The National Rugby League achieves 40% CTR with onsite campaigns

The French National Rugby League (La Ligue Nationale de Rugby, or LNR) is the governing body for rugby league in France. Established in 1934, it oversees the development, organization, and promotion of both professional and amateur rugby leagues (rugby has the second most popular professional sports league in France after football).

LNR's website is a central hub for information and communication within the rugby league community in France. It provides up-to-date news, match schedules, and results, keeping fans, players, and stakeholders updated. The website also serves as a platform for promoting divisions and championships organized by the LNR, including Top 14, PRO D2, and Supersevens.

How LNR engages visitors with Wisepops

With Wisepops, LNR achieves two main goals:

• Generate leads and grow the customer base

• Promote events and new features to visitors

Lead generation campaigns

LNR launched a new website on June 23 with the opportunity for fans to create a personal account with information fields to fill up. Each account had six fields with personal information, such as date of birth, phone number, and postal code.

Out of the six fields, only two are mandatory for registration, so a lot of accounts were incomplete. The challenge therefore was to continuously requalify the missing field and get the valuable lead data that was missing.

So, Julien decided to create 15 dedicated campaigns to get more fans to complete their profiles. He linked popup campaigns with LNR website accounts using custom properties in Wisepops—this way, fans who had incomplete profiles got a personalized message with the invitation to fill out a relevant missing field.

Here are a few examples of such campaigns.

This popup asked for the phone number…

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This one captured birthday dates:

And—

This one asked for info about the occupation category:

Results

In one week, thanks to these campaigns:

• 5K people reached

• 40% average CTR was achieved 

• 30% leads fully requalified

Content promotion campaigns

A highly expected moment of the rugby season for the French rugby community is the day LNR reveals its sports calendar.

For this special day, Julien set up a pop-up campaign—it appeared on LNR’s website as soon as the official announcement was made, to allow the visitors to download the calendar of the division of their choice.

The campaign had two versions: desktop and mobile.

The desktop version featured a large announcement and two links to download the calendar for two rugby divisions:

Over 11,000 visitors clicked the campaign, resulting in a very high CTR of over 40%.

Next—

The mobile version had the same design, optimized for viewing on smaller screens:

The performance of the mobile version was also quite impressive, with over 10,000 visitors clicking the campaign to view the calendar:

How Wisepops can help you grow your business

Whether you're handling marketing for an impressive organization like The National Rugby League or running an online store, Wisepops enables you to engage and convert your visitors effectively. 

You get access to four on-site channels: 

• Onsite notifications

• Popups

• Bars

• Embeds

Also, explore all the features with a free 14-day trial, or book a demo to learn more!