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Ecommerce & Retail

Full-funnel performance, CRO, lifecycle and creative — for DTC brands and multi-channel retailers chasing the next 8-figure year.

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Live trends · Ecommerce & Retail

What's actually working for UK DTC and retail in 2026.

Profit-led channel mix, creative testing cadence and AI plays we're running across Shopify, BigCommerce and headless retail stacks for UK brands.

Live benchmark
3.4x
blended MER target for scaling DTC in 2026
Live benchmark
+47%
new-customer revenue from Advantage+ vs. ASC
Live benchmark
£18
average CAC for considered-purchase categories
Paid Media

Profit, not ROAS, is the optimisation goal.

Contribution-margin reporting baked into Triple Whale / Northbeam is now standard. Brands optimising to first-order profit (not blended ROAS) are scaling 20–30% faster without margin erosion.

SEO & Social

Category SEO is back.

AI Overviews are eating informational queries — but high-intent commercial category pages with rich filtering and proper schema are gaining share. PLP optimisation > blog posts.

Web & Creative

PDP-first design wins.

Above-fold buy box, sticky add-to-cart, embedded UGC reels and 'complete the look' bundles are the four pillars. Average conversion lift after a PDP rebuild: 18–34%.

Analytics & CRM

Lifecycle is the second growth engine.

Klaviyo flows tied to predicted LTV segments, post-purchase SMS within 90 minutes, and win-back at the 60-day mark are delivering 35–40% of total email revenue for our retainers.

AI & Automation

AI product copy + ad creative at scale.

We're replacing static creative shops with weekly AI-generated variant batches (image + copy) tested against control. Brands shipping 30+ variants/week are seeing 2–3x faster fatigue recovery.

They treat our P&L like it's their own. ROAS is up, contribution margin is up, and for the first time we've got a paid and lifecycle programme that actually talk to each other.
Priya ShahHead of Ecommerce, Grip
SEO & Social

Earn the inches that turn into miles.

Technical SEO, content programmes, digital PR and organic social — measured against revenue, not vanity. A senior strategist owns the roadmap from day one.

Paid Media

Performance that scales without the spreadsheet hangover.

Google, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, programmatic — built around a single source of truth for ROAS, MER and pipeline. Daily optimisation, weekly read-outs, monthly business reviews.

Web & Creative

Websites that look like a portfolio piece and convert like a sales floor.

Brand, UX, design systems and headless builds. Shipped on time, instrumented for growth, handed over with documentation your team will actually read.

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