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Footwear 🇪🇬 Egypt B2C E-Commerce

Building a scalable Meta acquisition engine for an Egyptian sneaker & footwear e-commerce brand.

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Overview

Runover is an Egyptian footwear e-commerce brand targeting young consumers who are into sneakers, street style, and trendy casual shoes. The brand operates in Egypt's rapidly growing online footwear market — a space driven by a digital-native generation that prefers discovering and purchasing shoes via social media rather than physical retail.

The brand competes in a visually saturated category where creative quality and audience targeting precision are the primary levers for paid social performance.

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Objectives

Drive direct online sales through Meta conversion campaigns
Build a scalable paid acquisition funnel for the Runover online store
Develop lifestyle-forward creative that resonates with Egyptian sneaker culture
Grow the brand's social presence as a long-term organic asset

Challenges

⚠️Saturated creative environment — Egyptian fashion ads have high visual ad blindness requiring constantly fresh, unexpected content
⚠️Differentiating from competitors without relying on aggressive discounting
⚠️Converting fashion-interested audiences into committed buyers in a high-SKU catalog environment
⚠️Balancing brand identity with direct-response performance requirements

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Strategy

The strategy centered on building Runover as a culturally authentic sneaker brand — not a generic discount shoe store. This meant leading every campaign with lifestyle-first creative that placed the product inside the world the target audience already lived in: street scenes, daily movement, and youth culture moments.

Rather than leading offers with discount-first messaging, promotions were always framed within the brand identity — the offer was the final push, not the primary hook. A full-funnel architecture ensured cold audiences were acquired efficiently while warm and retargeting audiences were converted at significantly lower cost.

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Execution

Managed campaigns on Facebook and Instagram using Sales and Conversion objectives
Directed traffic to the Runover online store (runover-eg.com)
Developed street-style and lifestyle-led creative that felt native to the Egyptian youth social environment
Built layered retargeting sequences for visitors and cart abandoners with progressively stronger messaging
Incorporated seasonal promotions and free-shipping thresholds framed within brand identity — not as discount-first hooks
Continuously rotated creative to combat ad fatigue in a visually competitive category

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Campaign Funnel

From awareness to conversion

1 Awareness
Put Runover on the radar of Egyptian sneaker culture
Street-style lifestyle video: shoes in authentic urban settings New arrivals and collection showcase content Sneaker culture and streetwear aesthetic content
2 Brand Connection
Build emotional connection with brand identity
Join the Runover world identity storytelling User-style lifestyle content Street credibility creative: real settings not studio
3 Purchase Intent
Convert cultural affinity into buying decision
Product-focused retargeting of warm audiences Free shipping and seasonal offer mechanics Urgency-framed limited stock messaging
4 Conversion
Complete purchase on runover-eg.com
Sales and conversion objective campaigns Cart recovery retargeting 1-3 days LAL of purchasers for efficient scaling

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Audience Insight

Who this brand's ideal customer is

👤 Demographics
  • Ages 16-35, Egypt Cairo Alex major cities
  • Students and young working professionals
  • Both genders with streetwear interest
  • Mobile-first digital natives
❤️ Interests
  • Sneaker culture and streetwear
  • Urban fashion and street style
  • Sports and active lifestyle
  • Social media fashion content
  • Youth culture and self-expression
🔍 Behavior
  • Mobile online shopper
  • Engages with fashion sneaker and lifestyle content
  • Follows local and international streetwear pages
  • Aspiration-driven purchase behavior
Pain Points
  • Limited trendy sneaker options available online in Egypt
  • Generic online stores lack cultural relevance
  • Want a brand that speaks their language and style
  • Looking for authenticity: street-credible not manufactured

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Targeting Strategy

How we reached the right people

Cold Audience
Sneaker culture and streetwear Egypt Urban fashion and street style Ages 16-35 Egypt mobile users Competitor sneaker brand engagers Online fashion shopping behavior
Warm Audience
Website visitors 7 days Video viewers 25%+ street content Instagram and Facebook page engagers 30 days
Retargeting
Product page visitors 3 days Add-to-cart without purchase Past buyers for new collection launches
Lookalike
1% LAL purchasers highest performing 2% LAL add-to-cart users LAL based on street content video viewers

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Key Learnings

💡The most resonant creative was captured where the target audience actually lives — street authenticity translated directly into brand authenticity.
💡The gap between "interested but didn't buy" and "converted" is where the most efficient revenue lives — robust retargeting flows consistently delivered the best cost-per-purchase.
💡Leading with brand identity (not discount) created a more defensible competitive position in a market where price differentiation is difficult to sustain.
Brand Info
Market🇪🇬 Egypt
IndustryFootwear
TypeB2C E-Commerce
Period2024 – 2025
Platforms Used
Meta Ads (FB & IG)

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