Digital marketing industry case study library

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Premium burger chain Five Guys is using Looker’s data platform to boost insights and decision making both inside and outside of store locations.

18/09/2018  |  Full story...

Messaging app, Rakuten Viber, shifted their innovation strategy from being product-centric to user-centric. As a result, the messaging platform increased overall engagement by 15% for its one billion registered global users.

14/08/2018  |  Full story...

Digital ad campaigns which only rely on cookies for ad targeting can sometimes produce misleading results, wasted impressions and missed conversions. For the launch of MAC’s new eye shadow line, the cosmetics brand used people-based marketing (programmatic media targeting) to improve their campaign targeting and increase ROI.

13/02/2018  |  Full story...

Pepsi got the most social engagement out of the $5m ad spots at this year’s Super Bowl, according to new research.

09/02/2018  |  Full story...

NET-A-PORTER and MR PORTER are premier online luxury fashion stores. The company wanted to sharpen their campaign plans by finding smarter ways to target their audience and allocate budgets. In order to do this the fashion ecommerce store decided to use people based measurement tools rather than just traditional cookies to gain much deeper insights to their customers path to purchase and in turn allocate media budgets accordingly.

09/02/2018  |  Full story...

Chick fil-A has a transactional mobile app, but users were confused about the payment options due to the app’s layout. This case study looks at how the US fast food giant leveraged Taplytics to enable mobile commerce and reduce customer payment option complaints.

23/10/2017  |  Full story...

Vodafone worked with Bing to help the telecoms brand drive innovation, improve their search strategy and increase customer acquisition. This case study looks at how the mobile network got 20% increase in its click-through rate and saw a 27% reduction in its cost per click year on year.

05/10/2017  |  Full story...

Despite being a multi-channel retailer, Bensons for Beds historically only measured the effects of online marketing on online sales. With no way of assessing the impact of digital activities on in-store sales, it wasn’t possible to accurately calculate the return on digital ad spend and to subsequently optimise marketing budget.

07/09/2017  |  Full story...

In summer 2015, Snickers launched another iteration of its ‘You’re Not You When Your Hungry’ campaign, this time featuring Mr Bean for a funny martial arts adventure. During the campaign Mars UK tested a mix of TV and online video (specifically YouTube) to determine if the media plan was optimised to drive the most in-store sales.

28/04/2017  |  Full story...

Pet owners often think of their animals as unique, so Royal Canin put this to good use in Russia with clever personalised e-mail coupons and local offers tailored to each website subscriber. This case study shows how 74% of people whio opened the email went on to the online ordering platform.

03/02/2017  |  Full story...

Having launched a Russian website and social media presence, ASOS wanted to scale their activity in this market. The online clothing retailer worked with agency Forward 3D to win over 65K fans at a cost of just £0.66 per fan.

24/01/2017  |  Full story...

Tesco created a mobile coupon solution, running a "test and learn" campaign to generate practical insights to inform future coupon implementation across the UK.

05/01/2017  |  Full story...

Global auto manufacturer BMW which recently celebrated its 100th birthday, embracing marketing innovations by forming partnerships with brands like xAd and Amplifi using location-based technology to reach desired audiences with the right content, at the right time, in the right place. This case study looks at how the car maker used a location-based marketing campaign to drive sales of its 7 Series.

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17/05/2016  |  Full story...

Webtrends Optimize helped Marks & Spencer to achieve a 6% improvement in sales through the delivery of personalised-website experience to returning customers.

17/05/2016  |  Full story...

Three, with their puppet hero Jackson, wanted to raise awareness of the #makeitright campaign and their brand. Using Google Preferred, TrueView and the very latest techniques in remarketing they achieved "mind-blowing" results that lifted brand metrics, including ad recall and brand search interest.

12/05/2016  |  Full story...

From Farmville to Angry Birds, online gaming can often be a passing fad. So how can games makers re-engage former players? The case study looks at how RJ Games used Facebook to prompt almost half of players to pay more and continue playing.

05/05/2016  |  Full story...

When it came to expanding their impact across audiences, GSK and MediaCom turned to DoubleClick’s video technology Programmatic Guaranteed to buy video ad inventory on premium websites. This case study looks at how the pharmaceutical giant got a 65% view-through rate with the new automated platform.

21/04/2016  |  Full story...

Chobani and Nielsen Catalina Solutions teamed up for a Yahoo Search ad campaign that resulted in a 9% lift in yogurt sales and a 1.3% increase in market share.

21/04/2016  |  Full story...

A campaign to test out Facebook Ads brought more people into the bed and mattress chain’s stores, and laid a solid foundation for its advertising strategy.

08/03/2016  |  Full story...

German watch Slow brand used Twitter Ads to raise awareness and engage potential customers. This case study looks at how they used smart targeting on the social network to get two times the conversion rate of other channels.

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— slow Jo (@theslowwatch) June 19, 2015

08/03/2016  |  Full story...

The Telegraph worked with Google’s Doubleclick to simplify its automated ad trading systems. This case study looks at how the UK newspaper got a 126% year-on-year increase in ad revenue through programmatic ads on its website.

29/10/2015  |  Full story...

Digital ad campaigns which rely on cookies for ad targeting can often produce misleading results, wasted impressions and missed conversions. For the launch of MAC’s new eye shadow line, the cosmetics brand used Facebook’s Atlas tool for people based marketing to improve ad targeting.

22/10/2015  |  Full story...

Back in 2013, Electronic Arts used an A/B testing strategy to boost digital downloads of its SimCity 5 game. This case study looks at how the games maker made smart use of website optimisation to sell 1.1 million copies in the first two weeks, with 50% coming from direct online downloads.

08/10/2015  |  Full story...

Makelaarsland is a Netherlands-based brokerage firm. Prospective home sellers can sign up on their website to make the company their estate agent. This case study shows how using a picture with a ‘sold’ sign increased signups by 89%.

08/10/2015  |  Full story...

Back in 2011, Veeam Software wanted to improve the click-through rate from its product information page through to the sales inquiry form. This case study looks at how the company changed the wording of just link to get nearly three times more customers requesting a quote.

08/10/2015  |  Full story...