Big brands have leveraged launches, contests, and much more using bots, and the possibilities have yet to be tapped. I would say we see four major use cases that big brands are using for Messenger: brand awareness, acquiring customers, enabling transactions and customer care and service. For brand awareness, game developer Activision crafted a brand awareness campaign in advance of the launch of one of their most popular titles, Call of Duty. They saw 2X increase in conversion on Messenger, as opposed to other channels, which makes sense because people are out and about, and Messenger is great platform as they have it on their phones. For acquiring customers, Sephora is great example. This is an area that is great both for the online conversion and getting people to their stores. And SnapTravel, which only conducts business via Messenger and SMS, has over $1M in revenue just from their bot for Messenger. People who purchase a phone can activate it and buy accessories on Messenger. What we are seeing is that they start off on all platform, but what they find is that they are differentially gaining users on Messenger. It has now, from our understanding, paused development on all other platforms, and is exclusively developing for Messenger.
The possibilities available to brands that have built a unique messaging experience with bots are breathtaking in terms of results. Big brands have leveraged launches, contests, and much more using bots, and the possibilities have yet to be tapped. Businesses that truly want to see results are jumping at the chance to add Messenger-powered bots into their marketing and sales strategies.
Anand Chandrasekaran, Head of Messenger Partnerships at Facebook, is privy to the largest and most successful campaigns launched on Messenger, which has over 1.2 billion monthly users and over 100,000 developers building bots and AI-powered conversational experiences. Chandrasekaran was kind enough to share with me, the lessons you can take away from the most successful brand campaigns that have been launched.
What are the things you can learn from big brands for driving results with Messenger bots?
I would say we see four major use cases that big brands are using for Messenger: brand awareness, acquiring customers, enabling transactions and customer care and service.
For brand awareness, game developer Activision crafted a brand awareness campaign in advance of the launch of one of their most popular titles, Call of Duty. In the first 24 hours of launching a bot for Messenger in the voice of one of the Call of Duty core characters, they saw about 6 million messages sent back and forth to actually retrieve an unlock code for the trailer that they released. Similarly, Absolut Vodka used Messenger to extend a campaign they were conducting in other channels to help drive people to try their latest products by providing an offer to get a free drink at a nearby bar. They saw 2X increase…
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