Yannick Wittenauer
Published on 12 December 2024
Ultra Premium Direct (UPD) is a 10-year-old French subscription-based pet food brand offering premium, natural products for dogs and cats.
As an innovative disruptor in the Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) space, UPD focuses on attracting new customers and driving online growth.
To drive attention, UPD developed messaging hypotheses focusing on 4 key creative concepts aimed to improve purchase intent.
They turned to video ads and YouTube to test these 4 concepts, leveraging VideoRunRun’s Creative Intelligence solution to optimize performance while better understanding messaging impacts.
With Creative Intelligence, UPD’s YouTube campaign exceeded expectations with a 2.3x Lower CPA (full case study here) achieving results that surpassed both branding (views) and performance (CTR, conversion rates) objectives, outperforming industry benchmarks.
Beyond the numbers, they gained invaluable creative analytics to refine their messaging and enhance future strategies.
VideoRunRun’s tech harnesses the power of AI and computer vision technologies, such as object detection and speech-to-text, combined with Data Science, to distill every creative element into a detailed profile of 50+ data points.
By correlating these creative elements with campaign performance across various audiences and devices, VideoRunRun uncovered the precise formula for driving engagement and action.
Remember, in video advertising, the structure of a video ad—not just its creative concept—is pivotal in capturing attention and converting audiences.
These insights allowed VideoRunRun Creative Strategist to identify the key ingredients for success, such as:
This way, UPD has all the necessary information to continue running the best videos on the most relevant audiences and capitalize on new creative ideas to iterate and optimize future videos.
Finally, the perfect brief should look like the following, of course with all the informations filled in.
UPD now holds a data-backed creative roadmap to inform their next customer acquisition campaigns.
The next logical step? Expand beyond YouTube to test these proven insights across additional platforms like Meta or TikTok, refining them further for diverse audiences and formats.