How Culver Brand Design has defined Bays English Muffins brand voice using audience engagement as a performance driver
Ian Culver from Culver Brand Design has been devoted to defining a unique brand voice since the start of the collaboration with Bays English Muffins from Bimbo Bakeries USA. His goal has been to find the perfect blend of artistic vision and deep data analysis to shape an unbeatable content strategy.
Bringing Socialbakers on board, his creative team has consolidated disparate data sources under one platform to quickly identify best performing content and trends. This instant data access puts audience engagement at the center of content creation, and helps drive key business KPIs – where creative and analytics yield consumption.
“Socialbakers is an invaluable partner and has helped us finish up one of our best quarters yet. One of Bays English Muffins posts has hit over 54 million impressions!”
Ian Culver, Director Of Client Services at Culver Brand Design
Note: reach was 21 million, impressions were 54 million.
“It’s all about effective collaboration between Culver Brand Design, Bimbo Bakeries USA, and Socialbakers. We all are committed to putting the best product out there. Not for us, but for our audience,” said Ian Culver.
Diving into the data, Culver was at first surprised to discover that the best performing content pieces were different from what he initially expected.
“We always knew our posts had to be gutsy, but early on our two best posts were really artistic as well.”
Ian Culver, Director Of Client Services at Culver Brand Design
“Another surprise was our Bays recipe campaign. We expected ‘Make mini pizzas with your kids’ sort of content to resonate the most, but in fact, our best performing pieces were elevated meal experiences, which look like a work of art,” said Ian.
Culver made data on audience engagement central to content ideation. He says it is all about taking the “subjectivity out of creativity.” This approach has allowed the Culver Brand Design team to replicate successes more easily, while still leaving ample space for new and bold ideas. As a result Bays has seen back to back category share gains and strong topline growth.
“Socialbakers Content Hub drives what we do and makes our brand voice so powerful.
Ian Culver, Director Of Client Services at Culver Brand Design
Instead of looking at macro data, we are able to drill into specifics and find what actually resonates with our followers.”