Influencer Marketing Agency
Content Creation Agency
PR & Reputation Management Company
objectives
Smoking Gun was drafted by online financial and investment advice platform OpenMoney to raise awareness around the dangers of Buy Now Pay Later financing products, which were seeing a huge rise in popularity and, at the time, were completely unregulated. The finance PR client wanted to achieve the following:
strategy & approach
Our finance PR experts met the brief with the following approach:
Created a campaign to communicate the feeling of freedom and ‘zen’ from only paying once for items that you can actually afford, rather than becoming trapped in a cycle of debt
The design of three striking billboards raising awareness about the YOPO campaign and aims
Conducted research around consumer attitudes to Buy Now Pay Later financing and outreached to media with the findings
Interviewed case studies involving real people who had fallen into a debt trap thanks to Buy Now Pay Later products
Liaised with influencer and campaigner Alice Tapper, founder of Go Fund Yourself and an expert in financial literacy and inclusion, who launched the campaign content with OpenMoney
Brought in other influencers such as male trend expert Ed Lemont (Mr Thirty Something) and lifestyle specialist Tabitha Warley, while also reaching out to a number of micro influencers to help spread the message
Organised and oversaw a broadcast day with OpenMoney financial advisor Anthony Morrow and Alice Tapper, including media training
including 13 national hits, and 1 regional. Titles such as The Sun, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Sunday People, iNews, YourMoney.com and ThisIsMoney.co.uk all ran stories
of reports contained key messaging
Instagram influencer stories, with a total reach of 42,125
it was announced that Buy Now Buy Later products would be regulated by the FCA
Why stop at global stardom and incredible sales? When our clients work with us, they get the silverware to boot. We’re not into tooting our own horns, but the awards we’ve won with our clients are too good to miss…