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Demand Gen & YouTube:
the diversification play.

Ledisa is not investing in YouTube or Demand Gen today — the only attempt spent $1,297 over 14 days (Nov 2025) and 7 of 8 campaigns never served an impression. That test proves nothing in either direction. What the data does prove: demand creation works on this brand, and today one network does 77% of it. This page is the evidence plus three full campaign proposals.

Current video spend $0/day Demand-layer concentration 77% AppLovin Direct rivals on YouTube Mostly affiliate reviews (one exception)
01The Evidence

Demand creation already drives this brand — through one network.

Who manufactures Ledisa's brand demand today

Daily AppLovin spend (left) vs daily brand-search impressions on Google (right) · 90 days · correlation r = 0.68 in levels, 0.29 in day-over-day changes · correlation, not proven causation
Mechanism

People see ads elsewhere, then search the brand

AppLovin's daily spend moves together with next-day brand searches on Google, which the brand campaigns and PMax then convert at $3.88–6.77 CPA. The mechanism a YouTube investment would exploit is already working — just owned by a single network today.

Risk

One network is 77% of all spend

Any AppLovin shock — CPM inflation, inventory policy change, attribution change — hits three quarters of acquisition at once. A second demand channel is insurance for the whole business, not an experiment for its own sake.

Whitespace

YouTube is near-empty for direct rivals

Among the direct GLP-1/berberine patch competitors, the YouTube layer is almost entirely affiliate "scam or legit" reviews — only Kind Patches (the category's social leader) runs brand-owned channels with sponsored Shorts. No competitor was confirmed running paid YouTube/Demand Gen video ad campaigns. That is real, defensible whitespace for owned demand creation. Details →

How we verified the YouTube picture (and what's still open)

We checked each competitor for a brand-owned YouTube channel and for organic/affiliate video presence via search. Confirmed: Purisaki, Lipovia, Ozempatch, Gentle and Patched have no brand-owned channel — their YouTube layer is third-party reviews and skeptic content; Kind Patches is the exception (US + UK brand channels). Adjacent wellness-patch brands (The Good Patch, Barrière, Nutri-Patch, Klova) do run brand channels. Still open and worth a manual check before launch: whether any competitor runs paid Google Ads Demand Gen / YouTube video campaigns — that requires the Google Ads Transparency Center (adstransparency.google.com) per domain, which we recommend reviewing as a pre-launch step. Net: the video-ad lane looks open, but treat "clear air" as probable, not proven.

02Proposal A · Demand Gen — Images, Prospecting

Campaign 1: image prospecting, one audience per ad group.

DG_IMG_PROSPECTING_US

Structure — each ad group = one audience (clean reads, separate bids)
Ad groupAudienceLanding (already built — reused from Search)Creative angle
AG_InMarket_WeightLossIn-market: weight loss & supplementsFeel Full Sooner advertorialAppetite science: "feel full sooner"
AG_Custom_GLP1_SearchersCustom segment: people who searched GLP-1 / Ozempic-alternative termsTop 5 Berberine advertorial"Patch vs pill" ingredient science
AG_Affinity_Wellness40Health & wellness affinity, women 35–60Weight Gain After 40 advertorialRoutine/lifestyle, problem-first story
AG_Lookalike_PurchasersLookalike of the purchaser customer listStore (ledisa.com PDP / bundle page)Social proof + bundle offer

Every advertorial here is the same page already built for Search (see the Landing Library) — one build, two channels. No separate Demand Gen creative needed.

Settings
  • Budget $250–400/day · Maximize Conversions to start, switch to Target CPA at the new-customer benchmark (~$115, see Summary page) once ≥50 conversions.
  • Creative: 3–5 statics per ad group from the advertorial design system (1:1 + 4:5 + 9:16); compliant claims only — no drug names, no before/after, no "lose X lbs".
  • Mixed landing test is deliberate: advertorial vs store per audience temperature — judged on Triple Whale CPA per ad group.
03Proposal B · Demand Gen — Images, Remarketing

Campaign 2: image remarketing, laddered by intent depth.

DG_IMG_REMARKETING_US

Ad groupAudienceMessage / offer
AG_RMK_SiteVisitors_30dledisa.com + tryledisa.com visitors, 30d, non-buyersReminder + strongest social proof; store landing
AG_RMK_CartAbandoners_14dAdd-to-cart / begin-checkout, 14d, non-buyersOffer completion + guarantee emphasis ("90-day, no questions")
AG_RMK_AdvertorialReaders_14dmyhealthyshape.com advertorial readers who never reached the store"Still comparing?" — comparison recap + discount; requires the Google tag/audience on the advertorial domain (small setup task, big list)
AG_RMK_PastBuyers_CrossSellPurchasers 30–180dCross-sell the catalog (Sleep / NAD+ / Energy patches) — feeds the repeat-revenue engine (52% of orders are returning customers)
Settings
  • Budget $100–150/day · frequency caps tight (this list is warm — don't burn it) · exclude the last 7-day purchasers everywhere.
  • Health-vertical caveat flagged honestly: Google restricts personalized-audience targeting for weight-loss products, so some remarketing lists may be limited for the GLP-1 SKU. The cross-sell and advertorial-reader groups (wellness framing, non-weight-loss SKUs) are the policy-safe core of this campaign.
04Proposal C · Demand Gen — YouTube Only

Campaign 3: YouTube video for demand creation.

DG_YT_DEMANDCREATION_US

Structure — audiences per ad group, angles and formats mapped
Ad groupAudienceCommunication angleClick-through landingFormats
AG_YT_InMarket_WLIn-market weight loss & supplements"The needle-free routine" — what a patch morning looks like; comparison energy without drug claimsFeel Full Sooner30s in-stream + 15s Shorts
AG_YT_Custom_AlternativesCustom segment: GLP-1 / Ozempic-alternative searchers"How transdermal works" — absorption science explainer, ingredient transparencyTop 5 Berberine45–60s explainer + 6s bumpers
AG_YT_Affinity_Women40Wellness affinity women 35–60 + life events"After 40, it's different" — hormonal-change story, day-in-the-life UGCWeight Gain After 4030s UGC + 15s Shorts
AG_YT_ChannelPlacementsPlacement targeting: wellness/menopause/health YouTube channelsSoft education — "what we put in the patch and why" founder-styleStore + Reviews30s + 6s bumper

Same recycling principle: each YouTube ad group drives to a landing already built for Search (see the Landing Library). Video creates the demand; the matching advertorial closes it.

Creative production rules (compliance-first)
  • Structure/function language only ("supports appetite control", "part of a balanced routine") — never disease, drug, or "no diet needed" claims; no before/after bodies.
  • UGC-style, native pacing for Shorts; branded end-card with the 90-day guarantee — the credibility asset competitors can't copy.
Budget & measurement (decided before launch)
  • $30–50K/month for 6–8 weeks, US only.
  • Primary success metric: brand-search lift — daily brand impressions vs the pre-period baseline model (the AppLovin correlation on this page gives us the expected baseline). Secondary: Triple Whale first-click revenue to video; blended customer-acquisition cost stays flat.
  • Scale rule: brand-demand lift ≥15% with flat blended CAC → scale. Kill rule: no measurable lift after 6 weeks at full budget → stop with confidence.
  • Sequencing: launch only after the tracking repair (Search page) — a video test on broken measurement burns twice.
05Demand Gen & YouTube · Action Plan

This page's actions.

1Prerequisites: tracking repair + Google tag/audience on the advertorial domain + customer-list uploadMakes the tests readable0–30d
MeasureAudience lists populating; conversion capture ≥75%.
2Produce the creative kit: statics (3 angles) + 6/15/30/60s video set, compliance-checkedShared with the PMax asset test30–60d
MeasureCreative pre-cleared against Google healthcare & weight-loss policy before upload.
3Launch DG Prospecting + DG Remarketing (images)2nd demand channel30–60d
MeasureTriple Whale CPA per ad group vs the $115 new-customer benchmark; remarketing CPA vs brand CPA.
4Launch the YouTube demand-creation campaign with pre-registered lift measurementDiversifies the 77%60–90d
MeasureBrand-search lift ≥15% at flat blended CAC → scale; no lift in 6 weeks → kill.
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