Why creativity is being liberated by data and machine learning
Published
November 2019Share this page
Why creativity is being liberated by data and machine learning
November 2019Are machine learning and creativity at odds? In a word: No. And don’t just take it from us. We sat down with Justin Billingsley, CEO at Publicis Emil; Dawn Winchester, chief digital officer at Publicis North America; Andrew Shebbeare, co-founder and chairman of Essence; and Vijay Sharma, FlipKart’s head of digital media and brand marketing. They explain how creativity is being empowered by the most recent advances in technology, and why great creatives love data and automation.
I think to characterise machine learning and creativity as being somehow opposite is to
misunderstand how machine learning can impact advertising.
I think this is a perennial question that we hear over and over again.
When Photoshop came along or desktop film editing, everyone was worried that those tools
were going to be at odds with creativity.
But that's not true.
In fact, they created waves of new kinds of innovation and creativity that we now take
almost for granted.
And I think the same thing is going to be true about all the tools that’ll come along
with machine learning.
Creativity is actually being liberated by all these other changes.
Data is informing creativity, so that you're more guided in your brief.
Great creatives love data, and great creators love automation, because instead of making
an ad, they get to make an ecosystem that's right for a brand, and then dynamic creativity
can then render that into something that's really special and personal for an individual.
Machine learning is disrupting each and every facet of what I do today.
Right from the planning process, what we know about the market, what we know about the consumer
to actually crafting the idea.
Because you have a lot more input.
So machine learning not only helps you understand how to plan for that, but actually implement
it as well.
I think stories can be more personal and more additive, more respectful, more useful when
they are data oriented.
Data-driven creative for me no longer means switch this pair of shoes for that one, update
that price, or insert logo name here.
We can do so much more with this technology to bring products to life in ways that are
more human.
And, in fact, advertising can be more human when it is more data driven.
Others are viewing
Marketers who view this are also viewing
-
PerspectivePerspective
Eight creatives share how they’ve evolved from ‘data vs. creativity’ to ‘data-inspired creativity’
-
ArticleArticle
YouTube trends: Unusual, new storytelling formats that viewers are loving right now
-
ArticleArticle
5 key marketing themes from our most-read articles of 2022
-
ArticleArticle
Creative intelligence: 3 steps to land your message in a privacy-first world
-
ArticleArticle
The AI Handbook: Resources and tools to help marketers get started
-
ReportReport
The Performance Max playbook: Tips to inform your creative
-
ArticleArticle
5 tips for marketing mix modelling in today’s travel industry
-
ArticleArticle
What AI can and can’t do — and what that means for marketers