How Digital Marketing Teams Optimized Campaign ROI with AI-Driven Data Analysis

With rising competition in digital advertising, campaign leaders are under pressure to turn data into decisive, profit-driving actions. This case study shows how a marketing team leveraged Scoop’s agentic AI to automate granular analysis of their campaign data, exposing clear patterns in conversion efficiency and cost by time segment. Teams struggling with fragmented performance metrics and underutilized analytics tools will recognize in this story the benefits of end-to-end, automated insights that sharpen spend allocation and strengthen campaign results.

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Industry Name
Media & Advertising
Job Title
Marketing Analyst

Results + Metrics

The analysis directly empowered the marketing team to reallocate spend to the most profitable time windows with clarity only possible via Scoop’s end-to-end automation. ROI was optimized by shifting budgets away from historically underperforming periods—typically weekends—towards high-conversion, cost-effective time slots. The data-driven approach replaced manual guesswork and static dashboards, ensuring every dollar deployed worked harder to deliver measurable results. By leveraging Scoop's agentic capabilities, the team transitioned from reactive reporting to predictive, proactive marketing optimization.

1,900.055 %

Peak Conversion Rate (Tuesday)

Tuesday campaigns recorded the highest conversion rate, identifying a clear opportunity for budget prioritization.

147

Highest Total Conversions (Tuesday)

Monday achieved the lowest cost per conversion in local currency, maximizing the value of every advertising dollar.

4.25

Best Cost Efficiency (Monday)

Monday achieved the lowest cost per conversion in local currency, maximizing the value of every advertising dollar.

Consistent decrease

Weekend Underperformance (Friday, Saturday)

Friday and Saturday campaigns underperformed on all major metrics versus weekdays, providing a strong case to minimize investment during these periods.

Industry Overview + Problem

The digital advertising sector has become increasingly reliant on precise, real-time data to inform spend decisions and campaign optimizations. However, marketers often contend with data silos and spreadsheets that obscure critical levers—such as which days or hours yield the greatest return on investment or lowest customer acquisition cost. Despite having access to a host of performance metrics (impressions, interactions, conversions, costs), many teams lack the tools to quickly pinpoint when and where campaign spend is most effective. Traditional BI dashboards often fall short, failing to synthesize multi-dimensional patterns like conversion rates and cost efficiency across overlapping time segments. The central challenge: how to move beyond surface-level KPIs and uncover data-driven opportunities for optimizing budget allocation and improving ROI.

Solution: How Scoop Helped

The engagement used a comprehensive campaign performance dataset, aggregated by day of week, hour, and campaign identifier. This data spanned key performance indicators including impressions, interactions, interaction rates, overall costs, average cost per interaction, conversions, conversion rates, and cost per conversion—yielding both breadth (across multiple campaigns and time windows) and depth (granular interaction and conversion data) for robust analysis.​Scoop deployed a fully agentic pipeline comprising the following steps:​

Solution: How Scoop Helped

The engagement used a comprehensive campaign performance dataset, aggregated by day of week, hour, and campaign identifier. This data spanned key performance indicators including impressions, interactions, interaction rates, overall costs, average cost per interaction, conversions, conversion rates, and cost per conversion—yielding both breadth (across multiple campaigns and time windows) and depth (granular interaction and conversion data) for robust analysis.​Scoop deployed a fully agentic pipeline comprising the following steps:​

  • Automated Dataset Scanning & Metadata Inference: Scoop quickly ingested the transactional campaign dataset, automatically detecting the structure, key fields, and granular attributes such as days, hours, and campaign identifiers. This enabled rapid understanding of performance dimensions without manual data prep.
  • Feature Enrichment & Data Quality Auditing: The platform enriched the dataset by calculating derived metrics such as cost per conversion and conversion rate differentials by time segment. Automated integrity checks flagged anomalies or missing data, ensuring downstream insights were reliable.
  • Exploratory Analysis & KPI Surfacing: All primary KPIs—impressions, total interactions, conversions, average cost per interaction—were dynamically analyzed by day and hour. Scoop’s AI surfaced not only static rankings but also revealed patterns such as underperforming weekends and peak-value weekdays.
  • Agentic Machine Learning Modeling: Rather than relying on canned rule sets, Scoop’s ML engine autonomously explored variable importance, identifying which temporal factors (days, hours) exerted the most influence on cost efficiency and conversion lift.
  • Dynamic Slide & Visualization Generation: The platform automatically generated interactive column charts comparing metric performance by day of week, as well as cost efficiency overlays. These visualizations enabled instant, actionable comprehension for decision-makers.
  • Narrative Synthesis & Executive Summarization: Scoop distilled complex findings into clear, executive-ready commentary and prioritized recommendations, eliminating ambiguity and ensuring every insight was actionable—even for non-technical stakeholders.

Deeper Dive: Patterns Uncovered

Several high-impact, previously non-obvious performance patterns emerged from the analysis. First, the data revealed that weekday campaigns—especially Tuesdays and Mondays—not only outpaced weekends in conversion rate but also delivered superior cost efficiency. Importantly, the highest-performing day (Tuesday) achieved this without a disproportionate increase in cost per conversion, striking a valuable balance between volume and value. Sundays, while not surpassing Tuesday, also contributed strong conversion efficiency, yet were less intuitive choices for budget allocation absent this level of analysis.

What traditional dashboards miss, but Scoop’s agentic pipeline exposed, is the compounding effect of granular time segmentation: certain days repeatedly outperformed regardless of individual campaign, suggesting systemic behavioral trends among the target audience. Equally, weekends underdelivered on both rate and volume, illustrating a clear data-backed rationale for spend reduction—insights that would likely have been obscured by top-line average reporting. The ability to trace results to both absolute and relative performance, at the intersection of day-parting and campaign ID, goes beyond human pattern recognition and simple BI, providing a powerful advantage in campaign planning.

Outcomes & Next Steps

With actionable findings in hand, the marketing team immediately rebalanced its campaign budgets, allocating more resources to Tuesday and Monday time windows while strategically reducing spend over the weekend. Next steps include A/B testing refined creative on peak days to compound conversion gains, as well as extending temporal segmentation analysis to the hour level for even finer optimization. The team now plans to automate weekly performance reviews via Scoop, ensuring all future campaigns benefit from real-time, data-driven insight—shifting from a reactive to a proactive posture in digital marketing strategy.