Xcelerate Brands

Demand you pay for, demand you earn, and what happens next

Paid search and social, marketplace advertising, organic visibility and the conversion work that decides what any of that traffic is worth. Run against contribution margin rather than against a platform's own report of itself.

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What we run in Growth & Advertising

  • Google Ads

    Google Ads

    Search, Shopping, Performance Max and Display, run against contribution margin rather than against a ROAS target somebody inherited. Most accounts we take over are not underspending, they are spending well on the wrong half of the catalogue.

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  • Meta Ads

    Meta Ads

    Facebook and Instagram run against contribution margin rather than against the ROAS the platform reports. Most accounts we take over are not short of budget, they are short of creative the algorithm has anything to choose between.

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  • Conversion Rate Optimization

    Conversion Rate Optimization

    What happens to a visitor between arriving and deciding: the page, the offer, the proof and the friction in between. It is the one improvement that makes every other channel cheaper at the same time.

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  • Amazon Advertising

    Amazon Advertising

    Sponsored Products, Brands and Display, plus DSP where the account is large enough to justify it. Structure before tactics: how campaigns are split decides what every later bid decision is able to do.

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  • Programmatic Advertising

    Programmatic Advertising

    Amazon DSP and the wider programmatic inventory, used for the audiences a keyword cannot reach: people who viewed and did not buy, people who bought once, and in-market shoppers in your category who have never heard of you.

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What’s included in Growth & Advertising

Google Ads

Search, Shopping, Performance Max and Display, run against contribution margin rather than against a ROAS target somebody inherited. Most accounts we take over are not underspending, they are spending well on the wrong half of the catalogue.

  • Search and Shopping
  • Performance Max
  • Feed quality
Google Ads

Meta Ads

Facebook and Instagram run against contribution rather than against the ROAS the platform reports. Most accounts are not short of budget, they are short of creative the algorithm has anything to choose between.

  • Prospecting and retention
  • Creative volume
  • Tracking and catalogue
Meta Ads

Conversion Rate Optimization

What happens to traffic once it arrives: the page, the offer, the proof and the friction between a visitor and a decision. It is the cheapest lever in the account, because it improves every channel at once.

  • Page and offer
  • Proof and trust
  • Friction in the path to purchase
Conversion Rate Optimization

Amazon Advertising

Sponsored ads inside the marketplaces themselves, plus the programmatic display that reaches the same buyer off it. Structure before tactics: how campaigns are split decides what every later decision can do.

  • Sponsored ads and PPC
  • Amazon DSP and programmatic
  • Structure before optimisation
Amazon Advertising

Programmatic Advertising

Amazon DSP and the wider programmatic inventory, used for the audiences a keyword cannot reach: people who viewed and did not buy, people who bought once, and in-market shoppers in your category who have never heard of you.

  • Audience strategy
  • Amazon DSP
  • Creative for display
Programmatic Advertising

How it works

  1. 01

    Establish what a customer is worth

    Contribution after fees, returns, shipping and storage, by product rather than in aggregate. Without this every efficiency target is somebody's guess, and most inherited ones are.

  2. 02

    Fix the structure before the bids

    Feeds, campaign structure, tracking and catalogue. An account with the wrong structure cannot be optimised into a good one, and most of the work we inherit is at that layer.

  3. 03

    Buy the demand that pays

    Spend goes where the contribution is, which is often not where the reported ROAS is highest. Channels are compared against each other on the same measure rather than on their own reports.

  4. 04

    Earn the demand that compounds

    Organic visibility and conversion work alongside the paid programme, because the two are the same funnel and improving the second makes the first cheaper.

Frequently asked questions

  • Google Ads

    Google Ads

    Google Ads management for eCommerce: Search, Shopping, Performance Max and feed optimisation, run against contribution margin rather than platform ROAS.

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  • Meta Ads

    Meta Ads

    Meta ads management for eCommerce: Facebook and Instagram campaigns, catalogue and dynamic ads, Conversions API and creative testing, run on margin.

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  • Conversion Rate Optimization

    Conversion Rate Optimization

    Conversion rate optimisation for eCommerce: funnel analysis, page and offer work, checkout friction and testing that reaches a decision.

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What we have written about the work, for anybody weighing it up before they ask us.

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