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The Challenge
UK’s leading online holiday package company, On The Beach offers fully customizable travel packages – mixing flights, hotels, dates, and more – giving customers complete flexibility. However, this makes personalized marketing a real challenge for On The Beach.
The Challenge
Hobbycraft‘s ecommerce journey hit a wall with their previous rule-based search solution that couldn’t handle the vibrant complexity of their 27,000+ SKU universe spanning dozens of creative verticals, resulting in:
The Challenge
TFG was aware of recent advancements in AI technology that would open up new ways to connect with customers. However, since conversational AI is still a new technology, TFG had concerns:
Miele wanted to provide customer experiences that matched the premium feel of its products. However, it was held back by several key challenges:
Fairphone has successfully impacted every stage of electronics production — from initial design and manufacturing to the complete product lifecycle — creating a business model that prioritizes ethics and sustainability above all else.
As Fairphone continued to expand its reach and impact, the company sought to enhance several aspects of their marketing and data management capabilities to support their growth potential:
Streamlining data architecture: Fairphone wanted to establish a more unified approach to customer data management, creating a single source of truth that would provide a more comprehensive view of their customers’ journeys and behaviors. This would enable them to develop more cohesive marketing strategies.
Enhanced customer tracking capabilities: The company aimed to improve their ability to track customer activities and visitor behaviors across their digital touchpoints. Better tracking would help them understand customer preferences more deeply, optimize user experiences, and identify new opportunities for engagement and conversion.
Scaling marketing operations: With ambitious goals to increase revenue and customer lifetime value, Fairphone needed to enhance its marketing capabilities beyond their current technology stack. The company sought more sophisticated tools to support an intelligent, data-driven marketing approach for their next phase of growth.
Fairphone needed to differentiate itself in a crowded market while staying true to its sustainability mission, requiring more targeted and personalized communication strategies.
With a catalog of over 4,000 products, Regatta understands that no two shoppers are alike — and that personalization is key to helping customers find the products they’re looking for as they shop their site.
But to create individualized shopping experiences at the speed and scale required, Regatta needed a solution that brought all of its touchpoints in sync. The brand needed technology that could:
Bensons for Beds needed a tool that would allow them to capture data for customers who had both been in their stores or on their website at various different points of their buying journey. To get there, they had to overcome key roadblocks:
Fragmented tech stack = inefficiencies across teams. Marketers, merchandisers, and developers had to work across disconnected tools, hindering specialization and scalability.
As Desigual’s business grew on a global scale and online channels became a top priority, the brand recognized the need for a more unified approach to its marketing efforts.
With over 100 markets and a goal to send several communications to each customer per week, the team faced growing demands for personalization, scale, and speed — but needed to do so without growing the size of its three-person marketing team.
To achieve these goals, Desigual needed to:
The company was looking for a solution that could unify its data, orchestrate omnichannel experiences, and give its internal team full control over execution — all without adding any operational burdens.
Ana Luisa launched a monthly subscription program: AL Luxe. For $39.99 per month — which becomes spendable store credit — AL Luxe members enjoy perks like members-only sales, exclusive discounts, and priority customer support. Credits roll over every month, building even more value over time.
But with the launch of this program came a critical challenge: ensuring ongoing engagement and redemption among these high-value members. Ana Luisa needed a way to consistently remind members of their available store credit, encourage purchases, and ensure that Luxe benefits remained top of mind — all without creating disjointed customer experiences.
SCONTO faced a challenge in turning its stunning furniture photography into a more effective sales tool. Here’s what the company needed to address:
Sofology recognizes that a sofa is one of the biggest investments that people make. Making a purchase is often a lengthy process that blends in-store visits, online browsing, and careful deliberation.
To best serve its audience and help them choose the right product, the brand wanted to build a welcome email campaign that embraced the unique, multi-step shopping journeys of their customers.
Leveraging Bloomreach’s AI-powered personalization and customer journey orchestration tools, Sofology set out to craft a welcome email campaign designed to perfectly align with each customer’s individual shopping experience.
With a previous marketing vendor, The AA faced significant challenges in achieving its ambitious campaign goals related to new customer acquisition.
Running campaigns to acquire new customers for its award-winning breakdown service, The AA team focused on a combination of prospecting, winning back former customers, and cross-selling to existing product holders. However, its existing marketing tools presented limitations, including slow data processing times, lengthy campaign execution, and an inability to easily test and optimize multi-channel strategies.
The team needed much better speed-to-market time and needed the ability to test the omnichannel impact of campaigns on the customers being acquired.
Traditional marketing channels like email can lead to messages getting overlooked. After all, with customers receiving so many marketing messages every day, how can brands cut through the noise?
This is the challenge Venture Group faced. The brand found it difficult to effectively promote cross-marketing initiatives and collect timely feedback. The group recognized the need for a more personal and engaging way to connect with their customers and build one-on-one relationships, particularly after they had already made a booking.
Like many other ecommerce brands, HMV runs pay per click (PPC) campaigns to acquire customers and drive revenue.
The company runs both prospecting and acquisition campaigns across a range of ad networks and formats, such as Google Search, Facebook, Instagram, and more. Its biggest PPC campaign is a performance max (PMax) campaign, a newer type of advertising campaign offered by Google Ads. Google uses machine learning to automatically optimize ads across multiple Google properties, including Search, Display, YouTube, Discover, and Gmail.
HMV consistently runs PMax campaigns as an evergreen, very top-of-funnel method to drive traffic to its website. Because this proves to be such a critical starting point for paid media impressions, HMV spends a significant portion of its marketing budget on its PMax campaigns.
The challenge HMV faced with these campaigns was optimizing and maximizing them for peak impact. Even small, incremental improvements in impressions, clicks, or conversion rates could yield significant cost savings or a large amount of new revenue.
While Google does automate much of the campaign process, it does require regular input from marketers for maximum optimization. This includes work done on creative assets, bidding and budget, or conversion goals.
Despite Interflora’s strong presence across France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and beyond — which includes an extensive network of florists — Interflora struggled to provide a seamless online customer experience. In terms of B2C retail, Interflora was still fairly digitally immature but was eager to put its first-ever site search bar on its website. However, because Interflora lacked the tools to understand product data and customer behavior and preferences effectively, it was difficult to personalize marketing efforts and improve customer engagement. These issues were compounded by the growing competition from both traditional florists and new online-only flower delivery services, which added pressure on Interflora to innovate and enhance its digital offerings.
Given the multilingual demands of Interflora’s operations across different countries, the search bar also needed to be agile in its contextual understanding and capable of effectively processing French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. Additionally, Interflora aimed to demonstrate the value of its new digital capabilities with clear, actionable metrics and was focused on measuring the impact of these changes on revenue — particularly through improvements in search and merchandising.
Pollard Banknote knew it needed to be a market leader in the digital space to provide innovative engagement strategies and elevated player experiences for its lottery clients. In particular, it needed the capabilities to identify active players and create customer journeys that adapt to meet their needs.
The company wanted a best-in-class solution that could harness customer data in real time to fuel targeted marketing campaigns and foster meaningful player engagement, which made Bloomreach Engagement the right choice to power its loyalty program.
Driven by the need to enhance its product discovery strategy, the well-established brand needed to address several problems simultaneously. Marga Franklin, the Senior Manager of Global Digital Merchandising and Content at Burton, identified several key obstacles: irrelevant search results, limited control over merchandising tools, personalization, and a high dependence on IT.
From a search perspective, Burton lacked search features and algorithms that could return relevant results. Because of this, search optimization was too manual, leading the merchandising team to rely heavily on IT to change algorithms, synonyms, autosuggestions, and the look and feel of search and category pages. The biggest challenge here is that Burton is a global brand with over 33 different catalogs spread across regions, which made it impossible to tailor search globally for different localized languages and read analytics for quick insights.
At the same time, Burton’s merchandising team dealt with processes that had become too manual as the company continued to scale. A final key concern was the need for personalized experiences at the geographic level, particularly for specific rider segments like mountain riders, backcountry riders, or park riders. However, Burton struggled to deliver search results at the product page or category level tailored to these distinct customer types. All these roadblocks underscored the need for a more advanced AI-powered ecommerce search engine — a project championed by Franklin, who had previously experienced success with Bloomreach Discovery.
TeamSport knew that harnessing its customer data was the key to building long-lasting relationships with its customers, but organizing and activating this data was a challenge with its previous marketing technology.
These data issues made it hard to build engaging and effective marketing campaigns. Without organized and up-to-date data fueling its marketing efforts, TeamSport struggled to create customer journeys that made a measurable impact on its bottom line.
The company needed a solution that could bring all its customer data together in one place, catalog its customer relationships, and empower its campaigns to speak directly to its audience’s needs.
With a primary focus on ecommerce, Adlibris recognized the need to orchestrate personalized experiences for its customers. Knowing its audience on an individual level and building marketing campaigns to meet their needs was a priority for the brand, which is why Adlibris sought out a marketing technology that could consolidate, activate, and orchestrate its data to truly connect with its customers.
To create the personalized connections that Adlibris aimed for, the company needed marketing technology that could offer a complete view of the customer journey, along with the orchestration capabilities to make every touchpoint matter. That’s why Adlibris chose Bloomreach Engagement — our limitless solution provided the tools the brand needed to achieve its goals.
MandM was looking for a marketing solution that could help the brand put its customers at the center of its marketing strategy.
MandM recognized how crucial real-time data was to understand its customers and build relevant touchpoints for their shopping journeys, but disconnected channels and siloed data was a real challenge. A platform that could plug customer data directly into every marketing campaign and weave channels together for a seamless, connected customer experience was the ultimate goal.
Spokojený pes cherishes its clients as much as they do their pets. That’s why the company wanted to launch a personalized email that would help customers feel that love and increase loyalty.
The primary goals of the campaign were to reward the most loyal customers, boost sales and revenue, and test a provocative approach in communication. Given that the brand communication leans towards playful dog rhetoric — such as “let’s paw on it” and “woof!” — the aim was to explore how far they could push this language to drive client engagement.
At the same time, it was a challenge to create personalized communication that would be unique for each customer while fostering a sense of community through comparisons with others.
Despite its years of success offline, Wolseley confronted substantial challenges in its digital transformation journey, particularly in the realm of product discovery. Operating across diverse markets such as the UK and Ireland, the company’s vast array of 500,000 products — with 300,000 of them available digitally — presented a complex task in effectively targeting and serving its varied customer base. This complexity was further amplified by the need to cater to specific industry requirements for products within the plumbing, heating/cooling, building services, and pipe-fitting sectors.
The main factor that was hindering Wolseley in its digital transformation was its reliance on build-it-yourself search technology platforms like Solr, which made it harder to construct a perceptive search engine that understood the nuances of each industry. This limitation affected the precision of search results and also impeded the company’s ability to properly segment its customer base. The segmentation issue was not merely a technical problem but also a strategic one, significantly impacting how Wolseley engaged with and fulfilled the needs of its diverse customer base across different markets.
Additionally, Wolseley’s internal processes were heavily manual, with its small team of merchandisers bearing the brunt of the workload. As a result, the team couldn’t focus its energy on things like expanding the product catalog, increasing the online customer base, and meeting the growing demand for more personalized shopping experiences. Wolseley knew it needed to stop building its own search engine and transition to a sophisticated, AI-powered product discovery platform. This initiative became imperative to meet Wolseley’s biggest e-commerce challenges head-on and aimed to further transform its online shopping experience into one that was seamless, efficient, and deeply aligned with customer needs and preferences across segments.
Customer retention is a key focus for wagamama. To help foster customer loyalty and create ongoing customer relationships, the brand recognized the need to engage its customers with personalized campaigns across multiple channels.
But to achieve truly personalized customer communications, wagamama needed to connect its audience’s in-restaurant experience with meaningful digital touchpoints. The brand needed a holistic understanding of its customers, as well as the automation tools necessary to build tailored campaigns at scale.
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