A global home and business services brand leveraged CJ’s Affiliate Customer Journey solution to diversify media partners which resulted in increased ROAS and growth in new customer contracts.

Results at a Glance (Q3 YOY)

• 60% increase in new customer contracts
• 5% reduction in cost per new customer contract acquisition
  
  

Background

• The advertiser, a tenured affiliate partner, has a successful history of continually outperforming competitors in the telecommunications category.
• The CJ account team looked to optimize return on ad spend (ROAS) with current media partners and recommended a shift in investment based on Affiliate Customer Journey data to incorporate publishers who drove initial customer influence.
  
  

Strategy

• Leveraging CJ’s Affiliate Customer Journey solution, the CJ team analyzed customer journeys across the advertiser’s program and identified a group of publishers whose influence in converting customers was not known via the standard affiliate last-click model.
• The CJ account team proposed increasing investing with additional key partners who influenced the beginning of the customer journey, the point of research and consideration, as a well as with program converters.
• The CJ account team recommended testing investment with 7 new media partners who had shown pivotal influence early in the customer journey.
• After analyzing results, the strategy benefited all publishers who participated in a multi-touch journey which resulted in increased program conversion and increased ROAS.