To engage a wider Facebook audience with fun content promoting the Principality brand

To attract over 1,000 video views and 100 story shares

Increase following by 25% over the standard increase over the campaign period.

Used the results of Principality’s social media community survey- which identified a strong motivation to share humorous content- as the theme for the campaign

Created ‘My Fave Dave’- a Facebook competition to celebrate St David’s Day, asking people to nominate their favourite person they know called David, Dave, Dai, Dewi or Dafydd by tagging them in a Facebook post and sharing their story of why for a chance for them to each win a prize (a £500 holiday voucher each for a boutique Welsh hotel group)

Created a short, funny video featuring an everyman character going about his day in a world filled with Daves (including talking babies and dogs!)

Teamed up with WalesOnline to extend the reach of the content

We posted the content on the Friday at noon, an optimum time for engagement for our community, ahead of St David’s Day on the Sunday. Tuesday morning brought an unexpected turn- Prime Minister David Cameron had become aware of the campaign and said in a St. David’s Day reception speech on the Monday evening, that unfortunately his wife’s ‘fave dave’ was David Walliams. Using our contacts, the story was reported by Wales Online before being covered by Mail Online and Mirror Online. We capitalised on this through reactive social posts, taking the campaign to a wider audience.

Extended Principality's Facebook community of 3,700 to over 90,000 by teaming up with Media Wales, reaching 390.8k

22,781 video views

183 stories shared

An 85% increase on the weekly average of new Facebook followers and a 30% increase on Twitter

Shortlisted with Principality for Best Social Media campaign at the 2015 CIPR Cymru PRide Awards.  The winner will be announced on 16th October 2015.