{"id":1873,"date":"2023-04-26T20:54:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T17:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/persona.qcri.org\/blog\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2023-10-26T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T12:06:26","slug":"introduction-to-using-personas-for-online-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/persona.qcri.org\/blog\/introduction-to-using-personas-for-online-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Using Personas for Online Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Personas<\/b> are fictitious people representing real customer groups, i.e., different types (e.g., most valuable, most loyal, most responsive \u2013 or the least valuable, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Most typically, personas are presented to decision makers as <a href=\"https:\/\/persona.qcri.org\/blog\/common-questions-about-personas-weve-got-the-answers\/\"><b>persona profiles<\/b><\/a>, i.e., narrative representations of different kinds of users belonging to a particular demographic, behavior, and\/or attitude involved in using a product, site, or brand.<\/p>\n<p><b>Online advertising work <\/b>refers to activities that online advertisers undertake in their typical work day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/persona.qcri.org\/blog\/how-can-i-use-a-persona-for-advertising\/\">Personas can help online advertising<\/a> in their work. Here&#8217;s how:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Segmentation<\/strong> refers to dividing the total available market into addressable constituents, i.e., segments. Here, we observe that persona is a segment with a name and a face. Hence, <a href=\"https:\/\/persona.qcri.org\/blog\/how-can-i-use-a-persona-for-customer-segmentation\/\">segmentation<\/a> can be done in a persona-assisted manner, yielding personas as outcomes.<\/li>\n<li>Once segmentation is done, <strong>targeting<\/strong> follows; namely, advertisers select which segments to focus on. Here, a persona system can recommend specific personas to target, given an explicit goal such maximize reach, engagement, or sales.<\/li>\n<li>After targets are chosen, ad <strong>copywriting<\/strong> follows. Here, personas can help human advertisers or generative AI models to create ad headlines, texts, and even imagery personalized to the selected personas.<\/li>\n<li>After ad content has been created, advertisers proceed to <strong>campaign set-up<\/strong>. This means creating the campaigns in the ad platform and configuring the settings. Here, personas can provide a structure; i.e., campaigns can be organized by personas, ensuring that the naming and targeting criteria match the personas.<\/li>\n<li>This then yields an advantage in the next stage which is <strong>optimization<\/strong>; i.e., making decisions based on the results. Namely, once campaigns are running, they start to generate data; if the data is organized by personas, it becomes easier for an algorithm (or a human) to adjust budget allocation given the actual marketing performance of a given persona.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Ideas here are based on academic research: Kaate, Ilkka, Salminen, Joni, Jung, Soon-gyo, Olkkonen, Rami, and Jansen, Bernard J. (2023). How Can Intelligent Persona Features Support Online Advertising Work? In the Proceedings of The Sixteenth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions. IARIA, p. 65-67. Venice, Italy. ISBN: 978-1-68558-078-0.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Curious to do your Bachelor\u2019s, Master\u2019s, or Doctoral thesis on personas? Contact me for collaboration opportunities and research topics: Dr. Joni Salminen, email: jonisalm@uwasa.fi.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personas are fictitious people representing real customer groups, i.e., different types (e.g., most valuable, most loyal, most responsive \u2013 or the least valuable, etc.). 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