Mobile apps marketing is a must.
The Apple App store now has close to 2 million apps while Google Play has over 2.2 million apps. For most businesses that build an app, they won’t come without mobile apps marketing. Consider these facts.
- 25% of installed apps are never used. —Google
- 26% of installed apps are abandoned after the first use. —Google
- 51% of companies measure user engagement and return on investment (ROI). —Adobe and Econsultancy
- The average Android app loses 77% of its daily active users (DAUs) within the first three days after the install, and 90% within the first 30 days. —Quettra
- Of those who stop using apps, 30% would use an app again if offered a discount, and 24% would reuse an app if offered exclusive or bonus content. —Google
- 78% of companies use paid media to drive app downloads. —Adobe Mobile Maturity Survey
Who’s doing mobile apps marketing right? Here are 9 motivating mobile apps marketing case studies that prove ROI.
- ARGOS: A digital retailing leader, wanted to deliver a truly multi-channel experience, encompassing a website, mobile-optimised site, iPhone app, iPad app, and Android phone and tablet apps. The multi-channel journey capabilities mean that customers can now have 14 combinations of order and fulfillment to suit their needs; they can easily start their journey in one place and pick it up in another. Multi-channel sales penetration increased to over 50% of total sales, with Argos.co.uk receiving 440m visitors per year. The internet accounted for 42% of total company sales and ‘Check and Reserve’ was Argos’ fastest growing channel. The iPhone app has been downloaded over 2,500,000 times, the Android app over 625,000 times and the iPad app over 450,000 times.
- ASDA: British supermarket chain Asda is the UK’s second largest chain by market share, and has more than 500 UK stores. The retailer’s objective was to meet the growing use of mobile by building an app that made shopping quicker and more convenient for its customers. Customer feedback showed that customers wanted an app that was simple and easy to use, so the resulting design included a recipe finder, barcode scanner, and a store locator. Mobile now accounts for 18% of all ASDA grocery home shopping sales – 90% of this from the app. Asda app shoppers are twice as likely to become loyal, repeat customers. Shopping frequency for mobile is 1.8 times higher than desktop.
- BEJEWELED: Is the name of the series of tile-matching puzzle games created by PopCap Games. To generate campaign awareness, Bejeweled recruited top Instagram influencers to share photos of themselves playing the game under the branded hashtag #shinyplace. Bejeweled launched the Instagram marketing campaign on May 10th, the game’s rank on the Apple’s top-grossing U.S. iPhone games chart has climbed from 454th to the 135th. Bejeweled rose from the 702nd to the 182nd top-grossing app on the U.S. Apple App Store during that same time-frame.
- CUMBERLAND FARMS: With over 500+ retail stores and gas stations located across the Mid-Atlantic, Cumberland Farms today is one of the largest privately held companies in the world, Revenues are over 16+ billion annually. With so many locations and over 6,000+ employees, trying to compile and organize the data from each store in a timely manner was becoming almost impossible. By developing a Cumberland Farms app for employees, Cumberland Farms has collected well over 145,000 digital reports and reduced their paper costs by $11,000 per year. They also saw a full return on their investment within 6 months of fully deploying to their field teams. All of this, as well as their dramatic increase in productivity, lead to their recurring ROI of over $400,0000.
- JANSSEN (PSORIASIS 360): Launched a mobile phone app to help psoriasis patients track the severity of their condition. The index helped them know when to seek professional care and allowed their medical professional assess to the severity of their patient’s condition. Janssen also opened a Facebook page, which they moderated for regulatory reasons, to let patients tell personal stories and had over 30,000 posts and comments. According to Janssen, the investment in the mobile app overachieved ROI but more important delivered the right therapy to the right patient at crucial times.
- MARRIOT: Wanted a marketing app to help distinguish its steak restaurants, Gillray’s Steakhouse & Bar, from others and to open up possibilities through mobile reach. The app was intended to give interesting and useful information to lovers of steak and gin. It also allowed users to book services like massage, as they feature top-quality massage tables for those seeking a more relaxed experience, and see special deals and updates. The app has had over 1,500 downloads in 60 countries and 27,000 screen views. Over 60% of users return to the app multiple times and users access an average of 11 screens per session showing strong engagement with the content.
- MCDONALD’S: Designed a ‘restaurant finder’ app to enable consumers to find a late-night McDonald’s because two-thirds of its restaurants close at 11pm. McDonald’s employed location-based technology and geo-targeted above-the-line messaging, to avoid sending potential customers to a locked door. The app has been downloaded 1,300,000 times. When the sales uplift was calculated, the campaign delivered an ROI of 2:1.
- PROVIDENCE: Providence Anesthesiology Associates (PAA) is a team of 60+ anaesthesiologists providing care for over 100,000 patients each year at 19 locations in the US. The initial app created by PAA is a dashboard capable of pulling in all the different internal resources that might be required by clinicians and employees into one place. This gives one centralized point of access to all the documents from the internal cloud storage solution as well as from internal mobile sites including surveys and data collection. The PAA mobile app is now used by all PAA physicians.
- STARBUCKS: About 21% of Starbucks transactions are done by mobile app with 11 million signed up. But this amount of sales volume doesn’t happen by itself. To stay top of mind with its audience, Starbucks employs: 1) Special offers, 2) loyalty program, 3) messaging and notifications, 4) mobile order and pay and 5) personalization. A by-product of these mobile app marketing tactics is a wealth of data they get about their audience to improve their mobile apps marketing.
Do these case studies prove the ROI of mobile apps marketing to you. Do you need help with the marketing of your mobile app?
