Amazon Prime Day is Powered by AI

Amazon has the marketing scale to create its own holidays and the retail power to reshape the shopping calendar. 2019 marks the fifth year of Amazon Prime Day which was originally created to preempt the Black Friday sales that fall after Thanksgiving. Unlike “Hallmark Holidays” such as Secretary’s Day and Boss’s Day, Amazon’s festival of consumption has…

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Kathryn Zox interviews William Ammerman

Kathryn Zox of The Kathryn ZOX Show on Voice of America interviews William Ammerman about his new book, The Invisible Brand: Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning (McGraw-Hill, 2019).  The episode originally aired on Voice of America on July 3rd and is available as a podcast titled The Power of…

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How Data Privacy and Marketing Coexist when Influencing the Public

Mark Labbe of TechTarget interviews William Ammerman about his new book, The Invisible Brand: Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning (McGraw-Hill, 2019). The article, “How data privacy and marketing coexist when influencing the public” covers the intersection of marketing and AI, and explores how brands are influencing the public with…

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