THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media and digital. View this season's finalists!

Special Project

Special Project
From the 10th Annual Shorty Awards

Bath & Body Works

Entered in Instagram Presence

Objectives

Bath & Body Works is one of the largest beauty brands in the US & home to legendary fragrances everyone knows & loves (Cucumber Melon, anyone?). Instagram serves as the platform for in-depth product storytelling & mindset-relevant conversations. We strive to bring an element of the store experience & our products to the Feeds of our passionate & highly-engaged community every day.

Strategy and Execution

We make fragrance FUN with Instagram serving as the hub for our community to see what's new at Bath & Body Works. We stay close to our customer & individually orchestrate Social Media-specific photo shoots every 3 to 4 weeks to ensure our content tells a cohesive story for every season. We support the bigger brand story while adding an extra wink of fun & whimsy for our Instagram audience. We keep the copy conversational & leverage tactics like Emoji Challenges & polls in Instagram Stories to encourage two-way dialogue. Our passionate fans love sharing how Bath & Body Works products fit into their everyday lives – whether it's some "me" time spent in the tub with a Bath Fizzy & a Candle, completing their #OOTD with their favorite fragrance or showing off their latest Semi-Annual Sale haul – we leverage those stories as often as possible to support our brand message & spotlight unique content that's native to the channel.

Results

In 2017, we had the following results:

-656K+ NEW Fans – building to a total Instagram audience of 3.4M

-40M+ Total Engagements

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Entrant Company / Organization Name

Bath & Body Works

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