Mobile Apps
Do Consumers Who Engage With a Brand on Their Mobile Phone Buy More?
Summary
Context
More than two-thirds of American adults have a smartphone, and the number of available apps has increased exponentially. As brands rush to engage with consumers on mobile and create special branded apps, we wanted to know if mobile engagement correlates with purchase behavior.
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Customers who use an app spend more and more frequently. |
App adopters had 16.2 percent greater purchase frequency and 20.1 percent greater mile accumulation over non-adopters. |
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Customers who engage more deeply with an app, spend more. |
For the Air Miles app, we looked at several levels of engagement of in terms of who logged in to the app and if they adopted the “check-in” feature at sponsor locations. We correlated these with two measures of spending – purchase frequency and point accumulation (i.e. dollars spent). The app users who logged in multiple times and used check-in increased purchase frequency by 8.0 percent and point accumulation by 14.8 percent. |
When developing an app plan for varying levels of customer engagement. We found that customers who engaged deeply in an app by participating in a brand’s “Check-in Challenge” contest spent more. |
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Customers who disengage from an app spend less than before downloading it. |
A customer who stops using the app for one month has 0.7 percent lower revenue (point accumulation) in the next period. |
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