CASE STUDY
Online Food Delivery Leader Captures $6.4M+ from Uncontested Auctions

Objectives:
- Reduce Ad Cost
- Maintain Ad Performance
- Create Growth Budget
Challenge: Inflated Baselines in a Saturated Market
2025 Results
- Over $6,400,000 in reclaimed ad spend
- 76% reduction in CPC
- 1% increase in Impression Share
Solution: Automatic Auction Filtering
Leadership leveraged AdAi to monitor the auction landscape in near real-time, separating active competitors from safe brand searches.
1. Contested Auctions: When competitors bid aggressively, AdAi maintained the necessary bids to secure the top slot.
2. Uncontested Auctions: On the vast majority of traffic where no threat existed, AdAi dropped the bid to the floor.
High-frequency execution instantly minimized financial exposure during quiet auction periods.

Results: Unlocking Millions in Reclaimed Spend
Isolating empty auctions drove the CPC on AdAi-managed campaigns down to the absolute minimum across 15 high-volume brand terms.
Precision bidding unlocked an incredible $6,400,000+ in annual reclaimed ad spend. Furthermore, automated adjustments ensured zero lost ground to rivals, allowing the marketing team to maintain a steady 1% lift in Impression Share throughout the year.
Conclusion: Precision as a Competitive Advantage
Aggressive markets still contain highly profitable pockets of empty space.
Utilizing automation to execute minimum bids whenever possible converted an inflated operational cost into a massive pool of unlocked capital.
This autonomous process efficiently reclaims budget without sacrificing visibility, creating new marketing capital that the team can confidently reallocate for broader growth campaigns.
