The Best of the Best AI Tools(For Marketers)

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Welcome to the best of the best, the top 1% of all neuro cyber bot warriors providing value to Marketers today. The list below is curated from my personal tech stack, they are all tools I either use or have done previously. What’s even better (at the time of writing) they are all free or provide a free trial.

Criteria to be on the list

  1. Be awesome

  2. Be free or offer a free trial

  3. Have a clear use case for Marketers

Summary of the AI Tools

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Create a podcast episode in a couple of minutes!

NotebookLM is a unique AI tool created by Google with a focus on knowledge organization and summarization. This makes it particularly useful for marketing tasks that involve research, analysis, and content creation.

Marketing use case

  • Generating podcast episodes

  • Repurposing content into audio format: Transform blog posts, webinars, and other marketing materials into engaging podcast episodes to reach a wider audience.

  • Creating audio summaries of key topics: Offer listeners concise audio summaries of important industry reports, market trends, and company news.

  • Summarizing industry reports and trends: Quickly digest lengthy reports and extract key insights relevant to your marketing strategy.

  • Analyzing competitor strategies and offerings: Gather information about competitors from various sources and get concise summaries of their strengths, weaknesses, and marketing approaches.

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best AI search and research tool for accurate answers, providing the original sources

Perplexity.ai, with its focus on providing accurate and relevant information through AI-powered search and conversational capabilities, offers a unique set of use cases for marketers:

Marketing use case

  • Content: Generate ideas, conduct research, create data-backed content, optimize for SEO.

  • Audience: Understand interests, create targeted content, engage in new ways.

  • Competition: Monitor industry trends, analyze competitor strategies.

  • Campaigns: Refine messaging, optimize ad copy and landing pages.

Essentially, Perplexity.ai helps marketers create better content, understand their audience, and optimize their campaigns through AI-powered search and conversational capabilities.

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Make a Youtube video in minutes with a simple prompt. You can then edit before publishing.

Invideo.io is a powerful online video editing platform that offers a wide range of features perfect for various marketing needs.

Marketing use case

  • Promote: Video ads, webinar promos

  • Explain: Explainer videos, product demos, educational videos, training videos

  • Engage: Testimonial videos, Stories & Reels, video newsletters, company updates

  • Connect: Personalized video emails

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Great for repurposing and producing marketing content on mass

Blaze.ai is an AI-powered marketing tool that aims to streamline content creation and boost online presence.

Marketing use case

  • Content:

    • Creates various formats (posts, blogs, emails)

    • Repurposes existing content (podcasts to blogs, etc.)

    • Maintains consistent brand style

  • Social Media:

    • Automates posting

    • Increases engagement

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You can now clone your voice. Or pick one of their many super realistic voices for your project.

ElevenLabs.io provides marketers with realistic AI-generated voices, allowing them to easily create engaging audio content like voiceovers and personalized messages. This saves time and money compared to traditional voiceover methods, helps maintain brand consistency, and enables them to reach a wider audience with diverse voices and languages.

Marketing use case

  • Engaging audio: Create voiceovers for videos, podcasts, and more.

  • Efficient production: Faster and cheaper than traditional voiceovers.

  • Brand consistency: Maintain a uniform voice across all content.

  • Wider reach: Diverse voices and languages for a global audience.

  • Personalization: Create unique messages for individual customers.

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Brilliant for creating talking heads by uploading voice or a script.

Providing tools to create and stylize videos with AI.

Marketing use case

  • AI-powered character generation: Users can design characters with customizable appearances and generate audio for them, essentially creating virtual actors.

  • AI video effects: Transform existing videos with AI-powered effects for unique visual styles.

  • Focus on storytelling: Hedera aims to empower creators to tell stories in new and innovative ways using these AI tools.

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Say goodbye to boring presentaton slides, throw in some visuals made in seconds using Napkin. And for free!

This is how you can create STUNNING visuals for presentations and documents automatically using AI! Generate infographics, flowcharts, diagrams, and more in seconds!

Marketing use case

  • Visualizing data 

  • Creating engaging social media content

  • Generating ideas for blog posts and articles

  • Producing marketing materials