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As adv+ achieved enviable scale, it bumped into a familiar growth ceiling – communication that felt increasingly distant from the lifestyle the brand promised. With Mailchimp powering email-only broadcasts, the team was boxed into a one-to-many loop that lacked the immediacy and intimacy a premium audience expects.
Three gaps emerged:
- Performance plateaus. Email open rates needed to consistently outpace the UAE industry benchmark of 20–30%.
- Channel silos. Members in the UAE live on WhatsApp, but the brand had no native way to reach them there.
- Relevance at scale. As the venue network expanded across the Emirates, getting the right message – a new gym opening, an F&B-only offer, a class schedule – to the right member became increasingly hard.
GlobalPay’s existing legacy marketing-automation setup – Gamooga – was sufficient for the business requirements at the time, particularly when the organization was primarily focused on its B2B-led model. The platform supported the team’s core communication and automation needs, and there was no immediate need to replace it simply for the sake of changing technology.
The business, however, began shifting its focus toward direct-to-consumer (D2C) growth. This changed the role marketing needed to play. Instead of primarily communicating with known customers and partners, GlobalPay needed to engage consumers across their journey – from a rate check or currency-order initiation to a remittance drop-off, card interaction, or other high-intent action.
That shift created a new set of requirements: real-time customer data, unified omnichannel engagement, behavioral triggers, a single customer view, and a direct connection between marketing intent and the sales team.
The question was therefore not simply about replacing an existing automation tool. It was about finding a reliable technology partner that could support GlobalPay’s next phase of growth – one that could integrate with its existing ecosystem, bring data and engagement together, scale across D2C channels, and evolve alongside the business.
This was the point at which GlobalPay partnered with Netcore, with the objective of building an engagement infrastructure designed not just for automation, but for real-time, customer-led D2C growth.
Just as important, the Netcore team took ownership of GlobalPay’s engagement outcomes rather than just shipping a build – treating GlobalPay’s KPIs and growth as its own, staying close through discovery, integration, and go-live, and steering decisions instead of waiting to be asked.
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Holzkern’s email programme ran on Brevo. And on Brevo, two things were consistently difficult – data storage and filtering. Customer information was hard to hold on to and even harder to put to use. Those data gaps showed up directly in segmentation: the team could not segment their audience on the attributes that actually mattered to them.
Put those together and you get a marketing team that knows exactly what it wants to say to a particular kind of customer, but no reliable way to work out who that customer is. Which means, in practice, that everybody gets roughly the same email.
For a brand whose entire proposition is that no two customers are alike and no two products are alike, this was a contradiction sitting in the middle of the marketing plan.
The team had three clear objectives: generate more leads, lift engagement, and build a customer journey that felt seamless rather than stitched together. All three ran straight into the same two constraints.
Worth being precise about what kind of problem this was. Holzkern wasn’t buckling under email volume, and platform performance wasn’t the issue. This was a growth-stage constraint – a business that had become more ambitious than its tooling. The limit was on what they could do, not how much of it they could send.
“We knew what we wanted to say to different kinds of customers. What we couldn’t do was reliably work out who those customers were. Storing the data was difficult and filtering it into segments that meant something was harder still – so in practice, most people received the same email.”
– Georg Holzer, CEO, Holzkern
A large share of redBus’s lifecycle email was landing in Gmail’s Promotions tab rather than the Primary inbox – buried, in practice, since that isn’t where travellers look first. The campaigns themselves were strong. What wasn’t keeping pace was their visibility: Gmail’s classifier wasn’t reading the relevance and engagement signals around those sent the way the content warranted, so fewer travellers saw the email in time to act on it.
The baseline carried the same story. Before any changes, the programme was opening at 22.00% with a 0.03% click rate on delivered email – below what its reach and relevance supported. Both teams agreed to go after the cause rather than patch around it.
AJobThing ran a high-frequency email programme across both audiences – employers and job seekers – but the team was making send decisions with limited visibility into what actually drove performance. Before Insight Agent, every performance review meant manually cross-referencing exports to compare one week against the next – a slow process that left little confidence in the picture it produced, and no early warning if the channel itself was starting to strain.
Campaign Intelligence Blind Spots
- Week-over-week comparisons: Comparing performance across Open Rate, CTR, Delivered, and Sent meant pulling and reconciling exports by hand, which made it hard to spot patterns quickly.
- Assumption over evidence: Send decisions ran on assumption rather than historical engagement data – the team couldn’t say with confidence which content, which segment, or which send time performed.
- Send-time guesswork: Optimal send times were hard to isolate, so scheduling ran on habit rather than evidence.
- Invisible content performance: Without a content-type view, the team couldn’t tell a Promotion send from a Hiring Kit send in performance terms.
- Undetected audience fatigue: Early signs of audience fatigue went unnoticed until unsubscribes had already climbed, putting sender reputation and domain deliverability at risk for every future send, not just the one that caused it.
To protect that reputation and get more out of every send, AJobThing needed a way to turn raw campaign metrics into fast, actionable decisions – without adding manual overhead to get there.

















