Case Study
Apparel & Footwear

How Urban Outfitters Drives Incremental Demand By Communicating With Customers Across Mobile Channels

Learn how Urban Outfitters utilizes controlled testing to determine its mobile strategy—and what role text messaging plays in the mix.
How Urban Outfitters Drives Incremental Demand By Communicating With Customers Across Mobile Channels

27x+

overall SMS program ROI

230%

YoY increase in purchase voume

32%

YoY increase in onsite conversions

Urban Outfitters is a lifestyle retailer dedicated to inspiring customers through a unique combination of product, creativity, and cultural understanding. Founded in 1970 in a small space across the street from the University of Pennsylvania, Urban Outfitters now operates over 200 stores in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

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April 2019

Urban Outfitters is a lifestyle retailer dedicated to inspiring customers through a unique combination of product, creativity, and cultural understanding. Founded in 1970 in a small space across the street from the University of Pennsylvania, Urban Outfitters now operates over 200 stores in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

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FEATURING
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Apparel & Footwear

with attentive since

April 2019

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Challenge

Urban Outfitters partnered with Attentive to launch its text message marketing channel and quickly grew subscribers using various list growth tools, including Attentive’s “Email-First” sign-up unit to seamlessly collect both email addresses and phone numbers. With incredible subscriber list growth came the need to optimize and segment their sends.

Solution

Urban Outfitters split its text messaging file into two groups. Inactive—users who are subscribed to SMS but not active on other UO marketing channels; and Active—users who are subscribed to SMS and also active in other UO marketing channels.

Strategy

Unexpectedly, the Active file drove higher engagement and demand. From those learnings, Urban Outfitters decided to create a second test, further segmenting its Active and Inactive segments by placing them into Test and Control groups. This would allow the brand to understand what kind of incremental demand text message marketing was driving. The Test group received a promotional text message, and the Control group did not receive a text message at all.

Results

The Active Test group saw a 13% increase in demand vs. the Control group. The incremental lift was especially significant for the segment of subscribers that were active in email, driving a 19% increase in demand. Through these tests, Urban Outfitters proved that sending a text message to subscribers who are active across other communication channels does drive an increase in incremental demand. It also proved that sending text messages to these audiences did not cannibalize email or mobile push notifications, but instead, worked in harmony.

Details

Urban Outfitters used Attentive’s Messaging to accomplish their goals. Read more about how the Attentive platform can help you scale further and faster.

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