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Case Study: Ancestry scales from 70 to 600 experiments per year with Statsig

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Key facts · TL;DR
Company
Ancestry
Industry
Consumer Technology
Challenge
Ancestry wanted to scale experimentation well beyond a small manual program.
Headline result
Ancestry grew annual experiments nearly 9x and its Growth team 6x on Statsig

Key results

600/yr
Annual experiments
up from 70
6x
Growth team headcount
from 4 to 25 people
3.5M
Customers reached
via scaled experimentation

The challenge

Ancestry, the family history and genealogy technology company serving millions of customers, ran a limited program of about 70 manual experiments per year. It wanted to scale experimentation to move key business metrics for a large user base.

The solution

Ancestry standardized on Statsig to run and manage experiments at scale, expanding its Growth organization and embedding experimentation across engineering, product, and data science teams.

I know that we are able to impact our key business metrics in a positive way with Statsig. We are definitely heading in the right direction with Statsig.

PS
Partha Sarathi
Director of Engineering, Ancestry

The results, in context

Ancestry increased its experimentation from 70 to 600 experiments per year and grew its Growth team roughly 6x, from a 4-person team to 25 professionals. The company reported that scalable experimentation reached 3.5 million customers and positively impacted key business metrics.

Products used

Statsig ExperimentationStatsig Feature Flags