Artificial Intelligence
As baby boomers age and the 65-plus population expands, the need for healthcare services will increase rapidly. Heidi Culbertson, CEO of Marvee—a tech company that builds Alexa skills for aging adults—is among a group of healthcare providers and entrepreneurs betting that voice assistants can fill this need.
Among the capabilities that marketers are not yet deploying, those related to personalization were considered to be one of the most helpful tactics in improving advertising results, according to a study by RevJet and Forrester Consulting.
Alibaba's Singles' Day, China's massive ecommerce festival held annually on November 11, has grown to surpass pretty much every other online shopping event in the world.
Unsurprisingly, seniors are the least likely adults to use any voice technology. According to our estimates, 3.8 million seniors in the US will use a smart speaker this year.
Dynamic creative optimization (DCO) uses multiple data feeds to create a personalized ad experience. To get the most out of those feeds, marketers can employ artificial intelligence (AI) to automate multiple facets of DCO. Prajwal Barthur, InMobi's director of products for advertising platforms, talked to eMarketer's Nicole Perrin about how marketers can take advantage of AI as they rely more on DCO for more personalized ad campaigns.
Younger Gen Xers and older millennials behave similarly when it comes to smart speakers. Like millennials, Gen Xers are also early adopters of the technology, though at a slightly lower level.
Nearly three in 10 US voice assistant users ask their device to find neighborhood shops, restaurants and businesses, according to a Chatmeter survey.
Kids and teens may not be old enough to buy a smart speaker, but that's not stopping them from spending a lot of time with voice technology.
Though internet users in the US are becoming accustomed to using voice commands, it has yet to become a regular part of their routine. According to a Social Lens survey, 70% of respondents have used a voice command on any device at some point, but that figure dropped to one-third for those who said they used them every day.
Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt tweeted last fall that Canada “quadrupled down” on AI with a smart mix of four key elements: government, universities, large companies and startups.
Voice commerce holds promise. But at the moment, more consumers are turning to their Amazon Echo and Google Home devices to research products than add them to their cart.
Alibaba's Singles' Day is expected to be the biggest selling day for smart speakers in China, and a key driver to adoption in the market.
As artificial intelligence becomes more embedded in everyday experiences, it's logical to assume that consumers are growing more comfortable with it. But while consumers may be open to chatbots in theory, many still prefer to interact with a human customer service agent.
This year, 8.2 million baby boomers in the US will use a smart speaker. That's a 28.6% increase from 2017, according to eMarketer estimates.
Creative professionals would rather work on projects centered around emerging technologies than spending more time coding, according to a recent study.
This year, 24.9 million US millennials will use a smart speaker. That's more than a third of the millennial population and a 38.3% increase from 2017, according to eMarketer estimates.
In the latest episode of eMarketer's "Behind the Numbers" podcast, Victoria Petrock and Rahul Chadha dig into the implications of Facebook's surprising entry into smart speakers with its Portal product. Its ability to "follow" users around a room got plenty of attention, but what else can it do?
Nate Shurilla, APAC Head of Innovation of iProspect, spoke about how voice technology is being used in China and other potential opportunities.
Audience segmenting, ad targeting and data analysis are just some of the tasks that marketers are applying artificial intelligence to.
Emerging retail tech straddles the line between utilitarian and useless. Improving the customer experience is usually the end goal but when it's implemented just for the sake of showing off, consumers don't always find it useful. According to a June 2018 JDA Software survey, consumers were receptive to the idea of retail tech.