NCI did not have an SEO strategy or staff, but it also had 150 subdomains run by different departments and on different CMS systems. Additionally, Google had recently rolled out its symptom panels. As a result, even its expert written content was not ranking for its ideal terms, and its cancer clinical trials section of its site was not ranking for the vast majority of cancer clinical trial keywords.

SendGrid was a well-established email API frequently used by businesses for transactional email use cases, attempting to break into the email marketing space with an email marketing campaign. After around two years of struggling to break into email marketing, marketing leaders were interested in a way to build more content marketing traffic to the site via organic search channels. Problem was, email marketing is an extremely difficult vertical for content marketing.

Oura was an emerging product in the wearable tech space and they were scaling up over the holiday season to compete with the big brands in wearable tech. The company was launching a new brand for the product and the challenge was to launch the new brand while increasing the ROAS.

Factor was looking to efficiently scale and continue aggressive growth in order to be acquired.