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  "company": "Fanatics",
  "headline": "Customer LTV optimization lifted campaign performance 19%, shifting from audience targeting",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}",
  "source_name": "Digiday",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Outcome-based media buying · Fanatics\n\nCustomer LTV optimization lifted campaign performance 19%, shifting from audience targeting.\n\nMost D2C brands still measure success on first-order conversion. Fanatics flipped it: they optimized the ads for second-order likelihood. That 19% lift is not in customer acquisition — it is in customer quality. The unglamorous part is you need 90-120 days of historical data before you can even set up the model. The lift: once it is running, every dollar recycles into better-quality customers, which compounds.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/fanatics-2026-06-21t06-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/fanatics-2026-06-21t06-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/fanatics-2026-06-21t06-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Outcome-based media buying · Fanatics\n\nCustomer LTV optimization lifted campaign performance 19%, shifting from audience targeting.\n\nMost D2C brands still measure success on first-order conversion. Fanatics flipped it: they optimized the ads for second-order likelihood. That 19% lift is not in customer acquisition — it is in customer quality. The unglamorous part is you need 90-120 days of historical data before you can even set up the model. The lift: once it is running, every dollar recycles into better-quality customers, which compounds.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/fanatics-2026-06-21t06-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/fanatics-2026-06-21t06-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/fanatics-2026-06-21t06-2",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Outcome-based media buying · Fanatics\n\nCustomer LTV optimization lifted campaign performance 19%, shifting from audience targeting.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/fanatics-2026-06-21t06-2",
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      "title": "Customer LTV optimization lifted campaign performance 19%, shifting from audience targeting",
      "body": "✍️ YOUR NOTE — write 2–3 lines to ONE person so they feel: \"this is about me… I could actually do this… I could make money from this.\" Energize them, make it yours. (This is the part that gets the opens.)\n[ your take… ]\n———\nHere is a real one you can run this week 👇\nFanatics moved from audience targeting to optimizing campaigns for customer lifetime value and saw a 19% lift in LTV outcomes, per Digiday.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): stop reporting on conversion rate and start reporting on 90-day repeat-buy rate by ad. A $5 customer who buys twice is worth more than a $50 one-time buyer. If your ad platform does not let you segment by repeat-buy cohorts, move spend to one that does. Fanatics likely moved from standard CPA (cost-per-acquisition) bidding to a custom LTV model where the platform optimizes for predicted lifetime value, not first-order AOV. That is a different bid strategy entirely — it surfaces cheaper customers who have a higher propensity to return.\nWhat that means for you: Most D2C brands still measure success on first-order conversion. Fanatics flipped it: they optimized the ads for second-order likelihood. That 19% lift is not in customer acquisition — it is in customer quality. The unglamorous part is you need 90-120 days of historical data before you can even set up the model. The lift: once it is running, every dollar recycles into better-quality customers, which compounds.\nIf you make, sell, or gift anything with your name on it — this is yours to run. You can do this.\n(Real, not theory — Digiday: https://digiday.com/marketing/how-fanatics-moved-from-audience-targeting-to-optimizing-campaigns-for-customer-ltv/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss.)\n———\nOr — want it built FOR you? Your logo, your products, your own private room, priced and ready, in about five minutes. That's literally what we do →\nhttps://www.pops4.com/vip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=stash",
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