Business function

AI use cases for marketing

Campaigns, personalization, content and customer insight.

Use cases
20
Deployments
114
Organizations
109
Outcome disclosed
59%

20 Marketing use cases

109 organizations in 26 countries run these use cases in public. 59% of those 114 deployments disclose a measurable outcome.

Media and entertainment

AI agent for automated sports highlights and clipping

An AI agent for sports highlights and clipping watches a live sports broadcast and detects key moments such as goals, saves or penalties as they happen. It automatically extracts and reformats a clip and puts it in front of an editor to review and publish, instead of a person watching every feed and clipping moments by hand.

Deployments
2 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Copilot
Cross industryTechnology and software

AI agent for inbound lead qualification and meeting booking

An inbound lead qualification agent is an AI agent that engages inbound prospects the moment they arrive, qualifies them and books a meeting or hands them to the right salesperson. It works on the website, chat, messaging or the sales phone line, answers their first questions, qualifies against the organization's criteria, and writes the conversation context into the CRM so the salesperson receives a ready conversation.

Deployments
8 public, best grade C
Median conversion uplift, vendor reported
19%
3 deployments
Cross industryTechnology and software

AI agent for outbound sales prospecting and personalized outreach

An AI agent for outbound sales prospecting researches target accounts and contacts, and drafts personalized outbound outreach for a sales team. It writes the emails, LinkedIn messages and call scripts from the campaign, the prospect's context and the sales goals, and sequences the follow ups, with a sales development rep approving or sending every message.

Deployments
7 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Copilot
BankingPayments and cards

AI agent for personalized offers and rewards

AI offers and rewards is a customer facing agent for banks and card issuers that picks the offer, reward or loyalty action most relevant to each customer at each moment. It draws on the customer's transactions and context, delivers the offer in the app, in messaging or through a colleague, helps the customer understand, track and redeem rewards in conversation, and works inside their own account and loyalty relationship, unlike campaign personalization.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Autonomous
BankingPayments and cards

AI agent for proactive customer outreach, activation and retention

Proactive outreach and activation is an AI agent that holds the conversation when a bank reaches out first to change something about a customer's account or products. It is triggered by an event or a campaign: low balance and fee avoidance alerts, payment and renewal reminders, card activation, dormant account reactivation and offers the customer already qualifies for, over messaging or voice, while the bank's own systems decide who is contacted and why. Reminders about appointments and deliveries the customer booked, and the in app coach the customer opens, are separate use cases.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Supervised agent
Telecommunications

AI assistant for telecom plan upgrades, add ons and sales

A plan upgrade and sales assistant is an AI assistant that helps telecom customers choose, compare and buy the right mobile, broadband or TV plan, device or extra. It serves existing and prospective customers in the app, in messaging, on the phone or through a human advisor, using their usage and eligibility and the operator's current offers, and it completes the order or passes a ready quote to a person.

Deployments
9 public, best grade B
Reported conversion uplift
75%
Telenet, vendor claim
Real estate

AI conversational property search assistant for real estate portals

A property search assistant is a conversational AI on a real estate portal that lets buyers and renters search, compare and narrow down homes in plain language instead of filters. It also answers affordability and neighborhood questions from the portal's own listing and market data, and hands the shopper to a tour booking or a local agent.

Deployments
7 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Supervised agent
Cross industryBanking

AI copilot for marketing content with compliance pre review

AI marketing content and compliance copilot drafts campaign copy and checks it against advertising rules before a human approves it for publication. It writes campaign copy, product explainers and social posts on brand and in the customer's language from approved product facts, then runs a first pass compliance check against advertising rules and required disclosures, flagging unsupported claims and missing warnings before a human in marketing compliance approves publication.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Reported productivity gain
34%
Ally Financial, organization claim
Banking

AI financial wellbeing coach in the banking app

A financial wellbeing coach is an in app AI assistant that customers open to understand their own money. It uses the customer's transaction data to explain their spending, forecast upcoming bills and cash flow, set and track savings goals and answer money questions in plain language, staying on the guidance side of the line between guidance and regulated financial advice.

Deployments
10 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Supervised agent
Telecommunications

AI for telecom churn prediction and retention offers

AI churn prediction and retention is AI for telecom operators that scores each subscriber's risk of leaving from usage, service, billing and contact signals. It explains the likely reason and chooses the next best retention action, such as fixing a problem, adjusting a plan or making an offer, delivered through the app, messaging, an agent or an advisor within approved offer budgets.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Reported churn reduction
20%
Telenet, vendor claim
Cross industryRetail and ecommerce

AI for voice of the customer and feedback analysis

AI customer feedback analysis is AI that reads every piece of free text customer feedback and turns it into themes, sentiment and actions for a named owner. The feedback can be survey verbatims, NPS comments, reviews, social posts, chat and call transcripts, and the analysis also identifies drivers, so the organization hears all of its customers instead of a sample.

Deployments
10 public, best grade B
Reported accuracy
84%
SBF Group, vendor claim
Cross industryRetail and ecommerce

AI generated ad creative production and testing

AI generated ad creative production and testing is generative AI that creates the images, video and copy variants a paid media campaign needs, for marketers. It scores or tests the variants against real performance data and lets a marketer pick, adjust and publish the ones that work, instead of a manual shoot and edit for every format and audience segment. This page covers making and testing the creative itself; choosing which offer or message to show which customer is covered separately under AI marketing personalization at scale.

Deployments
8 public, best grade B
Reported cost reduction
80%
Lysol (Reckitt), organization claim
Media and entertainment

AI generated live sports commentary and data storytelling

AI live sports commentary turns a sporting event's own data into written commentary and insight for fans as the action happens, instead of or alongside a human broadcaster. It works from inputs such as ball and player tracking, match events and statistics, and can optionally use text to speech to voice the output for a spoken version.

Deployments
2 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Autonomous
Cross industryRetail and ecommerce

AI localization of marketing, product and web content

AI content localization translates and adapts an organization's commercial content for each market and language, so marketing and product teams can reach customers in their own language. It works across campaigns, emails, product pages, help content and websites, using the brand's glossary, style guide and past approved translations, then routes output to human linguists and local marketers for review in proportion to how visible and risky the content is.

Deployments
5 public, best grade C
Reported cycle time reduction
10x
Swarovski, vendor claim
Cross industryTravel and hospitality

AI marketing personalization at scale

AI marketing personalization at scale is AI that decides, for each customer, which product, offer, message or content to show next, for a marketing team running many campaigns. It works across email, app, web and paid media, and generates the matching copy and creative variants within brand and compliance rules. It is the team's engine across many campaigns and channels, not an agent that converses with the customer.

Deployments
9 public, best grade B
Reported conversion uplift
30%
Catchtable, vendor claim
Wealth and asset managementBanking

AI next best action prompts for wealth advisors

AI next best action for advisors is an engine for wealth advisors, not customers, that scans an advisor's whole book and surfaces a short, ranked list of client specific prompts. Prompts include idle cash, a maturing deposit, a concentration to review, a life event or an early sign of attrition, each with the reasoning and data behind it, for the advisor to act on or dismiss.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Reported employee adoption
80%
UBS, organization claim
Retail and ecommerceCross industry

AI product content and catalog enrichment for online retail

AI catalog enrichment is AI that drafts and repairs product content, such as titles, descriptions and alt text, for online retailers at catalog scale. It also extracts missing attributes such as color, size and material from supplier text and product images, and checks its own output before the content is published to the store and to search engines. A human owns the rules, the quality thresholds and the exceptions.

Deployments
6 public, best grade B
Reported accuracy
about 75%
Zalando, organization claim
Media and entertainment

AI recommendation and personalization engine for streaming and media

AI content recommendation and personalization decides what to show each viewer or listener next on a home page, in search or in a personalized playlist. It learns from that person's own viewing or listening history, ratings and context, updates continuously as new content is added and behavior changes, and ranks only the catalog's own content, not marketing offers or campaigns.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Autonomous
Cross industryRetail and ecommerce

AI shopping assistant for product discovery and recommendations

An AI conversational shopping assistant answers product questions and recommends items from a retailer's own catalog, for a need, project or occasion a shopper describes. It works on the retailer's site or app, compares items grounded in the retailer's product data, reviews and stock, and hands the shopper to a basket, a store or a human expert.

Deployments
9 public, best grade B
Reported conversion uplift
3x
Sun & Ski Sports, vendor claim
Travel and hospitalityMedia and entertainment

AI visitor and tour guide for cities, museums and events

An AI visitor and tour guide tells visitors of cities, museums, heritage sites and events the stories behind what is around them, and answers their questions in their own language. It is often spoken, location and context aware, grounded in the organization's curated content and in the visitor's position or the object they scan.

Deployments
5 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Autonomous

What the evidence says

Computed from the 114 public deployments behind these use cases. Numbers update with every checked record.

Benchmarks with at least 3 pooled values

Benchmarks across Marketing use cases
KPIMedianReported rangeData pointsClaimed by
Conversion uplift24.5% vendor reported
1.9% to 75%
66 vendor
Conversion uplift2.8x vendor reported
2x to 3.4x
44 vendor
Cost reduction80%
4% to 95%
31 organization, 2 vendor
Deployments by stage
  • Pilot
    10
  • Production
    73
  • Scaled
    31
Public deployments by region
  • North America
    52
  • Europe
    26
  • Asia Pacific
    18
  • Global
    9
  • Middle East
    4
  • Latin America
    4
  • Africa
    1

Organizations with a public deployment

  • 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc.
  • 8x8
  • A-LIGN
  • ANS
  • Alibaba Group
  • Ally Financial
  • Amazon
  • Art Basel
  • BT Business
  • Bank of America
  • Bloomberg Connects
  • Bob Rohrman Kia
  • Bosch Digital
  • Bundesliga (DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga)
  • CIMB Niaga
  • Capital One
  • CarMax
  • Carrefour
  • Catchtable
  • Citi
  • CoStar Group
  • Commonwealth Bank of Australia
  • Community Health Network
  • DBS Bank
  • Demandbase
  • Dun & Bradstreet
  • Elemis
  • Elevance Health
  • Etisalat
  • Etsy
  • Event Tickets Center
  • Falcon Game Studio (OneSoft)
  • Fingerpaint
  • Fox Sports
  • Funsol Technologies
  • Globo
  • Golden State Warriors
  • Great Southern Bank
  • HSBC
  • Hyundai Card
  • JPMorgan Chase
  • KBC
  • Klarna
  • La Liga
  • Levi's
  • Lionbridge
  • Lowe's
  • Lumen Technologies
  • Lysol (Reckitt)
  • Madrid Destino
  • Majid Al Futtaim Retail
  • Major League Baseball (MLB)
  • Mattel
  • Merge
  • Mobily
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Museo Miraflores
  • National Basketball Association (NBA)
  • National Gallery Singapore
  • Natura
  • Netflix, Inc.
  • Omoda
  • Open Network Exchange (ONE)
  • Orange France
  • Oyster
  • Pick n Pay
  • REA Group
  • Radisson Hotel Group
  • Realtor.com
  • Redfin
  • Reliance Jio
  • Rightmove
  • Rocket Mortgage
  • Royal Bank of Canada
  • SBF Group
  • SUSE
  • SeaBank Indonesia
  • Singtel
  • Spotify
  • Square Enix
  • Starling Bank
  • Sun & Ski Sports
  • Swarovski
  • T-Mobile
  • Techcombank
  • Telenet
  • The Estee Lauder Companies
  • The Home Depot
  • TruGreen
  • Truist Financial Corporation
  • U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • U.S. Social Security Administration
  • UBS
  • Unifonic
  • Unisys
  • Verizon
  • Virgin Media O2
  • Virgin Voyages
  • Vodafone
  • Vodafone UK
  • Walmart
  • Walter's Automotive Group
  • Wells Fargo
  • Westpac
  • Zalando
  • Zillow Group
  • bol
  • eBay
  • idealista