In today’s world of fast moving technologies and mass amounts of data, traditional marketing techniques alone aren’t enough to obtain the full potential from the massive amounts of data available today. Businesses are turning to contextual marketing and data driven methods to help companies better understand their customers, new techniques like clustering and text analysis help identify influencers and non-obvious factors that can affect buying behavior. Context matters, and marketers need to tap their data science teams to help experiment with new predictive analytics tools and methodologies to apply machine learning and adjust customer decisions to customer interactions.
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How Data is Fueling Marketing - A Close Look at Contextual Marketing
1. HOW DATA IS FUELING
MARKETING
A close look at Contextual Marketing
Anna Anisin
Head of Marketing
2. WHAT’S CONTEXTUAL MARKETING?
Contextual marketing is about understanding not just about who someone is, but where
they are, what they are doing and what they are likely to do next. It’s about combining the
right information (data) about the customer and the context to deliver the right services
and communication at a precise moment, in offers the most value.
4. OBJECTIVE OF CONTEXTUAL
MARKETING
By showing customers ads and products they’re actually
interested in, your business:
• Decrease customer add annoyance and fatigue
• Eliminate unprofitable ads
• Increase the number of clicks
• Increase the number of actual conversions to sales
5. PLACES WHEREYOU MOST
COMMONLY SEE CONTEXTUAL ADS
• Social Media (Facebook,Twitter,Yelp, Pinterest)
• Mobile Apps and Websites
• Search engines (Google, Bing,Yahoo)
• Video andVideo Search (someone watching all those cat videos)
• Video games (this is quite new)
• Billboards (Street marketing)
10. INTEGRATED DATA SOURCES
NEEDED FOR CONTEXT
• Demographic Data
• Sale Interactions (CRM)
• Social Media Activity
• Behavioral Data
• Custom Data Sources
13. NIKE
• Social sharing and fitness contests
generate more interactions
• Produce More Data
• Which leads to new product
suggestions and better-targeted ads
• Provide services that customers
find useful
• Create a continuous cycle of
insights-driven contextual
interactions
14. CITIBANK
• Use customer data to provide
personalized offers while up-
selling its own products
• Activate a “Citi Price Rewind”
a complimentary perk only
available to Citibank
customers
• Create goodwill with
customers and makes them
feel valued
15. WEB SUMMIT
• Using data science to drive
context
• Hire physicists with PHDs in areas
like complex systems and network
analysis
• Build algorithms to figure out who
their customers are and who they
might benefit sitting next to or
meeting with
• Scaled from 400 attendees to
20,000 in only 4 years…!
17. CONTEXT MATTERS
• Context drives relevance
• Relevance helps build relationships
• To build customer relationships, we have to
understand consumer context
• A condition to understanding consumer context is
making sense of lots of unstructured data
19. A CONTEXTUAL MARKETING ENGINE IS A BRAND-
SPECIFIC PLATFORMTHAT EXPLOITS CUSTOMER
CONTEXTTO DELIVER UTILITY AND GUIDETHE
CUSTOMER INTOTHE NEXT BEST INTERACTION.
Forrester Research, Inc.
20. YOUR CONTEXTUAL MARKETING
ENGINE WILL BE ASSEMBLED FROM
YOUR EXISTINGTOOLS
• Real-time analytics (Google Analytics, Mixpanel,
Kissmetrics, Reinvigorate)
• Marketing automation (HubSpot, Constant
Contact, Marketo)
• Customer databases (CRMs)
22. HOWTO MOVETOWARD A
CONTEXTUAL - AGILE MARKETING
APPROACH
• Define your strategy
• Facilitate customer journeys
• Content is still king
• Work with you IT department
23. CONTEXTUAL MARKETING ENGINES ENABLE
HIGHLY ENGAGING ENVIRONMENTS FOR
CUSTOMER INTERACTION AND GENERATE
DATATHAT WAS NEVER AVAILABLE BEFORE.
24. HOWTO GET STARTED?
• DIG INTOYOUR INSIGHTS
• Marketers + Data Scientists + IT
• Map your technology assets to your customer journeys
• Start building your contextual marketing engine
• Treat it as a product not a project.