{"id":1001,"date":"2017-03-27T11:20:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:48:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T16:48:06","slug":"adbiblio-case-study-kingdom-of-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/adbiblio-case-study-kingdom-of-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"AdBiblio Case Study: S&#038;S &#8211; The Kingdom of Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wondered whether AdBiblio works for non-fiction titles, look no further than Simon &amp; Schuster&#8217;s <em>The Kingdom of Happiness<\/em> campaign. When S&amp;S reached out about promoting this title, we couldn&#8217;t wait to put our book advertising tools to work!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1008 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kingdom-Happiness-728x90.gif\" alt=\"Kingdom-Happiness-728x90\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Kingdom of Happiness<\/em>&nbsp;by Aimee Groth is&nbsp;an&nbsp;insider account of Zappos CEO Tony&nbsp;Hsieh&#8217;s quest to build his own&nbsp;Las Vegas utopia. While living in Zappos corporate housing, Groth had a firsthand view of Hseih&#8217;s&nbsp;attempt to build a new, socially conscious version of Silicon Valley known as the&nbsp;Downtown Project.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1007 aligncenter\" style=\"margin-left: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kingdom-Happiness-300x250.gif\" alt=\"Kingdom-Happiness-300x250\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We knew people who are fascinated by tech and startup culture would devour this title. To reach those readers, we targeted a whitelist of top tech news sites like <em>Mashable<\/em>, <em>Wired<\/em>, <em>Gizmodo<\/em>, and <em>The Verge.&nbsp;<\/em>Using behavioral trait targeting we also sought out non-fiction and biography readers&nbsp;working in the tech industry, living in Silicon Valley, and with a strong interest in entrepreneurship&nbsp;and business culture. In addition, we layered in Parallel Genre Targeting to reach readers of relevant titles like&nbsp;<em>The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon<\/em> by Brad Stone and <em>Steve Jobs<\/em> by&nbsp;Walter Isaacson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1010 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kingdom-of-Happiness_businessinsider.com_.png\" alt=\"Kingdom of Happiness_businessinsider.com\" width=\"700\" height=\"495\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Simon &amp; Schuster reached more than <strong>350k unique readers<\/strong> and generated an impressive <strong>0.22% CTR<\/strong>. Our AdBiblio read-alikes (cookied readers who have expressed interest in other relevant AdBiblio campaigns) clicked through at more than <strong>1.5X<\/strong> that rate with a <strong>0.35% read-alike CTR<\/strong>!&nbsp;The campaign&nbsp;also achieved a&nbsp;<strong>16.04% interaction rate<\/strong> from people who engaged with the ads for at least half a second.&nbsp;To continue capitalizing on the success of the original campaign, a chaser ad for <em>The Kingdom of Happiness<\/em> will also continue retargeting interested readers until mid-April.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1011 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kingdom-of-Happiness_huffingtonpost.com_.png\" alt=\"Kingdom of Happiness_huffingtonpost.com\" width=\"700\" height=\"495\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been thinking about promoting a non-fiction title, Mary Beth would love to talk about how AdBiblio can help &#8211; send her a note at <a href=\"mailto:marybeth@adbiblio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">marybeth@adbiblio.com<\/a> to start the conversation. And don&#8217;t forget to pick up a copy of&nbsp;<em>The Kingdom of Happiness<\/em> for yourself from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/The-Kingdom-of-Happiness\/Aimee-Groth\/9781501129902\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">simonandschuster.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wondered whether AdBiblio works for non-fiction titles, look no further than Simon &amp; Schuster&#8217;s The Kingdom of Happiness campaign. 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