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		<title><![CDATA[No One Scans QR Codes - Apart From These 25 Thousand People]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, I blogged about seeing these QR codes appearing on some train tickets.    The campaign itself wasn&#039;t that great - a poor call-to-action and a decidedly mobile-unfriendly site - but I was interested in how many people had scanned them.  Thanks to bit.ly&#039;s practice of exposing everyone&#039;s statistics, we can see exactly how well this campaign did.    Wow! Twenty-five thousand…]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Earlier this year, I blogged about seeing these <a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/04/train-tickets-with-qr-codes/">QR codes appearing on some train tickets</a>.</p>

<img src="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/QR-Codes-on-Train-Tickets.jpg" alt="QR Codes on Train Tickets" title="QR Codes on Train Tickets" width="512" height="384" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5611">

<p>The campaign itself wasn't that great - a poor call-to-action and a decidedly mobile-unfriendly site - but I was interested in how many people had scanned them.  Thanks to <a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2011/12/bit-ly-considered-unsafe-for-qr-codes/">bit.ly's practice of exposing everyone's statistics</a>, we can see exactly how well this campaign did.</p>

<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140406225506/http://bitly.com:80/yCFLtT+"><img src="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/QR-Train-Stats.png" alt="QR Train Stats" title="QR Train Stats" width="512" height="241" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6988"></a></p>

<p>Wow! Twenty-five thousand scans.  It's not as good as <a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/10/no-one-scans-qr-codes-apart-from-the-thousands-of-people-who-do/">Tesco's QR campaign</a> (80k scans and counting) - but it's an interesting data point.</p>

<p>I don't know how many tickets these QR codes were printed on (I didn't see them on every ticket) so it's impossible to know the exact response rate.  I do know that the cost of the codes was close to zero - black ink just isn't that expensive - and that part of the ticket isn't utilised for anything else.</p>

<p>QR codes aren't just for marketing hipsters from Shoreditch.  They're increasingly popular with the British public, and I look forward to their continued use.</p>
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