Recipe for Innovation
What if we educated our target audience about an investment product through the universal language of food?
Audience research taught us that high-net-worth investors are 55% more likely to be passionate about fine dining and 24% more likely to engage with influencer content. That led to the radical idea to market Invesco QQQ through a cooking show featuring some of the world’s best and most well-known chefs, titled Recipe for Innovation. That series evolved into a 360-degree integrated campaign, with breakthrough content and strategy featured throughout led by me and my team. We used our audience’s known passion points as a Trojan horse to deliver product education, transcending notions of what dry, financial content is “supposed to” be like.
The results:
+10% YOY lift in Invesco QQQ ticker awareness
+14% increase in unaided brand awareness
+8.3% lift in consideration
2x increase in brand interest from “unfamiliar” to “interested”
88M+ video views, including 5.1M from Instagram collabs with chef talent
229M+ paid and organic media impressions, exceeding benchmarks for CTR, VCR and engagement by 21%+
3.4M+ digital experience sessions at TasteQQQ.com, with session durations averaging 2 minutes 20 seconds (64% above benchmark)
74K+ content downloads, 83% above average engagement rates