Leo Vegas, the King of Online Gaming
First developed in Sweden, Leo Vegas is an online casino that’s now Europe’s biggest mobile casino, owned by Leo Vegas International, Malta.
Leo being Latin for lion and Vegas being the city of dreams, Leo Vegas is a powerful casino experience with royal service.
Leo Vegas provides world-class game entertainment – on mobile, tablet, and desktop. It runs Europe’s fastest and most user-friendly mobile casino.
It was hugely satisfying to see improvement in our KPIs with our Carousel campaigns. It supported Facebook’s recommendation to consider a storytelling approach with bold design, and demonstrated the benefit of embracing new ad formats. Combined with Marin’s features and support we had a clear view of our campaigns at all times. The bulk editing and optimisation features meant more time could be spent understanding the reasons behind high performing adverts, rather than having to manually investigate and optimise each ad in isolation.
How to be the King of the Jungle?
As a new brand in the highly competitive mobile gaming industry, the goal was to support existing above the line campaigns that position Leo Vegas as King of Mobile Casino with a huge game library, whilst increasing CTR and lowering CPAs.
Carousel ads were the perfect option to ensure Leo Vegas ads stood out in Facebook News Feed. With its intuitive dashboard and ability to optimise campaigns at the ad level, Marin was uniquely suited to optimise Leo Vegas’ campaigns.
The primary goals of the campaigns were to test a new format advert that would stand out in the News Feed, allow for better visualisation of the range of games available, and increase click-through rates, all whilst optimising to lower CPAs.
With its campaign “King of Mobile Casino” (July – November 2015), Leo Vegas leveraged Carousel ads through a storytelling approach with bold visuals and snappy copy, and lowered CPAs for new player acquisitions.
With Carousel Ads, What Goes Around, Comes Around
With Carousel ads, Leo Vegas had the opportunity to show different games available on their site, expand on new features, and inform new players of the improved Leo Vegas ‘Welcome Package’.
Leo Vegas chose strong images combined with snappy headlines (such as ‘Go Bananas!’). The goal was to initially attract attention, and then provide further detail and context as the user swiped through the carousel.
This extra real estate meant engaged users could enjoy the strong visuals and be drip-fed key information in the style of a story rather than an intrusive advert.
Doubling Down
Since lookalike audiences based on the Facebook Custom Audience of “people who deposited” performed best for the Page Post link campaigns, Leo Vegas launched 2% lookalike audiences for their Carousel ad campaigns. This enabled the advertiser to have a broader reach but still target users similar to their core audience.
Leo Vegas created lookalike campaigns to widen their audience and reach more potential high-value players. With the help of Marin Social, they bulk-created multiple campaigns and ad variations in very little time, freeing up hours to monitor the campaigns at the ad level. This made it very easy to identify the best performing ads and optimise accordingly.
The ability to pivot reporting was a key timesaver, in addition to the ease of exporting, visualising, and sharing that data with their analysts. Audience Manager made it very simple to test a combination of lookalikes and WCA audiences whilst excluding existing players.
The Royal Results:
- 40% higher CTR (compared to PPLA campaigns)
- 21% less CP signup (compared to PPLA campaigns)
- 20% under CPA target
- Time savings
Running ads across Google, Bing, Amazon, and social media is necessary for online vendors and sellers. So why is analyzing the performance of those ads so complicated?
Data fragmentation and walled-garden publishers create roadblocks for retail marketers. You’ve got ASINs on Amazon, SKUs on Google Shopping, Meta Advantage Plus, and more – making it hard to align data and get the full picture of a product’s performance. Manually unifying cross-channel data for each product is a tedious process that you honestly don’t have time for.
It’s time to break down data silos with an AI-powered reporting and optimization platform like Marin. Here are five problems you’re probably facing today that Marin can solve.
1. It’s hard to compare product performance across channels
Retail marketers need to be able to compare conversion rates by publisher to spot sales trends. What if a product suddenly starts driving a significantly higher conversion rate on Amazon than on Google? You’ll want to identify that variance immediately to understand what’s working on Amazon and apply what you've learned to your search and social campaigns.
We make it easy to analyze how every product is performing across publishers. No more pulling data from each ad platform and unifying it in a spreadsheet. Marin marries cross-channel data for each SKU – and pulls in conversions and revenue from your source of truth, too. It also matches SKUs to ASINs, making it easier than ever to compare performance between Amazon and your other ad channels.
Thanks to Marin’s data visualization suite, you’ll never need to do manual data pulls or create visualizations again. The data model is unified and built-in. It’s all right there in the app, so you can move at the speed of business when making critical decisions about where to spend your next dollar. And if you like using spreadsheets, it’s one click to open our reports in Excel.
2. Your sales are impacted by social media trends
If sales for one specific product suddenly skyrocket, congratulations - an influencer may have recommended it to their audience. If you sell in the beauty, lifestyle, fashion, or wellness spaces, you’ve probably experienced this more than once. It’s important to recognize those surges the second they happen so that you can capitalize on them.
Marin’s Alerts will keep you on top of unexpected shifts in performance by sending a report straight to your inbox. The Alert’s thresholds are totally customizable, but a common one is for campaigns where spend has increased or decreased more than 70% day over day. If any campaigns meet your chosen thresholds, you’ll be emailed a report with all the relevant data and details, making it easy to decide what to do next. And once you’ve determined your next move, you can update budgets, bids, and settings for all your ads right in the Marin grid.
If you’re looking for something more turnkey, our Anomaly Detector might be for you. This AI-powered alerting tool doesn’t require any setup. It automatically identifies deviations in performance and sends a sharable, actionable email explaining what changed and what to do about it.
3. You need an optimization suite that understands the big picture
Jumping from one ads manager to another can be frustrating, especially since some UIs work better than others. And many campaigns share the same goal across publishers, but thanks to those pesky walled-gardens, you have to navigate through each interface to change ROAS targets for a campaign group. But not with Marin.
Our optimization suite is a command center for all your bidding needs. Tweak bids or targets for all your different campaigns in one grid. Or, unify everything with Marin Bidding. Our bidding algorithm runs across all your channels, so you can map Google, Bing, and Amazon campaigns that share a ROAS target to one Strategy in Marin, making optimization management easier than ever. With one click of a button, update targets across all your PPC publishers. You can also mix and match Marin Bidding with publisher bidding if you prefer.
The TL;DR? You tell the AI what to do. You handle the strategy because that’s what you rock at. Marin automates implementation and performance monitoring based on the strategy you choose.
4. Distributing budget across campaigns and channels is complicated
What if you could ensure that every campaign always has the most efficient daily budget possible? With Marin, you can. Simply set a monthly spend goal for a category of campaigns that share a budget, like brand, non-brand, or by geo. Then, choose a ROAS target. Once you’ve customized your settings, Marin’s AI will allocate your overall budget across campaigns by updating publisher daily budgets, giving the majority of spend to the products with the most marginal opportunity to drive revenue. The algorithm runs daily, so it’ll pick up on any shifts in the SERP and adapt daily budgets as needed. Sounds blissful, right? Let our AI take budget allocation off your plate. Learn more about Marin’s industry-leading budget allocation tool here.
5. Expanding to new channels is daunting
If TikTok gets banned in the US, are you ready to start advertising on Lemon8? Retail moves fast, and your brand can’t take years to establish a presence on the next major social media app.
Marin simplifies the process of testing new channels. You can review the performance of your products at the SKU level by publisher to decide where to start. For example, if you’re seeing success with Amazon Ads and want to test out Google Shopping, simply navigate to Marin’s Product Performance report to understand what your top-performing ASINs are.
Then, you can use our bulk-create tool to build Google Shopping campaigns for those products that you already know drive sales. That way, you’ll put your best foot forward when launching on Google. And you can do all the analysis, campaign creation, editing, and performance monitoring necessary to test a new publisher without leaving Marin. No more hopping from Amazon Ads to Google Ad Manager. Marin will be your mission control center, making it possible to do all your reporting and editing in one window.
…And so much more!
We’ve barely scratched the surface of what Marin can do for your retail media and shopping campaigns. Our customizable platform can solve almost any paid media problem, and automate almost any optimization or reporting workflow. But don’t take our word for it – we’ve got a plethora of case studies detailing how Marin has revolutionized one paid media program after another. And if you want to discuss your unique business needs with a Marin expert, we’re more than happy to chat.
