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The Challenge

A dual challenge to;

1) Infiltrate the hearts and habits of a 6-9-year-old boy to maintain relevance and keep up that pestering

2) Tackle and defend against negative perceptions of the NERF blaster and the ‘Blaster’ category to parents.

The Approach

88% of our core 6-9-year-old boy audience are on YouTube – it’s their media channel of choice (as well as top career aspiration don’t you know!). There are 64 million pieces of content on YouTube that already feature NERF, a reflection of the creative catalyst role the product is playing in stimulating ideas and challenges for engaging content. Our approach therefore was to expand the role of NERF in the lives of 6-9-year-old boys (and their parents) not only as a blaster for combat, but also as a tool and teacher of creativity in the creation of YouTube content.

The Solution

Introducing NERF Upload… a campaign that positioned the brand as a tool of creativity: teaching kids the basics of content creation, whilst demonstrating to parents the real skill that goes into it, via a series of YouTuber masterclasses during October half-term.

A multi-layered campaign utilising research (to find parents’ concerns towards their children aspiring to be content creators). Talent and influencers – working with famous YouTubers to be our teachers, and celeb dad Jimmy Bullard to talk about the school plus media partnerships to bring to life both the IRL and digital events.

“The event honestly exceeded all my expectations and we could all see just how much hard work from you all had gone into making it a success. It was so nice to be at an IRL event again and get the chance to see our consumers enjoying our products. 

 Really looking forward to the digital event – which is going to be huge!” 

Julia Swan, Head of PR Hasbro

Results

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Event attendees

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Content engagements

Awards won

Influencer Marketing Awards 2023

    • Best Multi-Channel Campaign – Gold
    • Best Family and Parenting Campaign – Gold
    • Best use of Data – Silver
    • Most Creative Influencer Marketing Campaign – Silver

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