AI In Social Media.
Dennis Waiguru
Digital Marketing Manager | Graphic designer | Corporate Communication | Social Media Accounts Manager | Ghostwriter |
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be leveraged by marketers to optimize social media content and campaigns. The technology is now integrated into the key social media platforms to enhance features and help shape activities at scale.?
In fact, 97% of business leaders believe that AI helps optimize social media data and insights more effectively to improve marketing efforts, according to The 2023 State of Social Media Report.
In this newsletter, we will explore the world of social media and AI and cover:?
What is AI in Social Media?
AI in social media marketing is the use of advanced technologies, such as machine learning and natural language processing, to analyze user data and interactions on social platforms.?
This means marketers can use AI tools for content creation, social media listening, brand awareness, ad targeting and management along with influencer research. This enables data-driven decision-making that can shape a social media strategy.??
The ideal situation for any consumer of social media is that they find their feed filled with content that is relevant and useful - including ads. That’s what AI has the potential to do for digital marketing through hyper-personalization.?
Examples of How to Use AI in Social Media
The scope of using AI in social media is huge. The technology has the potential to improve and optimize many marketing tasks such as:
Let’s look at each one in more detail.?
1. Content generation
AI tools are transforming content generation. The best known of these is ChatGPT but others such as Claude and Jasper could catch up with some great features for marketers such as the former’s ‘vision capabilities’ and Jasper’s new metrics suite.?
Content generation can be time-consuming for companies whether it’s posts for social media campaigns or long-form content like blogs, particularly when there’s no in-house copywriter or content marketer.?
By using ChatGPT prompts, marketers can create content based on key factors such as keywords, target audience, digital channels, tone of voice, and even brand voice to create social posts, articles, voiceover scripts, videos, and images.?
2. Influencer marketing
As traditional advertising finds it increasingly difficult to reach today's ad-fatigued customers, the right influencer can provide an effective way to connect with a target audience.?
Influencer marketing is not just about celebrities or wealthy content creators, it’s about reaching your niche audience by partnering with someone who has their trust and respect.?
Using AI in?influencer marketing can help you identify influencers that your target audience follows along with identifying fraudulent influencers. These tools can also evaluate an influencer’s level of engagement and content style along with monitoring performance and assessing ROI.?
Luxury brand Balmain went one step further in its influencer marketing by casting virtual models.
The campaign featured three models: Shudu, Margot, and Zhi. Shudu has 240,000 Instagram followers with a claim to being the world’s first virtual supermodel.?
3. Personalization
AI can analyze user behavior and preferences. This allows marketers to deliver tailored content that appeals and is relevant to their target audience.
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A great example of this on social media is TikTok. Its algorithm is so successful in finding and recommending relevant content, that it’s more or less becoming a search engine.?
People no longer use TikTok to just watch videos or follow influencers, they use it to conduct searches that would otherwise be conducted on Google.??
You can use AI automation to optimize posting times on social channels based on past performance. Through analysis on automation tools you can gain better insights on the KPIs related to each marketing campaign in real time to track performance to help inform you social media outputs.??
You can also leverage social listening for personalization. It can be used to identify relevant topics, trending or popular keywords and monitor the conversations of consumers across social media - good and bad.?
For example, Sprout Social’s sentiment analysis allows marketers to analyze messages and customer sentiment toward your brand keywords - positive, negative or neutral. This can reveal areas where customers need more customized support.
4. Customer service
Social media has become a customer service channel. People want answers or issues resolved quickly and so they flock to social media to reach out to brands.?
Due to this demand, social channels have turned to AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants.?
Meta uses chatbots in its platforms Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp and these? can also be programmed to understand questions, provide answers, and carry out tasks. These AI tools can also provide a customized online shopping experience and even make sales.
Snap Inc. has also launched a chatbot - My AI. It aims to act like a friend (due to its younger demographic) to “answer a burning trivia question, offer advice on the perfect gift for your BFF’s birthday, or suggest what to make for dinner”. It has come under fire? - see this article from the Washington Post - for inappropriate content so it’s important to remember some of these tools are in the testing stage and are generative so they need to keep learning!
An example is 可口可乐公司 ’s chatbot launched as an ad on Instagram’s newsfeed. The aim is to connect people to local restaurants for the “perfect meal” via direct messaging. Once a person finds the right place, they can go to OpenTable’s app or site to make a reservation.
5. Advertising
With so much noise online, it can be hard to get a good ROI for advertising campaigns. Savvy companies are now leveraging AI to deliver more relevant, engaging, and effective marketing campaigns while optimizing resources and driving business growth.
What can AI tools do for advertising??
For example, lingerie retailer Cosabella replaced its digital agency with an AI platform named ‘Albert’. Based on the company’s KPIs, parameters, and content, Albert identified emerging user behavior and patterns across paid search and social media. Insights and suggestions were then provided for optimal performance and scalability.?
As a result, the company increased its search and social media return-on-ad-spend by 336% and increased social sales by 20x.?
“After seeing Albert (AI) handle our paid search and social media marketing, I would never have a human do this again. ” -Courtney Connell, Marketing Director of Cosabella
Conclusion
There’s no doubt that AI is changing digital marketing.?
The AI market in social media is expected to reach $3.7 million by 2026 according to Mordor Intelligence . This growth is driven by the increased integration of AI with social media for advertising and companies wanting to gain a competitive edge.?
With so many ways to use AI in social media marketing, it can be overwhelming. That's where AI skills and knowledge come in. Experimenting with AI tools and platforms can help you see what you can do with your social media, whether that’s generating and optimizing social content, conducting social listening or automating advertising on platforms.??
It’s also about leveraging AI to get data-driven insights that can help you get under a customer’s skin to deliver the content they need, when they need it.?