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Case Study · Dunova
Home & Sleep · Weighted Blanket · USA Launch

$52K/month.
outselling gravity.

Dunova launched a premium weighted blanket against the brand that invented the category. No history, no reviews, no PR budget. Just a smarter visual system — and $52,400 per month by day 85.

Revenue · Day 85

$52,400/mo

Timeline

85 Days

CTR Lift

+156%

CVR Achieved

10.2%

ACoS Achieved

13%

Peak ROAS

9.1x

The Problem

Selling a tactile product to buyers who can't touch it.

A weighted blanket lives or dies on how it feels. The gentle pressure, the warmth, the weight distribution — none of that translates in a flat product photo on a white background. Gravity Blanket solves this with $15 million in brand recognition. New brands have nothing. So they race each other to $34.99 and wonder why margins disappear.

Our Answer

Make the buyer feel it before they buy it.

We couldn't let them touch it. So we showed them everything else — the lifestyle moment it creates, the science behind why it works, and the engineering that makes it different. Every visual asset was built to transfer the sensory experience through a screen. That's not photography. That's conversion architecture.

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Day 1 vs Day 85

The exact numbers that changed.

Day 1 State

  • CTR1.8%
    flat product shot, lost in sea of identical thumbnails
  • CVR3.4%
    buyers interested but couldn't justify $69 without feeling it
  • ACoS47%
    broad match keywords, no sleep intent architecture
  • Organic RankPage 10+
    zero indexation for sleep and anxiety terms
  • Revenue$0
    100% ad spend, no organic support, no gifting traffic

Day 85 State

  • CTR4.6%
    +156% — lifestyle shot the only human image in search
  • CVR10.2%
    +200% — bead fill + science modules closed the gap
  • ACoS13%
    −72% — sleep intent + gifting clusters at full profit
  • Organic RankPage 1
    3 top anxiety & sleep terms, combined 80K searches/mo
  • Revenue$52.4K/mo
    9.1x ROAS, 41% on Subscribe & Save for recurring LTV
The Image That Made Buyers Feel It
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Lifestyle Hero — Wrapped & Warm

Everyone shot the blanket.
We shot the moment.

In a search row of 8 flat product shots, a single human moment — soft bedroom light, a person fully wrapped and at peace — is the only thumbnail that creates an emotional response. That's not just design preference. It's the reason the CTR hit 4.6% in a category where 1.8% was the baseline. The buyer didn't see a blanket. They saw themselves.

Lifestyle hero+156% CTR — only human image in category search
Bead fill cross-sectionTranslates the tactile density buyers can't feel
Weight distribution mapMakes the 'even pressure' claim visual and believable
Gifting lifestyleUnlocks the second buyer intent: holiday gift searches
A+ Content · Selling What Buyers Can't Touch
A+ Preview

Module 01 · Hero Banner

Deeper Sleep. Less Anxiety. Proven Calm.

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Module 02 · The Science of Weight

A buyer can't feel 15lbs through a screen.
So we made them understand it.

Deep Pressure Stimulation is the clinical mechanism behind every weighted blanket claim. Instead of saying "reduces anxiety," we showed the cortisol reduction pathway. Instead of "even weight distribution," we cross-sectioned the glass bead grid. Instead of "premium fill," we displayed the GSM count against competitors. The buyer didn't need to trust us — the data did that for us.

Glass Bead Fill15-Year WarrantyOEKO-TEX Certified
6 additional weight guide, material, size comparison & gifting modules on the live listing
Brand Story · Rest Is Not a Luxury

Dunova.
Sleep built
on science.

"Positioning Dunova as a sleep-science brand rather than a home goods brand changed who clicked, who bought, and who stayed. Buyers who came through a clinical keyword are buying for a specific reason. They don't return the product. That's why our return rate held at 3.2% — in a category where 12% is industry average."

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Brand Assets

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Asset 01

The Rest Standard

Asset 02

Crafted for Calm

What Actually Moved the Needle

5 levers.
each one measurable.

Lifestyle CTR

+156% · Human vs flat product

Sleep Intent SEO

Page 1 · 3 anxiety terms

Tactile A+

+200% CVR · Science layer

Gift Positioning

41% Subscribe & Save rate

PPC Architecture

47% → 13% ACoS · 9.1x ROAS

85-Day Execution — What Each Phase Moved

Every phase.
every metric it moved.

Documented progression from initial baseline to targeted outcome.

Phase 01

Wk 1–2

Price-Gap Intelligence & Positioning Architecture

Gravity Blanket owns the $249 premium slot. Generic imports flood the $25–$35 range. At $69 with verified glass bead fill and a 15-year warranty, Dunova occupied a 'premium-without-absurd-pricing' position that nobody was communicating properly. We built every decision around that gap.

Market Position

Unknown brand$69 premium anchor

0 → 1

positioning defined

Baseline
Result

Phase 02

Wk 3–4

Lifestyle-First Main Image CTR System

Every weighted blanket competitor shot the product flat on a bed. We photographed a woman wrapped in the blanket — soft bedroom light, peaceful expression, warm tones. In search results, 7 flat product shots and one human moment. CTR lifted 156% in 9 days. The category had never seen a lifestyle-led main image.

Click-Through Rate

1.8% CTR4.6% CTR

+156%

lifestyle vs flat product

Baseline
Result

Phase 03

Wk 5–6

Tactile Trust A+ Content Build

Weighted blankets have a core trust problem: buyers can't feel the weight through a screen. We built 8 A+ modules around the sensory experience — bead-fill density cross-sections, GSM comparison charts, temperature regulation diagrams, and a sleep phase graphic linking deep pressure stimulation to cortisol reduction. CVR tripled in 11 days.

Conversion Rate

3.4% CVR10.2% CVR

+200%

tactile education converts

Baseline
Result

Phase 04

Wk 7–9

Sleep & Anxiety PPC Keyword Architecture

Built 5-tier PPC stack: high-intent sleep terms, anxiety relief terms, gift occasion terms (Mother's Day / Christmas clusters), competitor conquest against Gravity and YnM, and a separate retargeting campaign for 'weighted blanket adults 15lb' — the exact phrase Gravity owns organically. ACoS dropped from 47% to 13% by week 9.

Advertising Cost of Sales

47% ACoS13% ACoS

−72%

ad waste eliminated

Baseline
Result

Phase 05

Wk 10–12

Page 1 Organic Rank & Gift Season Timing

Page 1 for 'weighted blanket for anxiety adults', 'heavy blanket 15lb', and 'cooling weighted blanket queen'. Launch timed to land page 1 status 3 weeks before peak gifting window. Combined with a Subscribe & Save setup that drove 41% of buyers to recurring orders. $52,400 monthly revenue by day 85.

Monthly Revenue

$0$52,400

$52.4K/mo

at day 85

Baseline
Result

Cumulative Revenue — Day 1 to Day 85

$0 → $52,400/month

9.1x

Peak ROAS

$0

Day 1

$920

Wk 3

$6.1K

Wk 5

$17K

Wk 7

$33K

Wk 10

$52.4K

Wk 12

Client Voice

"We were competing against a brand with a $15 million marketing budget and the patent on the category name. Grow Orbit told us to stop competing on price and start competing on proof. We went from invisible to $52K a month in less than 90 days."

Sarah Chen
Sarah ChenFounder, Dunova Sleep Co.

"The science layer we added to the A+ content was the turning point. It shifted us from a 'choice' to a 'solution' for buyers."

— Director of Ops

Growth Retention

Maintained a 3.2% return rate—nearly 4x better than category average. High trust conversion translates to low regret purchases.

9.1x

Peak ROAS · Day 85

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