Persuasiveness Analysis for Digital Content Items

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional systems for creating persuasive digital media items, such as emails, lack the ability to predict their effectiveness at the time of authoring, leading to wasted time and resources due to the need for trial-and-error methods to determine user interaction, and fail to provide meaningful insights into the factors influencing persuasiveness.

Innovation Solution

A content analysis system that analyzes textual, image, and layout elements of digital content items, considering recipient attributes, to determine a persuasion score indicating the likelihood of user interaction, thereby eliminating the need for iterative testing and providing insights for optimization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If conventional systems use trial-and-error methods to determine media item effectiveness, then authors can eventually identify successful content characteristics, but this process wastes significant time and communication resources

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersuasiveness measurementVSAvoidtime to determine effectiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs persuasiveness analysis before the media item is distributed to recipients. The analysis engine evaluates textual elements, image elements, and layout elements using trained machine learning models to predict click-through rates in advance, eliminating the need for post-distribution trial-and-error testing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback from historical recipient interactions (clicks, opens, conversions) to continuously train and improve the machine learning models. This feedback loop enables the system to become increasingly accurate at predicting persuasiveness without requiring additional trial-and-error experiments

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If authors create multiple media items through trial-and-error, then they can identify what works, but this approach increases author frustration and reduces productivity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveeffectiveness understandingVSAvoidmedia item creation efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The analysis is performed before distribution, providing authors with immediate feedback on predicted persuasiveness. This allows authors to refine media items based on quantitative predictions rather than waiting for post-distribution results, significantly improving创作 efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system evaluates multiple parameters including text characteristics, image properties, layout configurations, and recipient attributes to comprehensively assess persuasiveness. By analyzing these parameters in advance, authors can make informed adjustments to optimize media items without repeated trial-and-error cycles

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If conventional systems provide only quantitative characteristics analysis, then objective measurements are available, but these measurements do not help authors understand user interaction probability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent analysis accuracyVSAvoidpersuasiveness prediction information
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The machine learning models serve as intermediaries that translate quantitative content characteristics (text, images, layout) into a meaningful persuasiveness prediction. The models correlate objective measurements with historical user interaction data to produce actionable insights about click-through probability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system transforms multiple quantitative parameters (textual features, image properties, layout metrics) into a single predictive metric representing user interaction probability. This transformation preserves the objectivity of quantitative analysis while adding the predictive power needed to guide content optimization

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10783549B2Determining persuasiveness of user-authored digital content items
Publication Date: 2020.09.22 ADOBE INC
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AI summary

The present disclosure is directed towards methods and systems for determining a persuasiveness of a content item. The systems and methods receive a content item from a client device and analyze the content item. Analyzing the content item includes analyzing at least one textual element, at least one image element, and at least one layout element of the content item to determine a first persuasion score, a second persuasion score, and a third persuasion score of the elements the content item. The systems and methods also generate a persuasion score of the content item and provide the persuasion score of the content item to the client device.