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● Solution
Stop wasting ad spend, lift your ROAS.
Plenty of retail-media budget is spent on terms you would win anyway. Actowiz ties ad spend to shelf outcomes — so you cut the waste and reinvest where ads genuinely move visibility and sales.
● Now onboarding a small group of early-access brands
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE
Wasted-spend terms17
Opportunity terms9
Paid share of shelf42%
Est. ROAS lift+19%
The definition
What is ROAS optimization?
ROAS optimization connects your retail-media spend to digital-shelf outcomes — organic rank, paid
share and competitor pressure — so you stop paying for visibility you already earn and reinvest where
ads actually drive incremental sales.
Retail-media return suffers when spend is allocated blind: you bid on terms you already rank for organically, or miss terms where a competitor is quietly winning the sponsored shelf. ROAS optimization brings organic and paid visibility together, flags wasted and missed spend, and points budget to where it produces incremental visibility and sales — lifting return without necessarily raising spend.
Wasted-spend
detection
Paid vs organic
clarity
Reinvest
for return
Capabilities
What you can optimise
Ad spend tied to real shelf outcomes.
Wasted-spend detection
Find terms you would win organically anyway.
Opportunity terms
Spot where ads can win you the shelf.
Paid vs organic
See the true balance of bought vs earned.
Competitor pressure
Know where rivals force you to invest.
Budget guidance
Reallocate spend to where it returns.
ROAS context
Tie spend to visibility and sales outcomes.
The difference
Working blind, or in control?
Without Actowiz
- You bid on terms you already win organically
- Miss terms where rivals take the shelf
- No link between spend and shelf outcome
- ROAS hard to prove
With Actowiz
- Cut spend on terms you earn anyway
- Invest where ads actually win the shelf
- Spend tied to visibility and sales
- Clear, provable ROAS gains
In the real world
What it looks like for teams like yours
Real situations Actowiz is built to fix — see your own in them.
Media LeadBeauty
Half your budget goes to terms you already rank top for.
→ Wasted-spend detection frees budget to reinvest where it counts.
Growth ManagerNutrition
A rival is taking the sponsored shelf on key terms.
→ Opportunity terms show exactly where to invest.
Agency LeadAgency
You need to prove ROAS gains to a client.
→ Spend-to-outcome data shows the return your changes produced.
Why it matters
Why blind spend caps your ROAS
Without connecting ads to shelf outcomes, retail-media budgets drift toward easy, low-incremental terms and away from the contested ones that actually need support. ROAS optimization exposes that misallocation, so the same budget produces more incremental visibility and sales — and you can prove the return.
How it works
How it works
Pick scope
Choose the platforms, markets and SKUs to track.
We track
Relevant signals captured continuously and accurately.
Benchmark & alert
Your position versus rivals, with alerts on every move.
Act
Dashboards, reports and alerts your team can act on.
Who it's for
Who it's for
✓
Retail media teams
Lift return on sponsored spend.
✓
Growth teams
Reallocate budget for impact.
✓
Brand managers
Tie ad spend to shelf results.
✓
Media agencies
Optimise and prove client ROAS.
✓
Finance
See return on retail-media budget.
✓
Category managers
Coordinate paid and organic.
Questions, answered
ROAS Optimization FAQ
It connects retail-media spend to digital-shelf outcomes so you stop paying for visibility
you already earn and reinvest where ads drive incremental sales, lifting return.
Retail media intelligence shows the sponsored landscape; ROAS optimization focuses on
reallocating your spend to maximise return based on shelf outcomes.
Yes — it flags terms where you would win organically anyway, so you can cut or reduce spend
there.
It ties spend to visibility and sales outcomes, helping you demonstrate the return on
changes.
Major marketplaces with retail-media programmes, with custom platforms on request.
Lift your retail-media return
Join the early-access program and we will show where your ad spend is wasted and where it can win.
Request early access →
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