Case Study · Fitness Supplements · Meta Ads & Email · Europe

How Ultimate Gainz Achieved 4× ROAS and Built a 5,000+ Email List

Ultimate Gainz is a European fitness supplements brand selling protein, pre-workout, and performance nutrition products to gym-goers and athletes. We built a combined Meta advertising and email marketing system that achieved 4× ROAS while growing a 5,000+ subscriber email list establishing both acquisition and retention channels simultaneously.

📱 Meta Ads
✉️ Email Marketing
💪 Fitness Supplements
🌍 Europe
🛒 D2C Nutrition
fb ads management
💪Ultimate Gainz Fitness Supplements EU
📊4× ROAS Achieved
✉️5,000+ Email Subscribers
4× ROAS
4×
ROAS on Meta Ads
5,000+
Email subscribers
↓31%
Cost per acquisition
2
Meta + Email
The Challenge

A Supplements Brand Acquiring Customers Without Capturing Long-Term Value

Ultimate Gainz was running Meta campaigns generating one-time purchases, but had no email list or retention infrastructure to capture repeat business a major missed opportunity in supplements, a category defined by recurring purchase behaviour as customers reorder protein and pre-workout monthly.

The European fitness supplements market is intensely competitive on Meta, with established brands driving up CPMs. Without a way to build first-party audience data (email list) for retargeting and retention, Ultimate Gainz was permanently dependent on increasingly expensive cold Meta traffic.

Project Details
ClientUltimate Gainz
IndustryFitness Supplements · D2C
LocationEurope
ServicesMeta Ads + Email Marketing
ProductProtein & Performance Nutrition
Key Win4× ROAS · 5,000+ Subscribers
The Goal We Set Together

Achieve 3.5×+ ROAS from Meta advertising while simultaneously building an email list of qualified fitness supplement buyers — creating a retention channel that reduces long-term dependency on rising Meta acquisition costs.

Campaign Results

Before & After EmergingAds

Metric
Before
After
ROAS
Below 2× (cold traffic only)
4× (Meta + email combined)
Email List
0 subscribers
5,000+
Cost Per Acquisition
High & rising
↓ 31%
Customer Retention
No mechanism
Email nurture + retargeting

List-Building Reduces Long-Term Dependency on Rising CPMs

Every email subscriber captured via lead magnet became a retargetable asset independent of Meta's increasingly expensive cold-audience CPMs. Subscribers who entered the email nurture sequence converted to first purchase at a significantly lower blended cost than direct cold-traffic Meta conversion ads.

Ultimate Gainz fitness supplements ROAS results chart

Key Insights

🎁 Lead Magnets Build Owned Audience

The free guide funnel converted cold Meta traffic into a 5,000+ subscriber list — an asset independent of rising Meta CPMs.

✉️ Email Nurture Lowers Blended CAC

Subscribers who went through the 14-day nurture sequence converted at lower blended cost than direct cold-traffic purchase ads.

🔁 Custom Audiences Compound

Uploading the email list as a Meta custom audience for retargeting created a flywheel between the two channels, improving overall account efficiency.

Client Testimonial

What They Say About Us

★★★★★

"We were just running ads for one-off sales before. Now we have an actual list of engaged fitness customers we can market to repeatedly. The 4× ROAS is great but the 5,000+ subscriber list is the real long-term asset."

LH
Lukas H.
Founder, Ultimate Gainz
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