NASTY GAL

The online fashion retailer enjoyed a 12-point lift in purchase intent in the UK and a 9-point lift in purchase intent in the US after running dynamic ads for broad audiences on Instagram.

THE STORY
California dreamin’

Rooted in Los Angeles, and living everywhere online, Nasty Gal began in a tiny San Francisco apartment stacked with killer vintage and a single laptop. Today, the company has set up office across the globe in more than 60 countries under UK-based fashion retailer The Boohoo Group.

12-point

increase in purchase intent in UK

9-point

increase in purchase intent in US

18-point

increase in ad recall in UK

7-point

increase in brand awareness in US

One of the main goals with our campaign was to find out the effectiveness of our dynamic ad formats on brand awareness and the impact on purchase intent against a control group. The US and UK market is strategically important for us and the outcome has been great—the large number of people that we managed to influence in a positive way really exceeded our expectations.
ANDREW PARRY, PAID MEDIA MANAGER, NASTY GAL
THE GOAL
Raising brand awareness and sales intent

Nasty Gal wanted to make sure that its range of clothing was at the forefront of consideration for fashion-conscious young women in both the US and the UK.

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THE SOLUTION
Sharing fashion with passion

To showcase its range of clothing and styles and bring the brand to a wide audience, Nasty Gal worked with digital marketing agency SocialAmp to run dynamic ads, mainly on Instagram. Dynamic ads automatically show the right products to people who have expressed interest on a website, app or elsewhere on the internet. The ads showcased products from the Nasty Gal catalog in video, image and carousel format. The brand also ran Instagram ads with the traffic objective to encourage people to visit the Nasty Gal website and app.

Nasty Gal created Custom Audiences to reach people who had visited their website or app. Custom Audiences let marketers find their existing audiences among people who are on Instagram by using customer lists, website or app traffic, or engagement on Instagram. It also used broad audience targeting to reach people who had expressed interest in its products, or similar products.

The campaign ran for four weeks, from June 2–July 1, 2021, and achieved:

  • 12-point increase in purchase intent in UK

  • 9-point increase in purchase intent in US

  • 18-point increase in ad recall in UK

  • 7-point increase in brand awareness in US