MTV

MTV is a Finnish media company reaching over 4 million weekly viewers across free, paid TV and digital video platforms. The challenge for the company’s digital development team was how to deliver good digital experiences across different devices and platforms. The old customer research methods like face-to-face interviews were proving to be too slow, and expensive to stay in sync for fast-paced agile development. This way of working resulted in poor customer research adoption among the key internal stakeholders in the business such as marketing, content planners, product owners, designers and software developers.

To solve the challenge MTV launched a Leanlab community of 800 customers to play a role in different development decisions from big to small. The ongoing work with Leanlab now delivers the desired effect:

Given the low threshold and safe environment for experimenting, there are now 5 times more ideas bounced off and tested with customers than before. This has lead to better quality decisions and the teams to develop elements that really matter.

The decisions are now more evidence-based. 800 customers give a much better-sounding board across different regions and customer types compared to a handful of local interviews.

The speed and agility of the platform have helped the teams to cut down the customer research turnaround by more than 400% from weeks to days.

Leanlab is an inseparable part of the build-measure-learn cycle. The NPS and CX scores for the website have improved by more than 10% since the launch of Leanlab helping MTV to monetise more of its content through better stickiness and returning visitors to the site.