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Kosterina's Samuel Davel on Use Case Repositioning: How One Campaign Defied All Expectations
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- Brilliant Commerce
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- Aug 27, 2025
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- 2374
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Summary
When a premium olive oil brand discovers ChatGPT is driving thousands of dollars in monthly revenue with zero paid spend, it signals a fundamental shift in how consumer education creates both immediate sales and long-term category growth. Samuel Davel reveals how Kosterina's military-disciplined approach to growth measurement exposed agency manipulation while building a repeatable framework for omnichannel brand expansion. Key Topics Discussed: Strategic pivot from lifestyle to educational UGC content - Sam details Kosterina's complete content strategy overhaul from recipe and lifestyle imagery to educational UGC focused on olive oil quality differentiation (single-sourced, early harvested, polyphenol content). The counterintuitive approach: educating consumers to make better category decisions regardless of brand choice, creating informed buyers who drive overall premium segment growth. MER implementation as singular North Star metric - Moving beyond platform-reported ROAS to Media Efficiency Ratio (total revenue ÷ total spend) as the primary decision-making metric. Samuel explains how this holistic view caught their previous agency's manipulation: 85% view-through attribution on Meta and branded search terms stuffed into Performance Max campaigns inflating a 12X reported ROAS while revenue remained flat. Use case repositioning that transforms consumption patterns - Sam Davel's tactical repositioning of olive oil from cooking ingredient to daily wellness ritual. The campaign he expected to fail became their highest-performing January initiative, demonstrating how use case repositioning can unlock entirely new consumption patterns and purchase frequency without product changes. Advanced agency vetting framework beyond basic credentials - Samuel due diligence checklist:…