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You may want to drive…You may want to drive…

Justin Macdonald | jmacdonald@deseretdigital.comBrian Hoopes | bhoopes@deseretdigital.com

The Trusted Digital Voice

The ProblemThe Problem

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Wait – where are you going?Wait – where are you going?Some ads have high bounce rates.

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cXense ObservationscXense ObservationsUsers appear to be coming from Facebook and then leaving.

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HypothesisHypothesis

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We believe that users aren’t presented with deeper content, so they turn around and go back to where they came from.

Move along – nothing more to see hereMove along – nothing more to see here

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If we present the user with other relevant content, we will decrease the bounce rate.

Hey wait – check this out!Hey wait – check this out!

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ImplementationImplementation

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Using the cXense recommendation engine we are displaying a few relevant cars to the user. The user will be able to scroll through the cars to see if there is an item that they might be interested in.

Recommended carsRecommended cars

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Our competition does not use recommendations to try to keep users around.

Other large e-commerce sites do, but not in the classifieds space.

We’ll be the first!We’ll be the first!

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This is live in the Cars section of KSL.com.

•Go to www.ksl.com/auto

•scroll down a bit to the ads

•Click on one that you are interested in• Or click on this link http://www.ksl.com/auto/listing/1433051

•Scroll down to the bottom of the information

•Check out the other recommended cars

It’s alive!It’s alive!

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If this is deemed a success. We can easily deploy it across all of the classifieds verticals (cars, jobs, homes, and general.) We can also push it to the other e-commerce verticals on KSL.com.

Deploy, deploy, deploy!Deploy, deploy, deploy!

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ResultsResults

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Early results are in – it’s a success! (maybe)Early results are in – it’s a success! (maybe)In the few hours that widget has been live we have seen 33,662 impressions and 699 clicks. This is a 2.08% click through rate.

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Questions?Questions?