Putting value front and centre for circular fashion platform, Depop

After a revenge summer of festivals, football and freedom, the challenge was to pivot to a new autumn mood, and show audiences that resale represents great value – as well as access to their favourite brands and with helpful mechanisms to stay in control of spending. ​

We were briefed to create a high impact and inspiring campaign in media and creative to reach and inspire Style Explorers, as part of a long-term strategy to get Depop into their fashion retail consideration set.​

September is always a major fashion moment as seasons change – and for a Depop audience, category entry points and key retail opportunities are Back to School and Fresher’s Week. ​

​Where there’s cultural momentum, there’s competition, and Depop must compete not just in resale, but hold its own against high street fashion outlets too, who aggressively discount for fresher’s week. ​

To target a youthful fashion-loving audience, both on and offline, we pursued a cherry-picked programming strategy in VOD. We know viewing increases among 16-34s at this time of year, and we’ve learned that view time correlates with our key metric of consideration. ​

​VOD allowed us to showcase our full AV as an un-skippable, sound-on, high attention experience. We bolstered this in YouTube, targeting Style Explorers in premium fashion environments, as well as Snapchat in short unskippable formats.​

​For all important Tik-Tok we used a combination of high-performing creators to tell our value story, and land the messages in a native way, right for a TikTok audience. ​

​For that high-street presence, we used data-targeted high impact banners together with digital 6-sheets, pinpointing exact audiences based on where they socialise, coupled with competitor shopping behaviours, minimising wastage but maximising effectiveness and impact. ​

​In all the campaign delivered: ​

– 8% point uplift in consideration​

– Favourability lift 2x the category norms​

– Purchase intent lift 3x the category norms​

– 19% increase in new customer sign ups​