Segment filter categories

Blueshift has an array of filters that you can use to create segments that target the right customers based on specific features and attributes. 

For more information related to filters and usage, see the following topics:

• Explicit, derived, and predictive User Attributes.
• Segment examples
• Optimize your segments
• Default data limits and retention policy

Segment Filters

The following filters are available to use while building segments: 

• Recent Activity
• Lifetime Activity
• Catalog Activity
• Demographic
• Predictive Scores
• User Affinity
• Traffic Source
• User Attributes
• Customer Lists
• Messaging
• Transactions
• Member of segment
• Interests

Recent Activity

Build conditions based on customer behavior on your website and apps in the past 31 days. The data in this section is populated from your event stream. 

You can use the following filters:

• Boolean conditions on behaviors.
• Timeline filtering: Apply dynamic (e.g. “last 24 hours”) or static (“during October 2015”) timelines to zoom in on the right customers.
• Filter by event attributes: Use attributes of a behavior to narrow down to page views that came from certain types of devices or channels or searches that contained a certain keyword.
• Frequency: Find customers who performed the action frequently.

Consider the following points when you use recent activity attributes in the filter criteria:

• The search is case insensitive.
• All event attribute values are converted to lowercase before storing the data.

Lifetime Activity

Blueshift automatically computes aggregate statistics on visits, purchases, revenue, referrals, message sends, etc. during an entire customer journey. You can create conditions related to these aggregate statistics. For more information, see Derived attributes.

Catalog Activity

You can segment by customer interactions with various parts of your product or content catalog for the past 180 days. In addition to the filters available on the Recent Activity tab, you can also filter based on catalog/content attributes. 

Catalog Activity is created by combining the data from an event and the data from a product catalog item. For more information about setting up your catalog and tracking catalog activity, see Track catalog activity.

Consider the following points when you use catalog activity attributes in the filter criteria:

• The search is case sensitive.
• Catalog activity contains a subset of events available under Recent Activity.
• Blueshift enhances these events with catalog information and retains the data for upto 180 days.

Demographic

Blueshift expands your raw data to enable easy demographic segmentation. You can either directly upload demographic information into Blueshift or leverage Blueshift’s data expansion. 

Demographic data includes the following expanded data:

• Gender is inferred based on the customer's first name by using census information.
• IP Addresses are expanded into location data.
• Recent location (city/state/country)
• Proximity to a location (city/zipcode/latitude-longitude)   

Predictive Scores

You can segment not only based on a customer's past behavior, but also by various predictive scores. Blueshift’s predictive scores can help you find customers with a high or low likelihood of completing various actions in the conversion funnel and the customer lifecycle.

See the Predictive Studio documentation to understand the correlation of predictive scores with the metrics you are interested in.

User Affinity

Customers often have affinities towards different sections of the catalog available on your website. Blueshift computes user affinities based on behavioral & transactional data and keeps the affinity scores updated in near real-time. You can easily use this user affinity data when you create segments.

Predictive Channel Optimization (Messaging channel affinity)  is an advanced capability for marketers on the Blueshift platform to automate finding the right messaging channel for each customer using cutting edge AI algorithms. The algorithms look at the sum total of customer activity on each messaging channel, opens, clicks and downstream engagement metrics like number of sessions, time spent on sites and apps and recency of engagement, to learn for each individual customer, what channel they are most likely to engage on.

The following affinity types are available:

• Hour
• Item category
• Messaging channel

Note: Contact support@blueshift.com to enable computing of user affinities.

Traffic Source

Blueshift stores the traffic source information on all your web traffic. With this, you can easily segment customers by the source of traffic.

Traffic source (first utm params)

Note: If a new customer gets created in Blueshift, the traffic source params for the customer are set to the first utm params we see for the customer.

User Attribute	Display Name
first_utm_campaign	Campaign
first_utm_medium	Medium
first_utm_source	Source
first_utm_content	Content
first_utm_term	Term

User Attributes

You can create segments by filtering on any of the customer attributes that you pass into Blueshift through the Identify event, User API, or by uploading Customer Attributes through the dashboard. In addition, Blueshift also computes some important customer attributes, including first & last traffic source, location, unsubscribed_date, and so on.

Note: The search is case sensitive.

First & last traffic source (first utm and last utm params)

In addition to information about how customers were acquired (first utm params), Blueshift also stores the last/recent traffic source information (last utm params) on all your web traffic. You can access these traffic source parameters as User Attributes. 

Customer Lists

A Customer list is a static list of customers which you can use to create segments. After you create a Customer List, you can reference it in the Segment. 

Some examples where a customer list might be useful include:

• As a control group containing a randomly selected set of customers to whom you do not send a particular message.
• As a targeted list you have computed outside of Blueshift, but want to send a message to.

Messaging

Segmenting customers by their responsiveness to messages (push notifications, emails, SMS) helps you to adjust the volume of messaging. You can send marketing communications to customers based on their engagement level.

Blueshift provides a comprehensive solution for segmenting customers by their response to messaging for up to the last 6 months.

• Select the engagement channel.
• Select the engagement metric.
  • Sends, impressions, unique impressions, clicks, unique clicks, visits, orders, activations, revenue, bounces, spam reports, unsubscribes, devices sent, devices bounced from the last 6 months.
  • Delivered from the last one month.
• Select a campaign by name or select all campaigns.
  • For a specific campaign, you can filter based on the messaging template by selecting the trigger and the experiment.
  • Additionally, you can further filter down to a specific link within a template when you select channel = email and action = click. You must specify the template version and link index in order to do this. You can look up the link index from the Engagement tab inside the email studio.
  • Select a fixed or a relative timeline.
  • Apply a frequency filter.
• Select a campaign by tag. You can select one or more tags to segment customers based on their interactions with campaigns that had certain tags.
  • Select a fixed or a relative timeline.
  • Apply a frequency filter.

Transactions

You can use the transactions feature to chain related events/activities and segment users on different states across their journey. The transaction based segmentation empowers you to find users based on their transaction status. For instance, you could find all orders that were placed last week, but not shipped yet.

For more information, see Segmenting on transactions.

Member of segment

You can add a reference segment for the segment that you are creating. Reference segments are segments that you use in other segments. You can define a basic criteria in a segment and then reuse that criteria in other segments. You can add basic segments and advanced segments as reference segments.

For more information, see Reference Segments.

Interests

You can create a segment of users based on their shared interest in a particular topic. You can then use this segment in a campaign that targets the users based on their interest in the topic.

For more information, see Segmenting on Interest alerts.