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DTC E-commerce Brand·2025·Performance

Peak season ROAS 4.8× with AI budget routing

Peak Season ROAS: 2.4× → 4.8× · 42-day run
4.8×
Peak ROAS
127
Creative Variants Tested
31%
CPM Below Benchmark
+$2.8M
Revenue vs Prior Year

Services

  • Peak Campaign Strategy
  • AI Budget Routing
  • Creative Testing at Scale
  • Real-time Optimisation

Timeline

6 weeks

Peak season for DTC is 6 weeks of chaos. Competitors double their budgets. CPMs spike. The brands that win are the ones with the fastest feedback loops.

An automated creative testing pipeline was deployed: 127 variants across format, copy, and visual — launched in the first 48 hours, with AI routing automatically increasing spend on the 15% that performed above threshold.

Budget routing ran on 4-hour cycles. If TikTok was delivering below $8 CPM on a high-intent audience, spend shifted there. If Meta's ROAS dropped below 3.5× in a market, budget moved to search.

The client's team got a daily briefing instead of a dashboard they had to interrogate. They made three strategic decisions in 6 weeks. The system made thousands.

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