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Many speculate that marketing is the business realm poised to be fundamentally reshaped by Artificial Intelligence. However, the pressing issue is the prevalent lack of technical acumen and basic AI understanding among many marketers. Decoding AI for Marketing (DAM) aims to mend this informational void, delivering insights for the technically adept and beginners alike. We demystify AI’s intricacies and furnish hands-on, applicable marketing approaches from those leading the charge. DAM will ...
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Truly Understanding Consumer Behavior - with the Help of AI
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Jeremy Fain, CEO and Co-founder at Cognitiv, is on a mission to better predict consumer behavior with the help of artificial intelligence. The deep-learning advertising platform was founded in 2015 and has since built tools to help brands connect with their customers in a more precise way - a necessary capability for marketers now and into the futu…
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The Secret to Success with AI? Building the Right Marketing Organization
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Omar Rodriguez-Vilá is a professor of marketing at Emory University and a partner at MarCaps, and was previously a practitioner at Coca-Cola. He’s looked at the ways some of the best marketing organizations out there have changed their structure and habits in the wake of the AI revolution, and he has data to share. He argues that great marketing le…
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AI Marketers, Digital Transformation, and Lessons from Starbucks Mobile Pay
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Adam Brotman, co-founder and co-CEO at Forum3, an AI lab, has spent his whole career helping brands embrace technologies to lead them into the future. Now, with his co-founder Andy Sack, he’s taking what he’s learned about places like Starbucks and J. Crew and building and testing tools around artificial intelligence that can help marketers at ever…
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The New Dimensions of Your AI Marketing Technology
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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 com…
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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 atte…
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Digging Deeper on the AI Conundrum with Rex Briggs and Caleb Briggs
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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--Profitab…
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Are You Placing the Right Bets In Your AI Strategy?
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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 put…
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Venture Capital, AI, and Marketing: Where Are The Opportunities?
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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…
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Startups like Pictory Tap LLMs to Improve Your Marketing Workflow
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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 …
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MediaMonks is Pushing Marketing Boundaries with AI
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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-augmen…
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The Age of Agents is Coming and It Will Upend Marketing
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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 age…
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How Salesforce Uses AI and Cloud to Improve Customer Relationships
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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.…
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CPG and Why The Best AI Projects Start with a Business Problem
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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 chall…
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AI's Influence on Marketing: A Ripple Effect Across All Business Verticals
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Gopi Kallayil is the Chief Business Strategist for AI at Google, which means he has a bird’s eye view of the technology and its implications at one of the world’s largest companies - and all the partner companies they work with. Author of The Happier Human: Being Real in an Artificially Intelligent World, Gopi had spent a good portion of his profes…
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How AI is Helping Us Understand and Streamline Messy Customer Data
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Barry Padgett is CEO of Amperity, a company using AI to solve this problem: large companies now have lots and lots of marketing data, but it is all coming from different systems and services. That means you might have info about a customer in different places across your portfolio, without the ability to integrate that data to get a more complete u…
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What Walmart is Learning About Marketing Tech and AI
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Large retailers like Walmart are in some ways at an advantage when it comes to implementing new technology like AI that depends on data, with insights being constantly aggregated across stores, products and customers. But large companies also come with complexity, and complexity is exactly what Saleel Sathe deals in every day. He’s the vice preside…
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Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: Building a Smart AI Marketing Roadmap
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While many are enthusiastic about AI, few companies have a smart roadmap in place for its development and implementation. Instead, many people either start from scratch and try to build the capability internally from zero, or buy up other AI companies without much of a plan. Jim Lecinski’s approach, outlined in his book "The AI Marketing Canvas: A …
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How AI Startups Can Show Us What’s Next in Marketing
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What does the Empire Strikes Back and the Flux Capacitor have in common? They are both analogies that Tom Chavez uses when he talks about just how exciting and challenging this moment is in AI and marketing right now. Chavez previously sold two startups - one to Microsoft and one to Salesforce - but today is doubling down on AI as the technology to…
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The AI Takeover and Why Creative Matters More Than Ever
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If everyone has access to the same powerful tools, where can marketers stand out? It comes from the inputs, and the thoughtful creative behind the assets. Alex Collmer is the founder and CEO at VidMob, a creative performance platform for marketing. In this episode, he chats with Greg and Rex about the ways they are using AI to better analyze data a…
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Designing Effective AI Tests at Ally (and Measuring Results the Right Way)
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It’s not enough to just be testing out AI on various teams and seeing what might stick. The best organizations are pulling together an AI strategy, designing careful tests across all parts of the company, and gathering data on the results to implement at scale where it makes sense. At Ally, Chief Information, Data and Digital Officer, Sathish Muthu…
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AI is already being used by marketers in campaigns they create, but today’s guest, Carlo Maria Ferrari, Global Content & Creators Lead at Sanofi, says the best creative will still be made by humans. Hear why he sees GenAI as a way to check your brainstorms and make sure your ideas are truly original: in a sense, making AI the new bar that great cre…
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Artificial intelligence has been used in both marketing and in the travel and hotel industry for years, but gen AI is a game changer in a number of ways. In this episode, we speak with Michael Menis, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing at IHG Hotels & Resorts, about two trends he foresees will change the game in his industry: the ability to l…
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Quick Take: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Board Drama
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It’s been a whirlwind week for Sam Altman at OpenAI - where he was removed by the board and has now been reinstated. It’s the biggest news in artificial intelligence this week, and hosts Greg Stuart and Rex Briggs give their takes and share their past experiences with boards making decisions like this. Listen on your favorite podcast app: https://p…
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Are You Leading an AI-Ready Marketing Organization?
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What can marketers learn from digital transformations in the retail space? Ratnakar Lavu became the first ever Global Chief Digital Information Officer at Nike - a job that he took on during the height of the pandemic. Today, he advises startups and brings in his years of experience including his time as CTO at Kohl’s to help think about the future…
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Why Marketers Have a “Seat at the Table” in the Growth of AI
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Been hearing a lot about AI but think it’s more something for the CTO to worry about? Think again. Janet Balis is the marketing practice leader at EY Consulting. Hear why marketers, and especially marketing leaders, are poised to play a pivotal role when it comes to how organizations integrate AI into their businesses to gain a competitive edge. It…
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AI is moving fast, and one of the places it’s most quickly becoming a necessity is in the marketing space. But a lack of basic AI understanding and a lack of the necessary technical acumen is holding many marketers and organizations back. On this show, marketing and AI experts Greg Stuart and Rex Briggs help demystify the intricacies of AI, through…
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