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Customer Engagement Benchmarks 2024


As a VP, CMO, or key stakeholder of the marketing department in your company, doubling down on marketing efficiency and ROI is a constant challenge. However, backed by the right tools and insights, you can easily improve customer engagement and lifetime value (LTV).

To help you in this effort, we’ve created the ultimate USA and Canada edition of the Customer Engagement Benchmarks report — after analyzing more than 20 billion data points, 3,250 customer voices, and 1,000 B2C marketer voices. This report is key to understanding how your communication campaigns fare against top brands in your industry and how implementing omnichannel personalization can help you optimize your engagement strategy to the fullest.
North America
  • India
  • Europe
  • MEA
  • SEA
  • LATAM (Portuguese)
  • North America
All Industries
Shopping
Banking and Finance
Media & Entertainment
Travel and Hospitality

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How to Read and Utilize This Report

  • In this report, we’ve compared the performance of generic, broadcast channels vs. personalized channels to see the impact of personalization on channel performance.
  • We’ve dissected the impact of two types of personalization: customer behavior–based and customer journey–based.
  • For each channel type, you’ll find industry-specific benchmarks for delivery rates, open rates, click-to-open rates (CTORs)/ click-through rates (CTR), conversion rates (CVRs), and/or unsubscribe rates. Based on these, you can check which type of personalization works best for your industry and implement the learnings in your omnichannel campaigns.
  • Apart from looking at these benchmarks, you will find the best practices for using a customer engagement platform to enhance your omnichannel engagement strategy.

Engagement Quadrant

Impact Quadrant

This quadrant dives into how new user app downloads correlate to stickiness for brands in Retail and E-commerce, Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) , Media and Entertainment (M&E) and Travel and Hospitality (T&H) across different regions.

The quadrant splits industries into four major categories:

  • Explosion: The industries in this category are witnessing high customer engagement and can retain their customers.
  • Growth: The industries in this category are witnessing high customer acquisition; however, retention is a common struggle.
  • Recovery: The industries in this category have been able to attract new customers; however, stickiness remains low, as is the case with the Retail and E-commerce, and M&E industries in North America.
  • Emerging: The industries in this category are seeing a rising trend in customer retention but struggle with new downloads, as is the case with the BFSI industry in North America.

About This Report

20B+
Messages sent via email, push notifications, SMS, etc.
4B+
Customer interactions
3,250+
Consumers surveyed
1,000+
B2C marketers surveyed
4
Communication channels
12
Engagement metrics
6
Regions
3
Verticals

All Industries — Overview

After digging into the data from thousands of North American consumers, B2C marketers, and MoEngage customers, a few surprising takeaways have surfaced:

  • Customers expect brands to understand their preferences and create hyper-personalized omnichannel experiences for them. And they are willing to share their information in exchange for a better experience.
  • B2C marketers have a basic understanding of using customer insights to build personalized omnichannel campaigns, but there is still room for improvement.
  • Across channels (such as email, push notifications, and SMS), messages that are personalized according to the customer journey can give between 3.3X to 8.2X CVRs as compared to generic messages.
  • Across channels (such as email, push notifications, and SMS), messages that are personalized according to customer behavior can give between 1.3X to 29.3X CVRs as compared to generic messages.

At a high level, this year’s Customer Engagement Benchmarks Report reiterates that across channels and industries, brands that hyper-personalize engagement campaigns based on the customer’s journey or behavior see better campaign performance as compared to those using non-personalized campaigns.

Keep reading to get an in-depth look at this year’s key customer engagement metrics and benchmarks.

All Industries

6.3X
higher monthly average CTOR for behavior-based emails compared to generic, broadcast emails.
2.4X
higher monthly average CTR when brands use customer behavior insights to personalize communication via SMS instead of sending generic messages.
4.2X
higher monthly average CVR for behavior-based push notifications (iOS), compared to generic, broadcast push notifications.
4.0X
higher monthly average CVR for journey-based push notifications (Android), compared to generic, broadcast push notifications.

Voice of the customer

56.1%
of customers say they expect a personalized experience from brands they shop from regularly.
67.2%
of customers are comfortable or slightly comfortable with brands using their data to offer them a better experience.
65.9%
of customers want brands to personalize the shopping experience based on their browsing or purchase history and interests.
21.9%
of customers say the level of personalization they get from most brands is based on their name or location.
29%
of customers say the most frustrating thing about a brand experience is when it doesn’t consider their preferences from previous interactions or provides generalized offerings.
43.6%
of customers say they interact with a brand on at least two to three channels before buying from them.
What is the level of personalization you typically get when it comes to brand communication?
How comfortable are you with brands using your personal data like name, location, or email to offer you a better experience?

Voice of the B2C marketer

89.9%
of marketers use some form of personalization in their omnichannel marketing campaigns.
42.7%
of marketers use very basic personalization (such as name, age, and gender) to engage their customers.
33.1%
of marketers say that leveraging customer data analytics for targeted marketing decisions is most important for building an effective cross-channel campaign.
89.6%
of marketers use email to engage their customers.
44.6%
of marketers use SMS to engage their customers.
33.4%
of marketers use mobile push notifications to engage their customers.
Which online marketing channels are you currently using?
How are you currently personalizing your customer engagement communications?

Channel Engagement Benchmarks Report 2024

Email

In general, customers in the USA and Canada are 6.3X more likely to click emails personalized according to their behavior as compared to generic messages.

General/Broadcast emails
97.5%
Monthly Average Delivery Rate
33.6%
Monthly Average Unique Open Rate
3.9%
Monthly Average CTOR
3.2%
Monthly Average CVR
0.5%
Monthly Average Unsubscribe Rate
Personalized emails
Impact of Personalization Based on Customer Journey
38.8%
1.2X
Monthly Average Unique Open Rate
8.1%
2.1X
Monthly Average CTOR
26%
8.2X
Monthly Average CVR
Impact of Personalization Based on Customer Behavior
40.3%
1.2X
Monthly Average Unique Open Rate
24.3%
6.3X
Monthly Average CTOR
93.3%
29.3X
Monthly Average CVR
Impact of personalization on email performance
Average CTOR
The monthly average CTOR for emails personalized by customer behavior is 525.7% higher than that of general broadcast emails.
Average CVR
The monthly average CVR for emails personalized by customer journey is 717.5% higher than that of general broadcast emails.

Push Notifications

In general, iOS users in the USA and Canada are 1.7X more likely to click customer behavior-based push notifications than generic messages.

General/Broadcast push notifications (iOS)
79.9%
Monthly Average Delivery Rate
6.9%
Monthly Average CTR
8.5%
Monthly Average CVR
Personalized push notifications (iOS)
Impact of Personalization Based on Customer Journey
92.3%
1.2X
Monthly Average Delivery Rate
4.9%
0.7X
Monthly Average CTR
28.1%
3.3X
Monthly Average CVR
Impact of Personalization Based on Customer Behavior
89.3%
1.1X
Monthly Average Delivery Rate
11.7%
1.7X
Monthly Average CTR
35.8%
4.2X
Monthly Average CVR
General/Broadcast push notifications (Android)
74.6%
Monthly Average Delivery Rate
3.5%
Monthly Average CTR
5.7%
Monthly Average CVR
Personalized push notifications (Android)
Impact of Personalization Based on Customer Journey
87.3%
1.2X
Monthly Average Delivery Rate
5.9%
1.7X
Monthly Average CTR
22.6%
4.0X
Monthly Average CVR
Impact of Personalization Based on Customer Behavior
87.4%
1.2X
Monthly Average Delivery Rate
13.1%
3.7X
Monthly Average CTR
16.2%
2.9X
Monthly Average CVR
Impact of personalization on push notifications performance (iOS vs. Android)
Average CTR
The monthly average CTR for push notifications (iOS) personalized by customer behavior is 69.2% higher than that of generic push notifications.
Average CVR
The monthly average CVR for push notifications (iOS) personalized by customer journey is 229.6% higher than that of generic push notifications.

SMS

In general, customers are 1.3X more likely to click an SMS personalized according to their behavior vs. a generic SMS.

General/Broadcast SMS
1.8%
Monthly Average CTR
5.8%
Monthly Average CVR
Personalized SMS
Impact of Personalization Based on Customer Journey
1.8%
1.0X
Monthly Average CTR
5.8%
1.0X
Monthly Average CVR
Impact of Personalization Based on Customer Behavior
4.2%
2.4X
Monthly Average CTR
7.6%
1.3X
Monthly Average CVR
Impact of personalization on SMS performance
Average CTR
The monthly average CTR for SMS personalized by customer behavior is 141% higher than that of a generic SMS.
Average CVR
The monthly average CVR for SMS personalized by customer behavior is 132% higher than that of a generic SMS.

Customer Engagement Benchmarks for 2024 in a Nutshell

The insights above showcase that sending broadcast messages typically yields the poorest results across industries and channels due to their generic nature. In contrast, messages that employ journey-based or behavior-based personalization achieve significantly higher delivery rates, open rates, CTORs/CTRs, and CVRs.

Key Benchmarks Across Industries:

  • Customer journey and behavior–based emails can give up to 26% and 93.3% CVRs, respectively (which is 8.2X and 29.3X of generic emails).
  • Customer journey and behavior–based push notifications on iOS devices can give up to 28.1% and 35.8% CVRs, respectively (which is 3.3X and 4.2X of generic iOS push notifications).
  • Customer journey and behavior–based push notifications on Android devices can give up to 22.6% and 16.2% CVRs, respectively (which is 4.0X and 2.9X of generic Android push notifications).
  • Customer journey and behavior–based SMS can give up to 5.8% and 7.6% CVRs, respectively (which is 1.0X and 1.3X of generic SMS).

You can easily define the KPIs for each communication channel with such benchmarks in hand whilst building your omnichannel strategy.

Additionally, below are some best practices for creating highly personalized and engaging omnichannel experiences that optimize your customer lifetime value.

Best Practices:

  • Build in-depth customer profiles for each of your customers, featuring insights around their attributes, behavior, preferences, interests, drop-off points, campaign responses, etc.
  • Segment your customers based on their commonalities (such as their Recency, Frequency, and Monetary scores) and channel preferences. This will help you create highly relevant campaigns.
  • Conduct A/B testing to see which personalization type works best for your brand and specific use cases.
  • Experiment with different omnichannel customer journeys by modifying customer paths and studying your customers’ reactions to each change in real time.
  • Leverage artificial intelligence to determine the best time to send different communications to your customers and automate the entire process.
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