Planting seeds of lasting success during Ready Set Spring event

How Walmart Connect Partner Network Tech Partners help grow businesses.

Brand
HydroTech by Winston Products 
Campaign Date
Mar 1 – May 31, 2025
Goals
Build brand awareness
Boost conversion and sales
Partners
Trellis
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Challenge

HydroTech, a leading home and garden tools brand, participated in Ready Set Spring, an event that kicks off the spring season at Walmart, to strengthen their online brand presence. 

Solution

Winston Products partnered with Trellis, a Premium Tech Partner in the Walmart Connect Partner Network, to combine Trellis' proprietary optimization tools with Walmart ads to build a cohesive presence across Walmart. 

Strategy

Leading up to the Ready Set Spring event, Winston Products and Trellis ensured HydroTech’s listings were retail ready with optimized keywords, detailed descriptions and high-quality imagery. This helped maximize visibility and performance. 

Tactics

Sponsored Products

Helped boost visibility and conversion by placing the products in high-intent search and browse placements to reach shoppers actively looking for home and garden solutions.

Sponsored Brands

Helped showcase the product range through branded creatives and messaging to help reinforce recognition and driving traffic to curated brand pages. 

Onsite Display

Helped extend the campaign’s reach by engaging shoppers with visually rich ads across Walmart’s digital properties to influence both online and in-store purchases.

Smart optimization 

Trellis’ optimization technology helped improve the brand’s listings and campaigns during and after the event, helping sustain performance and long-term success at Walmart.

Big wins

+190 %

Impressions year over year 

+41 %

Conversion rate year over year 

+69.6 %

Ad-attributed sales year over year 

Source: Trellis data, March 1–May 31, 2025 vs. March 1–May 31, 2024. Trellis is an independent third party and not affiliated with Walmart Connect. 
No endorsement of third-party data sources.

Key takeaways

Retail readiness pays off

Being retail ready with high-quality listings helps achieve advertising success through trust, discoverability and engagement. 

Solutions that are better together

Combining Sponsored Search and Onsite Display helps brands build a cohesive strategy and engage with customers from awareness through conversion.

Collaboration is key

Working with a Tech Partner in the Walmart Connect Partner Network helps brands optimize campaigns more effectively and scale growth.

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