Dairy MAX BUILT Campaign

Client

Dairy MAX is a local dairy council representing dairy farmers across Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and southwest Kansas. Dairy MAX’s BUILT by Nature initiative promotes chocolate milk to high school and college athletes as a sports recovery drink.

The Challenge

Dairy MAX needed a new campaign to promote chocolate milk as a sports recovery drink for young athletes. They provided us with new research from The University of Texas (UT) touting chocolate milk vs. traditional sports drinks and two hours to film and photograph their new spokesman: Dallas football pro Tyrone Crawford.
Insight

Insight

We talked with the author of the UT study to help translate his research into bite-sized pieces and talked to Tyrone Crawford’s marketing representative to learn more about his personality and what drives him. We learned Tyrone had a signature hashtag, #WORKK – with the extra “K” to symbolize going the extra mile.
Creativity

Creativity

We created a gritty campaign and video around Tyrone Crawford and #WORKK, featuring hand-drawn lettering and sports imagery with dramatic low-key lighting. To round out b-roll for the video, we also filmed workout sessions with local high school football players. It all pointed viewers back to the Dairy MAX blog, with an infographic illustrating the science behind chocolate milk recovery.
Technology

Technology

An integrated digital campaign, including Facebook carousel ads and YouTube ads (both in-stream and discovery), allowed us to target local parents and coaches. We set up different ad groups to find the best combination of keywords, interests, placements and topics to reach our audience. We even tested different ad-bidding methods to maximize traffic to the blog.

The Results

The campaign garnered more than 13.5 million impressions across Facebook, YouTube and Yahoo native over two years, with exemplary engagement: By the second year, the Facebook click-through rate averaged 1.64 percent (more than double than the industry average) for a cost per click of just $0.36 (1/5 the industry average).

Stats

2017

  • 3 million impressions across Facebook and YouTube
  • 1.35% Facebook CTR (compared to a 0.90% industry average)
  • $0.49 Facebook CPC (compared to a $1.72 industry average)
  • Over 31% of YouTube viewers watched the video to the end

2018

  • Over 10.5 million impressions across Facebook and Yahoo native
  • 1.64% Facebook standard ads CTR
  • $0.36 Facebook standard ads CPC
  • $0.36 Yahoo native CPC (compared to a $0.50 industry average)

Awards

2018 Fort Worth American Advertising Federation Awards

  • Best of Interactive – Campaign
  • Gold ADDY – Online/Interactive – Social Media Campaign
  • Gold ADDY– Elements of Advertising – Cinematography
  • Two Silver ADDYs – Online/Interactive – Social Media Single Execution, Carousel Ads
  • Silver ADDY – Cross Platform – Online/Interactive Campaign
  • Silver ADDY – Film, Video & Sound – Single Spot (Any Length)
  • Bronze ADDY – Cross Platform – Consumer Campaign (National)
  • Bronze ADDY – Print – Magazine Advertising Campaign
  • Bronze ADDY – Print – Full Page or Less, Basketball Ad

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