Bottled Water Best Seller case study.
Marketplace
Services
Performance Marketing
Strategy
Analytics
Amazon
Industry
Grocery
Background.
When we took on the bottled water account we were aware of how competitive the still and flavoured water category was on Amazon. The value of the bottled water market in the United Kingdom saw a 34% increase from 2020 to 2022, now worth over 2 billion GBP in sales each year. With the rising market size, we have seen an influx of newcomer brands disrupting the category while the traditional brands work to navigate this rapidly evolving sector.
The challenge.
The brand are a well known brand internationally, with strong roots internationally. When we took on the account in July 2023, the brand was in its infancy of launching on Amazon’s UK marketplace - having only been launched 2 months prior.
As the water bottle category was highly competitive on Amazon, we knew we had to get to work quickly. The first step was to make sure that the brand content was optimised and retail ready for advertising to ensure the best customer experience once the landed on the brand store and product pages.
Our approach.
In order to increase brand visibility amongst the highly competitive generic search space for bottled water, we focused our strategy on leveraging a full funnel approach to capture customer demand for both broad and niche searches.
We used automatic ads to learn and analyse how customers were finding and discovering the brands products. Then once we analysed the data from the ad campaigns, we setup campaigns with manual bid strategy focused on targeting the highest converting keywords with aggressive CPC bids to ensure top-of-search ranking, in addition with placement bid modifiers.
We then began to capitalise on the unique properties of the brands water, which includes health benefits such as low sodium content, nitrate free and having naturally high levels of electrolytes. We built out of campaign structure and targeted keywords to double down on these niche customer demands, enabling the brand to be highly visible amongst health conscious and fitness enthusiast shoppers.
By working closely with the brand team, we were able to closely align product demand with available stock levels. Through continual optimisation of the allocated campaign budget allocation per each product, we avoided wasting ad spend towards low stock volume products and instead doubled down on products with the highest demand and available stock.
The results.
Our Amazon advertising service was a huge success for the bottled water brand. Within a matter of weeks working together, Verbe had helped them achieve #1 best seller in the still water category on Amazon throughout 2023 and into 2024.
Using our combination of broad generic, niche long-tail keyword targeting and ensuring product pages and brand store were retail ready prior to advertising has been a key factor in achieving an average conversion rate of over 47% - almost double that of the beverages industry average of 24%!
Our full funnel Sponsored Ad campaigns achieved:
Became #1 ranked best seller for Still Water on Amazon UK
Successful expansion into new complimentary cross category shopper targeting, expanding the brands audience reach
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