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Import Content

Helping users follow best practices in our campaign creation flow to create successful campaigns with higher CTR and RPM

Problem

Users don't follow best-practice recommendation and suffer from
low performance in their campaigns

Users don't follow our best-practice recommendation of creating campaigns with at least 3-5 ads. As a result we found many of those campaigns suffer from low performance, which eventually cause them to churn.

Seeing that a large proportion of users are in that group, I understood changes has to be made, so I decided to give them a little nudge.

Hypothesis

If we give the users better guidance and create a process that will help them easily add more images and titles for their ads, there's a higher chance they’ll follow our recommendation and achieve better results.

Main KPI

Increase % spend retention

and adoption of best-practice

Possible Solutions

To determine which direction I should go, I started first with an observation of users’ behavior using FullStory, and initial interviews with inside users.

I encountered a couple of optional solutions to help the users follow our recommendation, including showing contextual messages on content creation, prompting a dialog when users don’t follow recommendations and more.

Opportunity

The Unused Checkbox

In our current flow, we have a checkbox; once checked, it crawls the user’s website and imports one image and title from their website and populates their ad.


In its current state, this feature was barely in use (less than 10% of campaigns), so I decided to take advantage of what I already had and leverage it.

In our current flow, we have a checkbox; once checked, it crawls the user’s website and imports one image and title from their website and populates their ad.

In its current state, this feature was barely in use (less than 10% of campaigns), so I decided to take advantage of what I already had and leverage it.

Goals

Besides our main KPI, we also defined goals that helped us measure success, and to determine whether we should move to the next phase of development

Increase % of campaigns with 3+ images

Increase CTR and RPM in campaigns

Increase CTR and RPM
in campaigns

Increase funnel completion rate

Phase 1

Validating the Solution

Our first development phase aimed to validate our hypothesis with the most minimal solution we could. This is the approach we take with all of our features. The solution we used was importing all the images from the user's website to motivate him to add more images to his campaigns without actually going through the upload process.


The results of this experiment were great and validated our hypothesis.

Our first development phase aimed to validate our hypothesis with the most minimal solution we could. This is the approach we take with all of our features. The solution we used was importing all the images from the user's website to motivate him to add more images to his campaigns without actually going through the upload process.

The results of this experiment were great and validated our hypothesis.

Results

By automatically importing more images on content creation, we increased the best-practice adoption and our monitoring goals

By automatically importing more
images on content creation, we increased the best-practice adoption and our monitoring goals

By automatically importing more
images on content creation, we increased the best-practice adoption and our monitoring goals

Increase in campaigns with more than 3 Images

Increase in campaigns with more than 3 Images

Increase in campaigns with more than 3 Images

Decrease in campaigns with only 1 Image

Decrease in campaigns with only 1 Image

Decrease in campaigns with only 1 Image

Increase in Avg. Spend on campaigns

Increase in Avg. Spend on campaigns

Increase in Avg. Spend on campaigns

*Due to privacy reasons I'm not able to specify the exact measurements and numbers*

User Research

During all development phases, I’ve used various tools and research techniques to deliver optimal solution. For this feature i've conducted several interviews, examined common patterns using session recordings, and analysed the data.

Research Goal

Understand how users create their content and finding potential solutions

Usability Testing

Through my pulmonary research, and after each phase I’ve used a couple of usability testing methods to ensure high-quality product delivery.

Session Recordings - Using FullStory to analyze user interactions

Video Interviews - Conducted couple of interview with internal users to learn about their content add process.

Market Research

Besides the usability testing I performed, and the monitoring measurements i’ve also made a competitor research.

The goal of this research was to learn about the way our users might be uploading content with other familiar campaign management tools, and learning about their best-practices.

Phase 2

Expanding Adoption

After the success we encountered in the first phase, we decided to expand the adoption of the feature by adding AI-generated title suggestions.
Besides the titles, we added contextual indications regarding the number of ads created to match our recommendation.

Main Changes

By importing automatically more images on content creation, we increased the best-practice adoption and our monitoring goals

Added AI generated
title suggestions

Added indication on the amount of ads created

Added clear message with best-practice

How it Works

A user enter his content URL, the website he wants his potential users will land on once clicking the ad, we automatically import the title and images from his websites, and using AI suggesting new titles for his ad.

Results

By adding titles and improving our guidance, we increased CTR, RPM and funnel completion rate

CTR

CTR % Increase

CTR % Increase

% Increase

RPM

RPM % Increase

RPM % Increase

% Increase

Completion Rate

Completion Rate % Increase

Completion Rate
% Increase

% Increase

Next Phase

Expanding Capabilities

The next phase of this feature is still in progress, but following the results we achieved so far the main idea is adding more content creation capabilities.

I’m currently exploring the following opportunities

Generative AI Image sugssestions

Marketplace Image suggestions

Import content from multiple URL’s

Upload images directly to the modal

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Final Thoughts

Working on this feature thought me that sometime the best solution is the most simple one. We don't have to invent ourself each time and create mega-project to make a big impact on our products.