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Marketing Through AI Engagement

Instructor: Gil Haddi
Gamfication
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In the final module of our course, we look at the 3 phases of AI marketing trends and how you can seamlessly integrate them into everyday consumer interactions. From AI social listening all the way to Deepfakes, we see how technology can either be used to enhance consumer concerns and paranoia or feed the demand for targeted, personalized marketing that is specific to the individual.

AI is already making huge impacts across multiple industries and will alter the course of human and brand interactions forever. Clearly there’s a need for brands to leverage AI marketing trends to stay ahead of the curve and become part of this movement.
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Workshop Questions:
1. In what ways can your team leverage AI to create a more personalized connection with your customer?
2. In what ways could AI be detracting from your message?
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Featured Insights

Facial Billboard
Billboards take on hyper-customized features with facial recognition technology
Implications - The use of facial recognition tech in publicly placed billboards is on the rise, allowing brands to customize to consumers via a format that was once a much more passive and less-targeted form of marketing. These campaigns mimic the same level of personalization that consumers are now accustomed to in the targeted ads they receive on their phones, but have the added benefit of novelty for the unexpected platform via which they're delivered.
Workshop Question - Conceptualize a billboard with facial recognition tech that would market your product/service.
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Eye-Track Entertainment
Brands use eye-tracking technology to entertain and customize
Trend - The adoption of eye-tracking technologies into entertainment and marketing-related products is on the rise, offering both function and intrigue for consumers who interact with it. Such technology has vast implications in industries concerned with accessibility, gaming and/or campaigning, and offer a high level of customization for consumers.
Workshop Question - Conceptualize a product, service or campaign that could incorporate eye-tracking tech.
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Insights by Trend Hunter AI

Embedded Assistance
Support follows people across devices and daily situations

Trend - Brands are moving digital help out of standalone chat windows and into desktops, phones, and cross-platform services. The model is shifting toward a persistent layer that can be accessed across the day rather than only inside one destination, which is being further supported with wearables like smart glasses and pendants.

Workshop Question - How could your brand deliver useful help inside the moments and devices customers already move through?
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Guided Automation
Work software is shifting from static tools to comprehensive editable assistants

Trend - Productivity tools are moving beyond single-use generation into systems that can process documents, capture screen context, organize prompts, and pull information back into a usable workflow. The common shift is from isolated AI outputs to ongoing task support inside daily work for continuous, ongoing support.

Workshop Question - How could your brand remove repetitive knowledge work while still keeping customers or employees clearly in control of the final decision?
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Workflow Orchestration
Agentic AI are consolidating business tasks into guided environments

Trend - A growing set of business tools now combine planning, generation, analysis, and optimization within a single environment that users can follow, supervise, and edit. Especially visible in marketing, design, hiring, and web creation domains, vendors are packaging these AI tools around complete, editable job flows rather than isolated features. The goal is to keep context intact and productivity high as work progresses across stages.

Workshop Question - How could your brand turn a fragmented multi-step task into one guided flow that still leaves key decisions to the user?
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Prompt Infrastructure
AI layers turn chat interactions into organized, reusable work assets

Trend - Brands are treating AI chat sessions less like disposable prompts and more like production inputs that need storage, structure, and retrieval. That is pushing AI content creation toward archive, search, and browser-based utility. Some of these products export conversations, analyze usage patterns, and surface past exchanges so outputs can move into broader creative and business workflows.

Workshop Question - How could your brand help customers turn one-time AI interactions into reusable assets or services?
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Data Conversion
New Tools Convert Online Data Sources into LLM-Ready Formats for AI Training
Trend - Brands are launching new tools that convert websites, videos, PDFs and social posts into cleaned text, transcripts or structured data. They frame media conversion as essential for faster ingestion by LLMs, better accuracy and more overall reliable AI workflows.
Workshop Question - How can we develop tools that streamline data conversion processes to enhance AI training accuracy and efficiency for our users?
4.6
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Chatbot Evolution
AI brands create chatbots with unique social and collaborative features
Trend - AI brands release chatbots supporting multi‑participant conversations, on‑device or local model options, specialist topic agents, threaded discussions and shared workspaces; features emphasize privacy controls, extensibility via plugins and integrations with collaboration suites to serve teams.
Workshop Question - How can we innovate our AI solutions to enhance privacy, collaboration, and domain-specific interactions for users in social and workplace settings?
6.2
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Safe Socializing
AI brands are creating companionship apps to help youth
Trend - AI companies are rolling out moderated, youth-focused companion apps with conversational agents designed for safe social interaction. Featuring content filters, parental controls, guided icebreakers and social-skills coaching, these platforms foster healthy engagement in a controlled environment.
Workshop Question - How can your brand leverage AI to create safe, moderated environments that foster healthy social interaction and build confidence among youth in a digital age?
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Automated Podcast
AI tools that generate podcasts out of predetermined data sets are adaptable
Trend - AI companies are creating podcast-generating tools that interpret provided data and offer it in audio podcast form. This is used to make written news more digestible, to better convey one's personal thoughts, and more. These tools are designed to be quick and convenient for novice AI users.
Workshop Question - How could your brand make its products or services more accessible to consumers with busy lifestyles and minimal free time?
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AI Emotion
AI systems are being developed to recognize and respond to human emotions
Trend - Companies are integrating emotion recognition capabilities into their AI systems, allowing machines to detect and respond to human emotional states through facial expressions, voice patterns, and physiological signals. This technology is being implemented across various sectors, from healthcare diagnostics to customer service platforms.
Workshop Question - How could your brand incorporate emotional intelligence into its digital touchpoints?
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