CASE STUDY: Elcano’s Victoria Drives CPA Efficiency for Leading Automotive Brand
Elcano partnered with a leading automotive brand on its Summer 2025 programmatic campaign, focused on driving efficient performance against strict CPA goals.
To achieve this, Elcano deployed its targeting solution, Elcano Lens, which combines advanced contextual intelligence with quality scoring to identify and activate premium programmatic inventory. In parallel, Elcano’s AI agent, Victoria, provided AI-driven optimizations to refine supply and maximize outcomes.
This success highlights the power of supply-side AI-driven optimization in delivering both efficiency and performance at scale.
The Challenge:
Focused specifically on prospecting without the use of retargeting audiences, the client was aiming to achieve aggressive CPA goals while maintaining cost efficiency.
The campaign faced challenges related to:
Isolating contextually relevant inventory that will perform.
Maintaining pricing efficiency across programmatic display
The Solution:
Contextual and Quality Scoring with Elcano Lens:
Elcano’s proprietary targeting tool that is designed to isolate high quality, contextually-aligned inventory.
Premium automotive focused sites.
Identify additional over-indexing contextual categories.
Supply-side AI-driven Optimization with Elcano’s Victoria AI:
Victoria is Elcano's intelligent AI agent that revolutionizes how programmatic advertising teams interact with data, make decisions, and optimize campaigns.
Victoria shapes inventory at the source, removing waste upstream of the DSP.
Human-in-the-loop guides system decisioning.
The Results:
This campaign demonstrated how Elcano’s supply-side approach can unlock new levels of efficiency without sacrificing scale or quality.
By uniting advanced contextual targeting with adaptive AI optimization, Elcano delivered measurable business impact that set the stage for future campaigns.
+46.5% more efficient CPA than compared to campaign goal
+30.6% more efficient CPM than compared to campaign goal
