City Beach.

City Beach is an omnichannel retailer specialising in surf, skate, and street fast fashion. From humble beginnings, City Beach is now an iconic Australian brand with stores in Perth, Darwin, Sydney, Brisbane, and the Gold Coast and they have one of the largest eCommerce fashion sites in the country. We have worked with City Beach on their paid search strategy for over 3 years.

In 2019, we set a 20% year on year increase in revenue from Google Search and Shopping Ads, as well as a 20% increase in paid traffic to City Beach’s website.

In order to drive additional traffic and revenue, from heavily optimised campaigns, we had to devise a creative solution. Our KPIs were to:

• Increase revenue by 20% year on year
• Increase paid traffic by 20%

We knew automation was the key to success, as it would allow us to increase budget efficiencies and conversion rates.

Smart shopping was implemented alongside automated bidding (Maximise Conversion Value). The effects were two-fold: we freed up time that would have been spent manually creating campaigns while also reducing costs, as smart bidding allows us to pay the right amount for the right user. Responsive Search Ads were also used in search campaigns to increase click-through rates and ad relevance which, in turn, would reduce cost while increasing traffic volumes.

This ultimately would allow us to achieve targets with the same spend and freed up time to work on other strategic priorities such as increasing in-store traffic.