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How Pier 1 Made the Journey to Data-Driven Creative

CMOs spend about 20% of their budget on creative, yet 71% of them don’t believe in its ability to drive results, according to Nielsen’s 2018 CMO Report. Unwilling to be part of this growing creative confidence crisis in marketing, Pier 1, a leader in home furnishings and decor, decided to take a more scientific approach. At…

What Marketing Leaders, Influencers Think of AI
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What Marketing Leaders, Influencers Think of AI

On a snowy mid-February night in New York City, top marketing execs from 17 leading business-to-consumer brands filled the five-story World of McIntosh Townhouse for an intimate dinner and thought-provoking conversation among their marketing peers and the Persado executive team to discuss the night’s topic “How AI is Ushering in a New Era of Creative…

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Persado, charity: water Author Powerful Story

Nearly one in 10 people — 663 million people — live without clean and safe drinking water. That’s twice the population of the United States. charity: water is on a mission to fix this crisis and reinvent charity for a new generation. Donors play a huge part in helping charity: water provide people with this…

How Marketers Can Regain Confidence in Creative
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How Marketers Can Regain Confidence in Creative

Just when Artificial Intelligence moved from “buzzword” to “must-have,” when people realized, in fact, that they were not going to lose control and AI wasn’t going to take their jobs, the idea of AI influencing marketing creative became part of the narrative. And suddenly, people got nervous again. Many teams enjoy being creative, coming up…

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…