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PUMA Case Study : Increased Order Rates to

About Puma

Puma is a world famous brand that manufactures shoes and sports apparel and accessories. Puma is
present on- line in the form of its website-puma.com. This website serves the purposes of
communicating  brand information and providing an e- commerce gateway to Puma’s target audience.

Puma has a wide range of product categories like shoes for running, football, golf and training. Puma
wanted its website to fully display all of its product categories and also tailor the website experience
for di erent regions while maintaining its international brand image.

They decided to redesign the website with the help of data analysis and testing and commissioned a
Google certi ed partner, Viget to undertake this project. They selected Google Analytics as their web
analytics platform for developing and measuring performance of their website.

Goals

Puma is a dynamic company and they strive to continuously improve their products. So it is very
necessary to communicate these improvements to their audience and hence there are frequent
updations in the website content to help customers attain their goals. Also since Puma is a global
brand and is available in almost every part of the world, it is very necessary to determine e ectiveness
of di erent promotional content in di erent geographies.

Puma also wanted to have a distinct look and feel for its di erent categories like running shoes,
football shoes, golf shoes, training shoes etc. while still remaining connected with the central website.
Hence Puma required to analyse the web performance of each of its di erent categories separately
and also track the user behaviour on the global puma.com website.

Thus the goals of this project were summarised as below:

Get insights into the popularity of content and products to decide the digital marketing strategy
Understand which content engaged customers and contributed to sales geography wise
Improve on- line customer experience and conversions by optimising the website
Measure the performance of every Puma product category site

Approach

Viget utilised the various features of Google Analytics like custom variables, lters and
segmentation to achieve these goals.

They tested the website with di erent variations of content. They used the ‘Custom variables’
feature of Google Analytics to segment visitors on the test variation they saw. Thus Puma got to
know the results and e ectiveness of di erent tests. Puma got detailed information about the
various goals and micro- conversions for each test variation.
Google Analytics allows location based segmentation. The path in Google Analytics is as follows:
Google Analytics—–> Reporting—–> Audience—–> Geo—–> Location. You can then create
segments by clicking on the ‘New segment’ button. Refer the diagram below.
They used advanced segmentation to isolate visitors from di erent geographies and track their
metrics.
They used advanced features like ‘event tracking’ to measure user interactions with dynamic
page elements.
Google Analytics allows to create ‘ ltered’ views wherein some exclusive portion of the data can
be analysed. The path is as follows: Google Analytics—–> Admin—–> View—–> Filters. After
clicking on the ‘Add Filter’ button, you can create a prede ned or a custom lter. Please refer the
diagram below.
They used the ‘pro le’ and ‘custom lters’ features of Google Analytics to create a  view of the
central puma.com and of other Puma product category sites. Thus they got insights into the
performance of the global puma.com  and of the di erent individual  product category sites.

Marketing Results

The result of the above exercise is a dynamic, content rich and engaging website.
 After conducting several tests, Puma found out that on- line orders increased by 7.1% in a
particular test variation. Puma adopted that version for its website.
Combining the above with other insights drawn from data, Puma optimised its content and
found that the engagement time of users with content like photos, videos and news almost
doubled. This has helped Puma deliver the right content on its website. The user experience is
also quite uid and engaging. Have a look at this promotional content for football shoes.

Puma has localised its website for di erent geographies as was their goal. They have featured
celebrities for the Indian edition of puma.com. See the picture below where the popular model
Lisa Haydon is featured in this Indian version of puma.com.

User tra c from emerging markets such as India and China has increased by 47%.

Creating separate verticals for di erent product categories on the website was a goal of Puma.
They have created these verticals in the website.
They have also created separate focussed promotional content for these di erent categories.
See the content featuring the celebrity Rihanna for training shoes below.
Puma intended to dynamically engage and communicate with their audience. In the website, you
will nd a lot of audience engaging content like recent trends, new arrivals etc. See the picture
below.
Thus we nd that an extremely attractive website of Puma with local content for di erent
geographies has emerged.

Learnings

Google Analytics helps in analysing segmentwise behaviour on your websites. Thus you can
determine the behaviour of users from di erent geographic regions using Google Analytics. This
data helps you in building localised content for these geographic segments.
Google Analytics gives you engagement metrics like pageviews, time per session, bounce rate,
frequency of visits, recency of visits etc. that help you determine which content is engaging your
audience more and thus you can focus your e orts in improving that content. Thus you can build
more engaging websites using insights from Google Analytics,
In this case, we learn how test results were obtained by segmenting users on the type of test
variation they were visiting. Thus, Google Analytics was used as an e ective testing tool.
Puma got an analysis of user behaviour on di erent categories of their products on their website
by using custom lters.
Thus, we learn Google Analytics is a very powerful tool using which you can optimise your
website to attain your objectives.

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