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Ecommerce and retail marketing for revenue growth and scale

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Full-funnel paid media programs for ecommerce brands, built around revenue growth that holds up beyond the next reporting period.
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Why ecommerce and retail programs underperform

Rising CPMs, iOS signal loss, and sustained pressure on consumer spending have made the ecommerce landscape structurally harder. Brands running the same acquisition strategy they used three years ago are getting worse results, and most don't have the measurement infrastructure to understand why.

Most programs develop tunnel vision around ROAS, a snapshot metric that can look strong right up until growth stalls. A healthy ROAS on retargeting and branded search can mask a program that's capturing existing demand efficiently while doing nothing to create new demand upstream.

Holiday buyers acquired through deep discounts typically show lower lifetime value, and brands that chase sale volume without a post-event retention strategy train customers to wait for sales, eroding margin every promotional cycle.

Our approach to ecommerce and retail

Thrive runs media, data, and creative as one program. Measurement informs creative, creative informs media, and media decisions get validated by data.
The result is a cycle of learning that compounds over time.

Measurement & analytics

Measurement infrastructure rebuilt to account for platform attribution gaps, with business outcome metrics as the north star so decisions are based on real data rather than a playbook that no longer reflects how the market works.

Channel optimization

Channel expansion driven by incrementality evidence before scaling, with product feed optimization and tracking infrastructure in place so broken feeds and missing conversion events are caught before they become budget drains.

Customer acquisition

Large retail events planned as a two-phase program, audience building at lower CPMs before peak then efficient execution during the event, with a 30/60/90-day post-event retention strategy to extend the lifetime value of customers acquired during sale periods.
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How Asana grew revenue by 86% from 2019 to 2020

Asana’s mission is to help humanity thrive by enabling the world’s teams to work together effortlessly. They are empowering millions of teams across 190 countries to do great things with Asana.

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The Paid Media Growth Journey of Smith Optics

Smith Optics is an industry leader that pioneers advanced eyewear and helmets that incorporate dynamic technologies, optimized performance and clean styling to fuel fun beyond walls.

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How ActiveCampaign scaled leads and sales YOY

ActiveCampaign's category-defining Customer Experience Automation (CXA) platform helps over 130,000 businesses in 170 countries meaningfully engage with their customers. Thrive scaled ActiveCampaign's lead and sales opportunities across multiple advertising channels, while maintaining ROAS.

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How Earnest increased volume of leads by 40X

Earnest is a financial services company specializing in debt refinancing for students receiving a professional designation upon graduation from college. While Earnest generates a great deal of its business from its first-class reputation, engaging brand, and disruptive business model, a key component of its expansion plan was to launch a robust digital customer acquisition program across paid channels.

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How Notion scaled spend, increased CTR and drove more engagement

Thrive Digital has helped Notion produce new creative assets to improve engagement and click-through rates, which helped ramp up their spends on Facebook to mirror their aggressive growth goals.

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How Arc'teryx grew paid revenue 43x over 6 years

Thrive Digital was hired by Arc’teryx in order to lead all digital media planning and buying initiatives. This included initiatives on social ad platforms like Facebook Ads and YouTube, paid search initiatives on Google Adwords/Bing Ads, and campaigns on remarketing channels, DoubleClick and numerous other digital ad buying channels.

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How Change.org increased awareness to scale meaningful change during COVID-19 and other important events.

Thrive Digital was asked to help Change.org maximize the reach of its users’ petitions, leading to change within local communities and globally. Our partnership with Change.org spanned across key global events such as Covid-19, the Black Lives Matter movement, and more.

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How Adopt a Pet optimized channel investment strategy through incrementality testing

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

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Google Shopping and Performance Max capture high-intent demand. Meta drives awareness and retargeting across a broad audience. TikTok works well for brands with strong creative and younger demographics. The right mix depends on your margin, average order value, and customer acquisition cost, validated against incrementality testing rather than assumed from industry benchmarks.
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As a two-phase program. Phase one builds audience segments at lower CPMs in the weeks before peak. Phase two executes efficiently during the event with pre-approved creative and contingency plans ready. The post-event retention strategy is planned before the sale, not after.
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Through business outcome metrics: total revenue, new customer acquisition rate, lifetime value by cohort, and marketing efficiency ratio at the program level. Incrementality testing confirms that revenue attributed to campaigns is genuinely incremental.
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Early efficiency improvements typically emerge within four to eight weeks of fixing tracking, restructuring campaigns, and refreshing creative. Compounding growth from channel expansion and testing cadences builds over three to six months as the program's learning base grows.
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Monthly testing cadences with documented hypotheses across formats, messaging angles, and product focus. Creative briefs are informed by what the data shows is resonating, and production covers every channel and format rather than adapting a single master asset.
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Growth-stage and established brands running serious paid media programs. Most clients are spending meaningfully and looking to improve efficiency, expand channels, or fix the measurement foundation their current program lacks. We're straightforward about fit if a brand's budget or stage isn't right.
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