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Selling the dress the whole internet is searching for

A US women's fashion brand known for its slip dresses and statement jewelry, with sudden viral moments whenever a celebrity wears a piece. Midsummer Agency ran its Google Ads, built so every product could shine and the account stayed profitable through every spike.

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Selling the dress the whole internet is searching for

About the client

The client is a US ecommerce brand for women, selling dresses, knitwear, jewelry and accessories. The dresses lead the catalog, especially the silk slips, in lengths that run from a light summer piece to something for dinner out. The look is youthful but dressy, and the price point sits just under luxury.

The account had 2 things that made it demanding.

  • A handful of products pulled far more demand than the rest, so a stock-out or an off-season dip on one of them could shake the whole account.
  • Celebrities wore the brand, and when one posted a dress, traffic could explode overnight with visitors who were curious rather than ready to buy.

We ran Google Ads for the brand alongside the agency that led its wider marketing.

Women's fashion

Industry

Fashion & Jewelry

Market

United States

Services

Pay Per Click

Platform

Shopify

The challenge

The brand wanted every product in the catalog advertised and profitable, with performance holding steady from week to week. Most of what threatened that happened outside the ad account.

  • Celebrity moments. When a global pop star wore one of the dresses, searches for it spiked the next day. Most of those visitors wanted to see the dress, not buy it, so conversion rates dropped and the bidding algorithms started reading a distorted picture.
  • A charity collaboration. The brand ran a collection for a non-profit foundation honoring a late sports star. It drew enormous search volume, but most of its proceeds went to the foundation, so every ad click on it spent budget the brand would not earn back.
  • Uneven demand. A few best sellers carried a big share of the revenue. When one went out of stock or out of season, the account had to absorb it without losing its footing.

Keeping the account profitable meant watching the brand’s world almost daily, not just its dashboards.

The solution

We ran Google Ads across Shopping, brand search and non-brand search, fed by a product feed we managed in DataFeedWatch. Over the years, as Google’s own campaign types changed, we kept rebuilding toward a structure that did more with less.

Pay Per Click

Splitting the catalog the way it actually sells

ServicesGoogle Ads · Feed Management · Microsoft Ads

The account was built for an earlier stage of the business. We went through the catalog product by product and grouped it by what really drives sales.

  • Category, with the dresses split out from knitwear, jewelry and accessories
  • Price point and sales volume, so best sellers and slower lines each got the right investment
  • The dress itself: longer styles for evenings out, lighter ones for everyday wear, each with its own season

Budgets and targeting followed those groups through the year, pushing the styles the season favored and easing off the ones it didn’t.

A structure the algorithm could run

The point of the segmentation was to stop editing the account by hand. Once each group sat in the right place, our job shifted to giving the bidding algorithm the cleanest possible signal from whatever was in stock that week. The structure stayed small enough to manage, so when stock or the season shifted we could move the same day.

We also made sure the whole catalog got its turn. Earrings, bracelets and the other pieces that finish an outfit sat in the account alongside the dresses, because the brand sells a look as much as a garment.

Staying out of the wrong searches

For the foundation collection, we built negative keyword lists that kept the ads off every search tied to it. The organic traffic still came, the cause still got its attention, and the ad budget stayed on products the brand could profit from. That one move saved $4,200 in spend.

Celebrity spikes got the same daily attention. We watched what was happening on social and in the press, read the surge for what it was, and held the account steady instead of letting it chase curious clicks.

Testing in measured steps

A brand that sells well tempts everyone to try everything. We kept experiments small and tied to what the data already supported, so the account could try new campaign types as Google introduced them without putting performance at risk.

The results

Revenue grew 61% and transactions rose 70%, while traffic more than doubled. The negative keyword work on the foundation collection saved $4,200 that would have gone to clicks with no chance of paying back.

Underneath the numbers was a steadier account. The segmented structure let the algorithm work with clean data, so a viral weekend or a sold-out best seller no longer knocked the whole account off course.

+61%
Revenue · Google Ads
+70%
Transactions · Google Ads
+107%
Traffic · site
$4.2K
Budget saved · negative keywords

Timeline

In their words

From the beginning, the Midsummer team was professional, responsive, and dedicated to helping me achieve my marketing goals. They took the time to thoroughly understand my business and developed a customized strategy that was tailored to my specific goals. One of the things that really stood out to me about Midsummer was their transparency and communication. They provided regular reports and updates on the progress of the campaigns, and they were always available to answer any questions or concerns I had. They truly go above and beyond to deliver exceptional results for their clients.

The Owner

US women’s fashion brand

The team

Valentinas

Valentinas

Valentinas

Pay Per Click

Ran the account in its early phase and handed it over.

Fabio

Fabio

Fabio

Pay Per Click

Took over day-to-day management and built the catalog segmentation the account ran on.

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