Marketing Gets Physical with Internet-of-Things Devices

Adobe today unveiled its new solutions in Adobe Marketing Cloud that enable brands to bring personalized experiences to physical spaces like retail stores, hotel rooms, vending machines and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices.

The new IoT SDK lets brands measure and analyze consumer engagement across any of those devices. What’s driving this is the digital transformation of the enterprise, catalyzed by the marketing department.

Previously siloed, marketing data is now being used in concert with data collected by other departments like sales and customer service, creating a richer view of the customer, says Adobe.

“Marketing is moving beyond existing digital channels to include new physical experiences in the real world,” said Brad Rencher, senior vice president, Digital Marketing at Adobe. “Adobe Marketing Cloud helps brands use their online marketing data to create personalization in retail, entertainment, and travel and leisure experiences.”

Marketing Gets Physical

Enabled by a richer view of the customer, digital experiences are starting to change how we shop, open hotel room doors, interact with our cars and buy soda from machines. Adobe unveiled today new solutions and capabilities that are helping marketers to make the most of these new opportunities.

Adobe Experience Manager Screens: New Adobe Experience Manager Screens enables marketers to extend interactive content experiences including images, 3D interactive models, video and more to physical locations including retail stores, hotels and even devices like vending machines.

A single author user interface with cross-screen support connects the content with mobile apps and brand experiences continuously across the web to ensure consistency. Support for multi-touch allows for content to move easily across life-size touch screens and mobile apps. And the seamless tie-in with Creative Cloud makes it easy for marketers to store, access and use any asset.

Intelligent Location Capabilities: Advancements in mobile technologies give brands new opportunities to improve in-store shopping experiences and maximize ROI.

New Intelligent Location capabilities in Adobe Marketing Cloud allow companies to use GPS and iBeacon data to optimize their physical brand presence. With the visualization of iBeacon data, brands are able to view traffic patterns and customer engagements within retail stores, sports stadiums, airports, hotels, museums and other points of interests.

Marketers can view and measure dwell times throughout the day, consumer interactions with push notifications and in-app messages triggered by iBeacons and more. The visualization of data enables them to reconfigure store layouts and optimize the display of merchandise to fully maximize ROI.

Personalized Experiences Across IoT Devices, Wearables

With Adobe Marketing Cloud, marketers can now reach IoT devices and wearables. Adobe Target now supports digital content testing, optimization and personalization beyond web browsers and apps across any IoT device.

Brands can use Adobe Target to serve content based on a customer’s personal interests across everyday touch points like ATM machines, gas station pump screens, game consoles, car dashboard screens, appliances and more.

Adobe Target leverages predictive, yet anonymous data including CRM and third-party sources to personalize content in real-time. In addition, Mobile Core Services and Adobe Analytics let marketers measure and analyze customer engagement within content and apps across IoT devices using the new IoT SDK, which is an extension of the Mobile SDK.