Cape Town Tourism
Cape Town Tourism embraces TikTok’s Branded effect to promote awareness and re-ignite the passion for travel.
Bronze Winner at the MMA Smarties Awards 2023, Social Media Marketing.
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Challenge
The Tourism industry was disrupted by the COVID-19 Travel Ban. Cape Town Tourism wanted to drive brand awareness & re-ignite people’s passion for the City of Cape Town as a travel destination.
Through TikTok, the brand was able to provide users with the ability to choose their own adventure and discover freedom; their main priority was to encourage South Africans to visit the mother city and expand their pool of international customers
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Solution
To kick-start its campaign, Cape Town Tourism used TikTok’s Branded Effect to translate its #FindYourFreedom game, into the TikTok space.
The 3 gaming avatars, Nature Warrior, Urban Adventurer and Fearless Foodie, were conceptualised as exciting 3D animation appearance filters. The branded effect allowed the user to choose between the 3D avatar filters, and to film their escapades as the avatar in an adventurous go-pro style, which was incorporated into the effect itself.
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The effect was then promoted using creator content and
In-Feed Auction adverts.
Branded Effect
3,737,798
video views
BE Metrics
Highlights
452
user generated content
32,839
total engagement
Results
During the 6-days Cape Town Tourism achieved significant participation in the region.
This campaign has also managed to gather impressive amount of relevant content aggregated under the Effect page in comparison to other campaign activations.
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There was a total of 416 unique video creators garnering a total of +3.7M total user-generated content video views, on the back of a total of 32.8K engagements. To add a cherry on top the popular branded effect saw a total of 7.4M total impressions.
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Cape Town Tourism’s exciting and unique campaign found the perfect home on TikTok, proving the platform’s reputation as the definitive destination for the world’s best short-form creative content.
The branded effect + In-Feed Ads campaign outperformed all expectations and confirmed TikTok’s ability to guarantee real engagement.