9.2x ROAS on Amazon for a Gourmet Gift Brand | Oney.Studio
Case Study · Amazon Ads · E-Commerce · Gourmet Gifting

9.2x ROAS
on Amazon for a
gourmet gift brand

How we set up Sponsored Products for a food gift box brand going into the holiday rush - one campaign group per hero product, small daily budgets, and fast cuts on anything that didn't sell. Every live campaign returned 6x or more.

Oney.Studio · Performance Marketing
9.2xROASHoliday season, all Sponsored Products
10.9%ACoS5.9% on the best campaign
0Orders from Ads8.1% of paid clicks turned into an order
Oney.Studio · Performance Marketing
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01: Context

The situation
we walked into

Client context

A North American gourmet gift brand (NDA)

A long-established brand selling curated food gift boxes - the kind people order for family, friends and colleagues before the holidays. Quiet for most of the year, then a short and very busy season when a large share of annual sales happens.

The challenge

A short season with no room for a learning phase

The brand needed Amazon Ads live and profitable for a handful of hero gift boxes in a few weeks, on small daily budgets, while every competing gift brand bid on the same broad searches. A campaign that took a month to find its feet would miss most of the season.

02: What We Did

Four rules.
One short
season.

Gift buyers on Amazon decide fast and search broadly. The setup was built to learn quickly, keep money on proven products, and stop spend on anything that wasn't selling.

01

One Campaign Group per Hero Product

Each gift box got its own campaigns and its own daily budget instead of sharing one pot. A bestseller couldn't starve a newer box, and we could see exactly which product was earning.

16 campaigns, 5 products
02

Auto and Manual Side by Side

Every product launched with automatic targeting to find how people actually search for gifts, plus manual exact, phrase and product-targeting campaigns to test specific keywords and competitor pages.

Launched in one week
03

Exact Match on the Hero Gift Box

On the main gift box, exact-match keywords caught the buyers who already knew what they wanted. It became the strongest campaign in the account, with ACoS under 6%.

16.9x ROAS
04

Fast Cuts, Budget Back to Winners

Manual campaigns that didn't pick up traffic were paused early, along with a side product that didn't fit gift intent. A catch-all gift box campaign was added mid-season to cover the rest of the range.

10 paused, 6 kept
03: Campaign Structure

Six campaigns
did the work.

These are the campaigns that stayed live through the season. Product names are hidden under NDA - each card is one Sponsored Products campaign with its own budget.

Sponsored Products · Exact
Hero Gift Box
16.9x ROAS · 5.9% ACoS
The best performer in the account. Exact-match keywords for shoppers searching for this type of gift box by name. 48 orders.
Sponsored Products · Auto
Hero Gift Box
10.2x ROAS · 9.8% ACoS
Automatic targeting on the same product, picking up related gift searches and competitor pages the exact campaign didn't cover.
Sponsored Products · Auto
Sampler Box
9.7x ROAS · 10.3% ACoS
The highest click volume in the account at the lowest cost per click. A lower-priced sampler that converted well as a quick gift. 39 orders.
Sponsored Products · Auto
Gift Box B
9.0x ROAS · 11.1% ACoS
A second premium gift box running on its own budget, so it never competed with the hero product for spend.
Sponsored Products · Auto
Signature Gift Box
7.8x ROAS · 12.8% ACoS
A classic holiday box with steady demand through the season. 23 orders on a modest daily budget.
Sponsored Products · Auto
Gift Box Range
6.1x ROAS · 16.5% ACoS
Added mid-season to cover the wider range in one campaign. Second-highest order count in the account with 42 orders.
04: Results

From launch to peak.
Profitable from day one.

The account ran across the holiday season on small budgets, with every live campaign above 6x ROAS. Overall, each dollar of ad spend brought back over $9 in Amazon sales.

Launch
0
Campaigns
Auto, exact, phrase and product targeting across 5 products
Cut
0
Paused
No traction or no gift intent - budget moved to what sold
Best campaign
16.9x
ROAS
Exact match on the hero gift box - 5.9% ACoS
Account
9.2x
ROAS
174 orders - 10.9% ACoS across the season
16.9x
10.2x
9.7x
9.0x
7.8x
6.1x

ROAS by live campaign, left to right: hero gift box exact (16.9x), hero gift box auto (10.2x), sampler box auto (9.7x), gift box B auto (9.0x), signature gift box auto (7.8x), gift box range auto (6.1x). Sponsored Products, Amazon attribution. Account total: 9.2x ROAS, 10.9% ACoS, 174 orders from 2,158 clicks.

9.2x
Account ROAS
Across all Sponsored Products campaigns for the season
8.1%
Click-to-Order Rate
174 orders from 2,158 paid clicks
10.9%
ACoS
Under 11 cents of ad spend for every dollar of sales

Profitable without a big budget

Daily budgets per campaign stayed small. The results came from structure and quick decisions, not from outspending other gift brands.

Clear view of every product

With one campaign group per gift box, the brand could see which products earn on Amazon and which don't - useful well beyond ads, for stock and pricing.

Ready for next season

The winning campaigns, keywords and budgets are already known. Next holiday season starts from a proven setup instead of another test.

05: What We Offer

If you want similar results,
here's how we work.

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