Unlocking Marketing Potential with Generative AI
In the dynamic world of digital marketing, staying ahead requires constant innovation and efficiency. Generative AI (GenAI) is emerging as a game-changer, transforming how marketers create content, personalize campaigns, and analyze data. This newsletter explores how GenAI can revolutionize marketing strategies, enhancing both creativity and productivity.
The Promise of Generative AI in Marketing
Generative AI, a branch of artificial intelligence, uses machine learning models to generate new content such as text, images, and even video based on existing data. This technology holds immense potential for improving marketing effectiveness while driving operational efficiencies. According to recent studies, generative AI can boost marketing productivity by 5-15% of total marketing spending. This increase in productivity stems from GenAI's capabilities in content creation, personalized marketing, and data analysis, allowing marketers to engage customers more effectively. By leveraging these advanced AI tools, businesses can not only streamline their workflows but also enhance the precision and relevance of their marketing efforts.
Key Benefits of Generative AI
Transformative Use Cases of Generative AI
Generative AI is now easily accessible across various marketing tools, allowing marketers to enhance their workflows with AI-driven features. From content creation to audience targeting and data analysis, GenAI can be integrated alongside existing processes, helping marketers scale their efforts while maintaining personalization and precision. This section highlights key transformative use cases where GenAI is proving invaluable, enabling marketers to drive both creativity and efficiency without being fully built into their tools.
1. Creative and Content Generation?
Generative AI enables marketers to produce high-quality content at scale. With tools like Google Cloud’s Imagen and Gemini, marketers can generate text, images, and soon video content tailored to different channels and audience segments. This reduces the time and cost associated with traditional content creation methods.
2. Media Performance and Personalization?
GenAI allows for scalable personalization and activation, enabling marketers to create data-driven segments and target audiences more precisely. This leads to higher engagement and conversion rates, as marketing messages can be tailored to individual preferences.
3. Measurement and Insights?
Generative AI can automate repetitive tasks such as data analysis and campaign creation, freeing up marketers to focus on strategic activities. Tools like Google Cloud’s Looker and Vertex AI provide conversational insights, enabling non-technical users to extract valuable information from data.
Google Cloud's Suite of Generative AI Capabilities
Google Cloud offers a comprehensive suite of generative AI capabilities designed to drive marketing effectiveness responsibly and securely.
?Key products include:
Why Invest in Generative AI Now?
The time to invest in generative AI is now. The technology offers significant advantages in terms of increased marketing ROI, rapid implementation, and low startup costs. By integrating generative AI into their marketing strategies, businesses can achieve better customer engagement, enhanced personalization, and more efficient operations.
Conclusion
Generative AI is set to transform the marketing landscape, offering unprecedented opportunities for creativity, personalization, and efficiency. Marketers can leverage these technologies to stay ahead of the competition and deliver better customer experiences. By adopting generative AI, businesses can unlock new levels of marketing effectiveness and drive sustainable growth in an increasingly digital world.
Source: McKinsey: The Economic Potential of GenAI 2023; 1 (as % of total marketing spending)
Google Gemini Pricing and Feature Update
Google has rolled out significant updates to its Gemini models, introducing changes aimed at enhancing both affordability and scalability for businesses. Key highlights of the update include a 15% reduction in pricing, which makes accessing Google’s advanced AI capabilities more cost-effective. In addition, rate limits have been increased, allowing for greater throughput and faster performance across applications.
These changes are designed to support businesses of all sizes, from startups experimenting with AI-driven solutions to enterprises scaling their operations. With the updated pricing, organizations can now better optimize costs without sacrificing performance or innovation.
Alongside these pricing changes, Google has also made improvements to the functionality and efficiency of the Gemini models. For a comprehensive breakdown of the new pricing tiers and additional details on the latest improvements, check out the full announcement here.
Past events
At the 2024 code.talks conference in Hamburg, we had the opportunity to showcase our unique approach to cloud connectors using Dagster and dbt. As one of Europe’s largest developer events, code.talks draws over 3,000 attendees annually and features more than 100 talks focused on computer science, tech management, and cutting-edge solutions in the data and tech industries. During our talk, titled "Control the Full Value Chain of Data with Dagster and dbt," we highlighted how we tackle complex data challenges with limited engineering resources. We shared how, as a growing company in the cloud and data space, our team manages to orchestrate and transform data pipelines for large-scale clients. We covered common issues such as manual processes, scaling challenges, and data quality control, and demonstrated how Dagster and dbt helped us overcome these obstacles with efficient orchestration and automated data transformations.
We explained how Dagster’s asset-oriented approach provides flexibility in managing data pipelines and how dbt enables standardized yet highly customizable SQL transformations. By integrating these tools, we’ve streamlined our workflows, improved data reliability, and scaled our operations without needing extensive resources. The audience learned about our successes in automating monitoring, managing hundreds of data pipelines, and delivering customized solutions for diverse client needs, all while ensuring rapid scalability and efficiency. Our ability to showcase efficient and scalable data management with a lean team resonated with both attendees and industry leaders.? Overall, it was an exciting opportunity to highlight how we continuously innovate to provide top-tier services to our clients while also building valuable connections within the tech community. If you have any questions about the topics we discussed or would like to see how our technology works in action, feel free to reach out, we’d love to connect!
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Google Masterclass with DOUGLAS - The Beauty of AI
At DMEXCO, we had the pleasure of presenting two fully booked Masterclasses alongside Google and DOUGLAS. With around 200 attendees per session, we shared our success story, focusing on our Customer Data Platform approach and demonstrating advanced AI use cases, including our Replenishment AI case. It was an excellent opportunity to highlight how Google AI can be effectively applied in real-world scenarios, and we were thrilled with the positive response from the audience.
DDMA Digital Analytics Summit in Amsterdam
And another event that Digitl participated in last month was the DDMA, the Digital Analytics Summit in Amsterdam.?
As the leading event for digital analytics in the Netherlands, the summit brings together national and international experts to discuss the latest developments in technology, privacy and culture.
It was a high quality event with international speakers,?well organized by the Data Driven Marketing Association in the Netherlands.
Among top speakers such as Simo Ahava talking about the current state of the analytgics industry. Martin Broadhurst FRSA showing the usage and capabilities of AI, or Anna Lewis building the link of communication and analytics- and many others - also Timo Aden from Digitl held a well perceived presentation about how to do business in a cookieless world.
The tracking landscape has changed a lot in the past year and faces new challenges as Google Chrome phases out third-party cookies. The presentation covered legal and business implications, along with strategies for adapting to these changes and their effects on tracking.
In case you missed the events above, don’t worry…
…Let’s talk about the upcoming ones!
November 14, 2024,? @Marketing Technology Conference – Berlin
On November 14th, Tim Hasenpusch from Digitl and Tobias Lange from Popken Fashion Group will share how Popken Fashion Group implements a hybrid Customer Data Platform (CDP) to activate first-party data. They will address the challenges of data fragmentation and explain how the CDP centralizes customer data to improve personalized marketing and customer insights and also highlight first use cases using Google Marketing Platform and Google Cloud.
Make sure to grab your ticket for the MTC in Berlin here!
?? 14.11.2024?
?? 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
?? Google Berlin, Tucholskystr. 2
November 21, 2024 -? Hamburg
Next up, make sure to join us in Hamburg on November 21st!?
Together with Google Cloud and Zeotap, we’ll explore how to easily implement and manage a Customer Data Platform (CDP) and share the success story of Douglas.
Discover the newest developments in customer data, personalization, and how GenAI is transforming marketing.?
More about the event and how to sign up for free here!
?? 21.11.2024?
?? 10:30 AM to 6:00 PM
?? Google Office Hamburg, ABC-Bogen, ABC-Stra?e 19, 20354 Hamburg
November 28, 2024: Analytics Hub – Vienna
And last but not least, mark your calendars for an exciting afternoon on the 28th of November 2024, when we will be hosting a conference at Labstelle Vienna together with Slopelift and Google Austria.?
The focus will be on CTV - Connected TV and the future of TV advertising.
Look forward to inspiring presentations, exciting discussions and interesting insights into the latest trends and developments in TV advertising. The programme promises real highlights you won't want to miss!
Follow us on linkedin for upcoming updates on this event!