Support for Deployment and Adoption of KARTE

KARTE

End-to-end seamless support, from deployment to operation and result generation
Optimizing the use of KARTE depending on the marketing issues and needs facing the client

KARTE is a customer experience (CX) platform offered by PLAID, Inc. that provides information and experience optimized for individual customers. Thanks to its ability to analyze behavioral data in real time and visualize data, as well as its significant scalability, KARTE is ideal for addressing marketing issues and needs at various phases.

Overview of KARTE-centered solutions

KARTE offers a wide range of tools covering the entire marketing funnel. Hakuhodo DY ONE supports corporate marketing activities by helping clients deploy and adopt KARTE Series.

Learn more about KARTE series tools

KARTE
KARTE for App
By handling an array of actions from behavioral data analysis on websites/apps to customer service, this tool ensures appropriate customer service based on deep customer understanding, including through popups on the web and banners in apps. It helps increase profitability by improving conversion and LTV, among others.
KARTE Blocks
This tool promptly performs website upgrading, A/B testing and personalization without coding, thus reducing the time and cost of upgrading.
KARTE Message
This tool enables consistent communication design across channels including LINE, social media, in-app push notification and e-mail.
KARTE Signals
This tool visualizes the return on digital ad investment and optimizes ad delivery with first-party data analyzed by KARTE.
KARTE Datahub
In addition to customer behavior data analyzed by KARTE, this tool integrates additional data, including on customers and revenues, to realize seamless adoption.
KARTE Craft
This tool serves as PaaS to assist prompt, easy and low-code development of unique features and apps with the help of AI, leveraging KARTE’s real-time analytical data as a trigger.
QUANT Web & QUANT Connect
RightTouch Inc., the customer support wing of the PLAID group, offers tools such as QUANT Web to help customers solve problems on their own with online support, and QUANT Connect to close the gap in experience between the website and telephone support.

For those who have yet to deploy KARTE

  • Uncertainties about effectiveness

    You are not sure about the customer experience and the potential effectiveness of deploying KARTE.

  • Complexities about initial settings and coordination work

    You are concerned about the technical aspects of initial settings and coordination with existing external tools due to uncertainties about specific procedures and man-hours required.

  • Concern about post-deployment operation

    You are not sure if you can build and sustain an effective operational framework on your own after deploying KARTE due to limited internal resources.

For those who have deployed KARTE

  • Unavailability of end-to-end marketing support

    You cannot find any partner capable of providing end-to-end, seamless support ranging from media operation to KARTE-powered website upgrading.

  • Lack of capacity for data analysis and campaign planning

    You cannot afford sufficient manpower and time for productive tasks including data analysis and new campaign planning.

  • Monotonous campaign ideation

    You always end up implementing similar campaigns, unable to generate new ideas or approaches by making the most of KARTE.

  • Lack of expertise in improved use

    You need specific advice on how to take a step forward from the current level of using KARTE to develop a more sophisticated marketing strategy.

Hakuhodo DY ONE helps companies at various phases,
regardless of whether they have deployed KARTE or not.

Hakuhodo DY ONE supports data-driven decision-making by clients with its consulting and constructive skills based on its marketing expertise developed over the years. Leveraging our unique capabilities in data utilization, we provide optimal solutions to accelerate the business growth of clients.

Marketing support that only
an advertising company can provide

KARTE-powered CX improvement requires strategy planning for the entire scope of marketing, including inductive measures such as advertising and CRM, and not merely upgrading a website. Leveraging its track record and wealth of expertise accumulated as an advertising company, Hakuhodo DY ONE supports comprehensive strategies for CX improvement, not limited to one-off campaigns.

Sophisticated data integration/analysis technology
and specialized talents

We possess the know-how and technology required to integrate and horizontally analyze a variety of data sources including advertising data, website data, CRM data, offline data and market/competitor data. Furthermore, our qualified talents formally certified by KARTE provide end-to-end support ranging from deployment to operation and adoption. Our abundant experience in the development and operation of AI-powered analytical tools means we have the expertise to provide end-to-end support, from consulting to development and analytics.

Readiness for the latest technologies
and diverse solutions

We are able to actively adopt the latest digital technologies to make better use of data. We also have a broad perspective, able to accommodate a wide variety of tools without relying on specific vendors, as well as an array of successful projects across industries and sectors. Building on our experience in deploying and operating AudienceOne®, Hakuhodo DY ONE’s proprietary DMP, and CDP/MA/BI tools, we propose optimal solutions for meeting the challenges and needs of clients from the technical perspectives of both marketing and development through strong partnerships established with platform companies.

Hakuhodo DY ONE enjoys substantial expertise and a proven track record as an Official Partner*1 of KARTE. Among the Official Partners, we employ the largest number of specialized talents, with over 50 staff members who have qualified under the KARTE certification program for partner companies,*2 and thus have a support structure capable of meeting the various needs of clients.
At KARTE Partner Award 2025, we captured the Rising Star*3 award, in recognition for quickly building and improving a structure to support the use of KARTE. Those results attest to Hakuhodo DY ONE’s established expertise and action-oriented capabilities in supporting the adoption of KARTE.

Conversion rate improvement with increased LINE friends
and landing page optimization (cosmetics industry)

#KARTE Web #KARTE Blocks

Issues

  • Limited number of LINE friends resulting in limited long-term communication measures
  • Orders for trial kits not leading to regular product purchases

Action & result

Increase of LINE friends

  • We implemented a popup campaign using coupon gifts as a hook to increase LINE friends and boost purchases.
  • As a result, the number of users registered as LINE friends rose 119% in one month, with coupon users accounting for some 30% of the increase.

Landing page optimization

  • We rearranged the landing page content to analyze the configuration of content that best induces purchases.
  • Based on the findings, we relocated “Product features” from the middle to the top of the landing page, thus raising the transition rate from 8.3% to 13.4%.
Illustration of popups for the coupon gift campaign
Illustration of popups for the coupon gift campaign
Analysis of rearranging the content on the landing page
Analysis of rearranging the content on the landing page

Promoting skin check content and raising the completion rate (cosmetics industry)

#KARTE Web #KARTE Blocks

Issues

  • Low transition rate to skin check content creating a major bottleneck for post-order redirection of users
  • Many users abandoning after transiting to skin check content

Action & result

Banner upgrade to increase the transition rate

  • We added appealing text to existing banners to compare their effectiveness.
  • As a result, the transition rate to skin check content rose x2.25 vs. the traditional banners.

Improvement of the skin check completion rate with a step bar

  • In order to prevent abandonment after transiting to the skin check page, we introduced a step bar so that users can see the whole picture of the content and understand where they stand within the skin check process.
  • As a result, we succeeded in raising the skin check completion rate by x2.7.
Creative AB testing with banners produced by KARTE
Creative AB testing with banners produced by KARTE
Introducing a step bar to show progress in the skin check process
Introducing a step bar to show progress in the skin check process

Promoting conversion by increasing LINE friends and optimizing the landing page (real estate industry)

#KARTE Web #KARTE Blocks

Issue

  • Many users abandoning the website before asking for documents

Action & result

Increase of LINE friends

  • We encouraged less-motivated users on LINE to prevent abandonment before asking for documents.
  • As a result, we succeeded in boosting registration as LINE friends while maintaining conversion rates on the website, including for document requests, effectively capturing over 50% of the friends through popups.

Landing page optimization

  • We reviewed the content, configuration and visibility of the landing page to verify the most click-friendly settings.
  • As a result, the click-through rate increased five-fold for document requests, as compared with the traditional floating banners.
Recommending LINE friend registration at the right moment
Recommending LINE friend registration at the right moment
Reviewing the content and configuration of the landing page
Reviewing the content and configuration of the landing page

Support for customer feedback automation and CX improvement (real estate industry)

#KARTE Web #KARTE Message #KARTE Datahub

Issues

  • Difficult to improve services after launch due to lack of feedback from customers
  • Not capable of data-driven improvement in customer experience (CX) or actions to promote continued use

Action & result

Deployment of KARTE and support for CX

  • We introduced KARTE for campaigns leveraging online behavioral data and membership information. Hakuhodo DY ONE provided end-to-end support ranging from UI/UX analysis for the website to CX mapping, tagging for KARTE, and planning/implementation of online customer services.

Personalized popups

  • We set delivery conditions using measurement data including on access frequency and user behavior to display the optimal banner for each user.

Automated collection of customer feedback

  • We deployed questionnaire popups across the channels depending on user behavior, setting a scenario for automatic message delivery to encourage responses from users who have yet to answer.
Displaying the optimal banner for each user
Displaying the optimal banner for each user
Displaying the optimal banner for each user
Displaying the optimal banner for each user

Optimizing the first view of the landing page and reducing production cost (telecommunication industry)

#KARTE Blocks

Issues

  • Frequent gaps between ad creative and landing page content, possibly contributing to abandonment
  • Higher production cost with more ads when creating different landing pages for different ads

Action & result

Maximization of conversion rate with dynamic optimization of landing page

  • We sought to maximize the conversion rate by dynamically optimizing landing page content depending on the ad creative that activates the user to make the user experience more consistent.
  • As a result, it became possible to assess advertising effectiveness by appeal point.

Reduction of production cost by diversifying content display

  • We reduced the cost of producing creatives by changing the display of the first and second views of a single landing page depending on the characteristics of the user.
  • As a result, we succeeded in substantially reducing the burden of landing page production per ad.
Research on the latest SEO trends by our R&D unit

Optimizing user redirection among multiple landing pages (insurance industry)

#KARTE Web

Issues

  • Different banners leading to different landing pages (Insurance A, Insurance B) possibly resulting in users reaching a landing page that does not match their interests
  • Loss of opportunities as users reaching the landing page of an unexpected product cannot get the information they want

Action & result

User redirection with LPO

  • To address the problem of users being redirected to multiple landing pages after clicking on an ad irrespective of their intention, we supported landing page optimization (LPO) so that incoming users can reach the right information.

Mutual redirection banners

  • We posted a banner on the first view of the landing pages for both Insurance A and Insurance B to redirect users to the other insurance product.
  • As a result, we succeeded in smoothly redirecting disappointed users to another landing page, effectively reducing abandonment due to user-landing page mismatch and improving accessibility to desired information.
Research on the latest SEO trends by our R&D unit

Hakuhodo DY ONE meets the needs of companies across all phases, from those considering the deployment of KARTE to those facing challenges in its operation and adoption after deployment. After interviews on the current conditions and issues, we provide total support, ranging from strategy planning to introduction, deployment and effectiveness assessment, and then to ongoing improvement.

For inquiries about deployment and adoption of KARTE,
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  • *1 The term “Official Partner” refers to a company accredited by the KARTE Partner Accelerate Program, a partnership program offered by PLAID, as meeting specific criteria including on operational performance and product understanding. Official Partners are eligible for special support including advance offering of new functions and joint marketing.
  • *2 Fundamentals Advanced qualification under the Certificate of KARTE program, as at the end of September 2025.
  • *3 August 4, 2025: Hakuhodo DY ONE Wins Rising Star at KARTE Partner Award 2025
    (https://www.hakuhodody-one.co.jp/en/news/2025/08/news-releases_202508044650/)