10 Great Examples of Effective Paid Social Ads in the Fashion Industry

Facebook has long been a leading channel for paid social activity, with brands tailoring and targeting users, according to behavioural triggers, whilst promoting their key content or boosting their best-performing organic posts. Other social channels are falling in line and enabling businesses more opportunities to promote their brand and products, as the necessity for paid campaigns increases.

Fashion retail brands are massively investing in paid social as a powerful way to showcase their products and new collections, whilst driving conversions and revenue through discounts and promotions.

We've compiled 20 examples of effective paid social ads in the fashion industry:

GUCCI Meta ads

GUCCI run many ads that are focussed on driving footfall to local stores. This simple carousel Facebook ad is just one example of how they do this so effetively, using short videos and newness to entice.

PrettyLittleThing Meta ads

PrettyLittleThing generally run many Meta ads at once with lots of different goals. This is one example of how they promote specific new drops.

Primark Meta ads

Primark Meta ads are generally shaped around one theme - shop online, collect instore. This example is one of hundreds of similar ads they run.

self-portrait Meta ads

Self-Portrait lead with a variety of ads currently shown in the Meta Ad Gallery. This specific ad targets everyday wear customers, teasing with an edit and a single lifestyle image.

shoezone Meta ads

Shoezone are a relatively small high street retailer in the UK. But there's nothing small about their social ad strategy. They promote every product launch, most likely to very specific audiences. They generally lead with 'Free Delivery' as their key message - this will be highly effective.

Universal Works Meta ads

UW keep all of their ads simple - some feature videos, some just a static image. They often promote their email newsletter sign up as a way to get people to register to hear about exclusive drops and content.

Macys Instagram Ads

Many journalists will simply ask you to send them over some comments in an email. Never do this. You need to build a connection with the journalist and get them to feature you. This isn't so easy to achieve if you’re just sending an email with a couple of quotes. It's passable. A phone interview will help craft the content and get the journalist to really feel your point of view.

Ralph Lauren's Instagram Ads

Ralph Lauren's 'The Denim Edit' paid social campaign adopted a dual focus, showcasing their latest line of jeans, jackets, and shirts alongside branded videos demonstrating denim outfit styling. This strategy aimed to increase exposure for both products and branded content, fostering overall brand engagement. By seamlessly integrating product promotion with captivating styling tutorials, the campaign conveyed a comprehensive brand narrative while maximising its effectiveness and cross-promotional opportunities. Furthermore, it facilitated the collection of valuable data insights for future optimisation and strategic refinement.

Tieks Facebook Carousel Ads

Facebook carousel ads are a great way for retailers, especially fashion brands, to promote multiple products within one paid social ad campaign. What Tieks have cleverly done is use the carousel format to form a series of ads to panoramically promote their ballet flats. The copy expresses the different benefits of the shoe. It's like a multi-facetted pitch, all in one campaign. This is a common approach in modern times for paid social marketers, but sometimes written off as not being effective. Our paid social clients in all sectors, benefit from paid social ads. If you've not tried them for a while, now might be a good time to bring them back in:

Fendi Instagram Carousel Ads

Facebook carousel ads are a great way for retailers, especially fashion brands, to promote multiple products within one paid social ad campaign. Fendi has executed this extremely well here, marrying beautiful studio shots with creative backdrops to really make the colours pop. It's like a multi-faceted pitch, all in one campaign. This is a common approach in modern times for paid social marketers, but sometimes written off as not being effective. Our paid social clients in all sectors, benefit from paid social ads. If you've not tried them for a while, now might be a good time to bring them back in:

Threadless on Twitter

The nature of Twitter and the social networking channel's popularity is all about instant engagement, attention-grabbing visuals, shareability and short-but-sweet content. This example from Threadless embodies this. They've used a pop culture visual reference to alert users to their post – Sadness from Inside Out – and made it relevant to their content in relation to empathy about the busy holiday shopping experience.

The copy is simple but effective. Threadless states how it's solving a customer problem, with the sizable discount offer. This is a quick win for social media success.

Buyable Pins from Macy's on Pinterest

Pinterest is expanding its capabilities for marketers to promote their brand via the channel, adding more features for paid social campaigns, with Promoted and Buyable Pins. With Promoted Pins, you can target your audience with a product and accompany the sponsored pins with a carousel of pins, showing a range of additional products.

Buyable Pins, like this example from Macy's, enable fashion brands to pin products that can be saved, shared and purchased. This is ideal for fashion brands, as users can engage with the pins, click through to the brand website and purchase products without leaving Pinterest.

How to see every brand's Meta Ads

Did you know that Meta actually has a library of every single live Facebook and Instagram ad, for every single brand? If not, check out the Meta Ad Library now.

Summary

These great paid social examples should give you an idea of the visual impact and compelling calls to action that can be achieved with ads on social media channels. When combining this with the key audience targeting capabilities and insights available with paid social, fashion brands can reach the right users and drive effective marketing campaigns with high conversion rates.

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