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The Challenge

Nestlé Toll House wanted to increase their market share by shifting the perception of their brand to one that’s fun, modern and creative. They wanted authentic voices to convey this new message and felt limited in their ability to do so through traditional advertising.

“We loved the stories (recipes) so much we want to have our kitchen test them and post them on VeryBestBaking.com.” Nestlé Toll House Brand Marketing Manager

CAMPAIGN HIGHLIGHTS

  • 41.5% View Thru Rate (29% stronger than TikTok’s 32.2% benchmark)
  • 102% increase in mentions
  • 160.4K Products Transferred to Cart
  • $2.8 MM Carted Value
  • +5.2% ad recall as measured by TikTok Brand Lift Study

BAYER: A LEGACY BRAND THAT STILL FEELS FRESH

Founded in 1863, Bayer is one of the longest-lived companies in the world, yet the brand is as relevant today as it was nearly 200 years ago. Their endurance and success is the result of their scientific innovation in the pharmaceutical space, but it is also due to their willing enthusiasm to adapt and evolve with changing times.

WHY BAYER CHOSE LINQIA

Linqia and Bayer have worked together on dozens of campaigns and the ongoing partnership drives business results that outperform previous benchmarks. “What sets Linqia apart is their entire sequence of capabilities. Unlike other influencer marketing companies who just offer creative, or measurement, Linqia has everything—there are no gaps in the chain. They stole my heart with strategy, but kept my loyalty with their measurement and results. Everything is best-in-class,” remarked Vitola.

What sets Linqia apart is their entire sequence of capabilities.
Everything is best-in-class.” Denise Vitola | VP Brand Integration PR, Social & Influencer at Bayer

The Solution

Nestlé Toll House partnered with Linqia for a four-flight influencer marketing program designed to create a treasure trove of original stories, recipes, and photography featuring Nestlé Toll House Morsels® and Nestlé Toll House Cookie Dough®. The brand planned to repurpose the influencer content to further amplify and reinforce its new image. Influencers encouraged their audiences to visit Nestlé’s landing pages to find more original recipes and locate local retailers to purchase Nestlé Toll House products. Linqia’s influencers created nearly 4,000 original blog stories, social media posts, recipes, and photographs – 53% more pieces of content than expected – and drove 31% more traffic to the landing pages than the program goal. Consumers engaged with the content 956% more than anticipated, proving the content resonated with the audience.

WHY BAYER CHOSE LINQIA

Music is a core component of any successful influencer campaign, and for the 50+ audience on social media, familiarity and nostalgia win. So Bayer’s One A Day team and Linqia decided to remix the famous “Teach Me How to Dougie” song from the 90s—but with a twist. For the newly minted “Teach Me How To Gummy,” Linqia developed a dance challenge that featured seven creators on TikTok including Alfonso Ribeiro (@alfonsoribeiro) to lead the campaign.

Though the influencers’ primary platform was TikTok, they each had an Instagram and/or Facebook presence as well and cross-posted their content to those channels.

In order to pull this off, Bayer needed to secure music publishing and performance rights to the original track. Music licensing is a daunting task, and if done incorrectly, can create a whole new headache of legal issues for brands. Luckily, the Linqia team is well-versed in this space and negotiated a deal for the original song so that they could use their version in the campaign.

THE RESULTS

Instagram posts from this program received 5x more engagement than the average Instagram post. Consumers engaged with influencer content over 74,300 times. Linqia’s influencer content surfaced on the first page of Google search results. Nestlé Toll House shared Linqia influencer content on their official Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest channels.

HIGHEST PERFORMING POST

@CynthiaGouw | Active Living/ Beauty

  • 4.9% ER
  • Drove a 3X Higher IG ER*
  • *Instagram Engagement Rate Benchmark (static content): 1.08%

Supported by Linqia’s applied learnings, the campaign saw better performance on Facebook and Instagram. Facebook delivered more efficient awareness and impressions, with CPMs averaging 32% cheaper than paid TikTok impressions. Linqia also saw stronger CTRs on Facebook when compared to TikTok, with a 13.1% CTR compared to a 1.6% CTR. All in all, the campaign drove a 1.7% increase in purchase intent, a +2.5% lift in unaided brand awareness, and +5.2% lift in brand favorability.

Comment threads blew up with enthusiastic people, many of whom took on the challenge themselves, and One A Day sales jumped with $2.8MM worth of carted value driven from the campaign.

Awareness

“Awesome Energy” – Tata

brand loyalty

“Great job I love those vitaimns” – Trisha

Consideration

“Vitamin gummy’s are life at my age now lol” -Lupita

Intent to purchase

“Yasss. You just inspired me to switch. Just left Walmart and got me some Women One A Day” – Chantae

The campaign hit every high-level business objective, while staying true to Bayer’s brand values. Combining pop-culture nostalgia with a trending dance challenge, Bayer showed that age is just a number (for companies and consumers) and authentic content wins every time.

let’s work together

We know that the influencer space can be overwhelming, but it’s a must-have for every brand looking to scale in today’s social media space. Want a local tour guide to lead your brand through the complexities of the influencer ecosystem and come out on top? Look no further than Linqia. Click here to request a custom influencer marketing campaign consultation today.