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Increasing car sales with mobile advertising

In 2015, a difficult year for the automotive industry, Citroen began focusing on a separate traffic source in Yandex.Direct — search advertising on mobile devices — increased their bid adjustments for mobile ads, and as a result, received an increase in requests for test drives and car purchases, while reducing the cost of one lead by 22%.
CITROËN
Case results
+72%
+72%
CTR
+103%
+103%
CR
-22%
-22%
CPL
Клиент
CITROËN (part of PSA Group) French automobile manufacturer, citroen.ru
В цифрах
1919 founded, 2,973,000 cars sold worldwide in 2015

Goals

  1. Boost impact of mobile traffic
  2. Increase conversions

Tools used: Yandex.Direct

Period: March 2016 — current

Putting things in context

The end of 2014 and beginning of 2015 was a tough time for the automobile industry.

Though the market stabilized by the second half of 2015, after dropping to levels comparable to a decade before.

Citroen wanted to use all possible channels to attract consumer demand.

Step 1. Determine KPIs

Citroen decided what their KPIs were — users’ main activities when they visit Citroen’s site.

Step 2. Divide campaigns by device type

Citroen originally divided their campaigns into paid search and content. Now each campaign type is further split into mobile and desktop campaigns.

Step 3. Set up bid adjustments

They increased bids in campaigns targeting mobile users by 1200%.
To prevent ads targeting desktop users from appearing to mobile users, they set -50% bid adjustments for impressions on mobile devices.
Using a coefficient does not guarantee 100% exclusion of desktop impressions.
Using a coefficient does not guarantee 100% exclusion of mobile impressions.

Bid adjustments make ad impressions more likely

Step 4. Analysis and conclusions

Citroen analyzes the selected mobile campaigns’ results each month.

In addition, they synchronize their customer data: the list of applications from the agency’s analytics system, each assigned a unique ID number, is compared with the requests in the client’s CRM system.

Results

CTR
CR
CPL
There is less competition on mobile search, so well-made ads can easily get a lot of attention. Average CTR was 72% higher for Citroen’s mobile campaigns than their desktop campaigns.
Mobile users make prompt decisions regarding further contact with a brand. The average conversion rate for mobile campaigns were 103% higher than for desktops.
High CTR and quick conversions brought the final average cost per lead (CPL) for mobile devices down 22%.
the Citroën Russia Team
 
The agency’s idea to emphasize mobile campaigns worked: the traffic we were able to attract traffic from our target audience converted well in terms of requests for test drives, callbacks, and credit applications.
Increasing car sales with mobile advertising
Increasing car sales with mobile advertising
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