The Times and The Sunday Times, pioneers in the world of publishing, are embracing AI to power subscription revenue. The brands have signed with Phrasee for optimised email subject line generation for email marketing campaigns. This forms part of a brand-wide shift to embrace and work with new technologies. Phrasee’s AI technology generates and optimises marketing copy at scale. The […]
At the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Rothco, part of Accenture Interactive, captured the Creative Data Grand Prix for its artificial intelligence(AI)-led campaign ‘JFK Unsilenced’ for The Times / News UK & Ireland. The win marks its seventh Lion all week, spanning four categories. The campaign used specialised AI technology to create the […]
A very alarming scenario was the starting point for MTV to launch a digital platform that is helping young Brazilians to understand the importance of their votes, putting them face to face with the politician that represents his or her interests today in Congress. According to a recent survey of Instituto Locomotiva/Ideia Big Data, […]
Walmart has officially launched an AI-enhanced personal shopping service, called Jetblack, though it’s US-only for now. Jetblack is a new app out in beta. The idea is that you can use it to text your shopping request. J, Jetblack’s built-in assistant, will then do the rest. J can order you goods and gift wrap any […]
According to Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) someone in the world develops dementia every three seconds. There are more than 50 million people living with dementia globally. With the number of dementia cases, including Alzheimer’s disease, on the rise, it is shocking how low public awareness is of the condition that affects so many individuals and […]
Data2Decisions, a global marketing effectiveness consultancy, has launched PoleStar Live, an advanced media budget optimizer that integrates real time metrics to enable more accurate and dynamic planning and optimisation across media buying platforms. Based on a fusion of digital attribution with marketing mix modelling, PoleStar Live is a holistic attribution tool powered by AI, designed […]
Quantcast, which owns and operates the world’s largest AI-driven audience insights platform for the open internet, announced the launch of Quantcast Choice. Available from May 15 for free, Quantcast Choice is the first widely available implementation of the IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent Framework. The product has been in beta since February and is already […]
Streaming service NOW TV has glimpsed into the future of marketing by promoting the return of dark odyssey Westworld using a hyper-realistic humanoid robot, inspired by the show’s artificially intelligent “hosts”. NOW TV commissioned five engineers from robotics company Engineered Arts to build ‘Fred the Robot’ who is modelled on a real 55 year […]
Relay42, a company that empowers marketers to create AI-driven customer journeys, has published a socially-sourced whitepaper that provides a unique view of the relationship between marketing and technology. The whitepaper, entitled ‘Cross-channel Personalization: The Heart of Customer-centricity’, found that the potential of technology to make the marketing function more effective and sophisticated cannot be underestimated […]
Mondelēz International owned Lacta chocolate, has always been a symbol for love in Greece. Years of advertising have established it as the perfect gift to give on Valentine’s day. But in an age of obsession with technology and Artificial Intelligence, Lacta wanted to remind everyone that without love, life is tasteless and that what […]