A Beautiful Return
Instagram and TikTok influencers come to B2B
The Challenge
Create buzz and momentum, spike registrations and drive attendance to Questex’s returning International Beauty Show.
The Insight
We often think of beauty influencers as the product- and experience-obsessed consumers who post to their hordes of followers everyday about the latest and greatest in hair-care, skin-care, nail-care, cosmetics, and grooming. But before those products reach those influencers, these massive influencers make the industry spin. We’re talking about the hair stylists, colorists, barbers, nail technicians, makeup artists, lash specialists, and estheticians.
The Idea
Engaged the beauty professional community to create a powerful sense of FOMO with a targeted influencer campaign across Instagram and TikTok.
Results
With limited time and budget, the campaign yielded a stunningly beautiful return to the industry’s biggest event. The campaign was so successful that it become the playbook for future events – a playbook that immediately delivered for IBS/IECSC Las Vegas, which surpassed 2021 attendance by 30% with nearly 22,000 attendees.
10M
impressions via social media and digital advertising
45%
increase in the events’ social media followers
20,000
attendees at IBS New York