The Challenge
Baseball is known as 鈥淎merica鈥檚 favorite pastime鈥� and MLB ranks among the nations top viewed sports. Despite this, its popularity hasn鈥檛 ever quite translated on the other side of the Atlantic. MLB challenged us with raising the profile of baseball in the UK, with the aim of building its future fanbase!
The Approach
We contracted seven influencers across the fashion, food, music and sport verticals as our official ambassadors for the season, creating our very first creator class.聽
From and to and , our influencers set out to generate hype and excitement for MLB鈥檚 London Series by attending fan events and combining food and sport content in the build up to hook their audience. We brought our creators in to bat for MLB in the UK, quite literally. We launched 鈥樢黄鸩莨偻� Run House鈥�, an interactive event with everything from a batting cage to an American-themed bar. They then attended the London Series, capturing the day through Instagram Stories and posting content reflecting back on their experience of the games.
Following the Series, the goal was to maintain awareness of MLB and sustain the hype post-event. This included sending our creators down to Lids to customize their MLB merch, posting giveaways featuring MLB goods and also pushing momentum towards the World Series and 2024 tickets with their final content.
Results
Overall our campaign delivered some pretty impressive results highlighting an upturn in interest in baseball and MLB in the UK.
We delivered 3,117,065 impressions (103% higher than our guarantee), 175,132 engagements (120% higher than our guarantee), and an earned media value of 拢32,992. We also over delivered by 310% on total media views, with an overall 2,943,039 across all content.聽
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