Using AI for Deeper Audience & Persona Creation

Going beyond Mosaic profiles and identifying new opportunities for content and ad messaging with Perplexity for CV Villas. 

As part of our push to use AI to innovate, we built out CV Villas’ Mosaic audience segmentation, enriching the existing insights with credible, third-party data. We then distilled everything into three focused personas, which are now used to guide all marketing activity and ensure that decisions, creative and messaging are truly rooted in the target customer.

What we did

Persona Development

AI Builds

Content Planning

Ad messaging

The challenge

We started with less of a challenge, and more of an opportunity. As AI capabilities grew within the agency, we felt that there could be value in expanding our client’s existing audience work, which comprised Mosaic Profiles, using the additional research and storytelling capabilities of Perplexity (our favoured LLM for this kind of work). 

Our approach

With CV Villas on-board and game for some experimentation, we set to work. We uploaded all existing audience research, including the Mosaic Profiles, to Perplexity and built a series of prompts that got the AI to fetch additional, credible research to further build-out the audiences and then shape them into 3 x personas. For each persona, we generated a name, a back-story and research-based insights around their needs when it came to travelling, and villa holidays specifically. We were also able to specifically test certain messaging themes that had already been drafted for upcoming ad campaigns and learn more about how each persona would resonate with those themes, and how they could be tailored for maximum engagement.  

The impact

The impact is on-going; the client has a set of more valuable and more usable audience personas and both they and us now find it much easier to ensure that CV’s customers are truly at the heart of any planning we do. We also spotted niche content opportunities based on insights that were highlighted within the personas. These opportunities aligned with topics that were less important in traditional SEO keyword research, but hugely important to the people we were targeting and what they were looking for when researching villa holidays.   

“Getting the prompts right is key to building effectiveness in the tool and crafting prompts is almost an art itself. Already, the creative images and words generated from Perplexity are outperforming normal benchmarks.”

Ben Briggs, Marketing Director at CV Villas

Insights