Adopt a Pet

How Adopt a Pet optimized channel investment strategy through incrementality testing

Testing strategic geo-holdouts to find true channel performance
Platforms
Google Ads
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Meta
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What We Did
Incrementality Testing
Optimization
Tracking, Analysis & Automated Reporting
Value Optimization
Work With Us

Adopt a Pet is a U.S. and Canada wide free pet adoption platform with helpful tools and resources for hopeful pet parents.

Thrive Digital implemented a comprehensive geo-holdout incrementality test for them revealing Meta's superior cost-efficiency for incremental conversions, enabling strategic budget reallocation, and optimized media investment decisions.

Goals

Determine True Channel Incrementality

To determine incrementality by channel, Meta and Google, to better inform strategic investment decisions.

Validate Budget Allocation Strategy

At the time Adopt a Pet was investing the majority of their budget into Google due to platform efficiencies, running this test would challenge or validate that approach by factoring in business level data.

Optimize Media Investment Efficiency

Looking year-over-year, Adopt a Pet had increased media spend significantly but overall conversion volume had only gone up slightly. For example, in one month they increased spend year-over-year by almost 300% but conversions only increased by 37%.

Solutions

Three-Cell Geo-Holdout Experiment

We measured incremental lift for both Google and Meta with confidence through a sophisticated geo-holdout methodology that isolated true incremental contribution independent of baseline conversion activity.

Strategic Budget Reallocation Framework

This finding directly challenged the existing Google-heavy budget allocation, providing Adopt a Pet with data-driven insights to optimize their media mix for maximum incremental growth moving forward.

The Creative
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THE RESULT
112%
investment increase into more incremental platform
62%
estimated more cost efficient incremental CPA

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Determining true channel incrementality through geo-holdout experimentation to optimize media investment strategy

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