DraftKings unifies siloed marketing data to uncover deep insights for growth

We sat down with DraftKings Senior Director of Growth Marketing, Jayne Pimentel, to discuss how her team leveraged Singular to unify their siloed marketing data and uncover deep insights for superior optimizations.

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Introduction

My name is Jayne Pimentel and I’m the Senior Director of Growth Marketing at DraftKings. DraftKings is a sports media technology company. Most people know us for daily fantasy sports. We’ve recently entered the sportsbook category, which has been around outside the US for centuries.

When I joined DraftKings, we had one product. We now have three. We brought everything in-house. We got rid of our ad agencies. To scale and to grow a business like that requires a lot of infrastructure. A lot of disciplines that aren’t really core competencies to DraftKings but things that we need to invest in third parties to allow my team to stay agile.

Why Singular?

I remember being a consultant when I joined DraftKings and my first call actually was a Singular call. And then before that when I was at Cognant, even at Machine Zone, over half our clients used Singular. So I was familiar with all of these great brand names that were out there, people like Lyft that we were working with, that also leverage Singular.

Establishing a single source of truth for marketing performance

Singular has helped us become fluent between different kind of siloed teams. The fragmentation of data is something that is achievable to overcome but requires a lot of ingestion of data as well as leveraging something like Singular if you can’t adjust that data yourself.

So if you don’t want to pay for a ton of servers to ingest impression-level data, click data, I mean that’s also just one piece. Then you also have user data within our apps. Then you also have revenue data and how we monetize. And the fragmentation even on the monetization of a user, how much they’re valued, needs to be also tied to how much we’re willing to pay for that user. And so that true lifecycle value of that user is something that requires data coming from email, S3 buckets, garbage Excel files, whatever it is. But you have to be able to have some sort of system to make sense of all that and to ingest it and unify it.

Democratizing creative reporting & optimization

And it’s also been helpful with our creative team. We actually use the creative tool within Singular often because our creative team, they’re visual people, they’re talent and they like to see the performance but in a more visual way. And also having the creative and the image that is actually associated with the performance, it’s been really helpful to start conversations to help with testing agendas and to make everyone accountable across teams now that we have a baseline around the data we’re bringing in.

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