NOVA Entertainment Boosts Loyalty with Listeners via an Insights-led Approach to Engagement
NOVA Entertainment recognised that to expand on their digital product development, audience acquisition, and engagement strategy, including listener experience. The business needed to build an ecosystem that would incorporate multiple digital data points. The ecosystem would be utilised by product, marketing & commercial teams for insights & activation. This understanding would enable NOVA Entertainment to leverage data-driven decision-making.
It was critical for NOVA Entertainment to onboard a customer engagement platform to tactically engage with their listeners, drive content discovery, frequency of listening and more time spent with their brands, develop measurement and metrics that contribute to core business audience KPIs.
NOVA identified a number of critical requirements for selecting the right fit customer engagement platform, such as; flexible data ingestion, advanced audience segmentation, campaign management and engagement, detailed analytics, compliance and privacy governance, and platform reliability.
Their rigorous process around selecting a customer engagement platform was consistent with and influenced by their broader audience data ecosystem vision.
The primary factors that influenced NOVA’s decision to choose MoEngage included:
- MoEngage’s intuitive UI, fast learning curve, and operational efficiency were crucial considerations given NOVA’s operating structure and the specific requirements of an audio first environment.
- MoEngage's ability to effectively engage listeners across various channels significantly influenced their decision-making process.
- A decisive factor for NOVA was MoEngage's promising roadmap and continuous investment in improvements and new capabilities following NOVA's growth trajectory.
NOVA leverages listener data directly from their Customer Data Platform mParticle, while
MoEngage facilitates real-time personalised engagement with NOVA’s audiences. The bi-directional data flow between mParticle and MoEngage helps them measure the impact of their campaigns and ensure new activity from listeners is added to their audience profiles. NOVA also utilises MoEngage’s API to query campaign information and manage data deletion requests.
According to the team at NOVA, MoEngage was more forthcoming than other vendors in working directly with them to ensure success in integrating the platform with their existing technology stack.
Using MoEngage, NOVA Entertainment was able to:
- send audiences personalised communications because of better insights from data regarding listener behaviour, user profiles, etc
- execute campaigns faster and hence drives efficiency in their day-to-day operations
- get access to comprehensive insights regarding campaign performance and audience segmentation
- increase general mobile app activity by 17% (session start and ends combined) and in-app listening by 5% (listener has played a radio event)