Scaling Content Without Scaling Costs for NOOMA

Affiliate
Affiliate

Jan 2025 - Ongoing

NOOMA is a fast-growing organic sports drinks brand, built for athletes seeking clean hydration and recovery. By 2025, they had been running an influencer affiliate program in-house but hit a ceiling: limited bandwidth meant they couldn’t recruit, activate, or manage affiliates at scale.

To accelerate growth, NOOMA partnered with Augmentum to professionalise the program: driving more content, more affiliates, and measurable new customer revenue.

The Challenge: Scale an Affiliate Program Beyond Internal Bandwidth

  • NOOMA’s in-house team had built an affiliate program but couldn’t manage or scale it effectively.

  • Affiliate conversion rates were low, and growth had plateaued.

  • Content volume also wasn’t enough to fuel their Instagram presence or ad account.

  • They needed an agency partner to:

    • Activate existing affiliates with better systems and support.

    • Recruit and onboard new affiliates at scale.

    • Generate a pipeline of UGC to drive both organic awareness and paid performance.

Our Approach: Build a High-Performing Affiliate Engine

  1. Strategy & Activation
  • Designed affiliate activation processes to maximise output from existing affiliates.

  • Optimised the affiliate program structure using Augmentum’s best practices in health & wellness.

  1. Recruitment & Seeding
  • Recruited new influencers via product seeding.

  • Converted them into affiliates with onboarding and activation flows.

  • Drove a 2x higher conversion rate versus NOOMA’s in-house efforts.

  1. Content & Growth
  • Focused on scaling Instagram organic tags and ad-ready content.

  • Increased output from ~100 tagged posts/month (end of 2024) to 141 in January and 250+ posts/month by April.

  1. Flexibility & Ongoing Support
  • Adapted continuously to stock availability and shifting product priorities.

  • Adjusted briefs in real time based on what was working best in Meta ads.

  • Provided flexibility to scale program spend up or down.

  • Supported wholesale activations alongside influencer efforts.


The Results: Content, Affiliates & Revenue Growth

  • 1,000+ Ad-ready creatives delivered within 9 months.

  • 250+ Instagram posts per month by April 2025 (up from 100 at the end of 2024).

  • 30–35 affiliates onboarded monthly in Q1 '25 at double the in-house conversion rate.

  • $35,000+ in new customer revenue generated directly from affiliates.

  • Zero paid influencer spend - all achieved through seeding and affiliate activation.

Why It Worked

  • Systems-first approach → professionalised NOOMA’s affiliate program structure.

  • Recruitment at scale → doubled conversion rates versus in-house.

  • Content pipeline focus → gave NOOMA a steady stream of creatives for organic + paid.

  • Agility → adapted briefs and targeting based on product availability and ad performance.

Stop Wasting Spend. Start Driving Growth.

No more guesswork or wasted budgets. We take the risk out of influencer marketing: delivering reliable systems, authentic partnerships, and growth you can measure.