Case study

How a DTC ecommerce brand recovered a failing email campaign

A real campaign. A strategy gap. One quality score that changed everything.

EcommerceEmail campaignSeasonal

The problem

The campaign looked great. It underperformed.

A fast-growing DTC flower delivery brand had a well-designed email campaign — strong visuals, compelling copy, a clear offer. But results were flat. Open rates were decent. Conversions weren’t.

“We kept optimising the wrong things — subject lines, send times, button colours. No one asked whether the strategy was right.”

— Marketing lead, DTC ecommerce brand

What OS Intelligence™ found

The copy didn’t match the strategy

When the campaign was scored against its own strategy brief, three critical gaps surfaced immediately.

Audience alignment42/100

Copy targeted gift-givers. Strategy brief was for repeat self-purchasers.

Message consistency55/100

Three different value propositions across subject line, header, and CTA.

Strategic intent match88/100

Overall campaign goal was well-defined. Execution didn't follow it.

What happened next

Three fixes. One relaunch.

#01

Rewrite for the right audience

Shifted copy from gift-giver to self-treat framing, aligned with the original strategy brief.

#02

Unified the message

One value proposition carried consistently from subject line through to post-click landing page.

#03

Re-scored before launch

OS Intelligence™ Quality Gate cleared at 91. Campaign launched with confidence.

+34%

Conversion lift

+18%

Click-through rate

91/100

Quality score

Results based on a simulated audit using OS Intelligence™.

The insight

Bad campaigns aren’t bad because of the copy

They’re bad because the strategy was never checked. IbnaticsOS makes strategy the starting point — and scores every campaign against it before it goes live. Every time.

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