
Search Lift study for Wittchen:
How do campaigns on Meta increase sales
and search traffic?
The Challenge
Wittchen, a leader in the segment of leather goods and premium accessories, conducts marketing activities across many channels, including Google and Meta. The purchase process in the fashion industry often starts digitally, but the purchase decision may be deferred over time. The brand needed hard data to understand the actual impact of its Meta advertising campaigns on online sales, direct website visits, and both paid and organic traffic.
The Strategy
A long-standing partnership with Meta enabled us to launch multi-stage efforts on Wittchen’s account aimed at answering these questions.
We began by combining automated Advantage+ campaigns with manual campaigns to increase brand awareness, traffic, and sales. Using Advantage+ audience groups in campaigns allowed Meta’s algorithms to go beyond basic targeting parameters and reach new people potentially interested in Wittchen’s products.
Next, Advantage+ ads were automatically directed to users most likely to make a purchase, while maintaining exposure among the brand’s key target group. We additionally applied Advantage detailed targeting to identify audience groups delivering better or cheaper results.
Recognizing the limits of last-click attribution, we configured custom conversions for events related to both paid and organic search. Thanks to the prior implementation of the Conversion API, we securely transmitted data and gained a more complete view of user behavior.
Finally, we conducted a Meta Conversion Lift test at the account level using the Search Lift methodology. This allowed us to measure the difficult-to-attribute impact of Facebook and Instagram campaigns on search traffic and key performance indicators, including sales.
The Results
+40%
conversion (purchase) compared to people who did not see ads on Meta
+63%
direct website visits after contact with the campaign on Meta
+38%
website visits from Google ads after contact with the campaign on Meta
+29%
organic website traffic after contact with the campaign on Meta
