You probably guessed it…ADVERTISING. When you hear (or heard,) of all these scaling at an incredible pace, it’s all been due to the heavy amount of ad spend that goes into acquiring new customers. Of course, retention in most cases is the key to long-term growth; however companies like Casper are (were) all about new customer growth.
What’s the issue? iOS14 update has changed the game on everyone. The algorithms no longer do all the marketing work for those that learned marketing from purely letting algorithms take on the heavy load of doing most of the work in the days where mediocre creative and ad copy were more than sufficient to get the conversions.
Recommended ETREND Story: CASPER: Popular DTC Brand, Unprofitable Business, Sells For $286 Million To Private Equity
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