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Benefit Cosmetics’ Marketing Triumph With Bloomreach Engagement

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Story Behind the Brand

Benefit Cosmetics is the leading prestige makeup brand in the UK and the number one brow brand worldwide.*

Founded in 1976 by twin sisters Jean and Jane, the company is one of the fastest-growing prestige beauty brands in the business with locations in 59 countries across five continents. It offers more than 3,000 BrowBars with over 6,000 aestheticians worldwide, cementing itself as the brow destination for both product and service. 

Boasting some of the most loved and iconic beauty staples such as Hoola Bronzer, BADGal Bang Mascara, Precisely My Brow Pencil, Gimme Brow+, and Porefessional Primer, the company is synonymous with fun, instant beauty solutions and is dominating makeup bags up and down the country.

Benefit Cosmetics is part of the world’s leading luxury products group, LVMH.

50
%
higher click-through rate on Blush Launch emails compared to other Benefit Cosmetics marketing campaigns this year
40
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higher revenue from Blush Launch emails compared to similar emails this year
1.7
percentage points increase in click-through rate on Blush Launch emails compared to the global retail benchmark

Challenge

When Benefit Cosmetics decided to discontinue its previous range of blushes and launch an entirely new range of products, it needed a marketing campaign worthy of the quality products it was releasing to its loyal customers.

That’s why Benefit tapped into the partnership between Bloomreach and Mailgun by Sinch to orchestrate a top-notch omnichannel campaign.

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Solution

Benefit Cosmetics used Bloomreach Engagement to personalize and autonomously deploy its “Blush Launch” omnichannel campaign, which combined email, lead generation, and weblayers. Email marketing in particular played a major role in this campaign, guiding customers in their shopping journey with Benefit after acquisition through other channels.

The campaign was split into three sections: pre-launch, launch, and post-launch. Each section had different objectives (driving launch awareness, recruiting new customers, and supporting sell-through), and thanks to Bloomreach’s agentic AI-powered platform, Benefit ensured that every touchpoint in the campaign was tailored to each recipient.

Using Bloomreach, Benefit Cosmetics segmented its customer audiences, splitting them up into previous buyers, VIPs, and customers who opted in for the waitlist. Four pre-launch emails were sent to set the scene for the campaign, drive excitement for the new launch, and push people to sign up for the waitlist.

When the campaign launched, Benefit’s creative marketing mindset and incredible products, combined with Bloomreach Engagement’s customer journey orchestration, proved to be the backbone of the campaign. Benefit was able to understand every customer’s unique journey and use those insights to inform their next campaign touchpoint.

Plus, Benefit’s marketing team was able to gather valuable and detailed insights from the launch to inform its broader marketing strategy. Using the custom reporting and analytics tools in the Bloomreach platform, they reported on the end-to-end success of the launch across channels rather than relying on complex business analytics tools or Microsoft Excel.

Ultimately, Benefit was able to attribute leads and orders to the right channels thanks to our all-in-one solution, and could make an educated decision on where to invest to optimize future campaigns.

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We are always looking to drive launch awareness, recruit new customers, and support our D2C site through our CRM capabilities and the campaign has definitely been a great success for Benefit. With the dashboard and analytics we have access to, as well as the reports and segmentations we can create, Bloomreach has helped us see the products that are performing best so we can optimize accordingly. Because of that, we’ve seen all of our blush sales skyrocketing versus what we saw a few months prior.

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Amy Del Pizzo

CRM Coordinator, Benefit Cosmetics

Results

Overall, the Blush Launch campaign’s metrics were overwhelmingly positive for Benefit.

The customers who signed up for the waitlist had an incredible 10.10% average click-through rate overall — a direct result of Benefit’s efforts and the real-time segmentation capabilities of Bloomreach Engagement. And, by using data-driven insights to inform each subsequent touchpoint, Benefit was able to drive strong engagement: Click-through rates on Blush Launch emails were 50% higher than the brand’s campaign average.

However, the main highlight was Benefit’s click-through rate on Blush Launch emails, which was 1.7 percentage points higher than the global retail average. Additionally, Blush Launch emails generated 40% more revenue than similar emails sent by Benefit this year.

“The dashboards and ability to create reports were really handy for us,” Del Pizzo said. “We were able to create reports based on shade and see where each shade ranked in real time, as well as all of our other desired results — in one place.”

*Source: The NPD Group. Unit Division Sales of Total Prestige Blush Segment for 2021, January to December. Please email [email protected] for more details.

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