How Basic-Fit scaled hyperlocal gym campaigns across 1,100+ locations with a single spreadsheet

How Basic-Fit scaled hyperlocal gym campaigns across 1,100+ locations with a single spreadsheet

10%
10%

Dynamics ads per month

Dynamics ads per month

1200
1200

Locations across Europe

Locations across Europe

6
6

Different languages

Different languages

Executive summary

Basic-Fit, a leading European fitness brand with over 1,100 gym locations across five countries, needed a scalable way to run hyperlocal advertising campaigns for each individual club. Managing offers, availability, and location-specific messaging manually across thousands of ads was time-consuming and difficult to maintain. By implementing Cape Creative Automation, Basic-Fit built a fully spreadsheet-driven workflow that connects club-level data directly to creative templates and campaign delivery systems. This enables the brand to automatically generate, update, and publish localized ads across multiple platforms and languages with minimal manual effort. As a result, Basic-Fit can now efficiently manage hyperlocal campaigns across Europe while maintaining full control, speed, and consistency.

Row of orange and black dumbbells on a rack in a Basic-Fit gym

Challenge

Basic-Fit, a leading European fitness brand with over 1,100 gym locations across five countries, needed a scalable way to run hyperlocal advertising campaigns for each individual club.

Managing offers, availability, and location-specific messaging manually across thousands of ads was time-consuming and difficult to maintain.

By implementing Cape Creative Automation, Basic-Fit built a fully spreadsheet-driven workflow that connects club-level data directly to creative templates and campaign delivery systems. This enables the brand to automatically generate, update, and publish localized ads across multiple platforms and languages with minimal manual effort. As a result, Basic-Fit can now efficiently manage hyperlocal campaigns across Europe while maintaining full control, speed, and consistency.

Basic-Fit wanted on-brand ads that could be tailored to each individual gym location, so they needed a solution that accounted for things like club-specific offers, maximum club enrolment reached, or enable extra focus to either a new club or garner a members boost at an existing club.

This meant that they needed an easy way to pause or edit a unique gym's ad campaign with minimal hassle. With so many locations in Europe, they turned to Cape.io to manage these dynamic creatives in a scalable set-up.

solution

Basic-Fit centralized multi-market campaign execution.

Using Cape Creative Automation, Basic-Fit, with a single spreadsheet that contains information such as individual club locations, special offers, and language variations of the correct copy, automatically manages full creative production, ad serving, campaign management, and targeting of locations in 5 different countries.

The Google spreadsheet connects to a Cape Creative Automation ad template and to all Basic-Fit accounts, meaning their scaling problem is resolved, and now they can publish to all media channels in one simple click! If the spreadsheet is updated for any reason, that change is automatically transferred over to their campaign as well.

Changes are required to be inputted only once, in one singular destination, and Cape.io takes care of the rest.

Results

Basic-Fit now automatically manages its video ads throughout Europe with a feed-based and scalable setup.

With ads that are targeted within a radius (1 - 10 km) around nearby clubs, the target audiences always receive relevant ads from the closest club to them. Cape.io's automatic campaign management ensures that all pre-rendered ads go to Meta Ads - where budgeting is automatic and hyperlocal.

Basic-Fit can now enjoy the fruits of localized and targeted marketing to prospects within minutes, amping up their campaigns and reaping the rewards.

Basic-Fit logo: orange BASIC-FIT wordmark with a stretching figure in the letter A
Basic-Fit

Athletics & recreation

Headquarters

Hoofddorp, Netherlands

Company Size

Enterprise

Teams involved

In-house brand teams

Ad Ops teams

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We can do a lot ourselves now, instead of hiring expensive agencies to do fairly simple work. For example, the head operation manager can adapt and publish the display sets himself. That link with Google CM360, DV360, or Meta for Business is extremely important: you can put a campaign live right away.

We can do a lot ourselves now, instead of hiring expensive agencies to do fairly simple work. For example, the head operation manager can adapt and publish the display sets himself. That link with Google CM360, DV360, or Meta for Business is extremely important: you can put a campaign live right away.

We can do a lot ourselves now, instead of hiring expensive agencies to do fairly simple work. For example, the head operation manager can adapt and publish the display sets himself. That link with Google CM360, DV360, or Meta for Business is extremely important: you can put a campaign live right away.

We can do a lot ourselves now, instead of hiring expensive agencies to do fairly simple work. For example, the head operation manager can adapt and publish the display sets himself. That link with Google CM360, DV360, or Meta for Business is extremely important: you can put a campaign live right away.

Roddy van der Maat

Lead Content Marketing

Gallery

Campaign assets and creative outputs across channels and markets.

  • Basic-Fit story ad: man on a rowing machine with the offer of 19,99 euro for 4 weeks
    Basic-Fit ad: woman on a chest press machine with the claim Altijd de beste prijs
    Basic-Fit ad: woman pointing down beside a barbell with the call to action Word nu lid
    Basic-Fit ad: man sitting in the gym with the line Maak van fitness jouw basic
    Basic-Fit ad: man lifting a kettlebell with the line Train in meer dan 160 24/7 clubs
    Basic-Fit French club ad, vertical: two women training, for the Nanteuil-les-Meaux Moneteau club
    Basic-Fit French leaderboard: start fitness for 9,99 euro per 4 weeks with a Rejoignez-nous button
    Basic-Fit French half-page ad: woman lunging with a weight, 9,99 euro per 4 weeks offer
    Basic-Fit French half-page ad: woman lunging with a weight, 9,99 euro per 4 weeks offer
    Basic-Fit French banner: man squatting with a barbell, announcing a new club in Toulouse
    Basic-Fit French vertical ad: man squatting with a barbell, announcing a new club in Toulouse
    Basic-Fit French banner: two women training, for the Nanteuil-les-Meaux Moneteau club
    Basic-Fit French banner: Revenez a l'essentiel, au fitness, with a Rejoignez-nous button
    Basic-Fit French skyscraper: man squatting with a barbell, announcing a new club in Toulouse
    Basic-Fit French half-page ad: woman crouching by a barbell, Revenez a l'essentiel, au fitness
    Basic-Fit French banner offering a free sports bag, with a Rejoignez-nous button
    Basic-Fit Go For It logo centred on an orange vertical ad frame
    Basic-Fit French slim banner: new club in Toulouse, with a photo of a man lifting a barbell
    Basic-Fit Go For It logo above a purple Rejoignez-nous button on orange
    Basic-Fit French banner announcing a new club in Toulouse, with a barbell squat photo
    Basic-Fit French slim banner: fitness from 9,99 euro per 4 weeks with a Rejoignez-nous button
    Basic-Fit French banner: founder member offer at 14,99 euro per 4 weeks
    Basic-Fit banner with the Go For It logo and a purple Rejoignez-nous button
    Basic-Fit French ad announcing a new club in Toulouse on an orange background
    Basic-Fit vertical ad with the Go For It logo and a Rejoignez-nous button
    Basic-Fit French vertical ad: founder member offer at 14,99 euro per 4 weeks
    Basic-Fit slim banner with the Go For It logo and a Rejoignez-nous button
    Basic-Fit French skyscraper: founder member offer at 14,99 euro per 4 weeks
    Basic-Fit French rectangle ad: founder member offer at 14,99 euro per 4 weeks

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