BACKGROUND: RVCA came to us with an ambitious goal: to increase year-over-year revenue by 27% during retail’s busiest time of the year - the holiday shopping season.

SOLUTION: We developed and managed an integrated paid ads strategy on Facebook, Instagram, Google and Bing which helped RVCA exceed its lofty e-commerce sales goals.

The results speak for themselves. RVCA saw year over year growth of 55% in revenue from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday and 33% growth in year over year revenue from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve.

SERVICES: STRATEGY, DIGITAL MARKETING, SOCIAL MEDIA ADVERTISING, EMAIL MARKETING

Building qualified audiences

Creating a successful and thoughtful plan one month before the most critical and competitive time in e-commerce was a challenge. Relying on our strategic belief that channels and creative must be consistent and integrated, HOTS was able to deliver results beyond expectations.

Our first focus was to optimize efforts to consumers who were already aware of RVCA and would likely be activated by holiday promotions. We knew during Cyber week, competition would be high and clicks would be expensive. So we allocated a significant portion of the budget to audience-building ads in the weeks before Thanksgiving.

Once we had created these lower-cost, qualified audiences, we could then retarget them with Cyber Week ads at a much lower cost.

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To help boost engagement on social media leading up to Cyber Week, we built multiple RVCA branding campaigns targeted specifically to the most likely to engage audiences using our unique Supergroup Strategy. This strategy includes targeting existing customers, existing email subscribers, page followers, Instagram & Facebook post engagers, website traffic, and look-a-likes.

Beautiful, non-product specific imagery targeted to the Supergroup maximized engagement.

Targeting

Targeting the right audience with the right product can be difficult during the holiday season as many people are purchasing gifts for others. Customers shopping for their kids, their spouse, or other loved ones need to be considered during the holidays.

We crafted ads specifically with gifting messages and strategically targeted buyers outside of the RVCA core demographic groups with great success.