Veuve du Vernay · New Zealand · Oct 2024 to present
Record efficiency for a French sparkling wine brand, flight after flight.
595K
People reached, Summer 2025/26 campaign
4.1x
Impression growth vs the previous four campaigns
$1.40
Record-low CPM, Easter 2026 campaign
1.7x
Reach growth vs the previous four campaigns combined
The challenge
Veuve du Vernay competes against Lindauer, Jacob's Creek, Oyster Bay, and Deutz on New Zealand shelves twice a year through Meta. Its edge is French elegance, but that positioning only earns its keep if the media buying behind it is disciplined. The first four campaigns had reached 352,441 people combined. The brief for the next flight: hold the positioning, fix the efficiency, and build reporting the client could trust from one campaign to the next.
The approach
Each flight runs on a fixed media plan split across Instagram and Facebook by placement, phased to avoid the mid-December CPM spike. Ad copy follows one structure across two variants per set: opener, product and variant callout, occasion benefit, direct CTA. The ICE range copy calls out its serve format specifically, since that's what removes the occasion barrier stopping people buying it. Campaign data comes from Windsor.ai, pulled dimension by dimension rather than as one blended export, so shifts in delivery show up early instead of getting buried in a topline number. Every flight closes with a performance report in a consistent format, so the client reads a trend line instead of four disconnected decks.
The latest summer campaign delivered the highest reach and impression volume of any Veuve du Vernay Meta activity to date, significantly outperforming the combined total of the previous four campaigns while maintaining an efficient CPM of $1.52.
The result
The Summer 2025/26 campaign delivered 594,708 reach and 2.5M impressions at a $1.52 CPM, a 1.7x reach and 4.1x impression increase over the first four campaigns combined. Easter 2026 held that same discipline on roughly a third of the budget: 302K reach at a $1.40 CPM and $4.80 cost per 1,000 reached, both records for the account. The dimension-by-dimension reporting also caught two delivery shifts mid-flight, a swing to Facebook-heavy delivery and a male audience skew, flagging both for the client to act on before the next campaign rather than finding out after it.