5.3x ROAS scaling a menswear brand profitably on Google Ads.
Blue Island, a premium Indian menswear label, needed to scale Google Ads without cost per order running away. Performance Max — built on clean data and a strong product feed — took them there.
5.3x
Blended ROAS
Rs 1.45Cr
Revenue driven
~6x
Conversion growth
Rs 145
Cost per conversion
The challenge
Scaling spend without breaking efficiency
Blue Island had product-market fit and a growing catalogue of shirts — but scaling paid acquisition profitably is where most D2C brands stall.
More budget usually means a worse ROAS. The goal was to grow conversions several times over while keeping return on ad spend well above target.
The goals they couldn't reach alone
Challenges faced
Efficiency at scale
Every increase in spend risked driving cost per order up and ROAS down.
Catalogue complexity
A wide range of shirts and variants needed the right products shown to the right buyers.
Concentrated regional demand
Demand clustered in specific Southern markets that needed prioritising, not blanket spend.
The approach
Performance Max, built on clean data and feed
We rebuilt the account around Performance Max, fed it high-quality conversion data and a strong product feed, and kept optimising it for profit.
Performance Max as the engine
Structured PMax by best-sellers, new customers, and region instead of one catch-all campaign.
5.3x
Blended ROAS
Feed + creative that sells
A clean product feed paired with regional-language video and image assets, so the right shirt met the right buyer.
~6x
Conversion growth
Optimised for profit, not clicks
Tuned bidding and budgets to conversion value, concentrating spend where the return was strongest.
Rs 145
Cost per conversion
The results
Rs 1.45Cr driven at 5.3x ROAS
5.3x
Blended ROAS on Google Ads
Rs 1.45Cr
Google-Ads-driven revenue
Rs 27.4L
Ad spend managed
18,858
Conversions
The receipts
Straight from the ad accounts.
“We didn't win by spending more. We won by giving Performance Max cleaner data and a tighter feed than the account had ever had.”
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What you can learn
How this applies to your business
At scale, data and feed beat budget
Blue Island's growth came from feeding Performance Max clean conversion data and a strong product feed — not from simply spending more. Past a certain point, account quality is what decides ROAS.
Segment Performance Max by intent
Splitting PMax by best-sellers, new customers, and region — instead of one catch-all campaign — let us concentrate budget where return was highest and hold 5.3x while scaling.
Optimise to conversion value, not clicks
Tuning bids and budgets to revenue kept cost per order in check even as conversion volume grew roughly 6x. Feeding the algorithm order value, not just clicks, is what let it scale without margin slipping.
Scaling a D2C brand on Google?
Performance Max rewards clean data and a strong feed. If you're trying to grow spend without losing efficiency, let's build the account that scales profitably.