variable video multiplies direct mail response rates
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Variable Video Multiplies Direct Mail Response Rates Nimblefish Technologies Rob Bonham, Matt Brocchini introduction to Nimblefish • Nimblefish is the world's leading software company for marketers who want to create relevant, relationship-building dialogues with their customers.TRANSCRIPT
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April 21-22, 2010 San Antonio, TX
Variable Video Multiplies Direct Mail Response RatesNimblefish TechnologiesRob Bonham, Matt Brocchini
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introduction to Nimblefish
• Nimblefish is the world's leading software company for marketers who want to create relevant, relationship-building dialogues with their customers.
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internet video is now mainstream
• Some stats from November 2009:– 170 Million US Internet users watched video online– They watched over 31 billion videos– The average viewer watched 10 hours of internet video
that month
• 84% of worldwide Internet users now regularly watch video online
• When people go online today, they expect to find video
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what is video today?• User-generated video
- YouTube, Video Blogs• Mainstream Entertainment
- Hulu, Network sites, Netflix• Video Advertising
– Banner ads– Corporate Web Sites– Landing Pages
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types of video: user-generated
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types of video: mainstream entertainment
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types of video: mainstream entertainment
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types of video: mainstream entertainment
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types of video: banner ads
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types of video: corporate websites
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online marketer priorities
Advanced Site Features & Functions that U.S. Online Retailers Planned to Add in 2009
Video or Streaming Media 43.3%
Personalized Product Recommendations 40.0%
Customer Reviews & Ratings 36.7%
Product configuration 35.0%
Alternative Payments 33.3%
Blogs or Forums 31.7%
Advanced Search 30.0%
Gift Registry or wish list 21.7%
Other 18.3%
Source: Internet Retailer, “Website Design, Content and Rich Media” conducted by Knowledge Marketing, 2009
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video is hot• Marketers know that
consumers expect video, and they are delivering it.
• But almost all of it isone-size-fits all,non-variable video.
• What could you do with relevant video?
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-The role that relevance can take in online video
-Integrate video into direct mail and email communications
the one-to-one video experience
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Average Response Rates: Traditional DM vs. Relevant DM
TraditionalDirect Marketing
Relevant Direct Marketing
10x lift
Ave
rage
Res
pons
e R
ate
Source: 2009 Nimblefish 100 Best Practice Analysis
2x lift
2-10x lift
relevance boosts DM response
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video lifts response online
Video’s Impact on Response Rates
Non-video marketing message
Marketing message with
video
2x lift
Ave
rage
Res
pons
e R
ate
- Users are twice as likely to click the play button as a jpg or gif image ad
- On average, users played the video ads nearly two-thirds of the way through
- Video ads experienced clicked rates of .4 to .74% vs. gif and jpg at .1% to .2%
Sources: www.doubleclick.com/insight/pdfs/dc_videobench0702.pdf, Nimblefish client data
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Video’s Impact on Response Rates
2x lift
Ave
rage
Res
pons
e R
ate
Non-video marketing
Marketing with video
10x lift
Ave
rage
Res
pons
e R
ate
2x lift
2-10xlift
Relevance Impact on Response Rates
TraditionalDirect
Marketing
Relevant Direct
Marketing
Sources: www.doubleclick.com/insight/pdfs/dc_videobench0702.pdf, Nimblefish client data
what does relevant video to direct marketing rates?
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Relevant Video Response Rates
RelevantVideo
Controlled tests suggest that relevant video can drive significant increases in response
Relevant Messaging
Traditional messaging
5x
1x
Res
pons
e R
ate
11.5x
2.3x higher
Source: 2010 Nimblefish 100 Best Practice Analysis
actual results
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relevance increases ROI
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A Look at Video in Direct Mail
& Real Results
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marketers using video in DM
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two ways to use relevant video
2. Relevant Video in an Online Advice Experience
1. Relevant Video in Direct Marketing
IndividualizedDirect Mail
Individualized Email
Personalized URL PURL® Web Site
with Relevant Video
? CTA
Interactive Advice
Experience
Relevant Video
Response
Personalized Call to Action
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The World’s #1 Active Travel
Company
case study: backroads
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• Increase the response and conversion rates for DM to past Backroads customers, encouraging them to take another trip
• Increase sales in their highest growth segment: Family Trips
backroads’ marketing goals
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• Make DM work harder with:– Relevant Print– PURL® Sites with Relevant Video– Integrated touch plan with Relevant Email– Leverage Backroads’ extensive photo
library to create recommendation videos– Utilize past customer trip information to
inform future trip recommendations• Convert more Family Trips online with:
– An interactive Family Trip Advisor– Relevant Video
the Nimblefish solution
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Headline references family’s previous trip location
Invitation to personal website that contains relevant trip recommendations
Image based on family’s previous trip
relevant video in CRM-driven DM
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DM piece provides three relevant trip recommendations,with an invite to a personal web site to view the videos and take advantage of special savings
relevant video in CRM-driven DM
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Animated gif gives the email an illusion of video
relevant video in CRM-driven e-mail
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PURL® personal website
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• Response Rate • Conversion Rate
results: relevance works
(Compared to Backroads’ previous direct marketing campaigns to the same target group)
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• Digital Print was a major response driver
results – digital print drives ROI
Print & EmailEmail Only
Res
pons
e R
ate
(PU
RL®
Vis
its)
2x higher
6% 12%
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Using Relevant Video to Create an Online Advice
Experience
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Most web visitors are anonymous.The Family Trip Advisor asks interactive questions that are used in session to generate relevant video advice on-the-fly for each user.
relevant video advice for web visitors
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• Visitors to the site who went through the video advice experience had conversions rates of 2x higher
2x lift
Con
vers
ion
Rat
e
Viewers who did not go
through the video advice experience
Viewers who went through
the video advice
experience
results – relevant video advice
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Challenges Incorporating Video into Direct
Marketing
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• Not enough video content?– Insufficient video content available to support each
micro-segment• Video is too expensive
– Versioning videos for each micro-segment can be cost prohibitive
• Video takes too long– Staff time is a scarce resource
relevant video production challenges
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• Feedback from marketers using video– Lose the formality– Use your own merchants or employees as talent– Leverage inexpensive cameras and stages in your own
offices
- Source: Adobe Scene7 Whitepaper Video: How It’s Changing Online Shopping
overcome production challenges
Example: Williams-Sonoma product videos
• Corresponding video appears on pan product page• Host of video is from Williams-Sonoma test kitchen• Video filmed in in-store kitchen
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• Consider alternatives to full-motion video– Use still images, combined with voice over and
pan-zoom effects for relevant infill
Video production using still imagery & voiceovers
$1,000
Full motion video production
up to $25,000
Pro
duct
ion
cost
for 3
min
ute
segm
ent
overcome production challenges
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the magic of stills
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a look at Nimblefish composer
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• How to deliver relevant video? There are two major challenges:
• Video consumes a lot of storage space and bandwidth. Do you have the infrastructure? Can it scale?
• Relevant video means lots of variations. How do you manage them?
relevant video integration challenges
Storage & Bandwidth
How to manage all
those versions?
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• The Nimblefish Vision™ Solution:
• Take the video out of video. Create video experiences primarily from still images, voice over, music, and effects.
• Use Nimblefish Vision to dynamically assemble a custom video for each viewer.
relevant video integration challenges
Storage & Bandwidth
How to manage all
those versions?
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video hosting services
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Q&A
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April 21-22, 2010 San Antonio, TX
Variable Video Multiplies Direct Mail Response RatesNimblefish TechnologiesRob Bonham, Matt Brocchini