Summary

Bowflex needed to keep their digital marketing engine running during an 8-month organizational transition. Ovenlight stepped in to provide full-spectrum creative support—delivering high-performing banners, landing pages, and design direction that boosted conversions and maintained momentum without interruption.

Key Outcomes:

  • 34% lift in conversions on lead-gen landing pages
  • 8.81% increase in sales attributed to optimized creative
  • Supported 18+ digital properties with consistent, on-brand execution

About Bowflex

Bowflex, a division of Nautilus at the time, is a globally recognized leader in home fitness equipment. Known for their iconic direct-response television campaigns, Bowflex expanded aggressively into digital marketing in the early 2010s—relying heavily on performance-driven design, conversion-optimized landing pages, and always-on creative testing to fuel customer acquisition.

Challenges & Obectives

Bowflex entered an 8-month organizational transition that temporarily reduced their internal design capacity. Despite this, the marketing teams still needed to maintain a fast-moving schedule of campaigns, landing pages, and brand updates for four major product lines.

They required an external partner who could step in immediately, handle a high volume of design and production work, maintain brand consistency across 18+ digital surfaces, and support evolving creative directions—all without slowing down lead-generation or paid media campaigns.

Ovenlight’s objective was clear: keep Bowflex’s digital marketing running at full speed while elevating the performance and consistency of their creative.

8.81%

Sales Lift

Ovenlight Design vs Previous Home Page Design

34.6%

Sales Lift

Bowflex SelectTech Dumbbells Website Sales with New Design

18+

Digital Properties

Designed and Developed Websites, Contests, Email Templates, Surveys and Social Media Contests

“Adam provided his technical and design expertise, allowing us to maintain our high web design standards over an 8-month organizational transition. Adam additionally provided insight as we developed new visual directions for each of our four core brands. His breadth and depth of design experience made him the perfect fit during this transitional period.”

CJ Howe

Senior V.P. – Nautilus

How Ovenlight Helped

Working as an extension of Bowflex’s internal team, Ovenlight delivered end-to-end digital creative support across all performance channels. We produced responsive landing pages, high-performing banner ads, email graphics, social-media contest assets, and design elements that aligned with Bowflex’s evolving brand standards.

Because we understood both the design and the technical requirements of direct-response marketing, we were able to turn around assets quickly, support rapid testing, and maintain consistency across every brand in the Nautilus portfolio.

This partnership ensured that Bowflex could move through their transition period without losing campaign velocity, brand quality, or marketing impact.

Bowflex FitTest Lead Generating Survey Design & Development

Increased Conversions

34% increase in conversions over 2 month period on a single landing page.

Traffic

Increased Sales

8.81% lift in sales over 2 month landing page test resulting in increased AOV and 150k in product sales vs 130k in previous period.

Sales Chart

Treadclimber Home Page Design

Results

Ovenlight helped Bowflex maintain marketing momentum during a period when many brands would struggle to keep campaigns aligned and on schedule. The improved creative and landing page updates contributed directly to measurable performance gains across their lead-gen funnels and promotional campaigns.

Impact Highlights:

  • 34% increase in conversions on key landing pages after design + layout optimization
  • 8.81% sales lift attributed to enhanced banner creative and improved UX
  • Consistent, on-brand execution across 18+ digital properties, including multiple Bowflex and Nautilus brands
  • Faster production cycles and fewer internal bottlenecks during the transition

Impact Highlights:

  • Consistent production of high-performing banners and landing pages used across national campaigns
  • Strengthened brand consistency across four Nautilus brands during the transition
  • Reduced internal bottlenecks by taking on full design + production responsibilities
  • Delivered every project brief on schedule over an 8-month engagement

Let’s Make Things Happen

Adam Friedman

Adam Friedman

Digital Craftsman