Kindred spirits

Sometimes the stars actually align. The stars of the creative world, that is.

Instagram has always been Mandel’s go-to social media platform. After all, it’s the home of their buyer persona: European, female, 18-34, engaged shopper. Their branded images had always performed well, but they wanted to further enrich their presence with eye-catching video content. That’s when Mandel turned to Instagram Business and Foap, a crowdsource visual content platform delivering tailor-made video and imagery.

It was a perfect fit. First, Foap offered a campaign service (Product Sampling Mission) designed to specifically test the market with targeted video content. Second, drawing from Foap’s pool of 3 million creatives, the Foap creative team assembled a sample group of content creators that not only matched Mandel’s brand brief but their overall buyer persona.

And then the fun began. Mandel watched their mission gallery fill up with video content tailored to their campaign brief, all in real time. Guided by a dedicated Foap curator, Mandel selected the winning video ad with four variations in design and backing-music to be tested on Instagram across multiple European markets.

The video ads were exported seamlessly to Instagram through Foap’s content migration console, complete with custom targeting settings. From there it was just a matter of monitoring the metrics.