Paid Creator Campaigns That Convert: 86% Above Benchmark

How full-funnel creator selection and brand-owned storefronts lifted conversion and click-through on a paid creator campaign.
+86%
Conversion rate above the client’s historical benchmark
+91%
Click-through rate above the client’s historical benchmark
2x
Benchmark lift across CVR and CTR

Channel: Paid Instagram creator campaign | Motom Solution: Creator storefronts, full-funnel creator data

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The Challenge

Brands and retailers spend paid media to amplify creators they cannot fully evaluate, then send that traffic somewhere that was never built to convert. Paid spend drives clicks with no connection to the creator or the content behind them. Conversion stalls, and the next campaign starts from the same guesswork.

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Two structural problems sit underneath: ‍

  • ‍Selection runs on social metrics: Brands have no full-funnel view of which creators convert shoppers over time. ‍
  • Paid traffic lands on a generic destination: The shopping context the creator built breaks the moment the audience clicks through.

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The Approach

The Motom client paired an awareness-focused creator initiative with a sales layer during a promotional period. ‍

  • ‍Creator selection on commerce data: Creators were chosen using full-funnel storefront performance data alongside audience metrics, a commerce signal social metrics alone cannot provide. ‍
  • Paid traffic to owned storefronts: Paid amplification sent audiences to each creator’s storefront on the Motom client’s own site, curated around the products they had just seen. ‍
  • Attribution to the product sold: Clicks, sales and paid versus organic performance were tracked inside the Motom client’s own program.

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The Results

Measured against the client’s historical campaign benchmark:

Conversion rate (CVR)+86% lift
Benchmark
15.00%
Campaign
27.84%
Click-through rate (CTR)+91% lift
Benchmark
0.47%
Campaign
0.90%
  • Both conversion and click-through came in at nearly 2x the client’s historical rate.
  • Audiences arrived at a curated commerce environment built around the creator’s recommendations, so the purchase path held from content to checkout.

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Why It Worked

  • ‍Better inputs: Paid budget went behind creators with a proven commerce track record, not only a social one. ‍
  • A better conversion environment: The storefront kept the context between content and commerce intact. ‍
  • Conversion capture at every tier: Creators chosen mainly for reach still had a storefront ready for shoppers who wanted to buy.

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Key Takeaway

Paid creator campaigns perform at a materially higher level when creator selection runs on commerce data and paid traffic lands on an owned storefront.

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Based on Motom client program data.