Case Study: Driving Early Demand for Innovation

How a Leading Beverage Brand Drove Early Demand With Albertsons Media Collective

Opportunity: Driving Trial for a Bold New Flavor

A leading beverage brand was preparing to introduce a bold new flavor innovation into a highly competitive category. With shoppers increasingly discovering new products directly in their social feeds before reaching the shelf, early attention and measurable performance became essential to proving demand. The brand needed more than broad awareness, it needed a launch strategy that could drive real trial, conversion, and revenue impact in its priority markets.

Strategy: A Performance-Driven, Video-Led Omni-Channel Approach

To meet these goals, Albertsons Media Collective partnered with the brand to develop a sales-focused omni-channel plan centered around efficient ROAS and precision audience targeting.

Meta as a Growth Engine

High-impact video placements across Instagram and Facebook played a central role in the strategy, pairing scroll-stopping creative with precise audience layering. Using first-party data, campaigns reached recent category-relevant shoppers, complementary product buyers, and key demographic groups that closely aligned with the brand’s core persona.

Closed-Loop Measurement for Verified Revenue Impact

Meta’s closed-loop measurement connected video exposure directly to sales, allowing the brand to validate performance and demonstrate how engagement translated into measurable revenue gains.

“At Albertsons Media Collective, we’re dedicated to delivering measurable value for our brand partners through innovative, data-driven solutions. With LiveRamp’s expanded Meta insights, we have improved the visibility and accuracy of lower-funnel results. We did this by connecting audience-targeted Meta campaigns directly to item level sales with greater precision and speed.” -Evan Hovorka, VP of Product Innovation, Albertsons Media Collective

Onsite Display to Reinforce the Path to Purchase

Onsite placements ensured continuity across the customer journey by keeping the new flavor top-of-mind as shoppers browsed the retailer’s digital experience. This dual-channel approach helped convert consideration into action.

Results: High-Impact Improvements Across Every Metric

The campaign didn’t just perform, itoutperformed, proving that video can be a meaningful growth driver when paired with smart audience strategy and measurement.

  • +253% ROAS Lift

  • +146% CVR Lift

These results established a new playbook for the brand’s approach to innovation launches.

Key Learnings: What Worked

  • Reach shoppers where decisions happen with unified onsite + offsite activation.

  • Use bold creative that stands out in high-attention environments like social feeds.

  • Align first-party audience that aligns to core shopper personas.

  • Build on success by expanding touchpoints, including in-store media and personalized digital offer

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