Feed Funnels are the new CRO

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🪦 CRO Is Dead. Long Live Feed Conversion.

CRO used to be the lever. Landing pages, buttons, PDP layout, tweak the site, boost the conversion rate, win. But TikTok Shop and real-time commerce flipped the entire buying sequence: now the feed is the funnel, and your website’s only job is to not break the sale.

We’ve entered the era of Last Step Optimization (LSO). Every conversion already happened in the buyer’s head, your site just confirms, confirms, confirms. If your website still assumes it needs to persuade, you’ve already lost.

💡 The Site Is No Longer the Funnel, It’s the Receipt

Buyers now do all the consideration in-feed:

• They discover products from creators they trust
• They compare options via the comments section
• They validate the product based on reactions, stitch replies, and visual proof

By the time they hit your site, they’ve already seen the pitch and the testimonial. Your site isn’t a closer, it’s a handoff.

📉 What Most Brands Still Get Wrong

• They treat the PDP like a place to convince, not confirm
• They overload with feature copy no one reads
• They build CRO flows assuming they’re the first impression, not the final checkpoint

This creates friction at the exact moment when the buyer needs speed and clarity. You’re not losing sales because the site isn’t “optimized” you’re losing them because you’re still trying to do too much.

✅ The New Rules of Last Step Optimization

1. Mirror the feed: Use the same language, tone, and creator visuals from the ad in your PDP.
2. Defer to social proof: Surface TikTok replies, UGC snippets, and community comments, not 300 words of ingredient explanation.
3. Strip to essentials: Key benefit, key visual, add-to-cart. Anything more = conversion decay.

The goal is not persuasion, it’s momentum. Keep what the feed started flowing straight through checkout.

📹 Creator-Led Funnels Require Creator-Led Validation

Want feed-to-cart cohesion? It starts with better creator briefs. Don’t just ask for “raw UGC”, ask for top-of-funnel conviction builders you can reuse at every step of the funnel.

Insense makes this plug-and-play, From one brief, get 20+ pieces of modular content per creator, lifetime usage rights included. 

That’s how brands like Flo Health and Aceable scale creator-led conversion without rebuilding every page from scratch. You can book your free strategy call by September 26 and get $200 off your first campaign.

Why It Matters: The funnel didn’t shrink, it moved. Conversion now happens before the click. Your job isn’t to optimize for curiosity; it’s to remove anything that could kill conviction.

Together with Portless

📦 Still Waiting 60–90 Days for Inventory? You’re Losing BFCM Sales

This Black Friday/Cyber Monday season, every day of delay costs revenue.While competitors wait three months for shipments, your shelves stay stocked and campaigns keep running when you partner with Portless. 

Here’s what Portless unlocks right now:

✈️ Ship directly from the factory to customers in just 6 days
📦 Restock best-sellers in 3–5 days (not 3 months)
🚀 Launch and test new products instantly without warehousing risk
💸 Cut lead times by 90% and free up 30–40% more cash every month

Instead of waiting a quarter to break even, Portless brands shrink CAC payback to 7–14 days, recycling cash into ads, launches, and scale, exactly when holiday demand peaks.

Speed isn’t just an advantage for BFCM; it’s the moat that decides who wins the season.

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🎯 Google Rolls Out Monthly Demand Gen Drops

Google introduces Demand Gen Drops, a monthly update to keep advertisers on top of YouTube Demand Gen improvements. Over the past year, AI-driven optimizations boosted conversions per dollar by 26%, powered by more than 60 upgrades in bidding, ramp time, and targeting.

The Breakdown:

1️⃣ Conversion Lift Expansion - Advertisers can now run Conversion Lift tests at lower spend and volume, even across entire manager accounts, making it easier to gauge incremental lift from multiple campaign types without heavy budgets.

2️⃣ Cross-Platform Measurement - New platform-comparable conversion columns help advertisers measure YouTube campaigns alongside other channels using consistent attribution, improving clarity for multi-platform strategies.

3️⃣ Omni-Channel & Creative Tools - Omni-channel bidding now optimizes for total online and offline sales, while Local Offers and Promotion Assets enable marketers to feature in-store deals and seasonal promotions directly in their YouTube ads.

This first Demand Gen Drop shows Google’s commitment to continual AI-driven improvements that simplify testing, unify measurement across platforms, and unlock omnichannel commerce opportunities. Marketers who follow each monthly Drop will gain early access to features that sharpen campaign efficienc.

🚀Quick Hits 

📈 One creator → 20+ ad variations in under two weeks, each effectively <$8 per asset when you factor 20+ for <$150. Insense turns a single brief into raw + edited UGC with lifetime rights you can remix across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube, no agency lag. Book a free strategy call by Sept 26 to claim $200 toward your first campaign.

📢 X introduced a “Boost” button letting Premium iOS users pay to expand post reach: $50 for 11k–27k impressions, $100 for 23k–54k, $500 for 116k–272k, and $1,000 for 225k–543k impressions.

🔒 Starting Nov 3, 2025, LinkedIn will share more profile, feed, and ad engagement data with Microsoft for ad personalization and use some member data to train generative AI, unless users opt out.

📉 After Google killed the num=100 parameter, 87.7% of sites lost impressions and 77.6% lost keyword visibility, with short- and mid-tail terms hit hardest, forcing SEOs to recalibrate reporting and ranking analysis.

🌐 Google Chrome now offers AI Mode in the address bar for U.S. users, adding page-aware prompts, Gemini tab summaries, scam protection, and one-click password changes, streamlining searches and boosting browsing security.

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