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Case Study: DigitalOcean cuts cost per conversion 33% with Twilio Engage and Segment

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Key facts · TL;DR
Company
DigitalOcean
Industry
Cloud infrastructure / Technology
Challenge
Building and activating audiences was slow and manual.
Headline result
33% lower cost per conversion vs Google in-market audiences

Key results

33%
Improvement in cost per conversion
vs Google in-market audiences
5x
Faster audience building
high-value customer attributes

The challenge

DigitalOcean's marketing team found it difficult to pull together audiences and activate them in retargeting or email campaigns before committing to optimizations. It wanted to test campaigns faster and target users more precisely based on product usage.

The solution

The team used Twilio Engage with Twilio Segment to define personas and push them to any advertising or email platform, and to build streaming workflows that continually update lookalike audiences. This let DigitalOcean dynamically suppress or target users based on actual product usage.

With Twilio Engage, we're able to test campaigns 5x faster than before.

SC
Sam Coren
User Acquisition Manager, DigitalOcean

The results, in context

DigitalOcean saw a 33% improvement in cost per conversion when testing Twilio Engage audiences against Google's in-market audiences. It was also able to build new audiences based on high-value customer attributes 5x faster than before.

Products used

Segment Twilio SegmentSegment Twilio Engage