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PoolBar London

Branding, e-commerce, SEO, Meta Ads, Google Ads, email

A brand-new sun care brand, with online orders tripled in a year

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PoolBar London is a sun care brand inspired by the retro glamour of Palm Springs, bottling the spirit of iconic striped sun umbrellas, curved swimming pools and dancing palm trees into products that make sun protection feel like a luxury. Launching a new beauty brand into a saturated market needs immediate credibility and a strategy that drives both online sales and retail partnerships.

ClientPoolBar London
IndustrySun care
Specialist areasBranding, e-commerce, SEO, Meta Ads, Google Ads, email
A PoolBar London product page on the new e-commerce site
A brand-new brand

Glamour on the surface, credibility underneath.

Launching a new sun care brand is hard. The market is crowded, shoppers already have their favourites, and PoolBar London started with no name recognition at all.

The website had to capture that Palm Springs look straight away, build trust by explaining its reef-safe mineral ingredients, and make it easy to buy online or find it in stores like CVS.

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PoolBar London's signature coconut and vanilla scent
The PoolBar London shop page on the new e-commerce site
Branding touchpoints

Creating a centralised brand guide for consistent growth.

For a design driven brand like PoolBar London, keeping visual consistency across every touchpoint is essential. We centralised all brand assets, including Pantone chips, logos, typography and usage guidelines, into one live cloud based platform. That means everyone across design, marketing and development works from the same up to date reference point, which removes inconsistencies in a collaborative environment.

The brand thrives on visual identity and creative precision. Everyone, from internal teams to external partners, now has instant access to the latest assets and standards, reinforcing brand consistency as PoolBar London scales and expands into new retail partnerships.

The PoolBar London site shown on a mobile phone
Ads built for the shop shelf

Most sunscreen is bought in stores, so the ads send people there.

Most people buy sunscreen in a shop, not online. So rather than chasing online sales, the ads were built to make PoolBar a name people recognise, then help them find it on the shelf.

On Meta, eye-catching creative gets the brand noticed, helpful content about mineral sunscreen builds trust, and people are pointed to their nearest stockist or invited to join the email list. On Google, the ads now lead to measurable visits to the stores that stock PoolBar.

People reached on Meta
4x

as many people saw PoolBar's ads in the 2026 season as in 2025.

Meta, Mar to Aug 2026 vs 2025
Cheaper to reach people
72% less

to reach each person on Meta than the season before.

Meta, Mar to Aug 2026 vs 2025
Clicks from Google Ads
+126%

more people clicked PoolBar's Google ads, and each click cost 59% less.

Google Ads, Apr to Aug 2026 vs 2025
PoolBar London email campaigns
Found on Google

Answering the questions people ask about sun care.

People have a lot of questions about sunscreen, and they ask Google. So we write clear, helpful articles that answer them, and make sure each one leads readers on to the right product.

Since launch, PoolBar has gone from nowhere on Google to the first page for hundreds of sun care searches in the US.

On Google's first page
321

searches in the US now show PoolBar on Google's first page, up from 20 a year ago.

SE Ranking US, Sep 2025 to Sep 2026
In Google's top five
205

searches now show it in the top five results, where most people click, up from 16.

SE Ranking US, Sep 2025 to Sep 2026
Top searches on page one
87%

of the busiest searches PoolBar appears for put it on Google's first page.

Search Console, 24 Jun to 22 Sep 2026
Found by AI

AI assistants are starting to recommend PoolBar.

More and more people ask ChatGPT or Google's AI which sunscreen to buy. The same clear, helpful content that works on Google gets PoolBar mentioned in those answers too.

It's early days, but PoolBar is already being cited in Google's AI answers for everyday sun care questions.

AI assistants
5 of 5

assistants we track now mention PoolBar more than when we started, led by Perplexity at +69%.

SE Ranking AI tracker, May to Sep 2026
The payoff

More people finding the brand, and three times the online orders.

PoolBar launched with no name into a crowded market. Today, Google is its biggest free source of visitors, 2026 has beaten 2025 in every single month, and online orders have tripled.

Online orders
3x

as many orders through the website as in the same months last year.

WooCommerce, Apr to Aug 2026 vs 2025
Found worldwide
30+

countries where PoolBar shows up on Google, all from one US website.

SE Ranking, Sep 2026
New people from Google
+481%

more first-time visitors found PoolBar through Google.

GA4, Mar to Aug 2026 vs 2025
Time on site
2 min+

is the average visit from people who find PoolBar on Google. They're the most engaged visitors the site gets.

GA4, Sep 2025 to Sep 2026
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