How Wooplr Got 200K App Installs In 3 Months Using Facebook Ads
Maxwell Hertan

How Wooplr Got 200K App Installs In 3 Months Using Facebook Ads

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Many small businesses and startups grapple with Facebook as a marketing channel.

They know that Facebook is a powerful marketing machine that is just waiting for them to take advantage, but it’s also a beast –  it can be daunting just to get started.

It’s  helpful to have a point of reference when putting together your own Facebook ads for your app.

A fantastic case study in this arena is Wooplr. Wooplr is a community of a million fashionable women, who bring you the best in women’s fashion for clothes, footwear, makeup & accessories.

Wooplr is a perfect example of the impact an intelligent, thoughtful Facebook campaign can have on your app downloads.

Their app had been around for 2 years before they started dabbling in Facebook ads…

Wooplr’s Facebook goals

  • Drive at least 2,000 daily app installs from Facebook.
  • Ensure they were the right people that would engage and stick with the app, minimising first-session churn rate.

The end results

  • 200,000 app installs in 3 months
  • 25% increase in month-on-month installs
  • 2 X increase in app engagement after 3 months
  • 20% higher app engagement rate than other ad platforms

Wooplr’s Facebook ad strategies

  1. Mobile App Facebook ads for installs

Wooplr used two ad formats of video and carousel. Clicking on either of these ads takes you directly to Wooplr’s app store page to install the application.

The carousel format allowed it to showcase multiple images in a single ad. It’s perfect to show a series of looks and ideas or a range of benefits all for the price of one advertisement:

Wooplr Facebook carousel ad

And here is Wooplr’s Facebook video ad…

The company mapped out its audience and used interests targeting to reach people with diverse interests with a range of formats and targeted creative.

The ad copy encouraged women to discover their inner fashionista and emphasised how Wooplr makes shopping fast, fun and convenient.

They also set up retargeting advertising.

This type of advertising ensures that potential customers aren’t going to waste!

The ad follows those that clicked on it, but who decided not to install the application. This significantly improved Wooplr’s ad conversions within its already well-defined audience.

  1. Segmentation

Wooplr intelligently created several different advertisements based on the audience segmentations.

For example, the ads that were targeting 25-30 year old women that lived in the inner city displayed chic and on trend designs.

By contrast, when speaking to older women, the tone of the advertisements was a lot safer and the designs shown stuck to more classic fashions.

See also: How To Use Facebook Ads To Ensure Your Mobile App’s Success

  1. Timing

Wooplr was insightful in recognising the various large events happening in their targeted cities.

They leveraged this with seasonal and well-timed advertisements as they knew their audience would be planning for these events.

This included music festivals, New Years Eve and religious holidays.

“Facebook has been our top acquisition and engagement channel from the very beginning. Facebook provided the most unique features and diverse options to reach out to our exact audience, in the most relevant way. With help from Sokrati, we’ve consistently acquired the highest quality users and kept our cost per install well below the targeted range.” –Praveen Rajaretnam, Co-founder & Chief Marketing Officer, Wooplr

When you start implementing your own Facebook app install ad campaign, don’t feel like you have to copy what everyone else is doing.

The best advice I can give you is to invest in knowing your audience deeply, so you can create Facebook ads that really resonate.

Use Wooplr’s best practices and take advantage of Facebook’s rich media and sophisticated targeting options.

Then test, monitor and improve!

Do this and you can pretty much guarantee a return on your marketing investment.

Curious how Facebook advertising can work for your app? Click here for my 5-step process.

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Maxwell Hertan

Helping businesses grow is what drives Max. As the Founder and Director of Megaphone Marketing, his focus is on delivering data driven results, ensuring every client has the highest return possible.

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  • christine Menaged

    I need to increase my apps downloads! It’s new! Bubblelingo iOS
    The Android will be out in about two weeks! My website will be up next week!
    We have a Facebook page. Please tell me what to do?

    • Kate Duckworth

      Hi Christine! How exciting to hear you’re launching a new app. To increase your downloads for a game app, I’d highly recommend getting a marketing company on board to run highly targeted Acquisition Campaigns for you. Max who wrote this article may be able to help you out, his company is Megaphone Marketing.

  • Phil

    Great article. 70% of our traffic is Facebook. It would be great to know some other key metrics like overall budget, CPI, or even creative/performance content split. Also as you increase daily budgets does your overall cost per install increase or decrease? I’m sure your ad optimizes over time but you also run out of the early tech adopters fast.

    • Hi Phil, thanks for your kind words. Unfortunately for this campaign we don’t have access to those metrics.
      In regards to increasing your ad budget, you will often find that it will relatively consistent and eventually start to produce diminishing returns. This is due to the Facebook optimizer being able to keep it stable until a certain point and then as the early adopters have run out as you say you start to see higher cost per installs.