RainBarrel and Deloitte Triple Acquisitions for Wealth Management Company

Challenge:

An audit and assurance consulting firm, Deloitte provides advising on financial and tax solutions, along with additional related services to both public and private firms globally. Serving a number of industries internationally, Deloitte was in search of a new solution to magnify their targeting precision. In order to acquire new customers for a new wealth management client, Deloitte needed a partner who could tap into prime conversion opportunities by activating first and third-party data for their digital advertising campaign.

Goals:

  • Decrease CPA & CPM
  • Increase conversion rate
  • Increase number of high value clients

Solution:

Utilizing our location-based audience graph, we started the process by determining parameters for our geospatial boundaries. In order to find qualified prospects, we created a model to score all Canadian postal codes outside of Quebec, where we then identified approximately 1 million high-tier, potential customers. These devices residing at the top postal codes were then served highly targeted messaging from Deloitte’s client across Google and Facebook. Working directly with their client, we ensured their custom parameters were executed both ethically and securely on our audience graph. For the duration of the campaign, our automated channels equipped Deloitte with access to high quality data which was updated on a weekly basis, and acted as a catalyst in achieving impressive results for their client’s campaign.

Results:

  • Increased acquisition rate by 3X
  • 65% increase in high value clients

Conclusion:

RainBarrel provided a solution that suited their needs at a much lower Cost Per Thousand (CPM), a lower Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) and lower Assisted CPA. Despite working with a lower allocation on spend, RainBarrel outperformed in comparison to the campaign the wealth management company’s media agency was running. At the same time, we achieved an acquisition rate that was 3 times higher than their previous campaign, bringing in a 65% increase in what the client defines as high value customers.

Deloitte’s clients were ecstatic about the results which exceeded their goals. The campaign was a success and achieved much more lucrative results than they had previously seen. The client has opted to continue their work with RainBarrel in the upcoming year, and are delighted to do so with a more robust campaign budget.

Case Study

Driving Consideration for a Private University in Texas with RainBarrel Audiences on CTV

Challenge

A private university in Texas needed to increase consideration among prospective students during peak enrollment season. Traditional third-party education segments available in CTV platforms were overly broad, capturing parents, general life events, and loosely related education behaviors. The university wanted higher-quality prospective student reach that could translate to attention in CTV, without sacrificing efficiency.

Decrease CPA & CPM

Increase
Conversion Rate

Increase Number of
High-Value Clients

Strategy

RainBarrel developed a custom audience built specifically for this advertiser and deployed it on CTV through a leading DSP. The strategy focused on:

  • Real-world behaviors over inferred intent: We constructed the audience from signals like visits to competitor university campuses and other nearby institutions, filtering for patterns more indicative of active interest in college search.
  • Precision over scale: Instead of generic third-party segments with hundreds of millions of users, we built a tighter, custom segment aligned with true signals of prospective student behavior.
  • CTV activation via The Trade Desk: Both the RainBarrel custom audience and the third-party education audience were activated on the same CTV inventory, allowing a clean apples-to-apples comparison of performance.

Results

3x

Acquisition
Rate Increase

65%

Increase in
High-Value Clients

When comparing RainBarrel’s custom CTV audience to other third-party audiences:

  • RainBarrel delivered lower CPM by double-digit percentages vs the other third-party segments.
  • Completed view efficiency improved with RainBarrel, lowering cost per completed view by a significant margin.
  • Viewability and attention increased, with RainBarrel delivering a higher completion rate by multiple percentage points.

Across key attention metrics, the RainBarrel audience performed better without paying a premium for scale.

Why It Matters

3x

Acquisition
Rate Increase

65%

Increase in
High-Value Clients

This case highlights how audience quality drives performance in premium CTV environments:

  • Better signals beat bigger audiences: A custom audience built from real behavior delivered more efficient attention metrics than one built from generic third-party data.
  • CTV demands relevance: With higher CPMs in CTV, broad targeting quickly becomes wasteful; a tighter audience with stronger intent keeps spend efficient.
  • Custom audiences can unlock incremental performance: RainBarrel’s ability to tailor audiences — even around competitive POIs — gives advertisers an edge in reaching true prospects.

Conclusion

  • Custom beats generic: Tailored audiences based on real-world behavior outperformed broad third-party segments on CTV.
  • Precision drives efficiency: Higher attention and lower cost per impact matter more than sheer reach.
  • CTV activation works: RainBarrel audiences deliver in premium environments like The Trade Desk.