This ad was never paused for 3 years! Here are the results.

This ad was never paused for 3 years! Here are the results.

Client Overview

Bloomscape delivers fully-grown, ready-to-go plants to customer’s doors. In short, everything you’ll ever need as a plant parent & greenery lover.

We talked more about this awesome brand in one of our previous posts (see here), and this time around, we wanted to take a look at something that is not very common among Meta advertisers: An ad that has not been paused since November 2019 – that’s 3 years! Or in PPC years, that’s probably around 55890 millennia.

So, let’s see why and how this ad is still running.

Creative Approach & Solution

The main idea is – hit the right audience with the right ad, at the right time. Nothing you haven’t already heard, right?

Knowing that we have a lot of different products and a lot of users who are just screen shopping, we wanted to find a way to remind them to take the next step towards getting ‘em beautiful leafy friends.

The solution? A simple remarketing dynamic product carousel ad, targeting cart abandoners.

It’s nothing we haven’t seen other brands doing all the time, but this was the ad that immediately came out with all guns blazing.

And here’s the breakdown:

Pretty simple, right?

The results?

It’s probably best to show you.

Since the ad was first launched (November 2019), we can see the immediate ROAS spike. This is definitely expected for a Remarketing ad, but especially for the period from April to December, the average ROAS is much higher compared to all the other ads.

But, what’s also obvious is that the ROAS line follows the overall Remarketing ROAS trend, and interestingly enough, the ROAS of this ad drops mid 2021 and after that is more or less the same with the other Remarketing ads.

In the end, this ad had 97% higher average ROAS compared to the other ads and 34% higher compared to the other Remarketing ads.

“But what about the CTR?” you may ask, my fellow click-loving friend. Well, not too shabby.

On average, this ad had 70% higher CTR compared to the other ads and 30% higher CTR compared to the other Remarketing ads. And unlike the ROAS trend, this ad still had one of the highest CTRs in the account.

Conclusion

Does this mean that this ad will live on forever? Well, probably not, but who knows? Looking at the CTR, we know that this ad is still pretty relevant and engaging. But looking at the ROAS, there might be a few things that can be done to further improve it.

In addition, let’s not forget that the ad performance also depends on a lot of different factors such as: offer, products available, quality of the prospecting audience that we’re getting into the funnel and so on.

Nevertheless, reaching the right audience with the right ad is still pretty relevant. And Meta’s algorithm is allowing advertisers to hit the bull’s-eye.

Until next time, we encourage you to think about the ways you can reach your audience with the right ad. It might not live forever, but you’ll definitely learn a lot along the way.

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Gligor Dinev

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Paid Social & Creative Lead @ LeanSEM

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Our client Dialpad faced challenges in driving revenue through their customer acquisition strategy with Google. However, we leveraged Google’s Performance Max to deliver an additional 18% revenue, making this campaign a core part of their marketing strategy.

In this official case study by Google, we explore the approach, results, and the role of LeanSEM’s expertise in Dialpad’s success with Performance Max.

 

Performance Max helped us leverage all Google channels in a very simple way under a single campaign, helping us get nearly 20% more new paying customers for Dialpad.

– Morgan Norman, CMO, Dialpad

 

The Challenge

Dialpad is an industry-leading AI-powered cloud communications platform that was facing challenges driving additional revenue with its customer acquisition strategy with Google. It wanted to increase the volume of high-quality free trials that led to paid Dialpad customers. 

 

The Approach

Dialpad turned to Performance Max, using free trials as the conversion event. For Dialpad, trial signups are high volume, but also correlate well with buying intent, with a typically strong customer conversion rate. The cloud company was then able to leverage existing creative assets from other campaigns to quickly build and launch its Performance Max campaign, enabling them to maximize their reach across Search, Display, Video, Gmail, and the Discover feed.

Partnering with LeanSEM: LeanSEM helped Dialpad use paid customer lists as audience signals and tailor its value propositions for ad copy and creative, and use final URL expansion targeting for landing pages to find additional search queries likely to convert.

 

The Results

Prior to Performance Max, Dialpad was managing more than 30 campaigns across Search, YouTube, and Display. Since launching Performance Max, Dialpad has experienced improvements in both the quality and volume of net new free trials coming through Google Ads. Dialpad was able to uncover a completely new keyword theme with the Performance Max landing page insights report, which contributed to Performance Max delivering an additional 18% in revenue, 17% more Dialpad customer conversions, and 26% increase in trial signups. As a result, Dialpad made Performance Max a permanent part of its marketing strategy. 

 

Source: Official Case Study by Google

© 2022 Google LLC. All rights reserved. Google and the Google logo are trademarks of Google LLC. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

 

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And we didn’t stop here. We also used our battle-proven methodology to dig out the PPC opportunities and gaps for each of the brands they seemed to miss.

But how’s this research different from the ones that pop up on your LinkedIn feed? This is our own growth method that brings real results.

For the past 8 years, we have successfully managed 91 clients’ PPC accounts from a variety of industries. We have grown accounts from 10x in 1 year to 25x in 2 years. We have done countless analyses, and have developed and implemented many different creative strategies. So you might say we know a thing or two about the PPC game. 

Lean research methodology

We have spent years developing our research processes for a good reason. Without proper research, there cannot be a successful PPC campaign. The pillars of our methodology are:

  • The more you know the better:

research

  • Better means deeper, and deeper means clearer: 

research → analysis & findings 

  • Connecting the dots creates the key:

research → analysis & findings → insights & gaps

  • The key is useless without proper action:

research → analysis & findings → insights & gaps → optimization opportunities

Each of our pillars are explained in this report. The content is divided by the types of research & analysis we performed for each of the 6 brands. Here is why we do each and what type of opportunities we are aiming to find:

Traffic analysis (Who rules the industry)

We identify the kingpin of worldwide website traffic per channel, as this can also be viewed as an indicator of the success of performance marketing brand awareness campaigns. The end goal is to get a first view of the market on a high level. These brands are our competitors. It’s the starting point from where you find out the right direction.

Review analysis (Who is our competition exactly)

If you want to know about a brand, ask the customers. Well, figuratively. Maybe scores alone don’t tell us anything except who is more popular, but customer reviews certainly do. They tell it all and tell it like it is. We scrape the reviews of our competitors and do a sentiment analysis. When the picture is clearer, we use the negative reviews in message development when bidding against them, and we use the positive reviews to recommend areas of improvement to our client.

Pro tip: rely on G2 for B2B, and Trustpilot for service. If the brand has reviews on multiple review sites – merge the data to figure out who the “top dogs” are and who are the “challengers”.

Paid Search Analysis (How to capture the audience with the right intent on Google)

Now that we have a definite list of competitors we identify high-intent industry keywords and understand where our competitors are capturing the most volume by performing a paid search analysis. This is crucial for (i) structuring campaigns and building keyword buckets, (ii) finding keyword gaps where we can be the leaders in the auction, and also (iii) this gives us an idea of where we should allocate a larger portion of the budget.

Ad concepts analysis (How to outsmart the competition on Google)

We can get the keyword & the bid right, and still have 0 clicks on our ads. Google ad copy is the key when it comes to winning ads. We analyze what competitors are communicating on certain keywords to get a sense of what searchers want to read. How? We manually scrape their headline and (again) do a theme/concept analysis. This way we also find out what competitors aren’t communicating which gives us a clear direction for developing copy that stands out from the rest and ultimately gets the most clicks.

Ad concept analysis (Creating intent for our user personas)

On LinkedIn, creating intent is necessary because the user persona whose attention we are trying to get may not already have it. With that in mind, we analyze how others create it and what they miss out on when advertising. Again we are finding gaps and creating opportunities by using these insights to improve our ad development strategy (from creative to headline to copy).

Landing page analysis (Optimizing for conversions)

The landing page is a make-or-break step in the flow. Either we get people to convert here, or they drop off, and it becomes three times harder to get them to convert later on. We took a granulated approach to find the differences, the gaps, and some inspiration.

Want to learn the secret PPC tactics that will give you an edge in the competitive world of project management? We got you covered. Download the report now, it’ll only be available for a limited time.👇

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