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Advertising and Data Gathering: Why not both at the same time?!?

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Victor Martin
Business Development Intern

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Thibault Bourrelly
Business Development Intern


Understanding your customers’ needs to give them what they want is the ultimate, but expensive goal. To perform on a tight budget, marketers tend to separate market research campaigns (to better understand their customers) from defining an advertising plan (to promote their new and existing products). So, you want to better understand how to target your customers through advertising and attract them without spending a huge amount of money—how can you do both at the same time?

Here’s something for you: Whichit!

Whichit is an Interactive Commercial Content tool: an efficient way to gather useful data and to promote your business at the same time. Whichit allows you to create interactive ads that can be shown on social media, onsite and programmatically. We do the heavy lifting for you, so you don’t spend hours trying to comprehend the valuable data you gather. Thanks to our fantastic Analytics Dashboard, the information collected is very easy to understand and the results of your campaigns can be monitored in real time.

How can you better understand the results of your campaign?


The Whichit Analytics Dashboard is divided into several sections that make it easy to understand how your campaign is performing, and what your audience has answered.

The campaign dashboard is divided into two sections: campaign performance and creative performance. The campaign performance shows data captured in your overall campaign—the aggregated results of all creatives within the campaign envelope. After viewing the overall campaign statistics, you can then focus on the performance of individual creatives in order to monitor and compare them individually.

The first section shows General information about the campaign: the start date, the campaign type and Call-to-Action type per creative. Also, it shows the number of people who saw the ad, clicked on the ad, and so forth.

The general information about this campaign shows how a survey accomplished excellent results. 74% of the audience that noticed the ad, voted, and was shared on social media 308 times.

The general information about this campaign shows how a survey accomplished excellent results. 74% of the audience that noticed the ad, voted, and was shared on social media 308 times.

Traffic Referrals presents the number of unique views per ad and website where your campaign has appeared (you can expand the widget to view more detailed information), and an Activity Graph illustrates the activity of your Whichit campaign over time – including engagement rate, completion rate, and unique impressions for comparison.

The audience that noticed the collection of ads, come from 8 different websites where 5 of them got the highest amount of views. The one with more views is 'traveldestinations.com'

The audience that noticed the collection of ads, come from 8 different websites where 5 of them got the highest amount of views. The one with more views is 'traveldestinations.com'

The Whichit Analytics Dashboard visualises your campaign’s creative funnels in a very clear way, allowing you to understand the results with just a snapshot. You can also export the data to a spreadsheet.

The Completion Rate Funnel gives a clear overview of your creative’s results, starting from views, through content engagement to the call-to-action conversions.

The Post Engagement Funnel helps you recognise drop-offs in your posts and understand if the creative is working. If anything needs to be changed, you can edit the creatives in real time without needing to pause your campaign.

The Completion Rate and Post Engagement funnels are made available for every creative within your campaign, allowing you to compare your creatives and see which is performing best.

These funnels are showing great results. Each question was so engaging that 98% of the audience completed the survey.

These funnels are showing great results. Each question was so engaging that 98% of the audience completed the survey.

See in detail the number of views on your Engage Cards and Call to Action stats, allowing you to see what commercial message is most likely to convert your potential customers into returning customers.

Here, 97% of the audience that interacted with the ad, submitted their email. 57% shared their details after getting to Engage Card #1, 39% to Engage Card #2, and 1% to Engage Card #3.

Here, 97% of the audience that interacted with the ad, submitted their email. 57% shared their details after getting to Engage Card #1, 39% to Engage Card #2, and 1% to Engage Card #3.

The Whichit Analytics Dashboard gives you valuable capabilities to understand your audience with a few advanced features, allowing you to conduct a small market research project with every campaign you’ve created.

If you are asking more than one question, the Whichit Analytics Dashboard shows the Common User Paths (per creative), the most popular choices among your audience, and finally their conversion rate on your chosen Call to Action.

In this example, while more users chose path #1, the conversion was higher in path #2.

In this example, while more users chose path #1, the conversion was higher in path #2.

Discovering connections between different products is a gold-mine for marketers. With Whichit’s ‘Votes Breakdown’ feature, you can see exactly what your audience preferred most, and how they voted from the perspective of other choices they’ve made within the collection.

For example, you can discover that most of the people who chose the brown bag also prefer the pink lip-gloss and the mascara.

For example, you can discover that most of the people who chose the brown bag also prefer the pink lip-gloss and the mascara.

This valuable information can be used in different marketing propositions such as newsletters, package promotions, remarketing campaigns and product staging. This data is made available per creative within your campaign.

Finally, the Audience section presents where your ad has been shown around the world and how well received it has been in all these places.

Interactive Ads Campaign Audience

Our Analytics Dashboard offers you all the tools to gather actionable insights about your customers, so you can reach out to them in the best way.

Check out what our clients are saying about us and start your Whichit wonder ride.
 

4 Marketing Ideas for bank holiday Travel and Tour Businesses promotions

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Alexandra Radugina
Senior Marketing Manager

 

The bank holiday presents travel peak opportunities, so marketing campaigns must include several things to maximise this occasion.

Bank holidays are times when people take a break and enjoy. For many of them, this means a long weekend and a great opportunity to travel. For businesses, it means a huge travel peak opportunity and thus, a good moment to refine marketing campaigns to reach more customers.

There are many ways you can leverage bank holidays into your marketing, let us find out how.

1. First, understand your customer persona


Targeting the right people at the right time is what makes a marketing campaign effective. How can you plan a marketing campaign if you have no idea who your customers are? To target adequately, you must understand what your audience craves and who your ideal customers are.

Online travel services are a tough business: prices are low, and competition is high. How can you differentiate? Understand your clients. Beyond knowing their age or gender, you need to understand given these demographic’s information what drives them when they choose a destination, book a flight, a hotel, what they want, what they don’t want, and finally where they go for information when making such decisions.

marketing campaign results dashboard

The Whichit Analytics Dashboard gives you a perfect overview of your audience and their preferences.

 

True multi-channel marketing is all about using the right blend of channels to get the right messages to the right people at the right times.
 

2. Targeted Campaigns & Retargeting


What you should keep in mind is that your aim is to generate qualified leads. Your marketing campaign is not only about generating activity but about generating contact information to develop relationships with your customers and retarget later if needed. You need targeted marketing campaigns toward your ideal customers and it must contain lead generation. That is the process of effective travel marketing.

 

 

 

 

 

Click the example to see how wonderful it really is! >>>

 

Email Marketing

Your email database is extremely valuable. Your website should always have the ability to collect emails. Once people subscribe, even if they are not using your services, you will be able to approach them with emails saying when it will be the right time for them to travel!


Social Media

Social media is important for travel marketers. During or after their trip, your customers will share their experience with their friends and family or followers, and you will be able to take advantage of this. While using social media you should always track and manage your strategy by using social media tools that allows you to get useful statistics like ‘Facebook Insights’ or ‘Twitter Analytics’.


Share your knowledge

These days, content marketing is important and highly interesting for customers. Indeed, your website or even your email marketing must be significant for your audience. Your customers must find information quickly that is relevant to their needs, travel wise: make their journey easier to plan, and they will be thankful! Therefore, you must share your knowledge while sharing your offers.

You can also share your knowledge by writing articles for local magazines and papers.


Reviews & check-ins

Trip Advisor states that 93% of users find reviews important when deciding where they want to stay and 53% of people would not book a hotel without checking out the reviews first. Nowadays, people love reviews and you shouldn’t neglect this. Create an identifiable section for your clients to leave reviews on your website, since it could increase your brand awareness and generate content about your brand. Besides, it’s always good having people telling the world that you are doing a good job!


3. Personalized holiday offers

We previously mentioned the importance of knowing your clients. For example, according to Binge travel industry, 41% of people looking for family holidays are aged between 35 to 49 and in 2016 in the category of the family holidays,  69% were taking a road trip while only 26% where travelling to an international destination. What these statistics say is that customers are different, thus, so are their needs. Then, you must personalize your holiday offers in order to offer them exactly what they’re looking for.


4. Interactive Content Marketing (content, quiz, trivia, competitions) to generate User Generated Content, to Create Stories


The digital journey of booking a personal trip, from the idea of where to travel, all the way to the final purchase can be a very long, complicated process. Make it fun and easy for your clients by using interactive content!
For example, if they are struggling to choose a destination, create a quiz for them, then offer them a purchase coupon code linked to the destination matching their desires!

On your website, create content to learn about your client’s preferences and target them more accurately in the future.

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Then, to develop customer loyalty and enlarge your client database, create a contest about the best holiday photos on your Facebook page!

Using interactive content will help you achieve a better ROI and collect meaningful, actionable data about your customers’ preferences. This is win-win for you and your clients.

5 Facts to help you plan Mother’s Day Marketing Campaigns

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Alexandra Radugina
Senior Marketing Manager

 

Mother's Day is another great opportunity for all types of retailers to encourage consumers to spend more on beautiful gifts. If you want to create a stellar promotion, you have to start with a plan; below you can find some interesting facts that can help you.

1. Mother’s Day in numbers

Mother's Day is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent and precisely three weeks before Easter Sunday. The 2017 Mother’s Day spend was valued at almost 1.4 billion pounds, in comparison to the 700 million pounds spent for Father’s Day 2017. 30% of the purchases were made online followed by a Mother’s Day spark in social media posts. According to Facebook, people around the world uploaded 1B+ photos and videos, which shows how much people care about family and how grateful they are.

Mother's Day facts

2. Shoppers' persona

Harvest Digital suggest that 67% of female shoppers purchase more gifts than men. But on average, men spend £10 pounds more on their gifts. Also, the most significant spenders belong to the age range of 25-34 years old. Those insights can give some ideas on who you want to target with your campaign, as well as how to gain social media boost on Mother’s Day itself.

mothers day gifts marketing

3. What are the most common presents…

Mothers’ Day's gifts aren’t just flowers, cards or chocolates. These types of gifts are a must-have addition to a main treat. Shoppers are more interested in personalised gifts that stand out from the rest. There has been a noticeable increase in personalised presents in the UK, and we estimate an increase in that sector this Mother’s Day.  The hottest gifts for Mother’s Day are:

Mother's Day best gifts

4. What Mummy really wants…

We found out that what Mothers actually dream of receiving on Mother’s Day are surprisingly affordable:

affordable gifts for Mother's Day 

5. Promotional tactics to attract shoppers:

Mother's Day promotions

The goal of this Mother’s Day marketing opportunity is of course to increase sales and revenue. Marketers use the full range of promotional tactics to attract shoppers: special product selection, email marketing, social campaigns, price promotions. According to Bing Ads, more than 60% of Mother’s Day gift searches are made from a mobile device. Searches increase by up to four times in the 48 hours leading up to Sunday as well as most of purchases are made last minute. So, starting a marketing campaign just two-three weeks before the day would be a wise tactic.  Last year’s statistics show us that email remarketing was most effective the week before Mother’s Day.

What do shoppers want? What leads them to make up their mind about a purchase? The main decision-making factors— the same as for any other occasion, will be online search. According to HootSuite, 60% of shoppers use social networks for product search, so consider running a social media campaign to reach your consumers.  Another factor is saving time on shopping: If you can offer consumers all-in-one services like a card, flowers and chocolate there will be a greater chance of success. Adding your slogan, hashtag, or brand to any gift pack can encourage some consumers to thank you online.  Cooperate with local businesses (i.e. flower shops, spas, restaurants) and create offers together.

Shoppers want inspiration for Mother’s Day presents. Look for a personalised shopping experience based on their buying behaviour.  Offering savings and rewards based on past purchases is a proven tactic. You can also offer consumers a personalised gift finder (Whichit example), which will lead them to the perfect present or add the competitive element to keep participants checking back and sharing their contributions for more exposure. How about a mum and daughter selfie competition? Perfect for Mother’s Day.

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5 Killer Marketing Campaign Ideas to win your Black Friday Sales

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Phuong Huyen Linh Le
Business Development Intern

 

For many retailers, the busiest shopping season kicks off with a Black Friday sale. Haven't prepared anything yet, or are you someone who often waits until the last minute?

Don't wait any more... Create your first campaign with Whichit!
Register for FREE today & get $50 Ads Budget for your first campaign! 


Promotions can start even earlier. Don’t forget to come up with your Black Friday ideas early, so you don’t miss the opportunity and all the hype. Last year, UK eCommerce revenue set a record of $1.3 billion on Black Friday – marking a +12.2% increase compared with the same day in 2015 and it’s set to be even bigger this year.

If you are running your business online, do not miss out on marketing campaigns that can help you gain the attention of the growing traffic of holiday shoppers this Black Friday. It will help you boost sales! Check out that what we’ve prepared for you in this post.

Let’s pick one of the campaigns and make some great holiday revenue:


1. A BRILLIANT Gift Creator Campaign

You have too many amazing products on sale… But let me guess, your audience doesn’t know where to find the perfect gift or what to choose? Well, they could miss out on some amazing items that your brand has to offer.

I'm looking for a Black Friday gift for...

But wait…I guarantee it won’t happen again with this Whichit campaign. Whichit is a perfect tool to make it simple and easy for everyone to find the perfect gift that they are looking for in this Black Friday season with the…BLACK FRIDAY GIFT CREATOR.
It is simple & brilliant, play with it >>>

Through Whichit’s unique technology, users will be directed to the perfect gift by answering a simple series of questions all in the same beautiful bespoke ad unit.



2. Run a Contest Campaign

This is a great way to reach out to your audience and let them know what’s new in this Black Friday sale season. It is also a fantastic way for businesses to showcase featured products to your audience and engage with them in a fun way.

Imagine the feeling they get when they’re waiting to find out if they’re the lucky one! It will bring an amazing experience for your customers, help you build long-term relationships with them, at the same time, helps businesses raise awareness, find out useful information about customers and collect tonnes of email addresses from participants.
See the example >>>

Whichit is an easy and effective way to create beautiful, fun contests in minutes. Create your competition, there is no charge for this, you will only be charged for the emails you actually capture.

quiz marketing 

You will have access to our integrated dashboard with simple, easy to understand actionable insights about your audience. Now, let’s create your Black Friday competition campaign!

Want to give it a try? 
Register for FREE with code HelloBLACKFRIDAY & get $50 Ads Budget! 

 

3. Advertisement Campaign
 

If you are concerned about your ads performance for this Black Friday, the Whichit platform will be a perfect choice for your next campaign.

Whichit delivers a Click Through- Rate of 40x traditional banners that can be delivered on thousands of publisher websites… And, you can gain some insights about your audiences at the same time through our integrated dashboard.

  • Embed Whichit Post, Quiz or Trivia on native advertisement.

  • Generating high engagement with the audience.

  • Bespoke commercial offer redirects customers to a purchase page, or capture potential client’s emails with the right offer.

    See how nicely you can combine Lead-Gen in Display Ads campaign:

Which must-have gadget is on your 2018 gift list? Vote for your favourite & we'll keep you posted about the latest technology news


4. Convert Facebook social traffic into customers

Create an interactive Poll, Quiz or Trivia related to your brands’ special Black Friday activities or products and simply share the post on Facebook or other social media networks. Your audience will engage with the Whichit post and based on their preferred choice they will reveal a bespoke commercial offer to your audience, which will redirect your customers to a purchase page, or capture potential clients’ emails.

Here is a super successful case study highlighting how well this will work for you!

  • Achieve over 6% Facebook Ad engagement – 500% higher than average ad engagement.
  • After a qualification process over 26% of target audience converted on Call-To-Action on Engage Card – email submission.
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5. User’s Engagement on Snapchat

Snapchat is used by over 166 million people around the world across a wide range of ages, demographics, and interests. According to Forbusiness, snapchatters spend an average 30+ minutes on Snapchat everyday!!! This is a great place to reach your audience! And…. You can now run a Snap-Ads X Whichit campaign
The Snap Ads are full-screen vertical video, 100% viewable on mobile, and have audio on by default! This fast and responsive content, is 5X swipe up rate vs. average CTR on comparable platforms.

 
 

Learn more about Snap-AdsXWhichit campaign to boost your Black Friday Conversion.

 

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For any questions please contact us, or schedule a demo call

Interactive Commercial Content – Content Marketing Trends

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Phuong Huyen Linh Le
Business Development Intern

 

Customers receive thousands of messages, on average 285 social posts per day along with 27 million content pieces are created. The content of any brand’s message could easily be ignored by consumers and even blocked.

So, what should businesses do not to miss or forever lose the opportunity to reach their target customers?

Keeping up to date with the latest trends in Content Marketing is one of the best solutions that any business owner or marketer should focus on.
Interactive Content is one of the top five Content Marketing trends in 2017 that businesses should take advantage of in order to make their businesses’ content win the hearts of their customers.  According to Ceros, 93% of marketers agree interactive content is effective in educating buyers.

 

How can you attract users to interact with your ‘Interactive Content’?

Interactive content allows users to personalise and participate in the content presented to them. By helping consumers see themselves in the brand’s experience, the technique offers the potential to deepen engagement and drive greater satisfaction.

There are countless ways for marketers to ‘pull’ users to interact with their brand. We listed below five effective ways and current 2017 trends in Interactive Content Marketing:

 

1. Questionnaires

Polls, Surveys and Quizzes are one of the basic forms of interactive content. Use them to test your audience’s knowledge or opinions on a relevant topic and then generate a shareable report card so they can compare their results with their friends.

Demand for interactive content has been increasing, but most content marketers should consider how they can create interactive questionnaires that hold an audience's attention.

What's your favourite colour?

If you were looking for a way to make your advertising alluring for your audience, Whichit offers an innovative tool that helps you naturally pull your audience into your brand’s world:
Whichit’s flagship product is a highly engaging Interactive Commercial ad unit:  a fun and addictive image-based poll, revealing a customised commercial offer based on the poll’s outcome. By using Whichit, advertisers and marketers can create rich, commercially driven interactive content, delivering a new and enhanced experience for their audience and providing your audience the perfect call-to-action at just the right moment. See the example.

 

2. Contests

Contest or competitions are another great way to create an interactive marketing campaign, both have the potential to go viral and pull a lot of participants and new potential customers in.

COMPETITION! What's your favourite Summer destination?

Great contests have proven to tempt consumers and inspire engagement. Competitions not only attract public participation and interest, but also help the brand building its ‘LoveMarks’. In addition, contests require some form of application, which is when marketers can collect valuable consumer data.

Whichit is an easy and effective way to create beautiful, fun contests in minutes that allows advertisers to collect information from customers in return for their participation in a competition. See the example.
 

 

3. Viral Videos

Viewers love a good viral video - video content that is so entertaining they readily share it across their social network feeds. Hardly a week goes by that you aren't shown a viral video from a friend, or are showing one to a friend yourself.

Sharing became a valued and premium metric, one very difficult to drive, because it’s completely voluntary; the decision of an individual to share content can’t be bought. Other than ‘a purchase’, there’s no more intimate and influential metric than a social share.

These days, many brands use Viral Videos for their marketing campaigns. The brands currently doing it know how to tailor it to their overall business objectives, have the people, budget and data to pull it off.
Whichit has recently launched their SnapchatXWhichit campaigns, allowing advertisers to create short, 100% full-screen branded videos for Snapchatters followed by Whichit’s unique ad unit with a commercial call-to-action. These campaigns generate 5X more Click-through-rate than other social media advertising, placing the videos as a top interactive marketing tool and a brand closer to their audience’s mind and heart.

Read more about the innovative Snapchat X Whichit campaigns

 

4. Live Stream

Live Stream allows customers to directly interact with customers, by answering questions directly under the customers’ comments in real-time and even afterwards. This new form has emerged from the end of 2016 and will continue to explode in 2017.

 

5. KOL - Key Opinion Leaders (Influencer Marketing)

According to a study by Dinesen, influencers can increase advertising campaigns' ROI by 11x compared to the average. KOLs are the trend makers helping to educate the market, and they have many fans and followers. A brand can use KOLs through live stream campaigns, social posts or through PR articles in print and web publications.


How can Whichit help you create ‘Interactive Commercial Content’ campaigns?

Before purchasing a product, customers tend to check and ask for others’ opinion about that product. By using Whichit, after answering fun interactive polls or quizzes, the audience will reveal the shareable ‘Engage Card’ – Engage Cards are the commercial actionable Call-To-Action layer that redirects users to bespoke content, based on their votes. They achieve up to 95% engagement rate per campaign and allow customers to compare their results with those who also answer that question. Whichit Engage Cards are your way to convert traffic into revenue, based on your campaign goals.
By using Whichit, advertisers can easily create ‘Interactive Commercial Content’ in minutes, wrap it into a campaign and share it on the brand's social media channels, embed it on their website or even as display advertising with paid traffic, targeting a specific audience.

 

Want to learn more? Contact us to get more information or simply register for FREE and create your first Interactive Content Campaign:

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The Two Most Important Things For Marketers In 2017

There has been a shift in brands demands, they want to target their audience in a hyper-personalised way. They want to tailor the commercial message specifically to their wants and needs. Directing messages in a bespoke customer focused way will inevitably lead to higher conversion rates and increased ROI.

Even classic industry companies like Nxstage Medical have realised that in order to increase sales their marketing has to be relevant to specific sectors. While realising their main target market is the Spanish-speaking Hispanic community in the U.S (15% of their home kidney-analysis equipment) – the Massachusetts based company created brochures and a specific website in Spanish. These examples are backed up by celebrity endorsement, Twitter & Facebook accounts in Spanish as well.

6 Killer Marketing Campaign Ideas for Christmas

It’s that time of the year again!  Christmas lights are already up on Oxford Street! But are you prepared for the Christmas season as well? – We are! And we also have some early Christmas gifts for you!! In this post we’ve picked up the most efficient marketing campaigns for your business to make sure that you will have a booming holiday season! So choose one, increase your holiday sales and as a result you will find some more gifts under your own Christmas tree ;-)

5 Ways To Make Your Whichit Post Awesome

Here at Whichit, we work with a lot of businesses who are new to our service, and in our experience, it can be tricky to master the perfect Whichit post right from the get-go. To help you roll out Whichit campaigns like a pro, we've created this blogpost to make sure your Whichit post looks fantastic and delivers you the best results!

How Vendula got 1,811 sign ups and over 40% engagement rate in just 17 days

Vendula is an original fashion accessories brand whose key product is funky bags. “We launched Vendula London in 2003, and since then we’ve grown to become one of fashion’s funkiest brands with a growing list of customers across the UK, Ireland, Europe, and North America.”

The company wanted to promote their brand by incentivising their follower base and approaching new potential customers via a giveaway campaign on a special date in the retail calendar.

Whichit's 2015 Highlights

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