The Drum Recommends: Commended is highlighting Ambitious who built and managed media profiles for Dickies workwear.
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Year One
In year one, our focus was on consolidating and building awareness of the brand’s core social channels with a real focus on community management and encouraging community engagement through a campaign-led approach. We also started a brand ambassador scheme, identifying micro-influencers from the trades and getting them to trial Dickies Workwear via social.
We rebuilt the brand’s relationships with the sector media, delivering regular feature contributions plus thought leadership pieces and issuing newsworthy press releases – exceeding our targets for securing media coverage.
Year Two
In year two we built on these foundations and continued social community management, adding Instagram to the brand’s channels and growing the number of ambassadors.
We continued to manage a high media profile for Dickies, plus advised on media buying and helped to further amplify the brand’s presence at trade events.
Highlights included:
- Negotiated and delivered support for DIY SOS, including the provision of clothing for the recent Grenfell Special
- Launched the ‘Be a Dickies Model’ campaign, resulting in over 60 applications from ‘real’ tradespeople across the country – some of whom have been selected to model Dickies clothing in upcoming advertising activity
- Maintained high profile media coverage, including a cover story in Professional Heating and Plumbing Installer on what influences modern workwear, plus advice pieces on clothing and footwear in a range of target trade publications
In order to support the company’s goal to build relationships with the next generation of tradespeople we have also initiated and managed a number of partnerships and campaigns, including:
- Negotiating and delivering a partnership with SkillBuild, including sponsorship of the National Final at WorldSkillsUK LIVE 2018 where Dickies provided clothing for contestants and judges
- Negotiating and delivering a college partnership programme – piloted in a local college and about to be rolled out to selected colleges across the UK
- Added Instagram into the social media mix
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