Internet & RetailAnonymized case

An e-commerce platform · young-male BHT

A sales decline is not a conclusion. BHT turned it into who was leaving, where they were going and what to do about it.

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Challenge

The platform saw sales decline among men aged 20–30, but sales numbers alone could not reveal whether a competitor was winning them or the brand’s communication was failing. Existing short videos used broad fashion-oriented content, with no evidence of whether it matched men’s real interests or what the content team should change first.

Approach · Evidence chain

Every step reproducible

  1. 01

    Isolate the declining audience

    Men aged 20–30 became the focal segment for the brand-health view, so aggregate averages could not hide the movement of a specific audience.

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  2. 02

    Locate competitive loss

    Brand and competitor performance were compared within the segment, establishing that young-male loss was linked to competitor attraction rather than being attributed vaguely to market demand.

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  3. 03

    Explain why the content did not stick

    The study compared recall and content cues in each side’s short videos: competitor communication aligned more closely with male-interest contexts, while existing content included weaker-relevance cues.

  4. 04

    Convert the insight into a content change

    BHT findings became a short-form video adjustment: moving from generic fashion narratives toward communication more relevant to target men’s interests and the category.

Measurable results
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