Wavemaker lancia a livello globale e in Italia Maximize, una multi-audience planning platform basata sull'intelligenza artificiale

Come si legge sulla stampa estera, Wavemaker ha messo a punto a livello globale Maximize, una nuova piattaforma di media planning basata sull'AI, che consente ai planner di creare media mix che raggiungono molteplici audience e ottimizzare investimenti media in pochi minuti. La piattaforma sarà operativa anche in Italia. 

Guidata dall'intelligenza artificiale e dal machine learning, Maximize estrae e analizza dati da fonti globali e locali inclusi i 1st party data dei clienti, GroupM’s LivePanel e i dati di Momentum (Wavemaker) e fa parte del sistema di Provocative Planning globale dell'agenzia di GroupM, un sistema modulare che integra machine learning e intelligenza umana. 

Maximize è stata sviluppata da un  project team di 75 strategists, planners, data architects, data scientists, software developers, testers e designers basati nel campus di Wavemaker a Varsavia, con il supporto di user design della società Mirum di WPP .

“Increasing audience fragmentation is adding complexity and time to the media planning process for both the client and the agency. Maximize allows planners to deliver on the industry-wide vision of planning against individuals rather than audience segments. The result is planning at a granular customer level, with the power to simultaneously explore multiple audiences across many attributes and assess the best media partners to create an optimised campaign across channels and market, in record time,” ha dichiarato l'agenzia in una nota stampa. 

Toby Jenner, Global CEO of Wavemaker, ha inoltre spiegato: “Maximize addresses one of the industry’s longest standing frustrations – that all media plans look the same. Pre-loaded with strong data sources and packed with AI, Maximize produces media plans at incredible speed and has the brainpower to create market-beating growth plans for our clients.  It is already delivering results, producing media plans that are on average 30% more effective for clients and in pitches, helping us reach the ranking of most successful media agency in the COMvergence new business barometer for Q1-Q3 2020.”

Stephan Bruneau, Global Head of Product at Wavemaker, che ha guidato il processo, ha aggiunto: “Creating media plans has become challenging due to the increased number of audience segments that need to be included in a campaign. Some can overlap significantly, with people belonging to multiple audience segments at risk of being ‘over exposed’ to ads and creating an unnecessary waste of money for clients. Maximize uses techniques and technology rarely used in the marketing industry and is effectively the only way to solve the audience fragmentation problem.”

Stephan Pretorius, Global Chief Technology Officer at WPP, ha commentato: “AI has extended its sphere of influence to many aspects of marketing, but until now not in media planning.  Wavemaker’s exciting new AI-powered planning platform Maximize is set to transform the way its teams work and empower its planners to produce the most effective and efficient media plans yet for clients in an increasingly complex and fragmented media landscape.”

Maximize was developed by a project team of 75 strategists, planners, data architects, data scientists, software developers, testers and designers based at Wavemaker’s campus in Warsaw, with user design support from WPP’s Mirum.

During development the team did human vs. machine parallel tests, challenging an experienced team of planners to create a plan that would optimise reach across three overlapping audiences, and they could not complete the task. Every time they improved reach for one audience, they lost reach for the other two. In contrast, Maximize solved the problem in just 1.5 minutes. Using Maximize free the Wavemaker planners to work more creatively, focusing on the innovative methods they can also provoke growth for clients.