IBM Watson Advertising

Recent world events have shifted consumer behaviors and forced businesses to rethink how they work and engage.

Compounding those challenges, the advertising industry is facing other headwinds like increased demands for consumer privacy which has led to mounting regulatory pressures, new policies and businesses making pivots that put consumer privacy at their core.

We believe the industry needs machine learning and AI. This technology is a new and better way forward that is brand, publisher and privacy-first, grounded in real data, and ultimately helps achieve faster and more impressive results based on consumer intent across all digital channels.

The AI Advertising Advantage

An AI-powered advertising solution allows users to optimize their advertising efforts by using machine learning to their advantage. Artificial intelligence can make automated decisions in regards to targeting, spend, visual elements, and more in order to drive better performances for your ads.

Today, while many companies are using AI, less than a quarter** are using the full scope of AI capabilities.

We estimate there’s even less adoption within the advertising industry, which has primarily used AI to automate media buying and selling - only tapping into a fraction of its potential. With upcoming changes to mobile identity and third-party cookies, AI’s cookie-less data processing and machine learning capabilities can help solve problems across the industry.

How Brands are Using AI to Accelerate Their Purpose-Driven Marketing Programs

IBM has been around for more than a century. We’ve seen our share of industry disruptions, and we run towards them.

We’ve helped numerous industries – from Security to Healthcare to Financial Services – use AI to make decisions and drive growth. These industries have turned to us because of our privacy-first, unbiased, and open solutions and leadership in AI tech.

And now, IBM has brought AI and machine learning to the advertising industry through IBM Watson Advertising’s expanded suite of open, unbiased, and cookie- and identifier-free AI advertising solutions, and partnerships with leading distribution players.

Innovator Insights: A Forecast For AI Adoption In Advertising

IBM Watson Advertising is committed to:

1. ensuring brands and publishers can use data meaningfully in a cookie-less future,
2. opening up our technology by working with the most important independent players - DSPs, publishers, SSPs, innovators, and more - to forge mutually beneficial partnerships that allow partners to tap into our 1st party data and AI-powered solutions, and
3. helping to re-establish trust, privacy, security, and transparency in the advertising industry.

Break The Cycle: Making AdTech Better in 2021

The result of advertising with artificial intelligence technology is faster, more accurate decisions based on consumer intent.

• With IBM Watson Advertising Accelerator, brands have experienced a minimum of a 25% increase in performance from the beginning to the end of campaigns, along with a 10% lift in site visits after one week.
• With IBM Watson Advertising Social Targeting with Influential, brands have seen unprecedented 100% positive sentiment scores among users and an increase in ROAS compared to social benchmarks.
• With IBM Watson Advertising Weather Targeting, clients have seen CTR on search campaigns increase by 309% vs benchmark, driven more efficient coupon downloads on social media, and increased sales by 2.4%.

Explore other AI advertising success stories.

Source: Success stories from participating clients and agencies

How does machine learning and AI impact advertisers on a day-to-day basis? This guide on AI in advertising outlines:

• The growing role of AI in the advertising industry
• How to use predictive advertising to your advantage
• Some of the biggest benefits from using AI
• Things to avoid in AI advertising
• Examples of how AI can be used in advertising
• Advice on how to get started