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Created a digital-first strategy to help BCI turn their Great Pink Run into a virtual event during Covid-19, which ended up being their most successful year ever for sign-ups and revenue.
The Great Pink Run is Breast Cancer Ireland's biggest fundraising event of the year, usually taking place across multiple locations in Ireland and attracting thousands of participants. However, with Covid-19 in full force, there was no option but to take 2020's run online as a virtual race. How we were going to encourage people to sign up to, participate in and talk about the run without the fun and camaraderie of an in-person race? On top of that, multiple charities had done exactly the same thing earlier in the year, to the point the "virtual run" concept was completely saturated. How were we going to make the Great Pink Run new and exciting? The challenge was on!
To encourage people to sign up for the run, we created one common goal: turn the world pink for Breast Cancer Ireland! We set people the challenge of running a full circumference of the world (equivalent to 47,000km) in just 48 hours, which meant we needed 10,000 people to run 5k. This would create the incentive people needed to get involved and the sense of excitement and togetherness that a virtual event might lack.
We set to work on creating a digital first strategy made up of 4 key elements:
In order to bring the concept of “turning the world pink for Breast Cancer Ireland” to life, we created a globe and kilometre tracker for the Great Pink Run website. As people logged their kilometres, they could watch as the globe turned pink in front of their eyes! They could also see how many kms had been tracked and how many were left to go before we reached our goal, which served as a great incentive for others to take part.
Use of influencers and ambassadors also saw our levels of engagement skyrocket, while live posting UGC photos on the weekend of the run resulted in more than 30,000 interactions with our hashtag.
2020 was the most successful Great Pink Run event Breast Cancer Ireland has had to date!
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