SUCCESS STORY

How to reactivate former customers and attract new ones?

Artfully attract an audience

The Challenge

From the web to your wall: increasing art sales

Art.com is the world’s largest online specialty retailer of high-quality wall art. It boasts 5 US websites and another 25 sister websites around the world. Art.com turned to Numberly to diversify their online channels, especially through programmatic advertising and social media.

Art.com’s goal was to increase its sales by reactivating its past and inactive customers and by acquiring new customers. This has been made possible with the combined use of dedicated tools from Facebook and with the CRM programmatic solution of Numberly.

The Solution

Adjusting to individual taste with a “people-based” approach through retargeting on Facebook

For this campaign, Numberly adopted a unique approach of exploiting the Facebook Dynamic Product Ads to drive the reactivation of former customers.

Two audience segments have been defined for this campaign:

  • A custom audience of former visitors. CRM data was used in order to target Art.com contacts not addressable by e-mail.
  • A custom audience of new visitors who had previously seen the website, but without making any purchases. This was achieved through the Customer Audience tracking pixels previously installed on the website.

Numberly teams used Dynamic Product Ads in carousel shape to show a selection of artworks relevant for each customer’s taste. Numberly’s teams went beyond retargeting, by combining it with their people-based expertise in order to ensure that the recommendations are as relevant as possible for visitors.

With this in mind, Art.com’s catalog has been uploaded to Facebook and the content and pictures have been displayed through Numberly’s tag container. This tool enabled Numberly to optimize the ad content with CRM data such as customer segmentation, behavioral data and the type of visits on the website.

For inactive customers this data was based on previous purchases and for the Custom Audience segment data was based on recently visited product pages.

Numberly’s expertise in terms of trading has been an essential element in the overall campaign implementation. Numberly utilized its CRM expertise to optimize bidding, campaign exposition and the content of banners for Art.com.

With the ability to display several relevant products for visitors and customers, Dynamic Product Ads generated the possibility to present a large range, helping the increase of conversions.

The Results

Picture perfect results

3 months into the campaign, 3.8 million of dynamic banners have been displayed to visitors or customers of Art.com. The performance of the Numberly campaign using Dynamic Product Ads was twice as good as previous campaigns where classic banners were used.

The campaign performance analysis allowed the team to see which ads and products were most efficient at generating clicks and sales, providing useful insights for optimizing future campaigns. This strategy led to significant improvements of key performance indicators. It more than doubled its click-through rate and decreased cost per acquisition by 75%.

Key Figures

118 %

increase in the rate of clicks with regard to the previous campaigns

70 to 80 %

decreased on acquisition cost

Dynamic products ads are one of our best performing strategies on Facebook. This campaign based on Facebook Dynamic Product Ads is the format that leads to the best results and we wanted to make it a sustainable acquisition strategy.