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SAFETY FIRST – MAKING SAFETY RESONATE WITH MOTORBIKERS
Stripe Communications

SAFETY FIRST – MAKING SAFETY RESONATE WITH MOTORBIKERS

MAKING A SAFETY MESSAGE RESONATE WITH MOTORBIKERS

CLIENT : SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT

THE BRIEF

Motorbikers make up one per cent of Scotland’s road users, but account for 13 per cent of its fatal road accidents. Our brief was to raise awareness of best practice and biking safety among the biker audience. No mean feat when many have been riding for years – 25% of those bikers are men aged 40-49 – with long engrained riding habits.

THE STRATEGY

Our campaign was simple: ‘live fast die old’ – a fun campaign grounded with a serious message. Stripe brought the campaign to life with an extensive media programme, social media campaigning, partner engagement and a whole load of creative content.

Extensive research helped us to understand the biker camaraderie, what influences them and to find a voice that would resonate, paying particular attention to the phrases the biker community love to use but no one else has heard of, from “weekend warriors” to “belly-shovers”.

The aim was to get bikers talking about the campaign, highlight safety advice, and encourage them to share their good and bad safety stories. Best practice all the way.

THE RESULTS

Stripe pushed safety up the bikers’ agenda. 72% of the ‘40-49 male biker’ target audience felt motivated to improve their road safety after being exposed to the campaign. One in four said they’d mentioned it to someone else and 78% felt it had improved their understanding.

The social media campaign generated almost 87,000 likes, comments and shares with a total reach of 2.5 million people. One YouTube video created for the campaign had 196,000 views alone.

In a post-campaign survey, 67% of people said they heard about the campaign because their friend had liked or shared info about it. Two thirds shared information themselves and over a third invited friends to like the LFDO Facebook page.

Deanston – An artisan social strategy
Stripe Communications

Deanston – An artisan social strategy

AN ARTISAN SOCIAL STRATEGY

CLIENT : BURN STEWART DISTILLERS

THE BRIEF

Deanston is an artisan single malt whisky distilled in the heart of Scotland. Relatively young in whisky terms, the distillery has been hand-crafting its whisky, without the use of computers, in a former cotton mill since 1967. We were tasked with increasing the global reach and engagement of this growing malt by reinvigorating and enhancing their social media presence on Facebook and Twitter.

THE STRATEGY

With so many global whisky brands vying for attention on social media we needed to develop a strategy that would really set Deanston apart. We undertook an in-depth audit and discovery phase, pinpointing our target audience, looking at where they spend their time, how they live and investigating what they would find valuable from the brand. This was followed by the development of social strategy and playbook, focusing on audience segmentation, tailoring our tone of voice and focused content topics to appeal directly to their interests. A rich content plan that would bring genuinely interesting activity to the global audience was at the core of our approach. Social activity was supported by a targeted paid social strategy, PR and curation and maintenance of the Deanston website.

THE RESULTS

We’ve delivered on our strategy successfully, seeing the Facebook audience rise by 45% over and the Twitter audience more than doubled in less than a year. The creative, targeted content and community management resulted in over 800,500 engagements on Facebook and 6.2k on Twitter during this time.