case study
How a brand raised the bar — from cravings to conversion

A combined digital and in-store approach helped achieve savory campaign results

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Opportunity

TRUBAR was launching their products in Walmart stores. They wanted to elevate their brand in a highly-competitive category with many well-established brands and drive online and in-store sales.

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Goals

This Walmart Marketplace and Walmart stores advertiser sought to build brand awareness, expand into Walmart stores and drive online and in-store sales.

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Solution

To reach new customers and build brand affinity, the brand delivered a cohesive omnichannel campaign designed to showcase their products’ unique benefits and drive trial.

Strategy and tactics

Walmart’s site and app
TRUBAR ran automatic Sponsored Products campaigns to discover top-performing generic, competitor and branded keywords. They then added these keywords to manual campaigns.  

To help boost awareness in a crowded category, the brand used eye-catching Sponsored Videos ads to showcase how their product ingredients make them a better protein bar option.  

Walmart stores
They rounded out their strategy with Walmart’s In-store Demos and Pickup & Delivery Sampling offerings to help engage customers and influence purchase decisions.  

TRUBAR distributed 77,000 samples across 667 Walmart stores. 

Campaign dates: November 2024 – March 2025

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Big Wins

Based on the results from this test-and-learn, Chobani has expanded the use of brand term targeting to other product categories and Sponsored Videos campaigns.

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Impressions1

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Units sold, with Sponsored Products

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New-to-brand orders, with Sponsored Videos2

Sources: 1Walmart first-party data, Nov. 3, 2024–Mar. 31, 2025. 2Walmart first-party data, Dec. 16, 2024–Mar. 31, 2025. New-to-brand is defined as a customer who purchases a brand’s product from Walmart site and app as a result of an ad campaign, after not having purchased the brand on Walmart site and app for the previous 12 months. Past results do not guarantee future performance.

Key takeaways

  • Launch in-store activations in addition to your digital campaigns to help broaden reach and acquire new-to-brand Walmart store customers.
  • Use Sponsored Search ads to help reinforce brand awareness and educate customers about your products.

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