Branch Announces the Winners for the Mobile Growth Awards

Mobile Innovators from Brainly, Sanvello Health, and Lenskart win most innovative campaigns of 2020

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Jan 29, 2021, 11:15 ET

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Branch, the leading cross-platform solution for linking and measurement, has announced finalists for its first-annual Mobile Growth Awards this January. The company received 300+ nominations; 50 of the top campaigns from across the world made it to the judges' table and 8 of the top campaigns took home awards.

The award winners are companies and individuals who drive exceptional growth and innovation in mobile.

The program includes multiple award categories — here are the winners across them.

Best Mobile Viral Campaign: Recognizing one of this year's most viral mobile marketing campaigns.

Winner: Shivgangi Gupta, Limeroad.com
Campaign: Limeroad.com wanted to drive virality through social sharing with friends. As part of the campaign, users can share selected product links with friends to reduce the price of the products. The value proposition is straightforward, invite more friends to 'cut the price' or get bigger discounts on your favorite products.

Best Overall Growth Campaign: A look at the campaigns that created new and innovative channels, techniques, tactics, or strategies to increase mobile growth over the past year.

Winner: John Ostrowski, Brainly
Campaign: Brainly wanted to increase retention by creating an optimal web to app experience for the end-user. By partnering with Branch, Brainly was able to reinforce its organic acquisition loop, which leads to more organic installs and more brand awareness.

Best Phygital Experience: Campaigns that transformed traditional offline marketing by blending the best of physical and digital to improve the consumer journey.

Winner: Brita Voris, Wine.com
Campaign: Wine.com takes advantage of all of their resources when building an omnichannel experience. Most recently, they started using QR codes on their packaging inserts to promote the Wine.com app which offers even better experiences and personalization than the web. They pair the QR code with an in-app exclusive offer to further incentivize users to convert.

Best Digital Transformation: Celebrate business innovation through digital transformation, resulting in increased engagement, user acquisition, or revenue.

Winner: Ershad Ahamed, OVO (PT Visionet Internasional)
Campaign: OVO wanted to provide customers with flexible payment and investment options during the pandemic to prevent churn. To do this, OVO supported digital transformation for previously unbanked/underbanked individuals by partnering with the government as an official e-money partner for Prakerja, a state-stimulus program to offer benefits for job-seekers who are impacted by COVID-19. OVO enabled beneficiaries to seamlessly activate an e-wallet, perform e-KYC or electronic-Know Your Customer, and receive the stimulus benefits without any physical interaction.

Best COVID Adaptation: Highlighting a feature or campaign designed to adapt to changing consumer needs during COVID.

Winner: Marisa Johnson, Sanvello Health
Campaign: Within days of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic, Sanvello leadership approved offering free Premium access to Sanvello — evidence-based techniques, coping tools, and peer support — for the next five months. The team quickly rallied to remove the paywall, issue a press release, pitch media outlets, draft user communications, prep every internal team, and more with the ultimate goal of helping as many people mentally affected by the COVID crisis as possible.

Best COVID Retention Campaign: Highlighting a campaign delivering an improvement in engagement and retention during COVID.

Winner: Achint Setia, Myntra Designs
Campaign: During lockdown in India, Myntra launched its content-led social commerce platform, Myntra Studio, to provide fashion inspiration and keep the audience engaged in the absence of commerce. Myntra launched the platform with 1000+ influencers who created their accounts on the platform and created shoppable, inspiration-led content at scale.

Best Onboarding Activation Campaign: Highlighting a highly successful mobile onboarding activation campaign.

Winner: John Dickson, Hibbett City Gear
Campaign: When Hibbett decided to take the leap into the mobile space, they knew they needed an enticing platform and smooth activation flow to be successful. Hibbett offered app-exclusive raffle entries to key sneaker releases where users had to download the app and create an account to enter. They provided CTAs at appropriate places in the user journey across web, social, SMS, push, email, etc. to capture users' attention.

Best Mobile Innovation: Recognizing creative thinking and outstanding innovation on mobile.

Winner: Ratnesh Neema, Lenskart
Campaign: Lenskart used a unique, high-tech implementation hidden behind deceptively simple UX to solve customers' biggest problems: size. To help customers determine the proper fit, how the glasses frame looked, and to provide a trial run, they built an integrated experience of 2 features:
- 1. Frame Size: it allows users to shortlist glasses which will fit them well, after taking just a selfie using our machine learning algorithm.
- 2. Augmented Reality: by giving access to the camera, glasses popup to users faces in 3D with very high fidelity to give a near real-life experience of having them on.

"Huge congratulations to all of the winners. All our finalists have demonstrated excellence in innovation and creativity," said Mada Seghete, Co-founder and VP of Marketing at Branch.

For more information, head to Mobilegrowth.org/awards to learn more about this year's awards.

About Branch
Branch (branch.io) provides the leading cross-platform linking and attribution platform, offering solutions that unify user experience and measurement across devices, platforms, and channels. Branch powers mobile links and cross-platform measurement to more than 3 billion monthly users globally and is a trusted cross-platform marketing, engagement, and measurement solution for over 50,000 apps — including Adobe, BuzzFeed, Yelp, and many more.

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