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Artificial Intelligence
Nine Challenges Brand Marketers Face with Generative AI
While GenAI represents enormous opportunity for marketers—including elevating the stature of the function within the C-suite and throughout the organization—there will certainly be landmines to avoid along the journey. As with any transformational technology, capabilities and solutions will continue to evolve, likely at an increasingly frenetic pace. In addition, the rules of engagement are being written in real-time, making it…
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Artificial Intelligence
5 Trends in MarTech Shaping the Landscape in 2024
MarTech is a crucial element of digital marketing campaigns, with an estimated value of nearly $670 billion last year. Effective marketing technology solutions help companies communicate with their prospects and customers while keeping up with the competition. The biggest problem for brands that want to keep up with the latest trends is that the best practices are constantly changing. Having…
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Content Marketing
Jetpack: Effortless Backups, Speed, and Growth for Your WordPress Site
Every website owner faces the same relentless challenges — keeping their site secure, running fast, and growing traffic in a crowded online world. Unfortunately, managing dozens of plugins for each feature can create security gaps, slow down your site, and leave you with complex configurations that are hard to maintain. Jetpack Jetpack is an all-in-one WordPress plugin built by Automattic,…
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Artificial Intelligence
Fooling the Detectors: How AI is Generating Content That Passes for Human
Recently, Paul Graham noticed that he was getting some cold emails. A single word stood out: delve. He did some sleuthing and noticed that the term had skyrocketed in use—coincidentally, as GenAI tools took hold in the industry for writing email content. My point here is not that I dislike "delve," though I do, but that it's a sign that…
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Analytics & Testing
Alteryx: An AI Analytics Platform To Unlock Insights at Enterprise Scale
Organizations are drowning in data but starving for insights. Extracting meaningful information from vast and complex datasets is a major challenge, requiring significant time, resources, and technical expertise. Many companies struggle to keep up with the growing demands of data analysis, leading to missed opportunities and suboptimal decision-making. Alteryx AI Analytics Platform The Alteryx AI Analytics Platform is a unified,…
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Artificial Intelligence
Imagga: An API for AI-Powered Image Recognition
Developers face the challenge of efficiently analyzing and organizing vast amounts of visual content. From e-commerce platforms to social media apps, accurately tagging, categorizing, and recognizing images is crucial for enhancing user experience and driving engagement. However, manual image processing is time-consuming and prone to errors, hindering productivity and innovation. Imagga Imagga provides AI-powered, innovative, and cutting-edge APIs for image…
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Analytics & Testing
Unlocking Business Insights with the Sankey Diagram
As we build highly accurate predictions for creating lookalike audiences for our customers, one powerful visual that we have that shows the transformation of their new customer base from at-risk and churning to loyal, valuable customers is the Sankey Diagram. The Sankey diagram was named after Irish engineer Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey. Sankey diagrams illustrate a system’s flow of…
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Content Marketing
Optimizely: Empower Your Business with Comprehensive Digital Experience Solutions
Businesses face numerous challenges when it comes to managing content, conducting experiments, and delivering seamless commerce experiences. Marketers, editors, and system administrators often struggle with fragmented workflows, limited insights, and time-consuming processes that hinder their ability to create exceptional digital experiences for their customers. Optimizely Optimizely is a powerful platform that offers a suite of integrated tools to streamline the…
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Event Marketing
Why Selfie Booths Are a Must-Have for Successful Event Marketing
At my wedding last year, the venue surprised us by throwing in a selfie booth. To say it was a success would be an understatement… almost everyone at the event used the booth to snap photos with friends and family. Selfie booths have become an indispensable fixture at events… and not just personal events. Corporate conferences and product launches can…
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Marketing Infographics
What is Viral Marketing? Some Examples and Why They Worked (or Didn’t)
With the popularity of social media, I would hope that the majority of businesses are analyzing every campaign they execute with the hope of it being shared through word of mouth to increase its reach and potency. Breaking through the noise to reach your target audience can be a major challenge. That’s where viral marketing comes in – crafting content…
