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Case Study / Phaidon

Transforming Phaidon's Paid Search: A 283% Increase in Revenue with 6% Less Spend

Transforming Phaidon's Paid Search: A 283% Increase in Revenue with 6% Less Spend

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Phaidon is a globally respected publisher, renowned for producing high-quality books on the creative arts.

Phaidon is one of the world's most prestigious publishers, celebrated for beautifully crafted books spanning art, architecture, design, food, photography, and more. Phaidon has partnered with Clicky for many years to drive direct-to-consumer sales through Paid Search across both the UK and US markets.

Client

Phaidon

Year

2018-Present

Services

The Challenge

Phaidon had recently launched a new website, which presented both an opportunity and a challenge. The improved revenue tracking gave us far better performance visibility, but the account needed restructuring to take full advantage of this new data. The goal was to maximise direct-to-consumer revenue during the critical November to December peak trading period, without increasing the existing budget.

The Solution

With clearer performance insights from the new site, we shifted to an automated bidding strategy and restructured campaigns to prioritise the highest-return products across both Search and Shopping campaign types.

To capitalise on the peak holiday period, we supported activity with promotional messaging aligned to key gifting moments. We also used the higher seasonal demand as an opportunity to test new creative campaign types, including Performance Max, giving us learnings to carry forward into 2026.

Throughout, the approach was focused on stripping campaigns back to top performers, optimising bidding strategies, and refining ad copy to maximise both efficiency and scale.

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