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Retail Non-Traditional Affiliate Marketing Matters for Lulus iROAS Growth at +94%

After seeing the significant impact Cardlytics made towards Lulus’ goals, AP and Lulus extended the partnership into 2023. Provable results matter. Insights-driven strategies can help brands maximize their full customer potential.

Lulus In partnership with Acceleration Partners
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Fuel Circle K is filling up with premium grade customers

With performance as the cornerstone of Cardlytics’ unique business model, we can calculate the incremental return on advertising spend that the platform brings and can confidently say we are pleased with the results!”

Mélissa Lessard Head of North American Marketing
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Grocery Cardlytics and The GIANT Company partner to close the loyalty gap

Whether as an effective complement to our existing loyalty program, propelling new customer acquisition, or supporting re-engagement with lapsed customers, Cardlytics delivers unmistakable success.”

Emily Mikus Director, Loyalty and Channel Marketing
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Retail Clarks’ new customer acquisition strategy drove sales – in-store and online

Working with Cardlytics, we’re able to get customer insights that we normally would not otherwise see in our own data.”

Daniel Lane Director Retail Marketing, Clarks
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Restaurant Dunkin’: Driving consistent incremental returns

We highly value Cardlytics’ consistent incremental return, which is a testament to the size and scale of the platform. Cardlytics is one of our strongest performing partners to drive customers into our restaurants.”

Justin Unger Director of Strategic Partnerships, Dunkin’
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Restaurant Five Guys: Staying true to the brand with relevant, measurable marketing

With Cardlytics, we know customers are actually making purchases and how much they spent. That’s huge. We get to show franchisees how many people walked into their store because of Cardlytics.”

Molly Catalano Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Five Guys
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Neobanks Neobank Case Study

This partnership has been great for us and, more importantly, fantastic for our customers. It’s been truly seamless

Johanna Richardson VP of Product at Betterment
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Telecom / Streaming fuboTV: Efficiently acquiring high-quality subscribers

The Cardlytics user is outperforming our baseline user in almost every single metric we track. They’re watching more content and renewing their monthly subscriptions much longer.”

Cristina Arango Director of Strategic Partnerships, fuboTV
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Retail Saatva: Influencing new customers in a trusted channel

No other company we’ve worked with has been able to prove incremental improvements in ROI, and we attribute that to Cardlytics’ powerful purchase insights.”

Aubrey Judson Director of Paid Acquisition, Saatva
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Restaurant A&W: Driving new and returning guests to increase same-store sales

Our restaurants are getting significant traffic from Cardlytics. Seeing this level of detail — what consumers are spending in our restaurants and how much traffic that’s driving — is groundbreaking.”

Liz Bazner Director of Digital, A&W Restaurants
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National Sporting Goods Retailer

5:1
iROAS

“Cardlytics is the only program providing this level of lift!”

Goals:

  • Drive seasonal revenue
  • Increase share within category
  • Acquire new customers & engage current customers

Targeting Strategy:

  • Launch campaigns timed to seasonal shopping events
  • Identify and engage category shoppers with custom messaging
RETAIL

Specialty Discount Retailer

10.8%
Percentage point gain in share of wallet

Goals:

  • Increase share of wallet among current customers
  • Drive incremental sales

Targeting Strategy:

  • Target infrequent customers who shop competitors
RETAIL

National DIY Retailer

6:1
iROAS

“At this return, we’re exploring every opportunity to maximize our reach and spend.”

Goals:

  • Acquire new customers
  • Drive spend from current shoppers
  • Defend market share against online disruptors

Targeting Strategy:

  • Identify and target prospective new customers
  • Engage category shoppers
  • Conquest based on brands, annual spend, and purchase frequency
RETAIL

National Specialty Retailer

544%
iROAS

“We want to be as evergreen as possible on the Cardlytics platform.”

Goals:

  • Grow and defend market share in regional markets
  • Drive incremental sales

Targeting Strategy:

  • Conquest customers from major competitors in target markets
  • Drive sales with existing customers, segmented by purchase frequency
GROCERY

Regional Specialty Grocer

320K+
Purchases

Goals:

  • Acquire new customers
  • Engage current customers
  • Drive incremental purchases

Targeting Strategy:

  • Bring in new customers who shop at traditional and specialty grocers
  • Target current customers
  • Launch campaign leading up to the Thanksgiving season
RETAIL

Auto Service Franchise Group

4,350
New customers

Goals:

  • Acquire new customers
  • Engage existing customers
  • Drive incremental revenue

Targeting Strategy:

  • Identify and target likely new customers
  • Drive spend from infrequent and frequent customers
  • Maintain annual evergreen campaign
RETAIL

Regional Home Décor Chain

19%
of new customers made a repeat purchase within 60 days

Goals:

  • Drive measurable in-store sales
  • Increase customer long-term value

Targeting Strategy:

  • Target new customers who spend in the category
  • Engage selected growth markets
RESTAURANT

National Casual Dining Restaurant

4:1
iROAS

“Cardlytics continues to deliver incremental transactions to warrant higher percentages of our marketing spend each year.”

Goals:

  • Optimize incremental transactions
  • Acquire customers who show repeat purchase behavior
  • Grow in-store and to-go/catering sales

Targeting Strategy:

  • “Add one more trip” from current guests
  • Acquire valuable new guests
  • Target guests who have purchased catering and on-line/delivery
RESTAURANT

National Quick Service Restaurant

4:1
iROAS with a high average check

“Cardlytics is a rare tool that drives measurable transactions without discounting our brand or products.”

Goals:

  • Steal share from competitors
  • Decrease switching behavior
  • Build awareness of new products and emerging digital ordering methods

Targeting Strategy:

  • Reach infrequent guests who were active QSR switchers
  • Win back lapsed guests who were previously loyal customers
RESTAURANT

National Pizza Chain

13:1
ROAS

“Cardlytics made it easy for us to check their results against our CRM.”

Goals:

  • Find and motivate new customers to order pizza
  • Meet or beat standard new customer acquisition costs

Targeting Strategy:

  • Target customers who have not visited in the last year but are actively ordering from 3 competitive national pizza chains
TELECOM

National Telecom Provider

240%
Increase in investment across 3-year partnership

“It’s getting harder to acquire customers, but Cardlytics is working. They bring reliable, efficient scale.”

Goals:

  • Acquire new subscribers that are incremental from other media influence (as measured by Nielsen)

Targeting Strategy:

  • Target new customers using similar competitive plans
TRAVEL

Major US Airline

15-35%
Incremental lift in bookings

“Cardlytics is a proven program to our Finance and Revenue Management teams, so funding it is a no-brainer. It’s like an arcade game where putting in $1 gives you $5 back every time.”

Goals:

  • Drive incremental sales
  • Grow market share among non-loyal customers

Targeting Strategy:

  • Target air travelers based on their competitive spend among key competitors