Urban Airship Enables Real-Time Mobile Data Insights For Marketers
Urban Airship Enables Real-Time Mobile Data Insights For Marketers
Company's offerings seek to make in-app user behavior more accessible across the organization.
Don’t
cross the streams was the famous line from the movie Ghostbusters. But
that’s exactly what Urban Airship is trying to help marketers do.
In September of this year the Portland Oregon based company introduced what it called Urban Airship Connect,
which seeks to enable in-app user data to be distributed to any tool or
system (e.g., CRM) in an organization. The idea is to take mobile data
and in-app user interactions and make them available across channels.
That enables mobile data to be used to optimize marketing or retargeting
campaigns in, for example, email or social media.
Connect
offers “one click integration” with a wide range of existing “business
systems,” including Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics and Amazon Web
Services among a wide range of others.
Today the company is introducing a companion product, Urban AirshipInsight.
Insight offers a real-time view of mobile users to enable marketers and
brands to better understand audience in-app behavior. The practical
objective of Urban Airship Insight is to answer real questions and help
marketers zero in on specific audience segments:
- Find likely buyers
- Identify why users churn
- Determine if a new welcome series is paying off
- Identify your users’ latest content interests
- Export a list of users interested in a specific item
Urban
Airship began as one of many push notifications enablers. However it
has grown beyond that beginning to become a broader audience engagement
and analytics platform.
With
mobile now the primary platform for many users and apps becoming a
critical component of most brands’ marketing efforts, these kinds of
tools and data insights are important to understand user behavior,
reduce churn and gain a more holistic view of customers.
According to an audience survey by
Localytics most mobile users will try an app a little over four times
before uninstalling if they’re not sufficiently engaged. That survey
also found that people use roughly 18 apps per month. However an earlier
comScore report said that users engage with 25 apps per month but spend roughly 80 percent of their time with three favorite apps.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor at Search Engine Land. He writes a personal blog,Screenwerk,
about connecting the dots between digital media and real-world consumer
behavior. He is also VP of Strategy and Insights for the Local Search
Association. Follow him on Twitter or find him at Google+.
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