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ROLE OF AI IN ADVERTISING <\/b><\/h1>
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Artificial Intelligence, commonly known as AI, has now become an integral part of our daily lives. AI-based technologies heavily influence both our personal and professional lives, be it Alexa, chatbots or the recommendation tools on Netflix, Youtube and Spotify.  <\/span><\/p>

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In a similar manner, it has changed the face of advertising!<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>

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AI can be considered as a revolutionary thing in the advertising and marketing<\/a> sector. With AI, the procedure of creating ads, buying ads and targeting the right audience has become simple with less or no human intervention. <\/span><\/p>

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AI uses ML or Machine Learning<\/a> algorithms that can predict responses of customers and use it in ad platforms towards specific ads. In Fact, AI has totally taken over the world of advertising, and it has the capability of doing every task that brands require for advertising. <\/span><\/p>

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This article will bring forth how AI is genuinely transforming the advertising industry and what is the role of AI in advertising. The article will also look at how brands can create efficiently with the help of AI tools in advertising. <\/span><\/p>

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How is AI in advertising different from older technologies?<\/b><\/h3>

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The fundamental difference and perhaps most important feature of AI is that it can analyze massive amounts of data in a short period of time. The most important resource in this digital world is data and what distinguishes AI from other technologies is that it has the ability to process massive datasets. Also, AI can make predictions and recommendations, unlike traditional software. <\/span><\/p>

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With traditional software, humans need to make it work, and the outcome would be based on what has been programmed. If the programs need to be efficient, there has to be a proper software update by the developers. But with AI, there is no need for the developers to get involved. AI-backed systems can themselves improve the analysis of data, improve the predictions and in short, learn everything on its own. <\/span><\/p>

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Let’s look at past developments a bit!<\/b><\/h3>

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If we want to look into the past developments of how AI technologies emerged and impacted the advertising sector, we need to know what the ad sector was before AI. Before AI, people had to do a manual analysis of audience research, creation of ads and releasing campaigns based on an allocation of budget<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>

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But then arrived the need to process thousands of data. And slowly AI made its entry in the market of advertising! <\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>

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The historical timeline of how AI slowly emerged and impacted the advertising industry can be summed up in the following table. <\/span><\/p>

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These predictive analytics helped advertisers in moving their business merchandise in a much effective manner in accordance with the weather. For example, advertising of products such as umbrellas, warm clothes, etc. was broadcasted after having the weather forecasted in advance. <\/span><\/p>

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This technological innovation was also the starting of targeting the ads in specific places such as wherever the local temperatures dropped below 67 degrees, ads for products for warmer clothes were targeted. <\/span><\/p>

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As can be seen from the timeline, in 1998, Amazon<\/a> started using “collaborative filtering” that enabled recommendations for millions of users. These recommendations are now an essential aspect of every app that we use, be it Netflix, Youtube or suggestion of friends on Facebook. This usually occurs as consumer’s data is clustered and interpreted by AI-based systems, and it produces recommendations in real-time. <\/span><\/p>

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By 2013 and 2014, the ease of content creation and content marketing was enabled by AI that impacted the advertising industry in a positive manner. More and more advertising opportunities were created, and AI-enabled tools made it easier for doing laborious tasks of researching the target audience and targeting the ads. Programmatic digital ads quickly became the new normal for advertisers across the globe. <\/span><\/p>

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Come 2015, and there emerged many more AI algorithms to improve the ability of search engines to provide better results. Even if the system couldn’t process a particular search request, the algorithm made the relatable information available to refine the search. Through all this, the consumers, as well as advertisers, gained better results. <\/span><\/p>

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In 2016, with chatbots, speech recognition and recommendations, more and more advertisements were making their way on numerous platforms. With such developments, AI has truly changed the once difficult tasks of advertising and made quick decisions with its smartness. Every ad is customized according to the data collected by the consumer. <\/span><\/p>

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Be it on our phones, tablets or laptops, and sometimes there is a bombardment of ads targeted explicitly in such a manner that it arouses our curiosity to click on it! <\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>

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How exactly is AI applied in the realm of Advertising, and why is it so?<\/b><\/h3>
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Humans have been producing a good bunch of advertisements, taken the feedback of that advertisement and then improved those advertisements according to the audience. <\/span><\/p>

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But why AI has overpowered this particular capability of humans is that AI can handle tons of data in a fraction of second!<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>

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If an organization can detect the right kind of AI tools and use it across search, content and all social media<\/a> handles, specifically for curating ads, all this can happen in seconds or a few hours. The mechanism of AI allows advertising to happen in such a way that it can generate data and know what is working and what is not. It can also predict what all changes must be brought into the ad campaign to make it work. <\/span><\/p>

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AI also has the ability to increase the return of spending on ads by being more efficient and reduce the need to employ staff. In Fact there is no need to supervise these tools. It can learn on its own by analyzing the data sets and through experimentation. <\/span><\/p>

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As a summary, we can understand how AI is applied in the realm of advertising in three points. <\/span><\/p>