Decoding AI for Marketing

Yaniv Makover, CEO and cofounder of Anyword, says that no company - large or small - will end up with a one-size-fits-all AI stack for their marketing teams, Instead they will be vertical, horizontal, and native. The best marketers - and best organizations - will take that into account and think of ways for different systems to more effectively communicate with each other. Anyword is an AI writing platform made for enterprise marketing teams, and Makover explains the technology and use cases behind it. 

For Further Reading:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaniv-makover-a8590b3/

https://medium.com/authority-magazine/yaniv-makover-of-anyword-how-ai-is-disrupting-our-industry-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-167bc80e00e6

https://homebusinessmag.com/businesses/ai/why-small-businesses-disloyal-single-ai-platform/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyUUzFv824Y

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Joshua Browder, CEO and Founder of DoNotPay.com, thinks one of the biggest ways AI will change marketing is in its power to help consumers advocate for themselves. While companies are finding all kinds of efficiencies and competitive advantages for themselves with AI, there’s also a huge opportunity for individual consumers. What started as an attempt to fight his own parking tickets has now grown into a major business: using AI agents to help people with everything from canceling subscriptions to getting refunds. He talks through how his technology works - and what businesses need to know. 

For Further Reading:

Joshua Browder LinkedIn

Age 27, Built a $230M AI Lawyer Business

'Multimodal is the most unappreciated AI breakthrough' says DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder

Would you let a robot lawyer defend you?

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Marketers - and businesses overall - face a fundamental conundrum about artificial intelligence: it has an incredible power to recognize patterns, but not all patterns are reliable. Host Rex Briggs and his son Caleb Briggs set out to explore that tension in their new book, The AI Conundrum: Harnessing the Power of AI for Your Organization--Profitably and Safely. They explain what people still don’t understand about AI, and the greatest potential uses of AI for marketers in the near future to maximize both profit and effectiveness. 

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Buy The AI Conundrum

MMA Global's Decoding AI for Marketers training

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Jonathan Nelson, CEO of Omnicom Digital, works with clients at the world’s largest organizations to shape the future of marketing. He’s spent his career picking the winners: deciding which technologies to invest in to help his company get an edge in the increasingly competitive marketing landscape. In the AI space, he’s partly doing that by not putting all his eggs in one basket; instead, his company has partnered with major players like OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and more. He explains why you need to be all in - but also be able to pull out as things shift in the weeks and months ahead. 

For Further Reading:

Learn more about Jonathan

Jonathan Nelson, CEO, Omnicom Digital converses with Neeta Nair of IMPACT

Inside the Omnicom-Flywheel merger with John Wren, Jonathan Nelson & Duncan Painter

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Jocelyn Goldfein, Managing Director at Zetta, has been there since the early days of the Internet, even starting as the first summer intern at Netscape. After time at Facebook and VMWare, she entered the venture capital space with the first AI-focused VC firm, Zetta. Now, she and her partners are looking for the biggest opportunities in the startup ecosystem around AI, and she explains what some of those developments mean for the marketing world. 

For Further Reading:

What is RAG (retrieval-augmented generation)? 

Zetta Venture Partners

Weaviate

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Vikram Chalana, CEO of Pictory, says the future of marketing - and all content - is video. He looked at the ways in which AI could increase efficiency for content creators, and that was the inspiration behind the company. Pictory makes video creation easier by allowing the average business user to repurpose existing content like articles and white papers and make videos to publish across multiple channels. Chalana explains how their technology works, how it helps SMBs, and where he wants the space to go next.

For Further Reading: 

Pictory

10 “Best” AI Tools for Business (May 2024)

The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work

Inside Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data

ElevenLabs

POSSIBLE

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Wesley ter Haar, founder of MediaMonks and Executive Director at S4 Capital Group, has always been on the cutting edge of digital first production. The company has doubled down on their AI bet, and he shares some of the latest use cases they are developing for clients with AI, including consumer proxies, scaling up personalization, retrieval-augmented generation, and streamlining workflows.

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Learn more about Wesley

Wesley ter Haar, Founder, Media.Monks AI Keynote at the BI Marketing Leadership

A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled

Wesley ter Haar on the difference AI makes to creative content

AlphaGo - The Movie | Full award-winning documentary

Burger King Takes "Have It Your Way" to the Next Level, Offering Guests The Chance to Win $1 Million for Their Ultimate Whopper® Creation

The Actual Possibility of AI – Wesley ter Harr and Vinny Rinaldi, Head of Analytics, The Hershey Company, presented a case study based on real in-market AI programs to drive in-store sales effectively at POSSIBLE 2024

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Amit Shah, founder and CEO at the startup Instalily.ai, says that the age of AI agents is on the horizon and it will change commerce, marketing, and our lives in all kinds of profound ways. Shah has previously seen major digital transformations while serving as president of 1-800-FLOWERS, among other roles. He explains that the increased use of agents will fundamentally change how marketers go to market, and other ways that AI is accelerating change in the space. 

For Further Reading: 

8 Research Papers That Set Off the AI Boom

My, Myself and AI

Instalily.ai 

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Marty Kihn, Senior Vice President of Strategy at Salesforce, explains some of the biggest ways that AI has impacted their business in recent years. Salesforce now centers around a Customer Data Platform, or CDP, and Kihn talks through some of the key decisions around data, vendors, and layers of AI models that can change the game for all marketers. 

For Further Reading: 

Attention is All You Need

Paleo Ad Tech (Marty’s Podcast)

House of Lies (Marty’s Book)

The Salesforce 360 Blog

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Lu Cotterill is Global Senior Director, Full Funnel Marketing AI / ML at Kellanova (which spun out of legendary brand Kellogg). As a marketer in the CPG space, she’s always searching for the best data available to inform business decisions. In her current role, she focuses on how AI can help them better reach customers. CPG has its own set of challenges, but Lu has found the best way to test use cases for AI and ML is by starting with a business problem - not the technology - first. 

For Further Reading: 

https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2024/02/29/kellogg-spinoff-kellanova-doubles-down-on-digital-transformation-and-commerce/

https://www.adexchanger.com/content-studio/ais-impact-on-cpg-advertising-a-game-changer-for-achieving-business-goals/

https://www.iab.com/blog/how-retailers-are-using-data-clean-rooms/

https://www.mmaglobal.com/datt/consortium-for-ai-personalization

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