In the Motherhood / Leah Remini
CELEBRITY OBJECTIVES
- Create a partnership with mass reach capabilities to drive purchase for Suave and Sprint
- Provide a platform to bring Suave’s POV to life in an engaging way to real moms
- To select a humorous celebrity mom that regular working mothers could relate to and could deliver the campaign objectives.
- By using E-Scores, Q-Scores, and its reliable Celebrity VaultTM, Burns was able to narrow down a list of mothers that would resonate well with specific demographic that Suave and Sprint were looking to target.
- Drafted offer letters and contracts.
- Burns also executed all contracts and negotiations for this campaign, as well as overseeing project until its completion.
CAMPAIGN OVERVIEW
- Suave and Sprint partnered to produce funny, comical and no-holds-barred experiences of motherhood into video shorts that were based off of submitted content from site users.
- The content for the online video series was generated through a consumer contest resulting in stories created by moms, for moms and about moms.
- Extensive media outreach resulting in coverage on: Ellen, Jay Leno, Extra, Entertainment Tonight, and People Magazine.
RESULTS
- “In The Motherhood” trailer garnered more than one million video views in its first 2 weeks
- Delivered 547 million total campaign impressions vs. goal of 450 million
- Achieved more than 16.9 million webisode views vs. goal of 900,000
- Delivered 6.4 million microsite visits vs. goal of 1.8 million
- Average .62% click-through rate vs. goal of .20%
- Suave’s share increased by .4% during the campaign (Unilever data)
- Brand awareness and favorability levels for Sprint rose significantly
- Over 4,000 story submissions and 60,000 votes
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