Updated: Jul 22, 2020
In partnership with Smartzer, Sephora has released their Christmas video campaign promoting the Christmas gifts for the French market on their website. The interactive video features 35 unique and affordable christmas crackers that reveal products such as the Kat Von D Eye and Lip Duo, Too Faced best sellers and Sephora’s own collection. Packaged in festive crackers, the gifts are made shoppable and easily accessible to consumers through Smartzer’s shoppable video html5 overlay tech.
(The Smartzer optimised Sephora FR Christmas interactive video as it sits on the sephora.fr site. Click here to view and discover the video live)
Sephora interactive video Christmas campaign
The interactive video is easily shoppable and prompts consumers to engage with the products in a fully optimised and aesthetic design. Clear call to action buttons allow customer to add directly to their cart (‘AJOUTER AU PANIER’) from within the video, maximising engagement as consumers watch the video. The CTA makes the shopping experience intuitive and successfully converts curious viewers into purchasing customers through the video. As has been seen in other Smartzer projects, consumers are far more likely to engage and purchase products through these optimised videos.
Creating and engaging brand website
The video sits on the sephora.fr site, on the homepage for the christmas promotions. The flow of the interactive video is intuitive, and encourages consumer engagement, which leverages the high-quality video content to generate sales directly within the video marketing content. The embedded shoppable video experience drives up engagement with the products, whilst ensuring the consumer does not disengage when they click on the first product of interest that they see. Smartzer helps Sephora maximise on their video content in a tangible way.
Interactive videos collecting consumer data
Sephora benefits from Smartzer's shoppable technology in a multitude of ways. One more of the services wrapped into the package from Smartzer is consumer behavioural data. The interactive video collects KPI based data on all consumers of the video, from all viewing platforms and all channels of distribution, be them social, in paid ads or on their own website.
Click-through rates, product engagement, add-to-cart clicks, dwell times, view-through rates and many more metrics and analytics are collected by the Smartzer enhanced video, and is reported back to Sephora. Clients can use these data points to inform their future campaigns, and make smarter and more targeted video content - as well as strategise their product line-ups for subsequent campaigns video or static.
A beautiful interactive video to match every brand
The single link to the video on the Smartzer platform automatically optimises itself for viewing on any device, and the entire video overlay is design in-house at Smartzer to match the vibe of the client brand aesthetic and the design of their website.
Smartzer and Sephora have partnered on multiple projects, to create and distribute engaging videos. Smartzer tech helps monetise video content and has been successful in increasing click-through rates and product discovery journeys both within the interactive videos and without - around the brand website. Come the Christmas season, quality video content marketing materials are being produced by brands in the beauty industry and outside it too, targeting consumers with strong buying intention and capturing their attention. These engaged consumers are increasingly, with the help of Smartzer tech being converted into revenue generating leads and valuable sources of consumer behavioural data.
Updated: Feb 4, 2021
Zimmermann and Smartzer have partnered to release an interactive video for the launch of their San Francisco store. The Zimmermann Resort 2019 campaign features supermodel Gemma Ward exploring San Francisco during the summer, and highlights Zimmermann’s beautiful intricate yet light designs. The Zimmermann video sits on the brand's website for their international markets.
An interactive video for Zimmermann x San Francisco
Smartzer’s video overlay has revamped the way in which consumers interact with video content. The Zimmermann San Francisco store video is now an easy shopping and product discovery experience. The flow is intuitive, and encourages consumer engagement, which leverages the high-quality video content to generate sales directly from it. The embedded shoppable video experience drives up engagement with the content, whilst ensuring the consumer does not disengage when they click on the first product of interest that they see. Smartzer tech allows brands to maximise on their video content in a tangible way.
Shoppable videos that collect consumer behavioural data
As with all other Smartzer interactive video campaigns, the Zimmermann shoppable video has been collecting behavioural data on consumers since it launched. KPI based metrics and analytics such as click-through rates, engagement rate, view-through rates and more are collected and provided to the client. This valuable data has until now been a lost asset, which Smartzer captures and provides to the client as part of the service. Clients can now use this data to inform their future campaigns, and optimise their future content to generate greater revenue and promote engagement across the board.
Interactive video optimised for mobile, tablet and desktop
Smartzer’s video platform has automatically optimised Zimmermann’s video campaign for all viewing devices - mobiles, tablets and desktops of all shapes and sizes across the world. Capitalising on traffic coming from any source is paramount to understanding more about your consumers, and generating more sales and product discover leads. Smartzer tech makes adapting and providing an easy and seamless experience to all customers easily manageable, as it is all encompassed in a single embed link.
A customised interactive video overlay
The bespoke HTML5 video overlay makes the interactive aspects of the video content marketing campaign blend seamlessly with the overall UX and design of the Zimmermann site. Central to the Smartzer team’s design process is the experience and design aesthetic of the place of distribution for the video. If it is mid or pre-roll for a paid video ad, the design will be tailored to be most engaging and to suit the channel best. If the video is bound of social media distribution, the fonts and entire design of the interactive video html5 overlay will be made bespoke for the feel of the feed, and for optimising engagement there. In this case, the Zimmermann aesthetic was the driving force behind the Smartzer in-house design team. Working with this in mind, the interactive video produced blends seamlessly with the rest of the Zimmermann Resort 2019 feel.
(A photo reel of the Zimmermann Resort 2019 interactive video, and its features being used on the Zimmermann brand site. Click here to view it live and explore its features yourself)
Increasing product exploration and increasing sales through interactive videos
All pieces from each look can be discovered, and more information accessed whilst still in the video - which pauses when the viewer engages with a particular item, to ensure that they don’t miss a single second of the beautifully crafted video content. Clear call to action prompts (‘SHOP’) direct customers to the product page, making an easy and clear purchasing path available to the consumers.
The Zimmermann Resort 2019 interactive lookbook video featuring Gemma Ward in San Francisco, and utilising Smartzer tech has been primed to capture valuable data from their consumers, to generate more sales and to encourage further product discovery. Product clicks direct consumers easily to the product page, where they can view more details and purchase the pieces exactly as they are featured in the video content.
Updated: Jul 22, 2020
Even more immersive, ever more engaging interactive videos.
(The Smartzer interactive video on the Harvey Nichols site, featuring a Marc Jacobs makeup tutorial. Click here to see it live.)
Smartzer and Harvey Nichols have partnered a fifth time to optimise their video content, making a beauty industry a-list artist’s makeup tutorial video even more engaging. The global ambassador for Marc Jacobs Beauty, Michael Ashton - Adele’s makeup artist renowned for creating her iconic cat-eye look. The interactive makeup tutorial is now a shoppable video featuring Michael’s top tips; from dry skin hacks to creating the perfect feline flick, and a walk-through on how to become the master of a smokey eye look.
Smartzer’s video overlay transforms the makeup tutorial into an easily shoppable video, where consumers can intuitively and directly purchase products being used without disengaging or leaving the actual video. This optimisation maximises the view-through rate, and increases consumer engagement, thereby leveraging the video content to generate sales and further product exploration and discovery. The bespoke HTML5 video overlay makes the interactive aspects of the video content marketing campaign blend seamlessly with the overall UX and design of the Harvey Nichols site.
Easy shoppable video creation, in-house design
The video player which sits on Harvey Nichols’ own website, uses Marc Jacobs Beauty products which are featured and can be bought directly through the video. The player has been optimised and designed by the Smartzer in-house team to blend perfectly with the aesthetic design of the Harvey Nichols site. Through communication and immense attention to detail, the interactive video design is cohesive with the overall UI of the Harvey Nichols website. The full design service was provided by Smartzer for an easy, curated and streamlined process.
The Smartzer and Harvey Nichols design teams worked together to create a smoothly functioning and powerful bespoke interactive video that enhances the Harvey Nichols video asset and their design aesthetic. Functionality and an intuitive customer journey through the video and product discovery pipeline was as always at the heart of the process.
Increased consumer engagement and optimisation for discovery and sales globally
Clear call to action buttons (ie. ‘VIEW ALL’ or ‘CLICK PRODUCTS TO EXPLORE’), hot-spots and suggestive click buttons distributed throughout the video encourage consumers to utilise all the features of the clickable video. The smart video draws in the viewer and offers them easily accessible product information, a purchasing button and a link to learn more about the product. All videos are optimised to work beautifully on desktops, smartphones and tablets, ensuring the diverse range of viewing platforms can play the Smartzer smart video overlay with shoppable content anywhere and any time.
The video has been distributed after its Smartzer optimisation and transformation on the Harvey Nichols site.