ChannelView – Connecting your audiences across on and offline channels

Experian’s multi-channel marketing platform combines the breadth of digital approaches with depth of physical address information, enabling you to move one step closer to becoming fully multi-channel with a single customer view across your database. With access to a vast volume of data and rich insight you can now reap the benefits and maximise the value of linking on- and offline data.

Experian’s ChannelView and ConsumerView databases enable you to link on and offline data, whilst understanding the make-up of your customers:

• 49.7m postal names and addresses
• powerful social demographic models and over 450 variables
• 33m individuals with one or more email addresses
• 20m validated mobile numbers

For example, enhance customer profiles by appending email and mobile numbers to existing files or providing in depth demographic insight where previously you may only have had access to an email address for a consumer.

Our proficiency of linking multiple data sets across on- and offline channels, in both real-time and batch, means you are no longer restricted to single channel communication.

In a multi-channel world we need a complete view of our customers, but a single contact point is just one piece of the jigsaw. Experian ChannelView connects your customers across channels for the bigger picture.  Its breadth and depth of vision enriches understanding of who your customers are, what they’re interested in and how to reach them.

We live in a multi-channel marketing environment, but addressing information can often be a two dimensional business.  It is a throwback to when individuals had one primary contact point, but now there are many — postal, email, mobile, landline and social media. If you only have one of these pieces, there’s a world of insight and opportunity that is being overlooked.

The Experian ChannelView platform brings together industry leading technologies, services and expertise to transform a single contact into multiple access points and a richer model of  your audiences: 

1. Take email or postal address and enhance it with geo-demographic insight from Experian’s rich segmentation classifications, delivered in real-time or as a batch process.
2. Open up the online potential of a customer’s offline postal address by combining it with 32 million online email contacts.

3. Add the next dimension by including the fast-growing mobile channel to the marketing mix — turning 20 million validated  mobile numbers into a rich source of  demographic and other contact data.

Connected customers

ChannelView allows you to engage with smarter, more relevant and timely marketing communications. By connecting your customers across multiple contact points you can engage them cost effectively through the channels they prefer. Meeting your customers’ needs and expectations also increases the likelihood of converting a message into a sale and drives up the return on your marketing investment.

Data delivered through the ChannelView  platform is re-built every month, ensuring  it is always up-to-date, accurate and best  placed to deliver quality data and up to  date touch points for existing customers  and prospects alike.

Digital breadth and physical depth:

With an email database you have a strong digital touch-point with your customers, but this doesn’t always translate into influence because there’s little insight into the individuals behind the address.  The reverse of this coin is that a physical address database offers depth of geo- demographic customer understanding, but ignores the wealth of data generated by customers while surfing the net or engaging in social media.

With ChannelView, Experian combines the breadth of digital approaches with the depth of physical addressing information, to deliver a far more sophisticated marketing platform. Experian’s email database contains 32 million email addresses, which are linked to a verified name and postal address fully opted in to receive marketing communications.

Linking an email address to a geographic location means that Experian’s social- demographic models, such as Mosaic UK, Financial Strategies Segments (FSS) and TrueTouch can identify likes, interests, behaviours, economic status, ethnicity and channel preference. Linking physical addresses to email addresses opens up  multiple access points and more marketing  options, enriching offline approaches such  as direct mail and bringing the ability to  measure campaigns more effectively.

Stability with mobility:

The emergence of smartphones means that mobile is really moving — a mobile is now more ‘marketing hub’ than simple telephone. It’s already something that’s important to the marketing mix and this is only going to increase.

Whilst mobile is dynamic, marketers need the stability of knowing the individual behind the number. With the Experian ChannelView platform, you gain access to over 20 million validated mobile telephone numbers, and the demographic insight that goes with them.

Real-time personalisation:

Experian research shows that 84% of consumers now expect brands to provide more relevant, personalised marketing communications. Traditionally, websites needed to collect numerous pieces of user information to enable this personalisation. Now the ChannelView API allows just an email address to be used to enhance your online marketing with Experian’s social demographic models in real-time - driving greater website personalisation and enabling targeting of relevant content and offers. Your customers benefit from a more relevant and seamless user experience and your business benefits from increased engagement and response rates.

Multiple channels — one vision

Experian ChannelView connects online, offline and mobile identities to give marketers a rich view of their customers.  In giving you the platform to transform a single contact point into a multi-channel picture of your audiences, including a full demographic profile, Experian ChannelView:

• increases the likelihood of transaction per contact for improved ROI;
• drives new and existing business; 
• builds meaningful and mutually profitable relationships with audiences; 
• helps the continuing refinement of marketing messages based on preferences;
• improves brand perception and value.