Industries / Supplements & Nutrition

We have deep experience growing pet brands.

For years we have helped pet brands win where owners actually shop and decide: their websites, Amazon, Chewy, Walmart, pet specialty, and the search and social moments in between. Pet is a category we know cold. We also bring the full weight of a full-service growth agency to every brand we take on, so a $20M to $200M pet brand gets deep category knowledge and everything behind it.

$158B

U.S. pet industry in 2025, projected to reach $165B in 2026

APPA 2026 State of the Industry

25+

Pet brands we have experience with across Amazon, Walmart, and Chewy

Eight-figure portfolio volume

10:1

Return from creator-driven affiliate activity in one pet program

Affiliate + Performance PR

Industries / Supplements & Nutrition

We have deep experience growing pet brands.

For years we have helped pet brands win where owners actually shop and decide: Amazon, Chewy, Walmart, pet specialty, and the search and social moments in between. Pet is a category we know cold. We also bring the full weight of a full-service growth agency to every brand we take on, so a $20M to $200M pet brand gets deep category knowledge and everything behind it.

$158B

U.S. pet industry in 2025, projected to reach $165B in 2026

APPA 2026 State of the Industry

25+

Pet brands we have experience with across Amazon, Walmart, and Chewy

Eight-figure portfolio volume

10:1

Return from creator-driven affiliate activity in one pet portfolio, before it was a formal program

Affiliate + Performance PR

The pet market right now

The category is growing. Most established brands are still losing ground.

The U.S. pet industry reached $158 billion in 2025 and is projected to hit $165 billion in 2026, with pet supplies, medications, and live animals growing 4.4% to $34.4 billion, the fastest-growing goods segment in the category (American Pet Products Association, 2026 State of the Industry Report). Ninety-five million households own a pet. Demand is not the problem.

Here is the problem. In category after category, total sales rise while established brands hold flat or decline. We see it directly in the accounts we audit: a category can grow 20% year over year while the legacy brand inside it loses share to lower-cost entrants and factory-direct sellers who move faster on price and listings. The demand is expanding. Someone else is capturing it.

Where that demand gets captured has changed too. Online now accounts for roughly a third of pet sales and climbs every year (Statista). Amazon takes close to half of online pet dollars, Chewy sits second at 41% with 84% of its sales running through Autoship, and Walmart holds third at 33% (Packaged Facts). Each of those marketplaces rewards a different playbook, and pet owners now start many purchases with a conversational prompt like “best vacuum for pet hair” or “best dog toys for heavy chewers” rather than a category search. Value-seeking is rising alongside all of it: 22% of owners reported spending less on their pets in 2025, up 10% from the year before (APPA).

That combination, a growing category, fragmented marketplaces, a discovery shift, and a more price-conscious shopper, is exactly where good brands quietly lose ground. We built our pet practice to reverse it.

The problems we see across pet brands right now

You will recognize yours, and none of them are permanent.

01

Category growth you are not capturing

Your category is up and your brand is flat. Lower-cost competitors and factory-direct sellers are taking the incremental demand because they are more aggressive on price, listings, and placement. Every quarter this continues, the gap compounds and the share is harder to win back.

02

A ROAS strategy that starves new customer acquisition

Most pet brands we assess are over-indexed on bottom-funnel, last-click advertising with a return-on-ad-spend target set so high it quietly caps growth. Efficient spend looks healthy on a report and still loses the market, because it only harvests demand that already exists. It never creates new customers, and share erodes while the dashboard looks fine.

03

Channels that operate in silos

Amazon spend chases Amazon sales, retail marketing chases retail, the website runs on its own. Nothing is built to work as one system. The result is duplicated effort, inconsistent creative and messaging across marketplaces, and no view of how upper-funnel demand lifts marketplace rank.

04

A discovery shift you are not positioned for

Pet owners increasingly find and validate products through review sites, best-of lists, creators, and AI-powered search. If your brand is not present and trusted in the sources those systems pull from, you are invisible at the exact moment a purchase decision forms, no matter how strong your listing is.

05

Marketplace complexity across Amazon, Chewy, Walmart, and pet specialty

Amazon is the largest scale but the most competitive and inventory-sensitive. Chewy converts well and rewards subscription behavior. Walmart is heavily in-store and built for exclusives and launches. Pet specialty still matters for credibility. Running one strategy across all of them leaves money on the table in each.

We work inside the pet marketplace fight every day, not from the outside looking in.

Why eAccountable for Pet Brands

Two superpowers that move a pet brand’s numbers the most.

We are a full-service growth agency with deep, current experience in the pet category. This is not a practice we bolted on. We manage pet-category marketplace programs across Amazon, Walmart, and Chewy for a portfolio of brands that drives eight-figure sales volume, including some of the most recognizable names on Amazon and across the internet.

If a competitor could copy-paste the same claim onto their own site, we do not make it. Everything here is work we do, in your category, right now.

Superpower 

Amazon & Marketplaces

This is where most of your online revenue lives and where share is won or lost. We rebuild account structure, fix the advertising mix that is capping your growth, protect your listings from price erosion, and treat Amazon, Chewy, Walmart, and pet specialty as distinct playbooks rather than one blunt strategy. We diagnose the difference between spend that looks efficient and spend that actually grows the brand, then we close it.

Superpower 

Affiliate, Performance PR & Content Commerce

This is the demand engine most pet brands are missing. When a pet brand relies only on marketplace advertising, it harvests existing demand and never creates new customers. We build the off-marketplace system that does: creator and affiliate programs, earned and paid editorial in the outlets pet owners trust, and content commerce that drives new-customer traffic to your marketplace listings, which in turn lifts organic rank.

What Makes This Hard to Match

Most agencies can claim one of these. We hold all three at once.

No one in our competitive set combines marketplace scale, portfolio-company relationships, and pet-specific earned and Performance PR the way we do.

Marketplace scale

We have deep experience across 25+ pet brands on Amazon, Walmart, and Chewy, including some of the most recognizable names on Amazon and across the internet. We have seen what works across enough of this category to move fast on your brand.

Portfolio-company relationships

We are engaged with two of the largest pet private-equity portfolio companies, plus a set of independent pet brands. We speak the language of operating partners and boards, and we report to the metrics they underwrite growth against.

Pet-specific earned and Performance PR

We run pet-category editorial and affiliate programs that most marketplace agencies simply do not offer, from top-tier review placements to AI-search visibility on the prompts pet owners actually use.

What we do for pet brands

A closer look at how we execute each capability for a pet brand

We rebuild the account from structure up: consolidated and clean vendor or seller setup, an advertising mix that funds ranking and new-customer acquisition instead of only defending branded terms, and listing content built to convert on mobile where most pet shoppers browse. We manage Chewy with its Autoship and subscription behavior in mind, use Walmart for exclusives and launches, and keep pet specialty listings credible.
We build creator and affiliate programs that reach pet owners where they research, using hybrid commission models that make spend accountable to clicks, traffic, and revenue. We pair flat-fee editorial credibility in trusted outlets with CPC-driven activations that scale discovery without diluting the brand, around the seasonal moments that matter in pet.
We optimize for how pet owners actually search now: traditional organic rank for category and long-tail terms, and generative engine optimization so your brand shows up when a shopper asks an AI assistant for the best product for their pet. The same trusted placements that earn strong search rankings are often the exact sources an AI model cites.
We move pet brands off a purely bottom-funnel footing. We build mid- and upper-funnel demand through display, video, and social that creates new customers, then connect it to marketplace conversion so the whole funnel works as one system.
We fix the content gaps that suppress conversion: thin A+ content, missing video, text-heavy mobile listings, and no cross-sell between your own products.
We hold every channel accountable to customer acquisition cost, lifetime value, and margin, not vanity impressions.

Why eAccountable

We do not make you choose between marketplace scale and DTC margin.

Most agencies specialize in one or the other: marketplace agencies optimize Amazon, Walmart, and Chewy; DTC agencies optimize your site and paid social. Your customer does not see two channels. They see your brand.

We run both as one system — marketplace for reach and new-customer acquisition, DTC for subscription, margin, and first-party data — so the messaging, creative, and measurement align instead of competing for credit.

What We’ve Built for Pet Brands

Real work and real numbers across the pet category

A selection of results, with client names withheld per our standard practice and available on request.

Portfolio Results

Portfolio scale across the pet marketplace

We have delivered pet-category programs across Amazon, Walmart, and Chewy for 25+ pet brands, some of the most recognizable names on Amazon and across the internet, driving eight-figure sales volume across the portfolio.

25+

pet brands served

3

marketplaces run as distinct playbooks

8-figure

sales volume across the portfolio

Case Study

Audit of digital and marketplace footprint for leading multi-brand pet manufacturer

We were engaged to audit the full digital and marketplace footprint across Amazon, Walmart, Chewy, and pet specialty, then to run the off-marketplace demand engine across the portfolio. The creator and affiliate program matured into a full program whose return more than doubled over its first two quarters, with monthly affiliate revenue climbing to record levels.

10:1

return in the earliest creator activations

3.5x+

program ROI after two quarters, all fees included

21

top-tier press placements in a single half-year

Case Study

Affiliate and performance PR for household pet brand

For a brand whose whole franchise is solving pet-owner problems, pet hair, pet odor, and the realities of a multi-pet home, we layered an accountable affiliate and Performance PR channel on top of an already-strong earned program. A broadcast and affiliate test paired a national television segment with an adoptable-puppy activation tied to the brand’s pet-welfare work, linked to a shoppable, trackable destination, and returned nearly the full partnership investment.

+200%

affiliate revenue growth in H1, over 4x its target

#3

AI visibility position across pet-care prompts

75%+

share of voice on 30,000+ monthly search volume

Case Study

Marketplace advertising for private equity-backed pet portfolio companies

We are engaged with two of the largest private equity-backed pet portfolio companies, including a multi-brand portfolio owned by KKR and Alvarez & Marsal, where we manage Amazon and Walmart advertising across nine brands during an active growth-rebuild phase.

9

brands under Amazon and Walmart advertising management

2

of the largest PE-backed pet portfolio companies

Efficient spend can look healthy on a report and still lose the market. Our job is to tell you the difference, then close it.

eAccountable pet brand best practice

How we work

What working together actually looks like.

We start with a clear-eyed diagnosis. In the first 30 to 60 days we audit your marketplace accounts, advertising mix, listing content, and off-marketplace presence, and we come back with a direct read on where you are losing share and where the fastest gains are. You will get specifics, not a generic scorecard.

From there we operate as an extension of your team, not a vendor you have to manage. We integrate across Amazon and marketplaces, affiliate and Performance PR, search, and paid media so the channels reinforce each other instead of competing for credit.

We report against the numbers your business and your board actually care about: customer acquisition cost, lifetime value, and margin. When something is not working, we tell you, and we fix it fast.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Most of the pet brands we work with generate the majority of their sales through Amazon, Chewy, Walmart, and pet specialty rather than their own site. Our entire model is built around winning on those marketplaces and using off-marketplace demand to lift them.
Affiliate and Performance PR create new demand off Amazon by getting your products in front of pet owners on the review sites, best-of lists, and creator content they trust. That external traffic drives new customers to your listings and signals interest to the marketplace algorithm, which lifts organic rank. Marketplace advertising then converts and defends that demand. Run together, they compound. Run separately, they leave growth on the table.
Because a high return on ad spend often means you are only harvesting demand that already exists while competitors capture the new demand your growing category is creating. Efficient spend can look healthy on a report and still lose market share. We help you invest into new customer acquisition without losing financial discipline.
Our core focus is brands in the $20M to $200M range, along with private equity firms and operating partners evaluating or building pet portfolio companies.
Yes. We have run full marketplace and digital diligence across multi-brand pet portfolios, assessing account structure, advertising, content, competitive position, and organizational capability, and we support portfolio companies through the hold period with hands-on execution.
We treat generative engine optimization as its own discipline. We prioritize the high-authority, editorially trusted placements that AI models pull from, and we track your visibility and share of voice on the prompts pet owners actually use, then move budget toward what is working.

Let’s talk about your growth

Learn what it takes to win your category.

If you are scaling a pet brand and you want a partner who already knows the marketplace fight, the discovery shift, and the difference between efficient spend and real growth, let’s have a direct conversation about where you are and where you are trying to go.