Clare Valley Wine Association

Case Study

Clare Valley Wine Association
Strategic communications and social media coverage for the 35th Claire Valley Gourmet Weekend event
February – May 2019

Purple Giraffe specialise in producing quality and consistent social media content – pairing it with a strategic marketing plan in order to build and retain audiences organically.

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Project overview

Working directly with the client, participating wineries and stallholders, Purple Giraffe formulated numerous communications strategies in order to:

Outcomes

An integrated communications strategy develop and executed by Purple Giraffe lead to the following outcomes:

  • 20% increased overnight accommodation to the region over the weekend on previous years
  • significantly increased activity on Clare Valley Gourmet Weekend (CVGW) social media platforms during the 4 months lead-up period and over the 3 day event:
    • Facebook:
      • 125 posts scheduled
      • CVGW Facebook audience grew to 4,618 fans (36.74% increase)
      • Engagement (reactions, comments and shares) increased by 5.6k
      • 921 click throughs were generated from Facebook posts to the CVGW website
    • Instagram
      • CVGW Instagram audience has grown steadily to 1,076 since account creation in May 2019
      • 118 posts shared, 3.4k engagements generated
      • there was also over 40 Instagram stories shared and created during this time
  • increased general press and other marketing related coverage, i.e. radio, print media and online platforms
  • increased visitation to the Clare Valley Wine website
  • increased attendance at the event (above previous year and at capacity for all 3 days) and at wineries/ cellar doors in the region, in general
  • significant increase in the use of the following hashtags over the 3 days of the event:
    • #clarevalley #CVGW #clarevalleygourmetweekend

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