For ecommerce brands

Ecommerce growth on Mobile web, TV, and your product catalog

Sync Shopify orders, render catalog video automatically, reach site visitors on every selected channel, and expand with lookalikes built from your best customers.

Built for Shopify stores, specialty retail, DTC brands.

$50 creation credit for new accounts. No contracts. Pause anytime.

Free campaign intelligence brief

Paste your website. We classify your market and recommend a daily budget from published industry Search benchmarks.

Free site brief: competition, recommended spend, and timeline. No account required to see the estimate.

How does ecommerce brands advertising work on Waverunner?

Waverunner helps ecommerce brands advertise on Mobile web and TV with Catalog Video early access, Shopify webhook sync, Google and Meta for cart abandoners, and lookalikes seeded from purchasers. Product feeds drive fresh creatives while first-party pixels attribute revenue back to each campaign.

Industry snapshot

What Shopping, Collectibles & Gifts advertisers face in Search

Published industry medians for planning context. Use them to size a daily budget, not as a forecast of Waverunner delivery.

Median Search CPC

$4.14

Median Search CPL

$49.40

Competition

Moderate

Suggested daily budget

$18.53–$37.05

Typical learning window about 14 days; clearer signal around 30 days at the suggested default of $24.70/day.

Industry Search benchmarks, WordStream by LocaliQ 2026. Source.

Planning aid, not a delivery contract. Figures are published industry Search medians, not Waverunner results.

How does Catalog Video early access work for online stores?

Connect your product feed and Catalog Video early access renders short video units per SKU with price and variant labels. When inventory or sale pricing changes, Mobile web placements refresh without manual design work. Out-of-stock items pause automatically so ad spend does not send shoppers to broken pages or stale checkout flows.

Early access is available to enrolled brands; support enables the org flag after a feed quality review.

Catalog Video early access
Ecommerce catalog with SKU-level video ad previews for Mobile web

Can Shopify stores send purchase data for ad optimization?

Shopify webhooks push order and checkout events into Waverunner so conversion rules fire on completed purchases, not just add-to-cart clicks. Hashed customer records from those orders can seed Google, Meta, and lookalike audiences you own. The integration stays on your storefront domain without sharing admin passwords or theme editor access to third parties.

Install the tracking snippet through Shopify, Webflow, or your tag manager following the docs checklist.

Tracking setup
Example Mobile web ad

Free shipping over $75 today

Best-selling bundles restocked weekly. Checkout in under a minute with Shop Pay.

Shop bestsellers
Illustrative example. Not a live placement.

How should ecommerce brands reach site visitors on every selected channel?

Ads across Mobile web, Google, and Meta reach shoppers who viewed product or cart pages but did not buy, showing the exact SKU they browsed when possible. Pair static catalog units with short social video cutdowns for high-AOV items. Frequency stays bounded so prospects see a reminder, not an endless loop that trains them to ignore your brand.

Cart abandoners and product browsers meet Google and Meta under each persona once those channels are Live.

Audiences
Example Mobile web ad

Still thinking about the trail kit?

Your cart qualifies for 15% off through Sunday. Only six kits left in your size.

Complete order
Illustrative example. Not a live placement.

When do buyer lookalikes make sense for DTC brands?

After you accumulate a few hundred purchasers, lookalike audiences find Mobile web users who resemble your best customers by behavior and purchase patterns. Seed from high-LTV buyers or repeat orderers rather than one-time discount hunters. Lookalikes expand Mobile web reach once you have enough buyers, keeping cold prospecting separate from people who already know your brand.

Upload or sync hashed customer lists, then enable lookalike expansion from the Audiences panel.

Audiences
Example TV spot0:15

Gear tested on real trails

Watch how our latest shell handles Pacific Northwest rain before you choose a size online.

Shop the collection
Illustrative example. Not a live placement.

Getting started

How ecommerce brands launch in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Connect your store and catalog

    Link Shopify webhooks, enroll in Catalog Video early access, and confirm product feed fields map to ad templates.

  2. 2

    Launch prospecting and Google and Meta

    Approve Mobile web and TV creatives, set a daily budget, and enable ads on Google, Meta, and other selected channels for viewers and cart abandoners.

  3. 3

    Seed lookalikes and read ROAS

    Build lookalikes from purchasers, watch revenue in the performance dashboard, and shift budget toward SKUs with margin headroom.

Illustrative campaign

A Shopify DTC brand with heavy cart abandonment

Example only. Real campaigns are built from your website, personas, and daily budget.

Catalog Video early access refreshed Mobile web units for the top forty SKUs nightly. Shopify purchase webhooks powered Google and Meta for abandoners, and a purchaser lookalike expanded prospecting while TV spots introduced the brand on streaming during a product launch week.

Compare options

Advertising choices for ecommerce brands

DIY ad platforms

You manage creatives, targeting, and reporting yourself. Industry Search medians sit near $4.14 CPC and $49.40 CPL for planning context.

Piecemeal stack

Creative, media, and measurement split across vendors. You wait on updates, and reporting often arrives as a deck.

Waverunner

Self-serve Mobile web and TV with built-in creative, site tracking, and autopilot. Platform-only ads trap you inside one network's reporting; Waverunner unifies Mobile web, TV, catalog video, and Shopify-attributed revenue in one wallet.

Illustrative example

Shopify orders flow into conversions automatically, Catalog Video early access keeps creatives current, and lookalikes finally beat our manual interest targeting on Mobile web.
Sam, outdoor gear DTC founder (illustrative)

Pricing

One daily budget. Prepaid wallet. No contracts.

Campaigns charge your daily budget once per active day. New accounts start with $50 of creation credit.

Daily budget

$10–$10,000

Edit anytime. Prepaid wallet; campaigns pause when funds run out.

Creation credit

$50

Earn 10% of campaign days back as credit.

Ad units

Images $0.38, social video $6, TV spot $12.

Full pricing

FAQ

Questions ecommerce brands ask before launching

Which ecommerce platforms does Waverunner support?

Shopify has a documented webhook path. Other carts can use the site tag and a product feed URL for Catalog Video early access.

What is required for Catalog Video early access?

A stable product feed with images, prices, and availability. Support enables early access after reviewing feed quality.

Can I exclude existing customers from prospecting?

Yes. Purchaser lists power exclusion rules on cold Mobile web legs while Google, Meta, and lookalikes use separate audiences.

Does Waverunner optimize toward purchase value?

Conversion rules can count purchases from Shopify webhooks. Report ROAS from first-party orders, not platform-estimated revenue.

How much should a new DTC brand spend daily?

Campaigns start at $10 per day. Scale when Google, Meta, and lookalike seeds have enough volume to stay stable.

Can I run TV for an online-only brand?

Yes. TV spots on local or national streaming complement Mobile web prospecting and give Google and Meta a familiar brand cue.

What happens when a SKU goes out of stock?

Catalog Video sync pauses affected units when availability drops in your feed, protecting spend and shopper experience.

Campaign intelligence

A real brief from your website, not a budget slider

We read your site, classify the market, and recommend daily spend and a learning timeline from published industry Search benchmarks plus our mobile-web reach math. Planning aid, not a delivery contract.

Free site brief: competition, recommended spend, and timeline. No account required to see the estimate.

Strategy, creative, and media, always on.

Always-on performance advertising: we build the ads, find the customers, and keep improving them on autopilot. You run the business.

See personas and ads on creation credit before you spend. Live site reporting, read-only insights chat, and always-on autopilot included. Your daily budget is a ceiling you control.

Free to analyze: see your personas and ads before you spend a cent.