Case Study: Merino base-layer activewear · Australia | Altafar
Case Studies / Merino base-layer activewear
Total store revenue over time for merino base-layer activewear, from the client's Shopify dashboard

Total store revenue · Shopify

DTC · E-commerce · Australia

From 1.6× to 3.2× ROAS in 10 weeks.

Total store revenue over time for merino base-layer activewear, from the client's Shopify dashboard

Total store revenue · Shopify

A merino base-layer label with solid demand but a bloated account — 16 overlapping ad sets fighting each other and never leaving learning.

3.2×
final ROAS
from 1.6× baseline
A$430K
Revenue generated
in 10 weeks
A$31
Cost per purchase
from A$54 baseline
Merino base-layer activewear · Australia
Managed on Meta Ads
First results in weeks

Sixteen ad sets, zero clarity.

Every new idea had become its own ad set. Budget was split so thin nothing exited the learning phase, audiences overlapped, and reporting was pure noise at a profitable-but-capped 1.6×.

16 ad sets overlapping on the same core audiences
Budget so fragmented nothing left learning phase
Manual budget tweaks fighting the algorithm daily
No kill/scale rules — decisions by gut

We were busy every day moving budgets around and it never got better. Turns out we were just competing against ourselves.

Founder · Activewear Brand · AU

What we built in 10 weeks.

01
Account restructure
Consolidated 16 ad sets into 3 clean CBO campaigns and let budget concentrate on real winners.
16 → 3 ad sets
CBO consolidation
Controlled learning reset
02
Audience & budget strategy
Collapsed overlapping interests into broad + a single high-intent stack, ending internal auction competition.
Broad + one intent stack
Overlap eliminated
Concentrated daily budgets
03
Creative to feed the structure
Refreshed with merino-specific proof — thermal tests, layering demos — so the clean structure had strong signals.
Thermal + layering demos
Athlete UGC
Season-led angles
04
Reporting & rules
Built one Meta+Shopify view with explicit scale-at / kill-at thresholds checked twice a week.
Single source of truth
Clear scale/kill rules
Mon/Wed reviews

From 1.6× to 3.2× in 10 weeks.

Consolidation alone lifted efficiency within two weeks as spend concentrated. By week 10 the account was stable and scalable at 3.2×.

Timeline
Week 1–2 Audit and restructure
Week 3–4 First new creatives live
Week 6 Breakeven crossed
Week 6 ROAS 2.4×
Week 10 ROAS 3.2×, budget scaled
ROAS
Before: 1.6×
3.2×
+100% ROAS
Cost per purchase
Before: A$54
A$31
−43% CPP
Revenue generated
Before: baseline
A$430K
in 10 weeks
Avg. CTR
Before: 1.1%
2.4%
+118% CTR
Landing page CVR
Before: 1.6%
3.0%
+88% conversion
Creatives tested
Before: few
16
active testing system

"Cutting the account down felt scary and was the best thing we did. Fewer, cleaner campaigns doubled our return and we finally trust the numbers."

Founder · Merino base-layer activewear
Australia · DTC · E-commerce
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