30-40% reduction in user acquisition costs

Our entire objective for Singular was good, intuitive reporting that would lead to cost optimization. We were given that with the added benefit of an amazing support system. We work with a lot of tools but our relationship with Singular is something special.
Krishan Sharma
Assistant Manager — Performance Marketing
  • 2x
    Scale of affiliate marketing efforts
  • 3x
    Scale of Google UAC efforts
  • 30-40%
    Drop in user acquisition costs

What is Cashify?

Cashify is a recommerce company with headquarters in Gurgaon, India. It was founded in 2009 as a team of 3 and has grown to an organization of 2,000. The company operates as an online marketplace where users can sell their used electronic gadgets like mobile phones, tablets, smartwatches, laptops and video game consoles to professional buyers. It also deals in refurbished devices. The company vision?: Robust Sustainability. “Building a world where tech doesn’t need to cost the pocket or the planet — technology should be accessible to everyone.”

  • Founded
    2009
  • Electronic Buyback Platform
    #1 in India
  • MAU
    10 million+
  • App installs
    15 million+

The Cashify Challenge

Tracking inefficiencies in understanding performance marketing efforts

Need to diversify partners and test new affiliates

True attribution measurement to scale UAC campaigns

In the early days of Cashify, there was no real focus on performance marketing. But this all changed once the team realized that they needed to reach the masses “who were putting their old phones in drawers never to be used again when other people could benefit from those phones”, said Krishan Sharma, Assistant Manager – Performance Marketing at Cashify.

As people were using phones, we knew we had to be digital first and we went in very aggressive on Google and Facebook, but there were inefficiencies in the tracking and we didn’t really trust the data or understand how much incrementality was associated with our marketing that could provide ROI on spend versus orders coming in. This was our major challenge and this led us to search for an MMP.

Over time, the Cashify team also found that they were becoming too dependant on Meta and Google and wanted to diversify and explore other affiliates. “This is when we really realized that we needed an MMP.”

Why Singular?

The Cashify team spread their net wide when looking for an MMP but industry references, the number of partners that Singular could allow Cashify to connect to, and the cost of the platform, all led to Singular being an obvious choice.

The team also enjoyed a 1-month trial before onboarding and enjoyed the ease of use of the platform and intuitiveness of the dashboards. “Singular stood out against other MMPs and the decision to move forward with full onboarding was simple.”

The Singular Solution

Before all else, the Cashify team calls out “trust” as one of the key benefits to working with Singular. Trust in the product. Trust in the data. Trust in the team. “The support we get from Singular is excellent. Frequent follow-ups focused on different challenges we may be facing; quick responses when we reach out for help, and in some cases, instances where the Singular team has identified problems and reached out to us. It’s a full support system. Not just a product.”

For the Cashify team, a few features really stand out according to Kirshan

Customizable dashboards are key as they can create them according to their own KPIs, and share with relevant partners easily when trying to scale up campaigns.

Custom dimensions, which help them attain more granular data to better understand and reach their customers

Dynamic links and data connectors with all the major Partners in the digital marketing ecosystem.

The plug and play ETL which sends all of their data into BigQuery, their data warehouse

We create our custom dashboards and are able to populate additional offline data sets, which is really important for to be able to optimize our campaigns. We are focused on sustainable growth and being able to look at out data so granularly, even down to city level, helps us to understand whether we’re spending money on the right model, or not, or the right city, or not. Based on the patterns we have seen with Singular, we have changed our spending drastically.

Cashify + Singular = Success

  • Scaled affiliate marketing efforts
    2X
  • Scaled UAC efforts
    3X

Our focus with Singular has been with linear optimization. We need to know whether we are spending on the right platforms and in the right areas. From an incremental point of view, we’ve seen a 30-40% drop in user acquisition costs. We have also been able to scale on Google since implementing Singular because of the unbiased attribution we get.

The company has also reduced their incremental tax by 30% and ther blended by between 50-60%.

Top performance marketing tips

Focus on Incremental growth

Focus on other growth drivers beyond marketing (product funnel, pricing benchmark, customer experience)

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