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Analysis How Brands Can Partner With Google Assistant Domino’s, Ticketmaster, Disney, among others have partnered with the Google Assistant to create "actions" that consumers can take, Google's Alana Brown notes. Here's how those partnerships develop. David Kaplan By David Kaplan, Oct 2nd
Analysis IBM Watson Unveils Added AI Tools For Marketers, Including Weather-Related Ad Designs To build awareness and ultimately drive in-store visits to their restaurants, Subway leveraged Watson Advertising’s newest targeting capability -- WEATHERfx Footfall with Watson David Kaplan By David Kaplan, Sep 26th
Analysis Global Smart Speaker Sales Hit 11.7 Million Earlier This Year — But What About Voice Activation Usage? The Google Home Mini and Amazon Echo Dot accounted for a combined 38 percent of global shipments in Q2 as Apple's HomePod continued to lag, says Strategy Analytics. David Kaplan By David Kaplan, Sep 20th
Analysis Holiday Season Forecast: 50 Percent Of All U.S. Consumers Will Own A Smart Speaker Even though just 17 percent use voice to initiate a one-time order for pick-up in-store, as more brands strike deals with Google and Amazon, that will likely change as well as more smart devices alter the way people initiate a purchase, an Adobe study suggests. David Kaplan By David Kaplan, Sep 12th
Analysis CDX Voice + Audio Summit: How Brands Can Prepare For The Voice Activation Revolution Brands need to see voice as fundamentally transformational as it relates to intent, search and discovery, media consumption, and the broader customer experience, says CDX Conference Chairman Drew Ianni. David Kaplan By David Kaplan, Sep 4th
Analysis Oath’s Sarah Martinez On Why Retailers Have Reasons For Optimism For 2018 Holiday Shopping Personalization matters more than ever to consumers, Martinez says, and technologies like voice activation and AR/VR are helping brands deliver more relevant experiences. David Kaplan By David Kaplan, Sep 4th
Analysis CPG And Alexa: Audio Packaging On The Voice Shelf “Over 40 percent of smart speakers live in kitchens and while parents and families are early adopters of voice, cereal brands are sleeping on a major opportunity,” says Dexter Garcia, co-founder and CSO of Audio UX. Dexter Garcia By , Aug 16th
Analysis How Can Marketers Know If Voice Activation Is Working? Amazon Alexa’s Dave Isbitski Explains Fallback Intent "Meet your customer in the moment," Isbitski advises, "because the one thing you can't measure right now is what are your customers asking you." David Kaplan By David Kaplan, Aug 14th
Analysis How CMOs Are Getting Past The Hype About AI By Finding The Practical Use Cases It's still "early days" for AI, says Forrester analyst Thomas Husson, who reports that only 36 percent of global marketing decision makers actually use machine learning tech. David Kaplan By David Kaplan, Aug 10th
Analysis How Consumers’ Use Of Voice Activation Is Evolving “Voice-activated tools have become part of our daily lives and are bringing dramatic changes to consumer behavior,” says NPR CMO Meg Goldthwaite. David Kaplan By David Kaplan, Jul 31st
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