Brief
Maximise consumer awareness of NEFF’s existing ATL Cookaholics platform and increase engagement by making it relevant to the target consumer.
Campaign
We launched NEFF’s first ever nationwide search to find the next Cookaholic – someone who would join our existing panel to be involved in recipe and product testing and used in future activations. Entrants had to submit their favourite recipe with their own personal, unique Cookaholic’s twist through the NEFF website.
We launched the search by partnering with MasterChef finalist, Stacie Stewart, who created five of her own recipes with a twist, which were served at the ‘Cookaholics Kitchen’ – the world’s first pop-up restaurant where customers paid for their meal with a recipe on social media.
delicious magazine’s editor, Karen Barnes, joined Stacie on our judging panel and ran an advertorial in the magazine to drive consumers to enter the competition.
With Stacie using her social channels to drive engagement and awareness, additional coverage driving tactics were implemented including a news story and radio day revealing we’re a nation of ‘Recipe Rebels’ who like to put our own unique – and sometimes bizarre – twists on traditional recipes, as well as exclusive recipe placement and interview content with Stacie across food and women’s consumer lifestyle publications.
Entries were whittled down to two finalists who took part in a head-to-head cook-off event at Big Feastival to find our winning Cookaholic.
Results
NEFF’s Cookaholics are a panel of five cooking enthusiasts, passionate about getting creative in the kitchen and used in ATL activations. Whilst NEFF’s target audience share their food enthusiasm, they weren’t necessarily aware of, nor had any emotional attachment to, NEFF’s Cookaholics.