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SL-B2-295REV.ACLASSIFIED · CLIENT-VIEW
E-COMMERCE · RUSSIA

B25.08

Premium minimalist fashion · Yandex.Direct · 3 years

E-Commerce
[00]DIAGNOSIS
Premium minimalist fashion brand with a physical showroom in Yekaterinburg. Cold, warm, and retarget audiences sharing budget without isolation. Showroom as a conversion step — not tracked. Bot traffic inflating click volume. Sales stuck at 23/month with no clear path to improvement.
Sales / month (peak)
68
from 23 at start
Yandex traffic share
60%
of all site traffic
Monthly visitors
33,025
April 2025 peak
Add to cart
163
+75 returned by retarget
Cost per sale
₽3,670
at ₽250K spend
Showroom visits
2,651
returning visitors in April
[01]SITUATION

B25.08 (ООО «В2508») is a Russian premium minimalist fashion brand. Target audience: men and women 25–44 interested in premium, minimal-aesthetic clothing. Physical showroom in Yekaterinburg. Online store at b2508.ru. Campaign: March 2022 — May 2025.

Goals: build cold-audience brand awareness, drive showroom traffic in Yekaterinburg, increase online sales, reduce non-target traffic spend. Starting point: 23 sales/month, undifferentiated campaign structure.

[02]AUDIENCE ARCHITECTURE — 3 TIERS

36 campaigns split across 5 placement types with explicit budget allocation by audience stage. Cold, warm, and behavioral segments run independently — no shared optimization signals.

Cold audience33% of total27 display campaigns

Users in the premium fashion market but unfamiliar with B25.08. Targeted by narrow product queries and interest signals: fashion, style, premium brands.

Warm audience37% of total6 retargeting campaigns

Site visitors with strong engagement signals: 2+ minutes on site, 2+ pages visited, added to cart without checkout, opened contact/callback form, visited showroom page.

Behavioral segmentsPart of retargetIncluded in retarget

Repeat visitors (2+ sessions in 30 days), product card browsers, banner clickers, CRM lookalike. Excluded: under 24 and over 55.

Search12% of total3 search campaigns

High-intent brand and product queries in Yandex.Poisk. Narrow keywords, tight match types.

Yandex.Maps18% of totalMaps placement

Showroom-drive campaigns in Yandex Business and Maps. Targeted by geography around Yekaterinburg showroom location.

[03]OPTIMIZATION ACTIONS

Anti-bot protection — eliminated fake traffic from all campaign budgets

Behavioral signal improvement: product card views, contact page, showroom navigation

Showroom-drive banners reinforced with Maps placement targeting

Keyword audit: removed broad/ambiguous queries that diluted quality score

Deep creative analysis: kept only highest-performing headline-visual combinations

Cold audience scale via lookalike from CRM client base

[04]KEY INSIGHTS
0137% of budget in retargeting is not overcorrection — it reflects where premium fashion converts

A premium minimalist fashion brand at B25.08's price point rarely converts on first contact. The user needs to see the product multiple times, consider it, return to the site, and eventually decide. Allocating 37% of budget to retargeting is acknowledging this reality — not wasting money on those who won't buy, but investing in the path that actually leads to purchase for this audience type.

02Showroom traffic is a conversion event and should be treated as one

75 retargeted users in April added to cart after a previous showroom visit — but without tracking the connection between the showroom visit and the online session, this signal is invisible. Maps campaigns driving showroom visits, combined with post-visit retargeting on site, create a measurable offline → online conversion path. The showroom is not an alternative to online; it's a step in the funnel.

03Yandex search traffic at 60% of total site traffic means the algorithm now models the best audience

When Yandex.Direct is driving 60% of all site traffic, the platform's algorithm has received enough behavioral data from conversions, time on site, and engagement signals to accurately model who the best prospective buyer is. At 18% share, the algorithm has limited signal — it's guessing. At 60%, it has a rich behavioral fingerprint of buyers. This is why scaling in a structured account produces disproportionate results.

043,476 keywords in 3 search campaigns means each group is narrow enough to match copy to intent

A search campaign with 3,476 keywords spread across 3 campaigns has an average of ~1,159 keywords per campaign — which sounds dense. But these campaigns are segmented by intent, not lumped together. The result: each ad group contains queries similar enough to each other that one headline can address them all accurately. This is why CTR stays high and quality score remains strong despite the volume.

[05]OUTCOME

Sales grew from 23 to 68/month in the peak month (April). Yandex drives 60% of all site traffic — 33,025 visitors in a single month. 163 add-to-carts, with 75 recovered by retargeting. 2,651 returning visitors in April. Cost per sale at ₽3,670 against ₽250,000 monthly spend. Showroom traffic tracked and connected to campaign as an offline conversion step.

Structure: 36 campaigns · Search 12% · Cold banners 33% · Retarget 37% · Maps 18%
Audiences: cold (new-to-market) · warm (behavioral) · CRM lookalike · showroom visitors
Result: 23→68 sales/month · 60% Yandex traffic share · 33,025 visitors peak

Client name is a pseudonym. Report ID is internal. All figures are actual Yandex.Direct and Metrica account data. Results reflect peak performance month; averages differ.