AI Vibe: Crafting Marketing with Emotion, Not Just Keywords

The AI Marketing Solution That Thinks In Feelings, Not Keywords

Imagine advertising campaigns born not from keywords or demographics but from pure feeling. This is how Thibault Imbert, Chief Product & Growth Officer of The Brief, describes the promise of “the world’s first AI agency.” He elaborates on a concept they call “vibe marketing”: “Turning good ideas into ready-to-launch campaigns almost as fast as you think of them.”

Before we dive into how The Brief and its underlying technology might reshape marketing, let’s explore a related concept: vibe coding. As IBM explains, “Vibe coding is a fresh take in coding where users express their intention using plain speech and the AI transforms that thinking into executable code. By prioritizing experimentation before refining structure and performance, vibe coding embraces a ‘code first, refine later’ mindset.”

From Coding to Creativity: Introducing the Vibe Solution

Think of vibe coding as akin to “jamming” in music – reminiscent of Charlie “Bird” Parker’s improvisational alto sax solos in smoky jazz clubs. Eschewing the typical rigidity of computer coding, programming with vibes champions experimentation and flow states. This contrasts with formal coding, which demands the meticulous precision of a Johann Sebastian Bach composition.

Marketing, however, has always been one of the most fluid and creative business fields. When you picture a typical agency office, rigid discipline is rarely the first image that comes to mind; mood boards and bean bags are more likely. Yet, even successful marketing efforts can fall victim to what Imbert terms the practicality filter. “It’s a mental block that can kill an idea because you're worried about the technical challenges of executing it.”

Can Overthinking Kill Ideas?

Stephen King, in his masterful On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, touches upon a similar phenomenon. He advises aspiring authors to resist the urge to share their work prematurely. “Keep the pressure on; don’t lower it by exposing what you’ve written to the doubt, the praise, or even the well-meaning questions of someone from the Outside World.”

King’s point is that a manuscript is a delicate creation in its nascent stages. Feedback, whether positive or negative, can unduly sway developing writers, stifling the creative process with external psychic energy. He cautions against letting in the “Outside World,” lest external voices inadvertently deem your nascent idea “ugly” and extinguish its potential.

The Lost-in-Translation Marketing Challenge

Imbert observes that a parallel issue plagues the marketing world, prematurely wrecking promising ideas before they gain enough momentum. He identifies this problem within what he calls the translation layer. Brilliant initial concepts can lose their novelty or vitality, degrading as they transition from idea to brief, then to design, and finally to a finished product – much like a stick of gum losing its flavor with each chew.

The Brief aims to counteract such diminishment, facilitating a more immediate and direct transfer from the creative mind to a near-finished product. Artificial intelligence acts as a conduit, transmitting flashes of genius to stakeholders more quickly and with greater fidelity to the original artistic intent.

As Imbert puts it, “By communicating through a conversation or an image that captures the desired feeling, AI can understand not just the literal elements but the emotional essence or ‘vibe’ you're trying to convey. This makes the execution of ideas as cheap as thinking them, encouraging greater creative courage because the cost of being wrong has dropped dramatically.”

In this vein, AI also serves as a copilot, taking on the tedious tasks that can derail creative execution from ideation. This resonates with recent discussions I’ve had for Forbes, exploring how artificial intelligence is helping architects manage compliance, freeing them to focus on their artistry.

But Will AI Replace Marketing Firms?

Naturally, with the emergence of novel tools in any field, concerns arise about their potential to displace human roles. This worry is amplified by developments like Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated actress, who is currently stirring up Hollywood with fears of thespian outsourcing.

These anxieties are further fueled by Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who, according to The Verge, recently “declared war on the entire advertising industry.” Zuckerberg envisions a future where clients approach Meta seeking customers, and Meta handles the rest: generating product visuals with AI, crafting ad copy, assembling countless ad variations, targeting them precisely, measuring performance, and iterating – all powered by AI. This comprehensive AI-driven advertising ecosystem is a significant shift.

It’s undeniable that other companies, alongside Meta, will continue to offer intelligent solutions at scale, performing tasks once exclusive to humans, including video production. The recent release of Sora 2, with features like ‘Cameos’ allowing users to embed realistic avatars into generated clips, underscores this trend, as reported by eweek.com.

The Business Edge

Capabilities like these were barely on the radar a few years ago. Now, it seems we witness a new AI marvel weekly, dramatically reducing the friction between vision and reality. This empowers companies, both large and small, to achieve more creatively with fewer resources. It's a particular boon for boutique firms, enabling them to produce campaigns that rival those shot on a 7-figure budget for a fraction of the cost.

Furthermore, thanks to vibe marketing, we're increasingly seeing a scenario where anyone can act like Neo from The Matrix – not to fight machine overlords, but to instantly acquire skills like Kung Fu with a mere snap of the fingers, or, more practically, a click of the mouse.

Now that’s some good vibrations.

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