Beyond Black Friday: Paid Media Strategies for Q4 Peaks and Q5 Growth

Oct 29, 2025 1:30 PM2:30 PM EST

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Event Description

Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be the centerpiece of holiday shopping, but the smartest brands know Q4 success extends far beyond Cyber Week. Join us as we share a last-minute checklist to tighten your campaigns and proven strategies to stretch budgets into December and January.

We’ll cover how to sequence creative around gifting and shipping cutoffs, when to shift offers toward gift cards and digital solutions, and why January’s lighter competition makes it a hidden growth window. You’ll also gain insights into the shifting paid media landscape, including how CPCs, consumer behavior, and AI-driven overviews are reshaping where and how brands invest. Finally, you’ll walk away with a practical framework designed to maximize ROAS, lower acquisition costs, and position your brand for growth into Q5.

BWG Connect & Blue Wheel invite you to join an interactive event with industry peers to review & discuss practical insights across the digital space.

As always, there will be no sales pitch and all attendees are welcome to listen and learn.

Discussion Topics

  • Last-minute holiday readiness checks across campaigns, audiences, and creative before Cyber Week.
  • Budget allocation tips for November–January, including avoiding Cyber Week overspend and reinvesting in January.
  • Creative and messaging flow through Cyber urgency, gifting, shipping cutoffs, gift cards, and self-gifting.
  • Shifts in the paid media landscape, rising CPCs, consumer behavior, and AI’s role in budget oversight.
  • An actionable budget + offer framework, from free shipping thresholds to basket-size tactics for Q5 growth.

Event Partners

Blue Wheel

Blue Wheel is an omni-channel marketing and operational partner delivering excellence in digital commerce -- from click to ship. As a new breed of omni-channel agency, Blue Wheel supports brands from marketplace management to performance advertising, and creative services. With over $1B in revenue managed for our clients, we help brands from click to ship, scaling brand sales across D2C, Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and retail.

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Guest Speaker

Aaron Conant LinkedIn

Co-Founder & Managing Director at BWG Connect

Aaron Conant is Co-Founder and Chief Digital Strategist at BWG Connect, a networking and knowledge sharing group of thousands of brands who collectively grow their digital knowledge base and collaborate on partner selection. Speaking 1x1 with over 1200 brands a year and hosting over 250 in-person and virtual events, he has a real time pulse on the newest trends, strategies and partners shaping growth in the digital space.

Brett Geeser LinkedIn

Head of DTC at Blue Wheel

Event Moderator

Aaron Conant LinkedIn

Co-Founder & Managing Director at BWG Connect

Aaron Conant is Co-Founder and Chief Digital Strategist at BWG Connect, a networking and knowledge sharing group of thousands of brands who collectively grow their digital knowledge base and collaborate on partner selection. Speaking 1x1 with over 1200 brands a year and hosting over 250 in-person and virtual events, he has a real time pulse on the newest trends, strategies and partners shaping growth in the digital space.

Brett Geeser LinkedIn

Head of DTC at Blue Wheel

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Aaron Conant

Co-Founder & Managing Director at BWG Connect


BWG Connect provides executive strategy & networking sessions that help brands from any industry with their overall business planning and execution.

Co-Founder & Managing Director Aaron Conant runs the group & connects with dozens of brand executives every week, always for free.


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BWG Connect provides executive strategy & networking sessions that help brands from any industry with their overall business planning and execution. BWG has built an exclusive network of 125,000+ senior professionals and hosts over 2,000 virtual and in-person networking events on an annual basis.
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