Listrak CEO, Ross Kramer, and Olapic VP of Account Management, Jon Drennan, lead an informative discussion on the various ways that visual earned content adds a layer of authenticity to email campaigns, and share real-world examples of retailers achieving greater engagement and increased sales as a result.
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ABOUT LISTRAK
• Founded in 1999
• Marketing automation platform for online and omnichannel retailers
• Retail experts
• Profitable, growth company
• Over 900 clients
• Over 200 employees
• Headquarters in PA, office in LA
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ABOUT OLAPIC
• Founded in 2010
• Visual marketing technology company serving leading retailers
and brands
• More than 300 clients worldwide
• Headquarters in New York with offices in Cordoba, and London
• Badged Facebook & Instagram Partner
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OWNED CONTENT
Content designed and
produced by an in-house
team.
PAID CONTENT
Content a brand pays to
produce - generally
through a content
marketplace, an
agency, or other third
parties
OWNED MEDIA
Digital properties
(ecommerce/web), mobile apps,
email marketing subscription list,
physical presence.
PAID MEDIA
Advertising, sponsored
distribution.
EARNED MEDIA
Social sharing and WOM
distribution.
THE STATE OF CONTENT THE STATE OF DISTRIBUTION
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MARKETERS ARE FEELING THE CONTENT CRUNCH
AND THE DEMAND FOR VISUAL CONTENT
Not enough content. Brands are struggling to produce
fresh content for every audience segment across every
channel.
Ineffective content. Whether stock images or brand-
created, finding a variety of high-performing, quality content
remains a challenge.
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INTRODUCING EARNED CONTENT
POWERED BY VISUAL USER-GENERATED CONTENT
increase in CTR when
shoppers interact with user-
generated content
43%
of consumers trust user-
generated content more
than other branded images
63%
Conversion rate when
shoppers interact with
user-generated content
2-3x
of millennials say UGC
influences their product
purchases
53%
of consumers say they’d be
more likely to buy clothing
online if ads featured photos
of real people wearing it
32%
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SPREADING THE USE OF PHOTOS
SAVVY BRANDS ARE EXTENDING UGC ACROSS THE CUSTOMER LIFECYCLE
ACROSS ALL MARKETING CHANNELS.
Print Marketing
Mobile Commerce
In-Store dvertising
eCommerce Email Marketing
Social Advertising Offline
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SPREADING THE USE OF PHOTOS
BUT WITH SUCH A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF REVENUE DRIVEN FROM
EMAIL MARKETING, IT IS A CHANNEL RIPE FOR THE UGC OPPORTUNITY
Email Marketing
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• Increase in email conversion rate
• Increase in website traffic
• Increase in sales
• Increase in average order value
• Content generation
BENEFITS OF UGC IN EMAIL
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User-generated content outperforms brand
content in trigger and promotional
emails such as:
• Customer favorites
• Personalized product recommendations -
based on purchase or browser history
• Product category promotions
• Cart Abandonment
• Inventory alerts, such as “back-in-stock”
emails
EXAMPLES OF UGC IN EMAIL
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MISSION: to help new parents find the best, safest, most
useful and innovative products so they spend less time
shopping and more time enjoying parenthood.
Products are sold in store across the U.S.
and online at www.giggle.com
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• Enhance richness of the giggle
brand on-site
• Increase engagement
PHASE ONE: WEBSITE
Invite customers to share!
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PHASE TWO: UGC IN EMAIL
• Match website richness in email
• Extend UGC into triggered emails to
increase branding and design
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Traditional Product Imagery Traditional Product Imagery
+ User Generated Content
4.6%
Increased
Click Through Rate
19.8%
Increased
Revenue per Email
Olapic is the leading visual marketing platform for collecting, curating, publishing, extending, and analyzing visual user-generated photos across marketing channels and in e-commerce environments.
Olapic collects and permissions consumer photos and videos from social media sites including Instagram, Vine, Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr to help brands and retailers significantly increase sales and marketing campaign performance by creating more authentic brand experiences.
And we work with hundreds of leading brands and retailers
Jon
The volume of content that is generated is overwhelming. Users are constantly sharing their experiences through social networks such as FB, Instagram, Pinterest, WhatsApp, and Snapchat. In fact, on those networks alone, more than 22,000 images are uploaded per second.
Traditionally, brands have leveraged two forms of content – owned content or content that they pay to have produced. When it comes to the channels through which they distribute this content, brands typically share content across their website, their ecommerce site and other owned media. They leverage it in ads and other paid media channels – and of course through social channels and other earned media channels.
This creates an imbalance. The volume of high-quality content is not aligned\ with the number of distribution channels that marketers need to consider to engage their consumers.
Which makes marketers really feel what we like to call the content crunch. They especially feel the pressure to constantly generate a flow of visual content – but content that is both suitable for a variety of channels – and high-quality and compelling to ensure its relevant and will capture the consumer’s attention.
Which is where a third type of content comes in to play – earned content – and specifically visual content that is user-generated. It’s an incredibly powerful and influential type of content – and we have the numbers to prove it.
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And this content works across channels and we see brands utilize it across their ecommerce sites, in their paid media campaigns, in their stores, and even their print marketing.
Increase in Conversion Rate:
Increase in Engagement:
Increase in Sales: One beauty brand saw a 30% increase in daily sales when including UGC in emails
Increase in AOV: One retailer noticed that the AOV from emails with UGC is 28% higher than from those without.
Content Generation: One client saw over 2,500 more photos come in on Instagram the week after sending an email soliciting content!
Ross will talk about these examples in more detail.
In fact, over to Ross to showcase how one of our joint clients has seen success incorporating UGC into their marketing strategies and leveraging our partnership and integration to do so easily.
Ross
Share a joint client success story
Ross
Ross – Explain that Olapic achieved this objective on giggle’s website
Objective: Supplement professional product photography with user generated photos of products being used in everyday life
Of customers who interacted with the photos, 11% converted into sales
26% increase in AOV
Ross
Listrak and Olapic were able to team up and integrated the same engaging UGC from giggle’s site into their email campaigns.
Incorporate same engaging UGC into auto triggered emails, which typically lack branding and design
Ross
Listrak is the first marketing automation platform that is directly integrated with Olapic.
User Generated Content can be integrated into any Listrak solution that incorporates product photos.
Let’s take a look at some examples of UGC being used in giggle’s email campaigns, as well as what
Ross
Breakdown of a Browse and Abandon email with UGC includedCampaign Results
giggle has more than 5x as many browse abandoners than cart abandoners
76% of the conversions from the campaign are attributed to the personalized product recommendations
AOV for the Browse and Abandonment Nurture Campaign is more than 28% higher than that of giggle’s traditional Browse Abandonment campaign
Ross - BAN
Here we see what a full Browse and Abandon Nurture campaign from giggle looks like. This shopper visited giggle’s website and viewed Sophie the Giraffe.
Ross
Ross
Campaigns – Shopping Cart Abandonment (Nurture)
Campaign Results
giggle’s SCAN campaign has the highest conversion rate of any of the retailer’s campaigns – 22%
SCAN Produces 12% of giggle’s total email revenue
The personalized product recommendations, often depicted by Olapic user-generated images, account for nearly 20% of conversions
Ross
Shout out to OvenBits
SCA email capability
Ross and Jon back and forth discussion
Retailers who would benefit from the in-real-life scenario that social imagery provides for their products
For example: baby/kid, clothing, jewelry, other accessories,
Ask yourself, would a customer be likely to share a photo of themselves and my product on social media?
Retailers who are looking to increase their number of product photos
Drive more product purchases
Shows utility of your products
Listrak Questions
1. What ratio of UGC photos to stock product photos do you recommend in email campaigns?
Olapic Questions
Do brands have to get permission to use the photos in email?