Airbnb Runs A Successful Leap Redesign Experiment For New Hosts

The variation headline changed to one that suggests belonging or being part of something greater - possibly with some resemblance to an empowering headline. Either way, there is definitely a social element in the new headline hinting that one will join a group.

Whereas the headline in the control (A), speaks to the space rather than the host.

The next major difference in the variation (B) was the introduction of around 4 short and silent host introduction videos. The right side of the header would play these short videos of smiling hosts that would delicately introduce themselves - along with their names and location. An amazing way of reinforcing the new headline while showing a wider variety of different hosts from around the world.

The primary sign up button shifted from left to right, while changing to "Try hosting". If the animating videos gain more attention, then this seems like a reasonable change to send some of that attention to the button as well. 

"Your next chapter made possible by hosting" doesn't really say much on the control. The variation is more precise and reassuring by stating that "You can host anything, anywhere." 

The control has one testimonial. The variation splits this into at least 3 visible ones (4th cut off by intention to signal a scrolling interaction). Are more testimonials better? :) I think so.

The earnings calculator has been lowered further down and it's font increased. The call to action was also expanded from 1 to 2 ("host your space" and "host your experience"). 

In the variation, all secondary calls to action (leading to educational or support pages) were moved from the top or middle of the page, to the bottom. This way, more of the upper and core landing page is dedicated to getting new hosts to sign up. Although we've never yet tested such a concrete move, we do have a few related experiments around the topic of surfacing educational content.

Finally, we can see that the newsletter signup form was removed. This keeps the focus of the landing page to the primary call to action of signing up new hosts - possibly related to the pattern of tunneling.