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Recent years have seen investments pour into cloud-based programmatic advertising and personalization – VentureBeat put personalization and ad targeting in second place for the most-used marketing cloud features in a recent State of Marketing Technology report, trailing only analytics. Other research finds that more than half of consumers rely on ad-blocking software to weed out unwanted content. People avoid information irrelevant to their lives and interests, and if marketers aren’t already supporting this pursuit, they’re overdue to get started.
One of the most dynamic ways to tap into consumer behaviors and infuse marketing campaigns with one-to-one, emotional connections is to use video. Below are a few reasons personalized video in the cloud offers a win for brands, marketing technology providers and consumers alike – and how to claim your brand’s share of the next wave, if you haven’t already.
Three barriers historically prevented personalized video from being a viable option for many brands: cost, time and data. Today, platforms and the state of today’s marketing industry are knocking down those hurdles:
When a brand works with a marketing technology provider, it streamlines the personalized video process, conserving each of the above resources. Much of the data needed to make personalization successful already lives in the marketing cloud, meaning that applying it to video should be a no-brainer. If your brand uses one platform to manage every touch point with a customer throughout its lifecycle, you can maintain message continuity throughout the buyer’s journey and avoid communications appearing choppy or out of touch.
Although major providers, such as Adobe and Oracle, currently dominate the marketing cloud market, as personalization evolves, each enterprise will be pressured to keep up with the industry’s latest offerings. As with any new technology, control goes to those that are ahead of the game. Leading companies might lose market share and control, essentially leaving money on the table and opening the door for other vendors, if they don’t embrace what works. After all, smaller technology providers can devote more attention to customers – they can operate with a customer-centric, not company-centric business approach to help their customers use personalization to its most valuable extent.
Any vendor building a marketing cloud needs a medium as effective as personalized video to engage customers. In the time that personalized video will take to fully mature as a go-to digital medium, this level of customer demand will drive its growth, much like it did for successful marketing mediums that came before video:
Video is more than a branding medium – it’s a performance medium, too. Marketers are trusting and applying data with more frequency than ever, and brands are figuring out new ways to obtain and analyze data to maximize resources and support goals. As a result, the industry’s adoption curve for personalized video will continue to speed up. By 2020, it won’t surprise me if every B2C Fortune 1000 company uses personalized video to engage with consumers.
Consumers also won’t be fast-forwarding through personalized videos or sending them directly to their spam folders. When marketing messages are relevant, timely and delivered one-to-one, they’re engaging and interesting – unlike the tone-deaf blanket statements we’ve seen in the past. That’s why smart marketers want to make every message as relevant as it can be. When this goal is executed with marketing cloud-based video, brands create lasting connections with consumers that form trust and prove ROI for years to come.