Well.ca: How a First-Ever DOOH Campaign Drove a 43% Lift in New Customer Revenue Across Western Canada

The Challenge

Well.ca's growth was lopsided across the country.

Well.ca had built a strong customer base in Ontario, but remained underpenetrated across Western Canada. To fuel its next stage of growth, the brand needed to build awareness and earn new customers in markets where it barely had a foothold yet.

The Insight

Western Canadians already loved wellness. They just didn't know Well.ca yet.

Well.ca is a one-stop shop for wellness, from clean beauty to vitamins and supplements. Western Canadians already over-index on wellness spending, so the opportunity wasn't to convince them to care, it was to put Well.ca in front of them at the moments that mattered and make the brand impossible to miss.

Services

Paid Media Marketing

The strategy

One click away, everywhere they look.

We built Well.ca's first-ever Out of Home campaign around a search-bar creative concept, showing shoppers exactly what they were looking for before they even had to search for it.

Our approach:

Launch in Vancouver and Calgary as a springboard into Western Canada

Use a search-bar creative concept to show key categories in a branded shipping box

Run Well.ca's first-ever DOOH campaign across gyms, malls, and bus shelters

Pair DOOH with display campaigns for a coordinated, always-on presence

The Execution

Creative Strategy

The campaign centered on a search-bar creative concept: four variations showing Well.ca's key categories, from clean beauty to vitamins and supplements, packed into a branded shipping box. The goal was instant value-prop recognition, so shoppers understood exactly what Well.ca offered at a glance.

We developed:

  • 4 search-bar creative variations
  • DOOH placements across gyms, malls, and bus shelters
  • A complementary display campaign to extend reach beyond DOOH

DOOH Strategy

Well.ca launched its first-ever Out of Home campaign in January, when wellness is top of mind for most Canadians, meeting shoppers where they already were.

  • Gyms across Vancouver and Calgary
  • High-traffic shopping malls
  • Bus shelters along commuter routes
  • Complementary display campaigns across the web

Pairing DOOH with display gave the campaign 2.1 million impressions in market within the first month alone.

Well.ca DOOH campaign creative

43%

increase in new customer revenue

26%

increase in new customer sessions

21%

increase in overall revenue

2.1M

impressions across DOOH and display in month one

Why it worked

01

A search-bar concept made value instantly clear

Showing shoppers the exact categories they search for, right on the box, removed any guesswork about what Well.ca offers.

02

DOOH put the brand where people actually are

Gyms, malls, and bus shelters meant Well.ca showed up in the everyday moments where wellness decisions get made.

03

January timing matched real intent

Launching when wellness is top of mind meant the campaign met an audience that was already primed to act.

04

Pairing DOOH with display extended the reach

Layering a display campaign on top of DOOH turned a two-city test into 2.1 million impressions in a single month.