The Growth CMO’s Summer Reading List
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The Growth CMO’s Summer Reading List

This is not your typical summer reading list. The growth challenges facing marketing leaders are anything but typical. Marketing executives face new challenges around data fluency, organizational design, talent and training, effective C-suite communication, enterprise-wide strategic planning, and measurement, to name just a few. Any summer reading list worth its salt needs to take these…

Creative Disruption: How AI Fuels Data-Driven Creativity
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Creative Disruption: How AI Fuels Data-Driven Creativity

Personalization in the banking sector in 1960 meant a teller in a branch knew your individual needs and how to communicate with you to optimize your experience. Maybe you’re a conservative investor looking for a one year CD or government bond? Your personal banker would hand you a glossy brochure and unconsciously use language that…

Cannes 2019 Key Takeaways: 3 Early CMO Mandates
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Cannes 2019 Key Takeaways: 3 Early CMO Mandates

Three early themes emerged from day 1 at 2019 Cannes-Lions as the Persado team met with CMOs and global marketing leaders at this year’s festival of creativity. These are the Cannes 2019 key takeaways.   The CMO growth mandate is here to stay, and accountability is king Brand health and creative excellence are important, but early…

Four Insights Marketing Leaders Need to Optimize Creative in the Era of Data
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Four Insights Marketing Leaders Need to Optimize Creative in the Era of Data

We know words matter in marketing, but can we say with mathematical certainty that we’re using the right words and phrases? CMOs and marketing leaders have been asking for these insights, especially as brands become more data-driven. The answer up to this point has been no: we don’t know if we are using the right…

The Customer Journey With AI: Don’t Let Silos Break It
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The Customer Journey With AI: Don’t Let Silos Break It

Silos don’t carry the greatest connotation in the workplace. The term is often associated with a breakdown in communication and a lack of collaboration. But in a large company that includes a global marketing department, silos can be difficult to smash. Today’s marketing teams are often separated by channel, brand awareness or direct response, geography…

Marketing Creative: From Human + Guesswork to Human + Machine
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Marketing Creative: From Human + Guesswork to Human + Machine

As technology advances and businesses become more customer and data-centric, it is becoming increasingly important for brands to use machine learning to develop marketing creative, improve customer relationships and drive personalization. On Wednesday, May 8, Persado Co-Founder and SVP of Product and Engineering Assaf Baciu joined PWC Marketing Transformation Lead William Wapshott and Virgin Brand…

4 Items CMOs Need in Their New AI-Driven Digital Creative Playbook
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4 Items CMOs Need in Their New AI-Driven Digital Creative Playbook

Digital marketing was supposed to continue to perform, but fewer than one-third of CMOs surveyed for Nielsen’s 2018 CMO Report feel confident that creative is doing its job. The truth is, we’ve used data science and AI to optimize everything in marketing except marketing copy and creative. But that can finally change. Marketing AI and…

Why Marketers Find Themselves in a Creative Confidence Crisis
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Why Marketers Find Themselves in a Creative Confidence Crisis

We all thought that digital marketing would continue to perform. However, CMOs are now reporting that digital marketing campaigns have hit the wall. In fact, a 2018 Nielsen CMO survey says that 71% of CMOs don’t believe in their creative’s ability to drive results. And after more than $93 billion spent on marketing technology in…

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The Intricacies of Digital Messaging

Talking on the phone seems very 2000, and even text and e-mail are old guards (but still standing strong). We now have Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Slack — our friends, family and colleagues are always at our fingertips and reachable in a multitude of ways. This has its pros and cons, but that’s another blog entirely….

CMOs: Get Your Organization to Love AI
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CMOs: Get Your Organization to Love AI

There’s been a lot of chatter over the last several years about self-driving cars. The prospect of falling asleep while the car drives itself scares people, and I don’t blame them. We’re not there yet. But marketing teams often have a similar mentality when it comes to AI. The problem is, AI isn’t a million…