4 ideas for the Christmas Gamification marketing campaign

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With the upcoming Christmas season, gamification marketing is a fantastic way to stand out and take advantage of all your campaigns. We’re going over 4 ideas that will help you use in this year’s campaign so it can be as successful as possible!

3 Christmas campaign ideas

#1 - Digital Advent Calendar

The digital advent calendar is a great way to keep your audience engaged all month long! Our Digital Advent Calendar allows you to create anything from a simple calendar with prizes behind each door to an entire month’s work of unique campaigns that your audience will come back to explore!

A good thing about highly engaging campaigns -is that visitors will come back every day for new surprises! Customize exactly what happens on each day – Open a trivia game, have a digital wheel of fortune, give a prize, direct to a URL – every day can be a custom engaging experience.

Swedbank Christmas gamification solution featuring digital Advent Calendar

Like appropriate for gamification campaigns, every game brings amazing results. So let’s take a closer look.

  • 18 day retention – Visitors will return to your campaign on average on 18 different days!
  • 8-10x Higher CTR – When advertising a Digital Advent Calendar, your banners will see on average 8-10x higher click through rates.
  • 15-35% conversion rate – Every 3rd or 6th participant will claim a purchase through a coupon code when receiving the prize from the Advent calendar

#2 - Christmas Candy Crush

Candy Crush (or Match 3) has shown incredible results for all who have used it.

The average replay count is 11.5 with an average retention of 4 days.
That means one participant plays on 4 different days and ~11 times each day.

The Bounce rates are also incredibly low averaging at around 15-20%.

Candy Crush is a great game to theme up to winter time and use various different Christmas elements to tie together with your brand. To give extra motivation to the players we suggest to award prizes for each days top scorers!

Below is an example we created on a Christmas themed campaign