Social marketing platform Sysomos has added artificial intelligence-based prescriptive insights to its platform, finding trends in real time and suggesting relevant content to publish. The platform integrates data from earned, owned and paid social channels. This is still treating social as a silo, but at least it’s one big silo for all of social.
It’s Friday and I’m sure you have uplifting activities planned for the weekend: hiking in the Great Outdoors, visiting a science museum, building homes for the homeless, that sort of thing. What, your actual plan is to binge watch Westworld? For better or worse, you’re not alone: 70% of Americans do that at least once a month, according to this unusually interesting infographic on the trends in TV advertising. Lots of fun facts for marketing data geeks. From direct response agency Koeppel Direct.
But wait, there’s more. Site search vendor Celebros now also offers individual-level Web site personalization, based on its semantic site search predictions. As the company says, it’s “the obvious next step after natural language site search”. Natural language processing is definitely a type of artificial intelligence, although Celebros doesn’t use the term. Apparently they didn’t get the memo. Ay-yi-yi indeed. (Fun fact: I couldn’t find a search function on Celebros’ own Web site.)
YouTube is not just a video platform, of course, it’s also a powerful search engine and it has begun testing a Google AI Overviews carousel that will appear in results for selected queries. Given the threat AI Overviews is perceived to pose to click-thru traffic in Google Search results, there’s a question about whether the YouTube initiative could depress click-thrus to brand and creator videos. Right now, the feature is only visible to a sub-set of U.S. premium users.