CASE STUDY
Tropical Smoothie Cookieless Test
ID-Free Cookieless Targeting Case Study
Tropical Smoothie Cafe partnered with KORTX and Dstillery to test new solutions for the future cookieless ecosystem.
Campaign Snapshot
Challenge: Tropical Smoothie Cafe wanted to start preparing for the cookieless future using their First-Party data from KORTX’s Axon Audience Manager.
Strategy: Partnering with Dstillery, KORTX’s Axon Audience Manager uncovered Tropical Smoothie’s First-Party segment of online purchasers as the seed audience for their ID-free Custom AI solution.
Success: The ID-free Custom AI audiences improved the client’s display CPA by 70% and video CPA by 75% compared to Third-Party QSR segments and contextual competitors.
RESULTS
70%
display CPA improvement
75%
video CPA improvement
“KORTX’s innovative approach to audience targeting includes proactively testing new solutions for the future cookieless ecosystem. As we phase out cookie- based online identity, finding, testing, and onboarding solutions that match or beat cookie-based audiences’ outcomes is every brand’s goal.”
Bryan Presti
Ad Operations, KORTX
Challenge
KORTX partnered with Dstillery and set a goal to test its ID-Free solution alongside currently targeted audiences, comparing the online purchase CPA across the board.
We aimed to demonstrate that cookieless audiences could match or beat Tropical Smoothie’s historical online purchase CPA.
Strategy
Implemented alongside KORTX’s previously utilized audiences and select inventory sources, the campaign was built to organically allow the best-performing segments and inventory to receive priority delivery.
Success
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CPG & Entertainment
SERVICES USED
Custom Creative
Split Assist™
Axon Audience Framework
KORTX Intelligence
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