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Genie Shopping is best suited to established online retailers looking to unlock incremental growth from Google Shopping without increasing risk or internal workload.

It performs particularly well for brands in:

• Health and beauty
  
• Home and garden
  
• Fashion and apparel
  
• Electronics and technology
  

Retailers with broad product ranges, strong feeds and competitive pricing benefit most, especially those looking to diversify affiliate activity or extract more value from Google Shopping without overlapping with paid media.

Genie Shopping works with a wide range of leading retailers across retail, lifestyle and ecommerce, including eBay, Sports Direct, B&Q, Marks and Spencer, Boots, Samsung, Currys, AO, LookFantastic, MyProtein, Three, Frasers, Holland and Barrett, Buyagift, Boohoo, and Mamas and Papas.

This breadth reflects the flexibility of the model and its ability to scale across categories, markets and commercial structures.

Genie Shopping’s advantage lies in how it approaches Google Shopping.

Rather than competing with a retailer’s existing PPC, its smart bidding technology actively works around in-house activity, targeting untapped products, queries and audiences that are not already being served. This ensures CSS activity is incremental by design, not duplicative.

The CPA-only model reinforces this. Retailers only pay when a sale happens, removing budget risk and making the channel easy to test, scale and optimise. According to Google, Genie Shopping delivers 40 percent more volume than other CSS partners, highlighting the effectiveness of its bidding and optimisation approach.

This combination of technology, accreditation and commercial structure makes Genie Shopping a natural fit for performance teams focused on efficiency and scale.

Many retailers struggle to implement CSS without:

• Inflating Google Shopping budgets
• Cannibalising in-house PPC
• Taking on additional management complexity
  

Genie Shopping removes all three barriers.

By operating on CPA, it allows retailers to access CSS without committing budget upfront. By working around existing activity, it ensures sales are incremental. And by managing the campaign end-to-end, it removes operational burden from in-house teams.

The result is a low-risk route to growth that captures value across the funnel while protecting existing performance channels.

Genie Shopping’s model delivers fast, measurable impact when it matters most.

For Hobbycraft, working closely with Silverbean and the brand’s in-house performance team, Genie Shopping launched a CSS campaign ahead of Black Friday. In under two months, the campaign delivered:

• 6 million impressions
• 190,000 clicks
• 10,000 sales
• £250,000 in revenue
  

The campaign scaled quickly without conflicting with Hobbycraft’s own PPC activity, proving how CSS can be used to drive additional volume during peak periods while remaining fully incremental.

Getting started is simple. Genie Shopping requires:

• An up-to-date product feed
  
• A CPA agreement
  

The team provides complimentary feed checks to confirm eligibility for Google Shopping and recommends competitive CPA rates using industry benchmarks and insights from Google.

Once onboarded, campaigns follow a structured three-month learning and testing phase, allowing bidding and coverage to stabilise before scaling. This approach prioritises long-term consistency over short-term spikes.

Retailers and account managers can connect directly with the Genie Shopping team to explore partnerships across the UK, Europe and beyond.

The Bottom Line: Incremental Google Shopping growth, guaranteed

Genie Shopping turns Google Shopping into a performance-only channel that delivers incremental volume without risk. With premium CSS status, smart bidding technology and a CPA-only model, it gives retailers a clean, efficient way to scale.

For brands looking to grow Shopping performance without cannibalisation, budget inflation or complexity, Genie Shopping is one step ahead.

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