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Natalie Moreno
Senior Manager, Digital Marketing
How Morphe harnesses the power of 7.5 million Instagram followers to drive sales and foster community
Morphe, a digitally-native vertical cosmetic brand, is a well-respected brand among influencers and artists alike. Morphe offers their customers ‘killer makeup without killing their wallet’ and fosters a thriving community full of #MorpheBabes.
With almost 7.5 million followers on Instagram, Morphe saw the potential to harness their community to amplify their brand, specifically with user-generated content (UGC). Additionally, they sought to showcase their diverse product offering while highlighting their diverse community to attract new customers on product pages, email campaigns, and homepage galleries.
Show Off a Diverse Variety of Looks While Staying On-Brand
One important goal for Morphe was to highlight the diversity of their customer base while curating images that are within their brand guidelines. With Pixlee, Morphe is able to curate content around specific products and specific looks that supplement the images produced with models. With this approach, Morphe has been able to maintain an on-brand experience while staying true to the community behind the brand.
“We try to incorporate UGC imagery into our campaigns when applicable because we know UGC resonates so strongly with our customer.”
Build a Brand Experience that Converts
Morphe turned to Pixlee to power their UGC curation and discover the highest-performing images on Instagram that featured Morphe products. With Pixlee, they also hoped to find new influencers to work with to help grow their community. Morphe’s team suspected that UGC would improve conversion rates in promotional emails, but was able to test this theory with Pixlee. Morphe saw a 2X increase in conversion by using UGC images in emails compared to emails without UGC.
“UGC images convert really well — often times better than our standard stylized images. UGC helps us create a look that is very aspirational, but is also attainable.”
Morphe has been able to scale and test these different concepts by using Pixlee to scale their content curation. They’re also able to improve workflow between teams. With Pixlee, it’s easy for different teams to find permissioned images and use them across different channels, such as ads, email campaigns, and product display pages.
Text Ratings and Reviews
Morphe uses Pixlee to bring reviews and UGC together in a harmonious way with the text ratings and reviews feature which allows Morphe to pull in reviews of a specific product as an overlay for the product, giving the customer a multi-faceted view of a product.
"It’s nice that reviews and UGC are in the same view, since they naturally complement one another. UGC is a great visual complement to our written reviews."
UGC + Instagram and Facebook Ads for Success
Since UGC is such a high performing content format for Morphe, naturally, they tested it in their ads to see if it would perform as well as flat lays of the products that the team shoots in house. After testing, it proved that UGC performed best across the board.
"UGC is consistently one of our top performers in ads. After UGC, it's any UGC-style video."
Overall Thoughts on Pixlee
Morphe finds the Pixlee platform easy to use, adopt and learn, making onboarding new team members a simple and straightforward exercise.
How Morphe harnesses the power of 7.5 million Instagram followers to drive sales and foster community
Morphe, a digitally-native vertical cosmetic brand, is a well-respected brand among influencers and artists alike. Morphe offers their customers ‘killer makeup without killing their wallet’ and fosters a thriving community full of #MorpheBabes.
With almost 7.5 million followers on Instagram, Morphe saw the potential to harness their community to amplify their brand, specifically with user-generated content (UGC). Additionally, they sought to showcase their diverse product offering while highlighting their diverse community to attract new customers on product pages, email campaigns, and homepage galleries.
Show Off a Diverse Variety of Looks While Staying On-Brand
One important goal for Morphe was to highlight the diversity of their customer base while curating images that are within their brand guidelines. With Pixlee, Morphe is able to curate content around specific products and specific looks that supplement the images produced with models. With this approach, Morphe has been able to maintain an on-brand experience while staying true to the community behind the brand.
“We try to incorporate UGC imagery into our campaigns when applicable because we know UGC resonates so strongly with our customer.”
Build a Brand Experience that Converts
Morphe turned to Pixlee to power their UGC curation and discover the highest-performing images on Instagram that featured Morphe products. With Pixlee, they also hoped to find new influencers to work with to help grow their community. Morphe’s team suspected that UGC would improve conversion rates in promotional emails, but was able to test this theory with Pixlee. Morphe saw a 2X increase in conversion by using UGC images in emails compared to emails without UGC.
“UGC images convert really well — often times better than our standard stylized images. UGC helps us create a look that is very aspirational, but is also attainable.”
Morphe has been able to scale and test these different concepts by using Pixlee to scale their content curation. They’re also able to improve workflow between teams. With Pixlee, it’s easy for different teams to find permissioned images and use them across different channels, such as ads, email campaigns, and product display pages.
Text Ratings and Reviews
Morphe uses Pixlee to bring reviews and UGC together in a harmonious way with the text ratings and reviews feature which allows Morphe to pull in reviews of a specific product as an overlay for the product, giving the customer a multi-faceted view of a product.
"It’s nice that reviews and UGC are in the same view, since they naturally complement one another. UGC is a great visual complement to our written reviews."
UGC + Instagram and Facebook Ads for Success
Since UGC is such a high performing content format for Morphe, naturally, they tested it in their ads to see if it would perform as well as flat lays of the products that the team shoots in house. After testing, it proved that UGC performed best across the board.
"UGC is consistently one of our top performers in ads. After UGC, it's any UGC-style video."
Overall Thoughts on Pixlee
Morphe finds the Pixlee platform easy to use, adopt and learn, making onboarding new team members a simple and straightforward exercise.
Results
2X increase in conversion by using UGC images in emails
33% increase in conversions overall with Pixlee
