The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into paid per click (PPC) advertising has changed how businesses connect to their target audience in significant and exciting ways. In the next 5 years, AI will take PPC campaigns to a whole new level, and fundamentally change the way businesses approach advertising, strategy, optimization and ultimately, how businesses succeed with their advertising campaigns. With all of this data, AI driven tools allow advertisers to use it like never before, running efficient, super personal campaigns that are unique down to the individual user level.
Progress in the evolution of AI in the PPC space has been its capability to analyze huge amounts of data real time to give us insights, which were once not possible to achieve. Those who embrace these advances will stay competitive, with campaigns that are more engaging, and more effective, and in line with user expectations. Future ads will be created, delivered, and optimized better and better through AI, helping advertisers get the most out of their results and improve the user experience.
As AI develops in the future, PPC campaigns will be able to provide highly personalized ads to every specific user. To make this shift, AI will be able to analyze user behaviour, search intent and history of purchase in real time.
Now suppose a user wants to search for fitness equipment. Advertising will become powered by AI which can effectively come up with ads showcasing the relevant product in addition to adjusting based on each stage of the buyer’s journey. AI-powered ads from all parties involved will deliver messages to the user whether they are in the research phase or are ready to buy.
These capabilities already exist in tools such as Google Ads’ Responsive Search Ads, yet will be taken to an even more refined level by 2025, with ads hyper relevant and true to context.
As with all things, artificial intelligence will perfectly predict customer behavior in PPC campaigns. With predictive analytics, advertisers can see what customers might want or do next, to build proactive strategies.
For example, AI can assess historical data and real-time signals to detect user engagement trends, predict spikes in demand, and automatically adjust bids. It makes sure that the campaigns always align with the poach and will prevent ad spend from being wasted and ultimately conversions.
Predictive analytics based services such as Adzooma and Marin Software are already gaining momentum with predictive analytics and 2025 will see it become a norm in all the PPC tools.
As voice search becomes more popular, AI will be key to the adaptability of PPC campaigns to it. By 2025, virtual assistants such as Alexa or Google Assistant will mean that more users will search through a virtual assistant by voice, and this means that ads will have to match around conversational queries and conversational queries.
Advertisers will use AI to parse through voice search data, generate long tail keywords, and to create conversational ad copy that speaks to how users talk. This will help improve the performance of your ads and will also enable new targeting options when you target devices and platforms for voice specific ads.
The PPC campaign management will become more automated and this means advertisers will no longer have to task themselves with manual compositions instead. AI will handle:
These days, platforms such as Smart Bidding in Google Ads already provide automated solutions, but by 2025 AI will be providing smarter and more precise campaign management, reducing waste and increasing results.
PPC campaigns will also be influenced by AI in the creative part. AI can analyze user preferences to generate ad copy, visuals, and even video to serve targeted ads to users based on their interests. Ad campaigns not only work but have the potential to resonate emotionally with users.
You may already know that there are tools like Copy.ai and Jasper that can already create compelling ad copy working off of only a few inputs. Within a decade from today, these will mature to build extremely engaging, context aware content that increases CTR and conversion rates.
The more platforms there are in the digital space, the more difficult it will be to manage your PPC campaigns across. It will simplify this for AI by drilling down through the data, combining several channels like Google, facebook, instagram, and linkedin to track your performance via a single dashboard.
Using AI, advertisers can see what platforms are producing the most results, and spend accordingly, optimizing across channels too. It is this holistic view that will be crucial for integrating these campaigns to clearly come across against the background noise of whatever it is that audiences are online on.
Businesses need to embrace AI powered tools and techniques to stay competitive in the fast evolving PPC landscape. But advertisers that take advantage of AI will reap increased efficiency, further audience insight, and a competitive advantage in reaching the marketplace.
By 2025 AI will no longer be a luxury but a necessity for successfully running your PPC campaign. AI will have a great impact in digital advertising on how it will be done through predictive analytics, automated bidding or personalized ad creation.
For businesses looking to stay ahead in the PPC game, partnering with an experienced agency that understands AI-driven strategies is key. Take your campaigns to the next level with tailored solutions that maximize your ROI and keep you ahead of the curve.