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Official London Theatre
The Challenge
The power of outreach in digital marketing should come as news to nobody.
Outreach is a simple but effective marketing tactic. People are hard-wired to trust human-to-human product recommendations, especially over traditional adverts and paid PR activity. This is well proven in the fashion industry, for example.
As the West End’s authorised ticketing outlet, Official London Theatre were looking for greater visibility amongst prospective customers – especially amongst users outside the traditional theatregoer mold.
The Campaign
Terrier set out drawing up a full-scale outreach campaign for Official London Theatre. To remain agile and flexible, the campaign would focus on one show at a time. This would give Official London Theatre a ‘package’ to offer to productions: ‘If you’ve got a quiet night coming up in a few weeks, we’d love to invite twenty influencers down to cover it on their channels!’
Influencers were picked according to a series of models: Cost per Engagement, Cost per View, etc. This way, we could guarantee a numerical return on the activity – be it on Instagram or YouTube. This activity would therefore be incredibly cost-effective, comparable with any other form of paid digital activity.
In return for the pair of free tickets, influencers were instructed to cover the show in whatever manner they say fit – as long as they tagged/linked to Official London Theatre, as well as the play’s channels/site. Everybody wins!
The Result
In terms of results, our method must first be outlined. As the overwhelming majority of our influencers attended performances with the intention of covering it via their IG stories – we were unable to access concrete view/engagement numbers.
Rather than over-estimate this, we’ve based our results off a very conservative sum: 5.17% of our influencer’s total followers were guaranteed to view the stories posted. This metric is based off research conducted into large, branded Instagram channels – rather than micro/macro influencers.
So, it’s more than fair to wonder if our results are considerably higher – wonder. Anyway…
Over 360k users saw stories posted from our influencer nights, all of which were tagged to the Official London Theatre IG account. In addition, supplementary feed posts received over 10k likes. YouTube content created around the shows was viewed over 50k times too!
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