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How Personalized Experience Ads drove 31% incremental conversions with a 20% lower Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) through sequential tests on social, and then scaling top performing creatives as animated display ads.

How Personalized Experience Ads drove 31% incremental conversions at 20% lower CAC

A Food and Beverage brand was struggling with:

  • High customer acquisition costs (CAC) from generic, non-personalized ads
  • Stagnant engagement rates on static social and display creatives
  • Inability to scale top performers efficiently across platforms

Personalized Experience Ads that leveraged:

  • Emotion-based triggers: Milestones, pain points, and real-time opportunities
  • Sequential storytelling: Social ads → retargeting with animated display ads
  • Performance-driven creative: Messaging, CTAs, and formats tailored to user behavior

✓ 31% incremental conversions by making users feel “This ad gets me”

✓  20% lower CAC through hyper-relevant retargeting

✓  Scalable creative system: Top social performers seamlessly adapted to display

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Unified desktop to mobile experience allowing for in-the-moment conversion.

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Personalized Experience Ads

Personalized Experience Ads go beyond targeting—they connect at the core of what drives action. By pairing emotional resonance with data-led creative, they deliver 31% incremental conversions and reduce customer acquisition costs by 20%.

Stop leaving conversions on the table.

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