NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Monetate, the worldwide leader in personalization, today publishes its third annual Personalization Development Study that explores success factors in how brands create more loyal and lasting customer relationships. Together with third-party researcher WBR Research, the study examines what has the greatest positive or negative impact on a brand’s ability to execute a customized marketing strategy and why certain marketers met or fell short of revenue and growth goals.
For companies that exceeded ROI goals in 2018, the research found a direct correlation between a brand’s willingness to invest in personalization and its embedded technology and expertise within its organizational structure and culture.
In this global study, Monetate surveyed 600 senior marketers in North America and Europe within retail, travel & hospitality and insurance. Highlights include:
- Customer Lifetime Value Drives ROI: Companies getting the highest ROI from personalization (3X or more) are twice as likely to name customer lifetime value as a primary business objective than companies getting low ROI (1X or less).
- Data Architecture Emerges as Top Challenge: “Building a sustainable data architecture” overtakes “data quality” this year as the number one obstacle to performing true 1-to-1 personalization.
- Higher Investments Equal Better Returns: 86% of companies getting high ROI reported that personalization made up 21% or more of their marketing budget.
- Formalized Intentions Influence Outcomes: 74% of businesses that exceeded revenue goals in 2018 have a dedicated budget for personalization, and 77% have a documented personalization strategy. In contrast, only half of those who missed revenue expectations had a dedicated budget or a documented strategy.
- Incentives Matter: Brands that exceeded revenue expectations in 2018 set personalization-specific financial incentives nearly 50% more often than those that fell short of goals.
- North America Maintains Lead...For Now: North American businesses get more return from their personalization efforts than European counterparts, but the gap is closing.
“Monetate’s growth, our customers’ growth and industry research demonstrate time-after-time that brands who focus on prioritizing customer loyalty and customer lifetime value experience immediate and long-term success,” said Stephen Collins, CEO, Monetate. “Many businesses struggle with tunnel vision, performing one-off tactics aimed to achieve short-term goals. While this may show a temporary lift in their metrics, the brands that are meeting and exceeding revenue targets are the ones that take a serious customer-centric approach to drive pervasive and persistent customer experiences.”
The complete 2019 Personalization Development Study and its methodology is available for download.
About Monetate
Monetate, the global leader in Personalization software for consumer-facing brands, enables marketers to grow more of their customers into their best customers. Powered by artificial intelligence, the Monetate Intelligent Personalization Engine makes it easy to test and optimize, segment and target, recommend products and even create true 1-to-1 omnichannel experiences. The company was recognized as an industry leader by two leading analyst firms in June 2018 and August 2018. Founded in 2008, with offices in the U.S. and Europe, Monetate is used by leading brands around the world and influences billions of dollars in revenue every year for QVC, Newegg, Timberland, Carnival, The North Face, and hundreds of other market leaders. Learn more at www.monetate.com
