Marketing Glossary
Understand key concepts in AI-powered marketing, personalization, and customer engagement.
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A/A Testing
A tactic of evaluating two identical versions against each other to check that the experiment is statistically fair. An
A/B Testing
A/B tests allow brands to randomly divide an audience into two groups and deliver one version of a message to one group
Abandoned Cart
“Abandoned cart” is a scenario in which a customer initiates a sale but doesn’t complete the transaction, leaving one or
Abandoned Cart Recovery
An e-commerce sales acquisition strategy where companies use marketing automation, UX design, Dynamic Motivation, and ot
Adaptive Algorithm
A method used to deploy campaigns using machine learning algorithms to dynamically allocate traffic to Variants that are
AI Generated Advertising
Marketing assets such as text, audio, video, images, etc. created with Generative AI for the purpose of marketing a prod
AI Generated Content
Images, text, audio, video, or other creative elements developed using Generative AI.
AI Generated Language
Text created using Generative AI. Generative AI leverages natural language processing models to produce text or images b
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
In the most basic terms, AI is a field that brings together computer science and large datasets, to enable problem-solvi
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Campaign Narrative
What a campaign is about. For example, a campaign narrative may focus on a “Best Sellers” campaign, or an “Apply for a L
Cart Abandonment Rate
The frequency in which customers add items to the online shopping cart, but do not complete their purchase. This can be
Chatbot Marketing
Chatbot marketing is a conversational marketing technique that employs automated, two-way, one-on-one interactions with
Consumer Motivation
The campaign, messaging, situation, product features, etc. that inspire consumers to engage, take action and/or make a p
Contextual Adaptive Algorithm
AI algorithms that ingest contextual attributes and enable ‘set and forget’ optimization for channel-specific personaliz
Conversion
A predetermined, desired action (e.g., subscribes, purchases) Depending on the campaign, conversions could mean purchase
Conversion Rate
A conversion rate is a measurement that indicates the percentage of visitors to a site or page who complete a desired ac
Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)
Techniques used to increase the percentage of conversions from a website or mobile app. Generally, marketers determine a
Cookie Apocalypse
Increased consumer awareness and concern about the volume of personal data that web companies collect and use has result
Cookieless Future
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Customer Data Platform (CDP Integrations)
Automate the process of acquiring user-level data across channels, which lends itself to generating personalized content
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Machine Learning (ML)
A set of algorithms that are used by a computer to automatically identify relationships in large sets of data, learn fro
Marketing Conversion
A marketing conversion represents the ultimate goal of a campaign. These are actions that customers take in response to
Marketing Segmentation
Marketing segmentation has long been a cornerstone of successful marketing strategies. It involves dividing the audience
Marketing/Advertising campaign
A series of marketing content that share a specific theme or marketing objective. Examples include Black Friday or launc
Multivariate Testing
Multivariate testing follows the same process as A/B testing, but is designed to compare a higher number of variables. I
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Segment
A particular audience group marketers send tailored messages based on certain parameters (e.g., age, gender, geography)
Segmentation
The act of defining different audiences based on the attributes (geography, behavior, etc.) marketers use to group those
Statistical Significance
Measures the degree of certainty you can have that an observed difference between two test groups is NOT caused by rando
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Third Party Data
Third party data refers to information about a person that has been collected and distributed by external data providers
Third-Party Data Marketing
When marketers create campaigns using data that is not directly collected by a company to personalize marketing campaign
Touchpoint
The discrete parts of a message we are testing, such as the headline, sub-headline, CTA, etc.