Late at night, on an iPhone: Where one brand found their luxury customers
As any brand knows, standing out in an overcrowded retail market during the Christmas season build-up is both critical and incredibly difficult. However, a leading luxury brand Turn works with found a marketing mix that worked wonders, stirring up a 171 per cent YOY increase in revenue attributed to one campaign, through a unique combination of audience data and super-optimised device-targeting strategies. Among the insights that drove success: finding that the brand’s core converters engaged with media in the late evening, and generally on an Apple device, as opposed to on Android.
The success of one campaign
Leveraging data, this global retail brand not only heightened brand awareness, it created significant increases in ROI, and acquired key customer insights now fuelling its strategies. And a strategy like this one can work for your brand as well.
One key element of this data-driven effort involved focusing on Christmas gift recipients, not just buyers, in the campaign.
In the programme’s first phase, the brand pushed rich media to premium sites and leveraged key publications with video and high impact display-ad formats that emphasised core emotional assets. The message focused on building recipients’ desire for specific items. The goal was to amass user engagement with outreach that triggered customers searching for inspiration around Christmas gifts.
The data gathered during the early part of campaign fuelled phase two, driving sales by re-engaging customers based on their activity in phase one.
- The brand retargeted its display inventory across devices, reaching customers with dynamic creative messaging based on prior interest. This drove conversions by putting the right offers in front of the purchaser at the right time, and optimised this towards the combination of devices and operating systems which showed the highest conversion rates.
- The retailer also led with creative assets that connected its offerings in concrete ways to Christmas gifting. This drove strong revenue by emphasising the right product at the right time.
Campaign success: Bolstering outcomes with audience-led data research
The luxury brand’s campaign succeeded on multiple levels, and it also generated incredibly valuable insights to drive strategies year round.
- The brand saw a 29 per cent year-over-year increase in global ROI.
- Global revenue rose 171 per cent year-over-year as a result of the campaign.
- Customer actions during the campaign jumped 271 per cent year-over-year.
In the realm of immediately actionable insights:
- The data showed customers moving from desktop to mobile/tablet in the evening.
- Compared with an average user, customers browsed far less during the morning (7am to 9am).
- The data also showed users tended to consume media later into the evening (10pm to 1am).
- There was also strong brand affinity with Apple products, with Mac users 6x more likely to convert than Windows users, and iOS users seven times more likely to convert than those with Android phones.
By changing their device mix – ie targeting mobile, tablet, and desktop during the relevant day-parts – the retailer not only changed its media buying but its messaging as well. Refocusing on branding via mobile in the evening, they aligned messaging with performance in the afternoon, when desktops dominated users’ attention.
Moving into the following year, insights from the campaign have helped the brand leverage cross-device targeting and further improve its sequencing of messaging.
As you strategise your next campaign, aggregate, analyse, and employ data and research to shape and amplify your approach. The patterns and insight you uncover will put the power of immediate action in your hands, fuelling new and stronger campaigns every season, all year round.
Richard Robinson, Managing director & vice-president EMEA, Turn
Tel: 020 7255 5650
Email: emeamarketing@turn.com
Web: www.turn.com
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