A long-term Google Ads and Meta Ads partnership that kept a 10,000+ product catalogue profitable through two major platform overhauls, and counting.
The Client
We’ve partnered with an Australian online retailer specialising in premium designer wallpaper and murals, with a catalogue of more than 10,000 styles from leading Australian and international brands. Their customer base spans homeowners renovating a single room through to interior designers and builders sourcing finishes for residential and commercial projects.
By the time we came on board in 2018, the client already had a strong product range and an established online store. What they didn't have was an advertising system built to keep pace with a catalogue that size, or one that could scale spend with confidence as Google and Meta moved from manual campaign management toward automation.
The Challenge
Running paid media for a 10,000+ product catalogue is not the same problem as running it for a business with twenty SKUs, or building leads for a local builder. Design trends move fast, and demand for any given style, texture or colour shifts throughout the year. A campaign built around "wallpaper" as one category was never going to reflect how people actually shop.
On top of that, the two platforms carrying most of the budget changed shape more than once over the partnership, as AI and automation matured across both. Google Ads moved from manually managed keywords and bids to an automation-led system built on Performance Max. Meta went through a similar shift, putting far more weight on creative quality and audience signals than manual targeting.
And because the client’s customers range from a homeowner picking one feature wall to a builder specifying finishes across a development, purchase intent and order value vary enormously from one customer to the next. Holding profitability steady while the catalogue, the customer mix and the platforms were all changing at once was the real challenge, not simply generating more traffic.
Our Strategic Approach
Demand-Led Campaign Structure
Instead of treating wallpaper as one broad category, we structure and restructure campaigns around what's actually driving demand at any given time. That gives Google's and Meta's automation clearer signals to work with, and gives customers a shopping experience that matches what they're actually looking for, rather than a generic catalogue dump.
Full-Funnel Channel Integration
Google and Meta are run as one strategy, not two separate accounts. Google Ads captures the high-intent search traffic from people already looking for a specific style or brand. Meta introduces the business to new customers earlier, during the inspiration and research stage, before they've started searching directly.
Data Quality as the Growth Lever
As both platforms shifted toward machine learning, our role shifted with them, from manually setting bids and keywords to improving the quality of information feeding the system. That means stronger product data, clearer audience signals and ongoing analysis of how people are actually searching and buying, so the automation has the best possible foundation to work from.
Continuous Testing and Structural Review
Campaigns are reviewed against real purchasing behaviour on an ongoing basis, not set up once and left alone. Creative is tested and refreshed regularly on Meta, and campaign structures on both platforms are rebuilt as trends and platform capabilities change.
Scaling the Investment
Over five-plus years, Google Ads delivered a 24.41x return sustained across years rather than a single strong month. Meta continues to complement Google by bringing in new customers Google's search-based targeting can't reach on its own.
That level of sustained return is what gives us room to keep scaling investment with confidence. Because the underlying system, the feed, the tracking, the campaign structure, is built to convert efficiently at the current spend level, increasing budget is a controlled decision backed by data rather than a gamble on volume.
The Results
Lifetime Performance
- 24.41x lifetime Google Ads ROAS
- 19.07x lifetime Meta Ads ROAS
- 320,000+ website visits driven through Meta advertising
2025 Year-on-Year Growth
- $1.22 million in Google Ads conversion value
- 30.82x Google Ads ROAS across the year
- 24.19 Meta Ads ROAS across the year
- 25% increase in conversions compared to the previous year
- 20% increase in conversion value compared to the previous year
- 38% increase in conversion rate compared to the previous year
Recent Snapshot
In the most recent 30-day period, Google Ads delivered a 15.50x ROAS and generated over $40,000 in revenue, while Meta Ads returned 25.90x ROAS on its own campaigns. Both channels are currently performing above their long-term averages, which is the clearest sign the account still has room to scale further without losing efficiency.
Broader Business Growth
Alongside the advertising results, the client has grown into one of Australia's largest wallpaper and mural retailers, now a regular source for interior designers and builders as well as homeowners. That kind of market position is built by the client, through their own product range, supplier relationships and reputation in the design and build community. We wouldn't attribute it directly to the ad account, but it's the environment a consistently profitable paid media strategy has been able to support.
The Business Impact
Eight years in, our management isn't just about updating a set of ad campaigns, it’s coordinating and integrating a system that has absorbed two major platform overhauls without losing profitability. That's given them the confidence to keep reinvesting in paid media, the ability to plan growth around numbers they trust, and a paid media partner that treats the account as a long-term business relationship rather than a series of one-off campaigns.
Client Perspective
“We've been with PupDigital since 2018 and the biggest thing for me is that I've never had to worry about the ad account. Google and Meta have both changed a lot in that time and every time something shifted, they were already restructuring things before it became a problem for us.
We've got over 10,000 products and trends move fast in this space, so having a team that actually pays attention to what's selling and rebuilds campaigns around it, rather than just leaving it running, has made a real difference to how confidently we can invest.”
Conclusion
Over eight-plus years, our client has generated more than $4 million in tracked Google Ads revenue at a 24.41x return, grown conversions 25% year-on-year even as the catalogue and the platforms kept changing, and built a Meta channel now driving over 320,000 website visits. None of that came from one strong campaign. It came from treating paid media as a business-wide strategy, that evolved as technology shifted, and building a system with enough headroom to keep scaling investment as the returns keep proving it out.
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