magazine.co.uk is Jellyfish Connect's fast growing magazine ecommerce site selling over 750 magazine brands and presenting over 2,500 different offer types to users worldwide. The site works in partnership with the UK’s leading publishing companies and strives to place their magazines in front of the right user at the right time in order to maximise potential subscription sales.

By using appropriate strategies available within the Google Shopping platform, magazine.co.uk not only achieved publisher’s objectives in terms of raising their individual magazine’s profile and delivering sales within the agreed CPAs, but also helped deliver magazine.co.uk's aggressive sales growth targets. This was achieved by including custom data in the Shopping data feed and we segmented products and adjusted bids based on custom attributes such as CPA (Cost Per Acquisition), magazine category and publisher.

Seasonality is a major factor which influences KPIs for magazine sales, with peak sales periods corresponding with key consumer gifting times of year such as Christmas and Mother’s Day, so we have to carefully monitor goals between volume and revenue depending on the time of year. The high quality data feed and granular visibility available through Google Shopping for different offers allows us to swiftly implement changes to bid strategies to achieve these goals.

Thanks to the custom attributes and bespoke product segmentation available, magazine.co.uk achieved YOY growth in sales via Google Shopping of 84%. magazine.co.uk has since invested an additional 162% into Google Shopping campaigns which allows us to dynamically create ads and grow our keyword portfolio using data from the automated data feed fetches and this is ensuring we continue to grow sales volumes from this important marketing channel.

About magazine.co.uk

• Sells over 750 magazines from 100+ publishers
• Transactions from 100+ countries

Approach

• Customise and develop data feed
• Optimise bids for KPIs
• Restructure Shopping campaigns

Results

• Google Shopping sales increased by 84% YOY
• Shopping investment grew by 162% YOY

‘Google Shopping is now one of our most important sales channels for magazine.co.uk. The new options available through the platform are helping us continue to grow sales volumes within often quite restricted CPAs. Our publisher clients also love the profile Shopping gives their magazine brands too.’

Carola York, Managing Director, magazine.co.uk and Jellyfish Connect