Michael Weir, Jaywing’s Head of Behavioural Science, explored these technologies and their impact on CRO in his presentation at Marketing Masterclass Series’ Digital Superchats. Missed the event? Watch Mike’s session or read his blog below.
Advancements in AI and machine learning have drastically changed the e-commerce landscape. Today, we live in a world of digital sophistication, where consumers need intelligent and relevant interactions with software. Amidst these heightened customer expectations are marketers seeking to adopt technology to advance on and secure their markets. The emerging methodologies and technologies, including psychographics, affective computing and AI, are the behavioural science cues of the future.
Michael Weir, Jaywing’s Head of Behavioural Science, explored these technologies and their impact on CRO in his presentation at Marketing Masterclass Series’ Digital Superchats. Missed the event? Watch Mike’s session or read his blog below.
Brands exist as psychosocial entities and, in the Covid-19 era, emphasis on an organisation's values and culture matter more than ever. People buy into brands for a reason. Their own personality is one of them. Brands today are more scrutinised than ever; social media allows for open interactions and direct challenges. In the entire brand landscape, details matter. And that’s where psychographics come in.
Psychographics seeks to segment users by psychological characteristics such as cognitive, emotional, and motivational factors. Using psychographics will help you gain a deeper understanding of your audiences’ characteristics, allowing you to build custom segments to target with advertising, and to adapt user interfaces to meet different types of users' needs.
As marketers and CRO experts, we should be consistently working to answer behavioural science questions such as who are our customers and audience stakeholders? How can we grow this audience? Why are they buying certain products or services? What does their individual buying journey look like and how do they prefer to buy? What implications does that have for what we can show them in future? While that might seem a lofty task, the details of the data and machine learning matter.
Affect is a combination of a person’s emotions and mood. Affective computing is the study and development of systems that can recognise, interpret, and simulate human affects. We are only at the beginning of our journey with affective computing, with technology in the future being far more powerful than they are today. Some core components are:
Fixation analysis allows marketers to identify what users are paying attention to. This is important in CRO because people don’t read in a straight line. Instead, their eyes dart around areas that have the highest contrast and interest. The higher the interest in a certain area, the longer we spend fixated on it. As CRO specialists, the goal should be to identify exactly where people are looking and, crucially, why they are looking there.
Our experts took on this challenge with the online estate agent Strike, who wanted to optimise their online experience. Using eye-tracking glasses, our team uncovered which household features stood out to Strike’s target audience both online and offline, and in turn, gave Strike the information they needed to boost CRO on their website.
Electroencephalograms (EEGs) are incredibly effective at tracking approach, avoidance, and cognitive load. As we move through a task, approach drives us to continue to achieve our goal, to fulfil our need or our want. Eventually, if something becomes too difficult, we suddenly suffer from avoidance. All of this can be sensed in the brain. This is invaluable information for marketers as it can show you how your audience is responding to your brand or your offering - even on a subconscious level.
With the potential to automatically recognise facial responses, this technology helps us understand the valence of emotions - whether positive or negative. This has huge potential within the marketing industry, especially for measuring reactions to videos and websites.
CRO marketers should look to deepen their understanding of these technologies in order to optimise their channels and keep pace with digital transformation.
Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic in the marketing industry - and it’s no wonder. AI is proving essential in giving us back time, removing the barriers to working smarter and more efficiently. We believe that AI will transform the relationship between people and technology, fuelling creativity and skills with speed and precision.
Currently being used across personalised marketing communications, targeted advertising, creative messaging, predictive models, and even PPC – our experts are incorporating AI in some of our most exciting client projects.
Our CRO specialists used AI image analysis to optimise Insurance2Go’s landing page. Using this technology to predict the best location for the page’s CTA - ‘Get a quote’ - we saw a 64% increase in users starting quotes, and an impressive 34% increase in conversion rates.
We’ve also used Decision, our AI-powered PPC bid management system, to grow Domino’s perceived quiet periods and maximise peak ordering time. Decision used a variety of data sources, like time of day, weather conditions, and national events, to serve potential customers a Domino’s advert at the most optimal time. Our AI system spotted an unusual trend - people want pizza at 9 am. No one was previously able to pick this up because humans think in a logical pattern, people make assumptions and our various biases impact how we perceive and act upon data. Decision allowed us to maximise these opportunities for sales and, in turn, increase revenue by 489% and reduce media spend by 8.9%.