Where exactly a control group is used in Marketing Cloud?

Hi Sandeep Kumar,

you can use control groups to analyze your marketing effectiveness. The members of a control group are not contacted while the members of the target group are.

So for example you split a segment randomly into a target group and a control group. After that you start a campaign and send an email to the target group members (e.g. with a 10% coupon). Now you can for example compare the volume of the sales orders of the two groups.

Depending on your use case you can alternatively use A/B-Testing for email campaigns.

BR Tobias

Hi Sandeep,

Aditiionally, please refer to SAP Help Page - https://help.sap.com/viewer/b88f770e4b7c4ecead5477e7a6c7b8f7/2005.500/en-US/88bf15520b48ba64e10000000a423f68.html

best regards,

Kunal

Hi Sandeep Kumar

If you check out help documentation and official explanation of control groups here, it reads like:

"Control group is a target group with the same functionality as a target group, for example, target group operations, status, and so on, but with the specific purpose of analyzing the effectiveness of marketing measures.

Control groups can be distinguished from target groups by the fact that, during a marketing event, the members of a target group are contacted, and the members of the control group are not."

Frankly speaking, although the description is clear enough to understand, examples given are far away from providing a practical use case, thus leaving everything sound very theoretical.

The best and real use case of target groups, in my humble opinion, is when you measure the success of a predictive model with a campaign (Conversion Rates). You can refer to here for the explanations of the metrics. That's where you can make the best of control groups.

Kind Regards,

Hakan Köse

Hi all,
Thanks for your responce, what do mean by "the members of a target group are contacted " how its evaluated in practically? I dont see any reference documentation for usecase.

Thanks,
Sandeep