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How Secret Sales Unlocked £18 ROAS from Visitors They’d Never Reached Before

With 50 million annual visitors, Secret Sales, the UK's leading fashion marketplace, was losing the vast majority to anonymity. No cookie match, no CRM entry, no second chance. Optivo changed that entirely.

How Secret Sales Unlocked £18 ROAS from Visitors They’d Never Reached Before
£18 ROAS
in 60 days
200k
anonymous visitors identified
35%
increase in AOV vs existing users

Challenge

The vast majority of Secret Sales’ 50 million annual visitors left without being identified. No account, no cookie match, no CRM record. Every follow-up channel bypassed them entirely: email nurture, paid social retargeting, CRM sequences. Each bounced visitor represented wasted acquisition spend with no second chance to convert, a significant and growing cost for a platform built on repeat purchase and high lifetime value.

Solution

Optivo was deployed across the full Secret Sales site, identifying anonymous visitors at a scale previous tools could not approach, delivering 6x more identified visitors than cart abandonment solutions alone.

Every visitor identified was genuinely net-new to the CRM with no overlap with existing retargeting audiences. Each one entered a tailored email sequence timed to peak purchase intent, with messaging personalised to the specific brands and categories they had browsed.

Results

Over the campaign period, Optivo:

  • identified and engaged 200,000 anonymous visitors. None were present in the existing CRM and none were reachable through any other channel.
  • delivered an £18 ROAS, validated against strict incrementality criteria: the revenue held up even when removing conversions that would have happened regardless.
  • generated a 35% higher AOV compared to existing customers, over the period

Anonymous traffic, previously written off as an unavoidable leakage from acquisition spend, became a scalable, measurable new revenue channel.