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 over 10 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.
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 TurnTo, 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.”
Morphe turned to Pixlee TurnTo to power their UGC curation and discover the highest-performing images on Instagram that featured Morphe products. With Pixlee TurnTo, 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 TurnTo. 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 TurnTo to scale their content curation. They’re also able to improve workflow between teams. With Pixlee TurnTo, 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.
Morphe uses Pixlee TurnTo 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."
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."
Morphe finds the Pixlee TurnTo platform easy to use, adopt and learn, making onboarding new team members a simple and straightforward exercise.
Pixlee TurnTo’s mission is to enable brands to celebrate and market with the voice of their own customers.
Pixlee TurnTo’s mission is to enable brands to celebrate and market with the voice of their own customers.