Programmatic campaigns for Awareness and Recall for one of India’s Top D2C Brands
The Brand:
We were approached by one of India’s top personal care brands who had a wide range of products. Within 5 years of founding, the brand achieved cult status. The Brand’s products are FDA approved, dermatologically tested, SLS-free, Vegan & animal test (cruelty) free, with zero plastic footprint and they are also Made Safe certified in Australia.
The Context
The brand was running performance ads but hit a plateau on the results. Prior to the engagement with GenY, they have also never put in any efforts to spread awareness about their products, educate prospective customers, or create a buzz around their products. In other words, they never made any efforts to undertake top-of the-funnel marketing activities. With an aim to rectify this and initiate top-of-the-funnel marketing activities, they approached us.
The Challenge
- The Brand wanted to expand their top of the funnel and build Brand Awareness & Recall on a large scale using their Brand film.
- The brand also wanted to quantify the Awareness and Recall generated while measuring View Through (VT) and Cross Environment (CE) conversions.
The Solution
- DV360: With Google’s programmatic platform DV360, we built and executed a YouTube media plan for them across various zones.
- Brand Lift Studies: We also conducted brand lift studies across all zones, to derive precious data points for planning future campaigns.
- Campaign Manager 360: Used impression tagging to track view through and cross device conversions, thus measuring the overall impact of the campaign.
- Insights from Data: Through attributed post view and post click sales, we accurately calculated new customer acquisition, and repeat purchase rates.
Solution visually depicted below:

Results:
- 18.5% Absolute lift & 75.1% Relative lift in ad recall
- 6.2% Absolute lift & 19.1% Relative lift in Brand Awareness
