How can advertisers leverage machine learning for personalized advertising?
by David Hunt Data Geek and Analytics FanaticThe hype around machine learning in business and marketing
is enormous right now. Machine Learning refers to a technology that enables computers
to make real-time decisions based on previously stored knowledge or
information. The advertising industry in particular has been very ready in
adopting machine learning technologies.
With advancements in machine learning, it is now possible to
offer much targeted personalization of advertisements and automate activities
with the help of AI-driven solutions, which in turn can improve the ROI of
marketing. Machine learning also provides a great facility for advertisers to
make data-driven decisions.
Some of the most popular utilities of machine learning in
digital advertising are -
1.
Boost performance of digital advertising
2.
Automate manual efforts thereby reducing costs.
3.
Get better insights by finding hidden trends and
correlations in datasets of previously unmanageable sizes
4.
Uncover new customer insights by previously
stored information
5.
Predictive advertising and personalized
communication thereby increasing conversion rates
Machine learning can
boost ad performance
Managing and tracking campaigns and digital advertising
analytics is a very manual and tiresome process. Machine learning can improve
this by automating a lot of these processes thus reducing human intervention
and reducing the chances of errors. A
campaign’s performance can be attributed to a lot of different factors. The
machine learning algorithm can give you insights into these factors are and how
to manage them to deliver a profitable campaign and what more precisely what
exact parameters to set or optimize. As more and more data is injected into
this machine learning model, the accuracy in output improves thereby boosting
the campaign’s performance.
Machine learning
helps to improve ad creatives
A lot of a campaign’s performance depends on the advertising
copies and creatives used. Fonts, colors, sizes etc. all contribute to
creating a great creative and can positively impact the output. Machine
learning algorithms can study previously used creatives in order to predict
what will work best for the future campaigns. With machine learning, we can now
analyse user habits, preferences, personality traits etc. to craft a campaign
using the best possible creatives that will be impactful.
Segmenting customer
groups more effectively
Customer segmentation in marketing is often an underutilized
subject. All customers respond differently to any set of online ads. Targeting
has far greater an effect on the ROI than the ad copies themselves. Marketers
find it challenging to fine-tune their targeting. Complications arise because
customer behaviour is not exactly predictable and often varies from what was
planned earlier.
Machine learning algorithms can identify the customer groups
that convert the best. This data can be used to identify the target criteria
for a digital campaign, as well as the customer demographics that correlate
with the highest conversion rate. Machine learning technology can look at
various customer segments to see how they respond to different content. They
can create custom content for users depending on their location, age, and
income thresholds.
Machine learning in
personalized ads
Many companies find it difficult to effectively manage the
enormous volumes of user data they gather. Data scientists are hired to draw
correlations and organize all these data sets. The efforts are still manual and
take up lot of time and effort. Machine learning empowers advertisers to automatically
build campaigns where creatives and targeting are precisely designed for
personalized experience. In contextual advertising, a web-page's content is
analysed so that one could run ads that match with the context and the user’s
interest. Machine learning can be used in such a situation to create user
personas based on the emotional intent of the web content and thus ensuring the
right audience is matched to these pages.
Machine learning algorithms can curate real-time content to help
recover from negative brand value and sentiments. They can also use more
aggressive marketing copy for customers that have highly favorable brand
perspectives. Personalization is the key to deriving value out of digital
marketing. Machine learning is the foundation of it.
It is however to be noted that machine learning is not a
replacement for creative thinking that only humans can achieve. Machine
learning can assist in automating most the complex procedures and give them the
leverage to conduct creatively. AI is also useful to automate more mundane
tasks, which helps marketers conserve their cognitive resources to focus on
more important challenges.
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