The Secret to Mass Personalization & Personalized Content with AI (2018) | AI for Business #3 - YouTube

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Hi and welcome back to another of our videos on artificial intelligence. We
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know that personalization is a powerful way of influencing consumer behavior but
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a few years ago the generation of personalized content used to require
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much more effort on the company side. Now, the increased availability of
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artificial intelligence, combined with marketing automation, made sophisticated
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segmentation less costly and faster to implement. So, let's get into depth and
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see how AI can improve your personalization strategy. First of all,
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computers are now able to perform profile and classification of customers,
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based on the data that they actively or passively provide, the so called digital
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footprints. In the last few years this practice became known as personalization
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at scale. McKinsey has summarized what personalization means to customers
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according to this simple formula. So let's analyze this relationship. It is
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directly related with the relevance of the content, for example consumers have
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reported to preferred suitable recommendations that they wouldn't have
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thought by themselves. The traveling industry makes use of text mining to
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create and test recommendation systems, based on the similarity of the
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destinations. For this, they use the reviews that previous travellers have
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made, their most co-occurring words to describe a particular destination. With
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that they can set retargeting campaigns suggesting similar destinations to
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previous travelers. Another factor in the previous formula is timeliness. Users
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report to prefer to be approached when they are in a shopping mode and because
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nowadays people are always using their smartphones to check their emails.
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Sending automatic messages at midnight might not seem very timely, or it just
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don't make sense to their daily schedule. So, how do we make these things in a way
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that does not deteriorate trust and does not interfere in their privacy? After all,
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what are the boundaries of digital mass persuasion?
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Recent research has shown that people usually do not behave logically when it
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comes to privacy. For example, we often share intimate information with
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strangers, while we keep secrets from our close ones, the so called privacy paradox.
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This helps to explain why that on average just 65 like Facebook pages
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allow behavior analysts to understand someone's
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personality traits better than friends do, 120 to understand them better than their
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family members an 250 to understand them better than a partner or spouse.
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Nevertheless, behavioral science has identified some factors that predict
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whether people would be okay with the use of their personal information. I
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will illustrate this using some experimental examples. What happens when
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we know that a friend has reviewed something personal about us to others.
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We usually get upset and those norms can also be applied to our digital life. The
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researchers use the dimensionality reduction method to find groups of
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practices that consumers tend to dislike. They did that based on a list of common
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ways in which Google and Facebook use consumer personal data to generate ads.
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The results suggest that obtaining information from third party platforms
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and deducing information about someone from analytics, are more frequently
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disliked. Previous research has also tested whether varying the copywriting
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would also affect consumer behavior, within the same ad but with different
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disclosure designs. So in one design a group of participants saw an ad that had
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the following copywriting - you are seeing this ad based on information that you
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provided about yourself. A second group of subjects saw - you are seeing this ad
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based on information that we inferred about you and a control group saw the
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business as usual no disclosure ad. Participants who viewed the ad framed as
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inferred behavior analytics showed much less interest in purchasing
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than the other groups did. Also, booking.com tested variations of
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copywriting to check which was more effective to increase conversions in an
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email marketing campaign. In their case the less intrusive variation was less
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effective than the one obtained by an LDA model, a type of natural language
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processing applied to the users reviews. This variation said that based on your
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past trips their team of travelers scientists thought that you probably
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have a passion for a romantic landscape, local food or shopping. I find this
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example interesting because it shows how important it is to test different
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variations of copywriting and looking at how humans react to them. Artificial
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intelligence is helpful here because machine learning improves our ability to
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predict what person will respond to what persuasive technique, for which channel
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and at which time. This combination between behavior analytics
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and automation is now called digital nudging. For example, digital nudging can
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help some companies to reframe their services within a personal advice
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approach. This can make it easier for them to acquire customer data. Also, it helps
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to comply with the GDPR regulations, concerning privacy issues and
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information sharing. If you want to know more we have a video about that so check
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the link in the description. Also in a recent podcast hosted by the channel
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behavioural grooves, Rebecca blank the chief behavioral officer at merits,
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discussed in detail how customers might react differently, according to the way
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companies communicate with them through personal content. In summary there are
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three takeaways. Any disclosure is less creepy and will convert better than no
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disclosure. Deduced information on the customer will convert less than an open
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explanation of why they are seen a specific ad and finally, this might seem
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corny, but trusts is a key factor in dealing with this new world of shared
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information and data gathering. In conclusion we see that personalization
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is an efficient way to influence consumer behavior, especially when it's
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powered by artificial intelligence. But we have to mitigate backlashes by
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testing different layouts, image and text that provide information on how your
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personalized content was generated. What do you think about data privacy? For
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example I think it's psychological profiling but please let us know your
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opinion in the comments below!