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Case

From plateau to +1,200% revenue growth & +770% more orders

1200%

Growth in revenue

770%

Growth in orders

1300%

Growth in spend

Scanovus

Scanovus is a Danish direct-to-consumer company with one clear purpose: to remove the everyday tasks you don't want to do - and give you your time back.

The company's flagship product, The Automatic Iron, is built on a simple realization: there are more important things than standing with an iron. In 8-12 minutes, it does the work for you, so you don't have to spend your own time and energy on it.

Scanovus operates exclusively online and today sells in both the EU and the US. With a growing presence on social media and a clear mission to challenge old habits, the company is working toward becoming the market leader in automated garment care - and, in time, a bigger part of the modern everyday.

Before

Unaware

Solution/ problem aware

Aware

After

Unaware

Solution/ problem aware

Aware

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William Friis - Founder og CEO - Scanovus

The challenge

When we started working with Scanovus, we didn't just meet a product - we met an idea: to stop spending time on things that don't matter. Together with founder William Friis, who combines strong drive with sharp creative instinct, the foundation was clear.

But growth had hit a plateau. It was no longer possible to scale spend without CAC climbing along with it.

The performance plateau

Scanovus had been running paid ads on Meta for about three years. There was content. There was budget. There were results - but they were flat. Every time they tried to increase spend, CAC went up in step. They were stuck at a classic performance ceiling: a setup that worked at a certain scale, but wasn't built to grow further.

The product was good, and the existing ad content was professional enough to stand out from other similar products in the market. But there was a critical gap in the way the brand, the ad strategy and the skepticism around the product were tied together.

One step too many for the consumer

A large portion of the ads led straight to the "All Products" page - not the product page. That meant the consumer, already curious enough to click, was suddenly faced with another decision before they even reached the product.

And when the user finally did reach the product page, the experience wasn't yet built to convert. The page was static, lacked value-creating USPs, and the Add to Cart button sat too far down - especially on mobile, which was the primary traffic channel.

Low market sophistication - high skepticism

The Automatic Iron sits in an interesting position: the category is still new, and market sophistication is low. That means we're not fighting against decades of identical claims from competitors.

In return, a different challenge appears:

👉 The consumer is skeptical - not of the need, but of the solution.
"Does this actually work? Or is it just another product that sounds better than it is?"
That skepticism shouldn't be ignored - it has to be met head-on.

But the existing page didn't do that. There was clearly missing social proof. There were missing signals showing an active, trustworthy brand. And most importantly: there was missing content that showed, at eye level, just how simple and effective the product actually is.


A content funnel that didn't follow the customer all the way

Scanovus had content that performed in ads - but not a unified system that took the customer from first impression to repeat purchase.

Content was especially missing for the early stages:

The consumers who haven't yet recognized the problem. The ones who still accept ironing as a part of everyday life - because they've never considered that it could actually be removed.

👉 That's where the biggest opportunity sits:

Not just selling a solution - but changing the way people see their everyday life.

The people behind the results

Marius Thorbjørner

FOUNDER & CEO

Strategy

Paid Social

William Westh

CO-FOUNDER - CCO

Brand & performance strategi

Meta Ads

Mikkel Bülow

Growth Manager | Head of Google Ads

Google Ads

Meta Ads

Rasmus Hunt Guldberg

Growth Manager & Head of E-mail marketing

E-mail marketing & Retention

Meta Ads

Frederik Saugmann

Creative Director & Shopify Dev

Adobe

Shopify

Anne Sophie Frederiksen

Influencer Specialist & Content

Content

AI

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CO-FOUNDER - CCO

Brand & performance strategi

Meta Ads

Marius Thorbjørner

FOUNDER & CEO

Strategy

Paid Social