Francesco D’Orazio, founder of audience intelligence platform Pulsar, joins the latest episode of Marketing B2B Tech to share his journey from studying the internet's impact on society to founding Pulsar, a company that helps brands understand how people engage online.
He dives into the challenges of navigating the fragmented media landscape and how AI has become a crucial tool for analysing diverse data sources. Francesco also emphasises the importance of understanding narratives and public perception to uncover deeper insights about audience beliefs and behaviours.
About Pulsar
Pulsar is the world’s leading audience intelligence platform, harnessing rich data sets, AI and human minds, so clients can access nuanced and actionable insights that get straight to what matters most to their customers, their businesses and to society.
Time Stamps
00:00:18 - Guest Introduction: Francesco D’Orazio of Pulsar
00:00:42 – Francesco’s Career Journey
00:01:57 - The Rise and Fall of Virtual Worlds
00:05:40 – Overview of Pulsar
00:06:04 – Understanding Audience and Narrative Intelligence
00:10:11 - B2B vs. B2C Audience Engagement
00:15:06 - AI's Role in Data Analysis
00:16:22 - Forecasting Trends with Audience Data
00:20:01 - Best Practices for Utilizing Audience Listening Data
00:25:09 - Valuable Marketing Advice Received
00:27:15 - Closing Remarks and Contact Information
Quotes
"The thing that most companies get wrong is that they go with the one platform fits all approach in terms of how they communicate on these different channels." Francesco D’Orazio, founder of Pulsar.
“What AI has done is give us incredibly flexible tools for analysing data in a way that before was quite complex and required a lot of training or specific machine learning models." Francesco D’Orazio, founder of Pulsar.
"Different communities look at the same topic and brand in very different ways. So, your message should be aligned on how these messages are articulated by the different communities in an audience." Francesco D’Orazio, founder of Pulsar.
Follow Francesco:
Francesco D’Orazio on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francescodorazio/
Pulsar’s website: https://www.pulsarplatform.com/
Pulsar on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pulsar-platform/
Follow Mike:
Mike Maynard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikemaynard/
Napier website: https://www.napierb2b.com/
Napier LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/napier-partnership-limited/
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