Leading
organic products
retailer increases
sales by 650% in
one year with
SitePlug
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THE CHALLENGE
Vitacost, an e-commerce company selling vitamins, supplements and organic grocery products, enlisted SitePlug to increase its revenue and secure placements with crucial publishing partners via their affiliate program on the Commission Junction (CJ) platform.
KEY OBJECTIVES
With SitePlug onboard, Vitacost engaged in a highly intentional partnership optimization strategy
using a variety of solutions, including technology and human expertise.
campaign-objective

Increase affiliate
channel sales

campaign-objective

Optimize
promotions

campaign-objective

Improve
conversion rates

campaign-objective

Activate premium
placements

The solution

SitePlug’s team presented Vitacost with a highly customized strategy targeted to boost the upward trend in gross merchandise value (GMV) sales for Vitacost.

Site Discover

Site Discover uses technology to engage high-intent consumers at critical touchpoints, directing them to e-commerce sites and delivering high conversions through curated partnerships.

Upon activating SitePlug's Site Discover solution, Vitacost elevated its competitiveness in CPA bidding, enabling the retailer to scale its operations and secure new offer placements with over 120 unique publishers.

Together, SitePlug and Vitacost collaborated with the experts at Commission Junction to determine which dials and levers to adjust at strategic inflection points throughout the campaign. Leveraging its extensive publisher relationships, SitePlug secured premium affiliate placements for Vitacost on:

Email clients
like Yahoo Mail

Premium coupon
partners like Coupon
Follow and CouponCabin

Knowledge Graph
card placement

The results

The campaign delivered 650% sales growth from 2021 to 2022.

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120+

Unique new
publisher partners
activated
Placement

588%

Increase
in clicks
Placement

544%

Increase
in conversions
Placement

13%

Increase
in conversion rate

Vitacost.com has had a wonderful and long partnership with SitePlug. Our CPA optimizations with SitePlug have been extremely helpful during our periods of lower flat spend budgets. In challenging markets, this strategy has increased our AOV and yielded a significantly higher ROAS than our target. During our biggest promotional times, when we had our Cyber Monday and Fresh Start January sales running, the optimized strategy with SitePlug really amplified performance, driving a much higher click rate and generating massive increases in revenue, period over period. We can rely on SitePlug for their wonderful support of our program, responsiveness to our rapidly changing business needs and great performance.


Erica Ciporen

Affiliate Marketing Manager at

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