Advertising CBD products online is always a challenge, but the challenge is even bigger when a brand has a smaller budget they wish to scale as sales grow. Mad Ritual wanted to raise brand awareness and drive sales without risking the long-term viability of brand assets, particularly on Facebook, by triggering ad violations.

In 2013, Adobe announced a radical business model change for its suite of creative products - the end of Adobe Creative Suite to a fully subscription-based model, Adobe Creative Cloud. This was a big change for its creative users, which received a lot of negative sentiment and push back. The challenge was to leverage social media to build a new community for Adobe Creative Cloud, supporting its customer community in a way that would influence sales for Adobe Creative Cloud.

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Olivela went against the expert opinions of not only myself, but our paid social lead and their Facebook rep. They wanted to set up their ad sets in a very niche way by targeting each celebrity and their charity. For example, one ad set for Jennifer Anniston and one ad set for St. Jude. Not only did I struggle with targeting challenges, but creative issues as well. The celebrities and charity's representation were later seeing the creative live on their feeds and telling Olivela they were not approved, so I had to pause ads and/or launch new ones. The algorithm was consistently being reset almost on a daily basis due to unforeseen circumstances on Olivela's side.

1. Popular products were often sold out and would take a while to get inventory back in stock.
2. Had no prior data from paid advertising 
3. Educating people about new car parts