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             Artificial Intelligence and Automation


             in Marketing



             Artificial   intelligence   (AI)   and   marketing      personalization  include  models  for  product
             automation (MA) are two advanced tools that allow       recommendations,    dynamic   websites,   self-
             marketers  to  optimize  tasks  across  the  whole      optimizing   campaigns   (where   the   model
             marketing spectrum.                                     determines  the  best  treatment from  a multivariate
                                                                     test for each individual customer) and personalized
             Artificial  intelligence  (AI)  and  marketing  automation   messaging via chatbots.
             (MA)  are  two  advanced  tools  that  allow  marketers  to
             optimize tasks across the whole marketing spectrum.   •  AI  can  also  be  used  to  recommend  content  to
                                                                     marketers  as  they  build  their  campaigns.  Use
             For  instance,  AI  can  be  used  for  many  applications   cases  around  this  application  focus  on  tone  of
             within marketing such as:                               voice  recommendations  as  well  as  reviews  and
                                                                     image recommendations.
              •  AI can be used as a tool to provide data  insights,
                specifically  for  marketing  teams  who  do  not  have   •  Scheduling is one of the most common uses of AI
                access  to  data  engineers:  e.g.,  AI  models  can   in   marketing,   a   subset   of   ‘’campaign
                identify   patterns   in   customer   data   and     recommendations’. With each customer preferring
                autonomously  cluster  customers  based  on  those   to receive communications at their own time, and
                patterns;  or  AI  could  support  result  analysis  by   based on everyone’s open and click patterns, send
                helping  discover  the  impact  campaigns  had  on   time  optimization  algorithms  have  become  a
                different KPIs by powering analytic models such as   popular   capability   in   marketing  automation
                marketing mix modeling and multi-touch attribution.   software.

              •  Personalization  is  a  common  use  case  of  AI  in   •  Leveraging  AI  for  programmatic  advertising
                marketing,  too.  Due  to  their  scale  and  speed,  AI   provides great benefits for marketers. By analyzing
                models  are  particularly  helpful  when  needing  to   data  in  real-time,  AI  models  can  help  predict
                identify  customer  preferences  and  personalize    results of campaigns for different audiences, adjust
                content in real-time. Common use cases for AI in     bidding  strategies  to  maximize  ROI  and  match


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