
Actually the emotional driver of urgency (pain or pleasure biggest motivators) was more powerful.
And you can read what Virgin Hols said
Really interesting
experts in natural language processing ie reading text and understanding meaning
one of their first solutions was for listed companies to be able to automate report writing based on analysing market data. which is really cool.
Now, they are looking at areas of automating descriptions for products for ecommerce. if you go to automatedinsights.com gallery you can actually see the NLP in practice taking effectively product feeds and converting them into text descriptions. Saving hundreds of thousands in copy writing fresh content and improving roe from it
Effectively using NLP and a little text to automate rich descriptions.
one of my favourite areas of AI is an area known as emotional AI or more accurately affective computing
This is the annual Gartner Hype Cyle
It shows us where a new innovation is in the cycle from idea through to mainstream use
Affective Computing is still 5 years + away but super interesting and used in some cases
https://datafloq.com/read/2016-hype-cycle-emerging-technologies-about-data/2243
never mind is a game that responds to bio feedback. in this case, it reacts via your webcam to your emotions.
if you get stressed, the game gets harder. if you relax, it gets easier
in a more commercial context. a market leading company is Affectiva.
They have analysed over 6m faces across the globe
you remember this campaign ? well before it went viral, Evian predicted that it would go viral
Affectiva have a product called Affdex which was used to study spontaneous facial reaction of 2600 faces to 40 viral ads in social media.
Their model then predicted this Evian campaign would go viral. Pretty cool
Likewise the technology can be used to analyse facial responses in outdoor media campaigns to change what is presented based on the person’s mood. So a holiday if the person is looking tired out. Although i think this is a bit too minority report
So where’s this going and how will this be relevant for us in performance marketing
so how many of you use google adwords?
well i expect we’ll be emotionally targeting customers in google adwords
the signal of your emotional state will come from google assistant and how you sound and what you say
there will be an index of emotion
lookalikes just as we have interest based lookalikes
which means we can target based on emotional state
and let’s be honest, why buy because of how we feel. not because of features of a product
i just think this is the most incredible field
happy / sad , excited / unexcited
target people who are sad with weekend ideas or sunshine ideas
AI is going to power everything
it’s up to us in our businesses to identify opportunities or problems we see and look to technologies such as AI to create solutions that are market leading
question is where is the opportunity or problem that you see and how can AI be used to solve it …to make you more money, save cost or drive innovation
Thank you