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Re-Engagement Campaign

A multi-channel marketing initiative designed to recapture the attention and activity of users or subscribers who have become inactive but have not fully churned. Re-engagement campaigns use targeted messaging, incentives, and personalization to revive dormant relationships.

Re-engagement campaigns cast a wider net than win-back emails, operating across email, push notifications, in-app messages, retargeting ads, and even direct outreach. They target users showing early signs of disengagement before they become fully lapsed, making intervention more likely to succeed than late-stage win-back attempts.

For growth teams, re-engagement should be proactive rather than reactive. Build early warning systems that detect declining engagement patterns: reduced login frequency, shorter session durations, fewer feature interactions, or decreased email opens. Trigger re-engagement campaigns when these signals cross defined thresholds. Multi-channel re-engagement is more effective than single-channel because users who have stopped opening emails might respond to push notifications or retargeting ads. Personalize re-engagement content based on the user's historical behavior and the specific features or content they valued most. Include clear calls to action that make it easy to return: deep links to relevant features, pre-populated dashboards, or personalized content recommendations. Measure re-engagement campaign effectiveness through reactivation rate (percentage of targeted users who resume activity) and sustained reactivation (percentage who remain active 30 days after re-engaging).

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