The Danish Lottery: Varelotteriet increases ticket sales by 300% through partnership with Mapp & Ambition

London, 29 June 2021 – The Danish Lottery Varelotteriet relies for its ticket sale on Ambition and Mapp, the international provider of insight-led customer experiences. Established in 1887, Varelotteriet is one of Denmark’s oldest lotteries, running multiple draws each month. Their customers continue to spend large amounts with Varelotteriet annually, purchasing a vast number of tickets. The majority of all ticket sales are distributed back to players and all profits go to charitable, social, and humanitarian purposes in agreement with the Ministry of Justice.

Historically, lottery ticket sales have taken place across a variety of Danish shops and retailers – from kiosks and supermarkets to paint shops, bakers, and bookstores. Although it is now possible to purchase lottery tickets online, over half of the ticket sales still take place in physical shops. Therefore, performance in the retail sales channel is strategically very important.

The main challenge for Varelotteriet was finding a way to influence consumers to purchase tickets in physical stores, as well as influence those retailers to sell more lottery tickets. Varelotteriet’s strategic goal was to create a digital footprint of each of their consumers and retail outlets. The aim was to match up the offline and online data, creating a unified ecosystem which would provide clear insights into the consumers’ purchasing behavior.

Varelotteriet was in search of a Customer Data Platform (CDP) that would allow them to have a unified customer view across all channels. Besides a CDP, they were looking for a platform that could provide artificial intelligence and predictive modelling to reach the right customers at the right time, as well as an automation solution to ensure that their communications were executed on the right channel. Varelotteriet also needed a team of digital experts to help guide them through enhancing and optimizing their digital marketing strategy. As a result, the partnership between Mapp and Ambition was created. While Ambition acts as a goal- and activity tracker, Mapp takes it to the next level by feeding all the data into the integrated API and then into its digital marketing platform Mapp Marketing Cloud.

Millionaire League Campaign
Varelotteriet’s campaign objective was to be able to recognize players and dealers and their associated behaviors in an optimized marketing tech stack, where any action would create a visible and measurable response across physical stores and digital channels. The campaign ran across 13 weeks.

Varelotteriet used Mapp Marketing Cloud to identify potential lottery players, based on current player profiles, and served them with dynamic display banners while they were in range of retailers that sold tickets. When someone clicked on one of these banners, they would be given directions to the closest dealer through geotracking. The landing page with these details also featured incentives and prizes that could be won by purchasing a lottery ticket to further encourage the consumer to follow the directions.

Mapp and Ambition also worked together to create a competition element for the retailers selling lottery tickets. Through automated SMS messages, the ticket dealers were encouraged to sell as many tickets as possible. The highest-ranking retailers could win prizes and recognition for being at the top of the leaderboard. This ‘Millionaire League’ campaign created a regular reminder and competitive spirit among retailers, even though selling lottery tickets was not their primary business focus.

1,000% increase in sales with winning retailer
The two campaigns produced the best results so far in the 134-year history of Varelotteriet. Over the 13-week sales cycle, sales across participating lottery retailers tripled. The retailer who won the Millionaire League competition overall increased lottery ticket sales by a whopping 1,000%.

As well as these outstanding results, the campaign created an increase in positive awareness among the retailers. Sales motivation was at an all-time high, even among retailers who were previously considered as less active ticket sellers.

Today, Varelotteriet is able to follow players’ behavior across platforms and channels and, using predictive models, recruit new players – both within a particular retailer’s industry or a specific geographic area whose data justifies this.

Peter Jørgensen, Deputy Director at Varelotteriet commented: “The combination of leveraging our own data and the digital expertise provided by the strategy team at Ambition along with the amazing capabilities of Mapp Marketing Cloud, means that we have been able to gain a higher visibility than ever before on our consumer and dealer networks. By reaching this goal, Varelotteriet has turned insights into action, connecting with the right customer, at the right time, on the right channel with the right message – something we’ve never been able to achieve previously. The results speak for themselves, and we couldn’t have chosen a better partnership than Mapp and Ambition to help us on our journey.”

About Mapp
Marketers and data specialists should be able to focus on what will make a difference for their business, instead of spending all their time taming the technology behind it. With the insight-led customer engagement platform Mapp Marketing Cloud, they can focus on what really counts – and the exciting insights that come with it. Thanks to customer intelligence and marketing analytics, companies can easily and effectively gain data-driven customer insights across all channels in order to trigger highly personalized marketing activities. Customers benefit from AI-supported forecasting models that enable targeted and self-optimizing cross-channel campaigns. Automated messages are sent via the most suitable marketing channel, at the right time, with the optimal contact frequency. Thanks to advanced one-to-one personalization, the highest levels of engagement and long-term customer loyalty are achieved.

Mapp has global offices in seven countries. Mapp’s digital marketing platform helps more than 3,000 companies break away from the pack by uncovering missed opportunities, including Argos, Ella’s Kitchen, Expert, Freesat, Lloyds Banking Group, MyToys, Pepsico, Quint and The Entertainer.

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Mapp Digital
Harald Oberhofer
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harald.oberhofer@mapp.com
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