• 357% increase in overall ROAS
  • 4.5x lift in ROAS after shifting from normal prospecting to Dynamic Ads Prospecting beta
  • 7.7x lift in ROAS after shifting from standard Website Custom Audience remarketing to Dynamic Ads remarketing, a 668% overall increase in ROAS

About Milestone

For the past 19 years, Milestone has been at the forefront of powering websites for the hospitality and retail industries. Milestone’s suite of digital marketing products powers the digital presence of over 2,000 customers, while Milestone’s website design services and organic and paid marketing services are driving traffic to thousands of properties all around the world.

Our goal at Milestone is to create a scalable approach to personalized marketing in order to drive the best value for our clients and their customers. Facebook’s Dynamic Ads, combined with Marin Social, covered all elements of our goals. The tools provided flexibility and customization needed to scale our Facebook strategies, and the results have exceeded our expectations.

Nicolette Martinez
Sr. Digital Account Manager - Retail, Milestone

How to Deliver More Relevant Social Ads to Previous Site Visitors and Prospects?

A popular brand of jewelry was looking to boost ROI from prospecting efforts on social publishing networks. Even though the jewelry brand had well-designed audiences, great ads, and strong landing pages, conversions were limited without understanding what products were relevant to their behavior.

The jeweler was finding it difficult and time-consuming to create custom audiences based on product interest or behavior on its website, and generate relevant, product-specific creative across all users, product categories, and products. It relied on broad lists and considerable manual creative, and showcased only the top performing products rather than those users were genuinely interested in. With thousands of products, it was a challenge to have so many items featured in unique creative for each audience combination.

Milestone’s goal was to solve the brand’s challenges, and achieve a 5x ROI from media spend on Facebook.

Milestone deployed Facebook Dynamic Ads (DA) through Marin Social to help create dynamic campaigns based on highly specific product sets and highly relevant targeting. Given the large number of high-quality products, the jewelry retailer was a natural candidate for DA.

Once Milestone set up the product feed, launching DA campaigns was a breeze in Marin Social. With the guidance of a Marin Client Services rep, Milestone went through the DA wizard in five simple, intuitive steps. Using Marin’s dynamic macros, Milestone was able to create customized ad variations with product, category, and price data populated from the jewelry brand’s product feed.

By the end of the process, the team set up ads for highly relevant products to website or mobile shoppers through remarketing across all devices, making use of ad templates that enable an “always on” ad experience. The team launched a wide range of DA product audiences—viewed but not bought, added to cart but not bought, and prospecting, a Marin beta feature. With Marin’s Automated Prospecting, Milestone found new customers and revenue using lookalike models of customers who had converted.

The outcome—personalized ads for everyone who visited specific product pages on the brand’s website.

A Higher ROAS and Growing Audience Engagement

The retargeting campaign, which ran from September 21 to December 6, 2016, exceeded all expectations

  • 357% increase in overall ROAS
  • 4.5x lift in ROAS after shifting from normal prospecting to Dynamic Ads Prospecting beta
  • 7.7x lift in ROAS after shifting from standard Website Custom Audience remarketing to Dynamic Ads remarketing, a 668% overall increase in ROAS