{"id":1094,"date":"2017-05-08T09:11:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:47:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T16:47:12","slug":"adbiblio-case-study-harlequin-rough-and-tumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/adbiblio-case-study-harlequin-rough-and-tumble\/","title":{"rendered":"AdBiblio Case Study &#8211; Harlequin Rough &#038; Tumble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rough &amp; Tumble<\/em> is the first book in Rhenna Morgan&#8217;s&nbsp;steamy contemporary romance series&nbsp;<em>The Haven Brotherhood<\/em>. When&nbsp;Vivienne Moore has to go drag her hard-partying sister out of a bar&nbsp;on New Year&#8217;s Eve, she finds herself on a collision course with dangerously sexy club owner Jace Kennedy. Jace is determined to unlock Vivienne&#8217;s wild side&#8230;and he always gets what he wants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1104 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rough-and-tumble-728x90.jpg\" alt=\"rough-and-tumble-728x90\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To highlight&nbsp;<em>Rough &amp; Tumble<\/em>&#8216;s sexy cover art we included a high-impact 300&#215;600 banner alongside standard 300&#215;250, 728&#215;90, and 160&#215;600&nbsp;ads. A&nbsp;320&#215;50 mobile banner was also used to expand the campaign&#8217;s reach across platforms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1102\" style=\"align: center; margin-left: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rough-and-tumble-300x600.gif\" alt=\"rough-and-tumble-300x600\" width=\"300\" height=\"600\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To find the right readers,&nbsp;first we&nbsp;narrowed down the demographics to women-only. Then we focused heavily on Rhenna Morgan fans and Parallel Genre Targeting of comp titles by authors like Sylvia Day, E.L. James, Anna Del Mar, and Holly Hart. The ads were also shown&nbsp;more broadly to avid contemporary romance readers, people interested in relationship and dating content, and fans of celebrity gossip. Sites like&nbsp;<em>Cosmopolitan<\/em>, <em>Elite Daily<\/em>, <em>Bustle<\/em>, <em>People<\/em>, and <em>US Magazine&nbsp;<\/em>were among the prime&nbsp;publications targeted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1111\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/harlequin-rough_tumble-elitedaily_1024.png\" alt=\"harlequin-rough_tumble-elitedaily_1024\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The campaign achieved a fantastic <strong>0.20% CTR<\/strong> and <strong>3.7% interaction rate<\/strong> overall, showing just how excited readers were for this title. Of the&nbsp;<strong>16,000 individual&nbsp;people who engaged<\/strong> with the ads, a stunning <strong>9.7% of them clicked through<\/strong> to the landing page! The ads were also a hit with AdBiblio read-alikes (people who previously engaged with contemporary romance titles), reaching a&nbsp;<strong>0.4% CTR<\/strong> &nbsp;among those readers &#8211; <strong>2X higher<\/strong> than the general audience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"452\" height=\"916\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1109\" style=\"align: center; width: 300px; margin-left: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Harlequin-Rough-and-Tumble-ThoughtCatalog.png\" alt=\"Harlequin-Rough-and-Tumble-ThoughtCatalog\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A chaser campaign is continuing to&nbsp;capitalize on the strong success of the original ads by retargeting interested readers through mid-May. Chaser campaigns are the perfect way to combat &#8220;out of sight, out of mind&#8221; by keeping the title and cover visible to people who have already expressed interest in the book.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Make sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harlequin.com\/storeitem.html%3bjsessionid=0981E85926555036396E2C7CDD033A27?iid=69682&amp;cid=2860\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check out&nbsp;<em>Rough &amp; Tumble<\/em><\/a> from Harlequin&#8217;s Carina Press, and set aside a half-hour to <a href=\"http:\/\/rhennamorgan.com\/book\/rough-tumble\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read an excerpt<\/a> on Rhenna Morgan&#8217;s author website! If you&#8217;ve got a hot new romance title to promote, Mary Beth is always excited to talk &#8211; send her an email at <a href=\"mailto:marybeth@adbiblio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">marybeth@adbiblio.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rough &amp; Tumble is the first book in Rhenna Morgan&#8217;s&nbsp;steamy contemporary romance series&nbsp;The Haven Brotherhood. When&nbsp;Vivienne Moore has to go drag her hard-partying sister out of a bar&nbsp;on New Year&#8217;s Eve, she finds herself on a collision course with dangerously sexy club owner Jace Kennedy. 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