Commerce
AMERICAN EXPRESS - CASHBACK CALCULATOR
Turning financial complexity into something people could understand. American Express | Ogilvy
Challenge
Increase sign-ups for the Platinum Cashback Card while making the benefit of cashback easier to understand.
Insight
People understand money better when it's relevant to their own behaviour. Amazon had the data to make that personal.
Idea
A personalised cashback calculator. Customers could see an estimate of the cashback they could earn based on their previous spending behaviour, turning an abstract financial proposition into something tangible.
My role
As Senior Art Director, I designed this from the ground up and pitched it myself prototyped and owned creatively from start to finish, working with copywriters and the creative director. This was the first time real customer spend data had been used this way genuinely personalised cashback estimates, built from Amazon's first real bucket of customer data for this.
I owned the full experience across the campaign awareness, Fire TV, Alexa, drivers and could talk through it end to end. Neither the US nor the rest of Europe had done this before; it went on to scale to Italy, and the knowledge-sharing off the back of it was significant.
Impact
23M impressions
62K click-throughs
+10.8pt consideration intent
82% progressed to the Amex sign-up site
96% of traffic was mobile
The campaign represented the first global use of personalised customer spend data for tailored advertising within Amazon's platform.
Art Direction · Personalisation · UX · Financial Services · Data · Technology
Mobile frames of the user experience created on Amazon. featuring real dynamic cashback per customer's spending history.
The landing experience on Amazon.
hero images curated to align with American Express global brand toolkit.
Media messaging and example of the campaign as a customer saw it.
Mobile frames of the user experience we created. Showcasing the cashback amount and equally what they could have put that towards to really hit home the message.
The Fire Tablet wake screen experience is aimed at leveraging the connected device prime customers.