Enhancing User Experiences in Digital Marketing Through Machine Learning: Cases, Trends, and Challenges
Online marketing environments are rapidly being transformed by Artificial Intelligence (AI). This represents the implementation of Machine Learning (ML) that has significant potential in content personalization, enhanced usability, and hyper-targeted marketing, and it will reconfigure how businesses reach and serve customers. This systematic examination of machine learning in the Digital Marketing (DM) industry is also closely examined, focusing on its effect on human–computer interaction (HCI). This research methodically elucidates how machine learning can be applied to the automation of strategies for user engagement that increase user experience (UX) and customer retention, and how to optimize recommendations from consumer behavior. The objective of the present study is to critically analyze the functional and ethical considerations of ML integration in DM and to evaluate its implications on data-driven personalization. Through selected case studies, the investigation also provides empirical evidence of the implications of ML applications on UX/customer loyalty as well as associated ethical aspects. These include algorithmic bias, concerns about the privacy of the data, and the need for greater transparency of ML-based decision-making processes. This research also contributes to the field by delivering actionable, data-driven strategies for marketing professionals and offering them frameworks to deal with the evolving responsibilities and tasks that accompany the introduction of ML technologies into DM.
Authors
- Manolis Μaragoudakis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7701-0141)
- Alexios Kaponis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2001-6275)
- Konstantinos Chrysanthos Sofianos
Institutions
- Ionian University (GR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Computers
- Published
- 2025-05-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/computers14060211
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 16.81