
Northfield Roasters
Portland, OR · 6 months · $14k / month
Profitable coffee subscriptions from Shopping and Performance Max
- Shopping
- Performance Max
- Brand Search
The problem
Performance Max was spending about a third of the budget on brand searches the store would have won anyway, and every sale was valued the same, whether it was a one-off bag or a 12-month subscription.
What we did
- Rebuilt the Merchant Center feed with roast, origin and grind in product titles
- Split Performance Max by margin tier and excluded brand terms
- Sent subscription value back to Google so bidding favored repeat buyers
- ROAS, up from 2.1×
- 3.8×
- Revenue at the same spend
- +81%
- Cost per new subscriber
- −34%
“We'd been told Performance Max was a black box. CrowdCarry split it by margin and showed us where every dollar went. Subscriptions are now our biggest channel.”
Tom ElleryFounder, Northfield Roasters


