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Enterprise Webinar Series
WITH
Build Customer-Centric
Mobile Experiences that Convert:
Strategies & Data

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Meet our speakers…
Richard Sgro
Director of Solutions and
Partnership Engineering
Tae Kim
Head of New York,
Partner Growth

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Branch Unifies Experience and Measurement
Marketing Unified User Experience Unified AttributionUsers

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mParticle provides a single, secure API to integrate your entire marketing
stack so that brands can enhance analytics and optimize acquisition,
engagement, and monetization in a multi-screen world.

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Agenda Overview
● Building an All-Around Mobile Journey: Top Considerations
● Driving Conversions from Mobile Journeys: Applicable Strategies
● Measuring the Right Metrics: Best Practices
● Real-World Successes: Case Studies

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Building an All-Around
Mobile Journey:
Top Considerations

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1. The Typical Mobile Journey of Your Customer
• Cross-Platform
• Cross-Channel
• Cross-Device
• Non-direct

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Marketing User Experience Web AttributionUsers
Marketing User Experience AttributionUsers
Challenges: Broken User Experiences & Siloed Attribution

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2. Mobile Web vs. Mobile App
Mobile has become the dominant platform
comScore The 2017 U.S. Mobile App Report

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Hours Hours
(excl. Facebook)
0.3 1.5
Source: https://www.emarketer.com/Article/Smartphone-Apps-Crushing-Mobile-Web-Time/1014498
More
Mobile users prefer native apps

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App users are critical to your
mobile strategy
more time in app
than mobile web
7x
Mobile users spend
better than
mobile websites
300%
Mobile apps convert
higher than mobile
web visitors
40%
AOV from app users is

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Consumers Prefer Apps for Frequent Activities

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3. Reach Organizational
Alignment to Achieve
Mobile Success
● Product
● Marketing
● Engineering
● Partners

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4. Use the Right Data to Optimize
Identify the data you need
• What are the business metrics?
• What are the engagement
metrics?
• What are the technical metrics?
Determine if it’s ready to use
• Can you collect the data?
• Do you have the analysis tools?
• Do you have analytics expertise?

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Driving Conversions from
Mobile Journeys:
Applicable Strategies

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Take a Holistic View of Your Consumer Journey

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Identify Areas for Improvement: A Checklist

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Mobile Optimized Email
Applicable Strategy 1

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71% of emails get opened on mobile
Your most engaged users have your app
But 100% of email links route to the mobile web

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Example: Linking Emails to App - Has app
ORDER
COMPLETED

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Example: Linking Emails to App - No app

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A crucial part of our strategy has been
deep linking our emails, which has
turned email into a powerful channel
to drive both app engagement and
bottom line results.
Branch’s Deep Linked Email powers our
best performing email campaigns,
driving 6x click-to-order rate and a
30% app-engagement rate.
-Max Mullen, Co-Founder
“

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Mobile Optimized Web to App Flows
Applicable Strategy 2

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Convert your organic web traffic
into HIGH-VALUE app users

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APP / PLAY STORE DEEP LINKED CONTENTCLICK JOURNEYS BANNERSEARCH ON WEB
User 1 - Casual Browser
App not Installed

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APP / PLAY STORE DEEP LINKED CONTENTWEB INTERSTITIALCLICKS AN EMAIL
User 2 - Engaged User

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A/B Test Your Creative And Audiences
Marketers can continually test and optimize on Web to App conversions based on a change
in Journey creative. Journeys supports full A/B testing for any number of variations.

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Mobile Optimized Social Media Flows
Applicable Strategy 3

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WEB INTERSTITIALCLICK FB POST DEEP LINKED CONTENT
BRANCH ORGANIC FACEBOOK FLOW (installed)
Punt CNN users out of FB browser and into your app!

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BRANCH TWITTER ORGANIC FLOW (not installed)
Leverage Journeys to drive an install
CNN POST IN-APP BROWSER DEEP LINKED ARTICLEAPP STORE

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Branch links power every channel

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+$
2.5m for every 100M
emails sent
Sources:
http://www.criteo.com/media/5333/criteo-mobilecommercereport-h12016-us.pdf
https://branch.io/resources/email-revenue-calculator/
http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Presentations-and-Whitepapers/2016/The-2016-US-Mobile-App-Report
The impact is measurable
+1m installs for every 100M
mobile web visitors
+30% attribution from install ads due
to unified attribution

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Measuring the Right Metrics:
Best Practices

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EVERY BATTLE IS
WON BEFORE IT
IS FOUGHT
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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Understand Identity
Fundamental 1

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Multiplying Screens, Touchpoints, and Tools

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...are Driving Increased Data Fragmentation

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Compounded by More Customer Data & IDs
Personal Data & IDs
NAME
ADDRESS
EMAIL ADDRESS
BIOMETRICS
Internal Systems & IDs
CUSTOMER IDs
LOYALTY NUMBERS
LTV & TRANSACTION DATA
COHORT MEMBERSHIP
Device Data & IDs
COOKIES
ADVERTISING IDs
PUSH TOKENS
TELEMETRY
GEO LOCATION
SAAS Data & IDs
ANALYTICS IDs
DMP IDs
Social IDs
EXTERNAL CAMPAIGN DATA

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Pro Tips
● Make a conscious choice about ID assets
● Improves your ability to market
● Compliance :-)

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Plan Soundly
Fundamental 2

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It Starts with the Data Model
User Identity – IDs that Uniquely Identify User
• Customer ID
• E-Mail
• Facebook
• Google
• Twitter
• Etc.
User Attributes– Associated User Data
• First Last Name
• Age
• Gender
• Location
• Custom Attributes
eCommerce Measurement
• Add / Update / Remove Cart
• Checkout
• Purchase
• Product Impression
• Product View

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Pro Tips
● Make sure you account for platforms
● Simplicity and flexibility matters

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The Metrics
Fundamental 3

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Business Metrics
1. Purchases
2. Loyalty sign-ups
3. Conversion rates through the funnel

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Engagement Metrics
1. Time spent in the app
2. Retention rates
3. Products viewed

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Technical Metrics
1. Crashed / exceptions
2. Time to open the app
3. Time to complete purchase

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Pro Tips
● Start at the end and work backwards
● Keep it intuitive
● Iterate as your business evolves

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The Opportunity
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The Results
Faster

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+

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Branch is most effective when rolled out across all marketing channels
Branch links across
all their channels
● Paid Advertising
● In-App Sharing
● Mobile Web to app
● Email
● Social
Over 50 different people
at Airbnb use Branch regularly

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The Results
● Use Case: “Branch Everywhere” - Mobile website,
desktop site, in-app sharing, email campaigns, social
● Results:
○ App install rate increase by 19%
○ 3.5 million app downloads in 6 months
○ Seamless cross-platform user experience

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There’s never been a more
exciting time to be in mobile

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Just Keep Building.
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