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iLive by Shopnow: Accelerating Customer Growth 7× in Just 3 Months

iLive by Shopnow offers an AI livestream solution for ecommerce in Vietnam. Freeways used GEO to strengthen its association with the AI Livestream category and improve discovery across relevant AI conversations.

KEY RESULT
AI Visibility Increased Significantly During the GEO Growth Period
  • AI VISIBILITY
    16% → 90%
  • NEW USER GROWTH
  • ORGANIC CTR
    9.6%
THE STARTING POINT

A New Product Category Can Be Hard for AI to Recognize

AI livestream is still an emerging category, so AI systems may not clearly understand what it includes or which brands belong to it.

For iLive, the challenge was strengthening the connection between the brand, its category, and its core use case.

  1. iLive
  2. AI Livestream
  3. Ecommerce
  4. Automated Selling
THE GAP

The Main Gap Was Between Product Innovation and Category Understanding

iLive already had a clear product proposition, but emerging products are often described using several overlapping terms. That can make it harder for AI to build a stable understanding of the brand’s primary category.

  • What are the best AI livestream tools?
  • Which AI livestream platform is available in Vietnam?
  • How can AI automate livestream selling for ecommerce?

These questions are much closer to category discovery and solution evaluation than branded searches. The GEO strategy therefore focused on making iLive relevant to these conversations before buyers specifically searched for “iLive by Shopnow.”

THE STRATEGY

Build a Strong Association With “AI Livestream”

The strategy positioned iLive by Shopnow clearly as an AI Livestream solution for ecommerce businesses in Vietnam.

Messaging, content, and supporting signals were aligned so livestream, ecommerce, and AI automation reinforced one consistent product story.

Priority content then focused on the questions buyers ask when discovering, comparing, and evaluating AI livestream solutions.

WHAT WE CHANGED

We Built One Clear Category Association

Priority pages were restructured to make the relationship between iLive, its category, technology, and key use cases more explicit across the website.

  1. iLive by Shopnow
  2. AI Livestream
  3. Ecommerce
  4. Automated Selling
  5. Product Demonstration
  6. Customer Engagement

Content and product pages were then aligned so these topics reinforced the same AI Livestream association and answered the questions buyers were most likely to ask.

KEY CHANGES
  • Strengthened AI Livestream category positioning
  • Improved brand and entity consistency
  • Optimized priority product pages
  • Expanded AI Livestream topic coverage
  • Built stronger use-case, question-led, and FAQ content
  • Improved AI-readable content structure
  • Strengthened technical indexability
  • Expanded citations and external brand signals
THE RESULT

From Category Recognition to Stronger AI Visibility

iLive became more consistently associated with the AI Livestream category across search and AI platforms.

During the GEO growth period, AI Visibility increased from 16% to 90%, while Organic CTR reached 9.6%, indicating stronger engagement from users discovering iLive through relevant search queries.

This stronger category association created more opportunities for iLive to appear during discovery and solution evaluation.

THE CHANNEL

AI Search Created Another Path to Product Discovery

AI Search gave iLive another discovery surface beyond traditional search. Buyers could begin by asking about AI livestream, learn which solutions exist, and discover iLive before actively searching for the brand itself.

  1. Buyer researches AI Livestream
  2. iLive appears in the answer
  3. Buyer explores the product
  4. Website supports evaluation

Alongside improved AI visibility, iLive recorded 7× growth in new users within the first three months, while its broader organic search footprint continued to grow during the GEO + SEO period.

Google Search Console performance chart showing growth in clicks and impressions for iLive
Organic search performance during the GEO + SEO growth period.
THE MAIN TAKEAWAY

Category Clarity Can Drive Real Growth

When AI clearly understands which category a product belongs to, stronger visibility can translate into more discovery, more qualified interest, and faster user growth.