ALDI SUISSE x Kingfluencers Campaign

Influencer Marketing

Kingfluencers ran a year-long influencer programme for ALDI SUISSE, pairing everyday assortment content with seasonal moments including a Christmas in Summer creator dinner.

3.3Mcampaign impressions
1.9Mcampaign reach
20Kcampaign engagements
57posts across 12 months
10influencers across three tiers
3.6%engagement rate at the Zurich dinner

About the campaign

ALDI SUISSE competes on price, and the discount positioning that wins shoppers on cost can just as easily cost it on quality perception. The brief Kingfluencers took on was not a seasonal push but a full year of presence, covering the everyday assortment and the seasonal moments a grocery calendar turns on. The working idea was that value reads as more credible when it is demonstrated repeatedly in ordinary contexts than when it is asserted once.

The creative line, "Small in price, big in heart, taste, freshness, and locality", gave the programme a frame that let creators talk about cost and quality in the same breath. Kingfluencers ran a tiered roster of 3 micro, 3 mid-tier and 4 macro influencers on Instagram and TikTok, publishing 57 posts over twelve months. The year was punctuated by a Christmas in Summer Dinner on 5 September 2024 at Marmite Foodlab in Zurich, where creators saw the Christmas range months before shoppers would, pulling content forward into a period retailers usually address late.

Spreading one roster across a year rather than concentrating it let the campaign attach to seasonal moments as they arrived, using creators the audience had already seen in an everyday grocery context.

Kingfluencers reports 3.3M impressions, 1.9M reach and 20K engagements for the year, and separately 90K impressions, over 45K reach and a 3.6% engagement rate for the Zurich dinner, against a 2 to 4% benchmark it defines itself. All figures come from the agency's own case page. It does not break results down by creator tier or platform, and states no sales outcome despite listing a sales increase among the campaign objectives.

Case in 60 seconds

ALDI SUISSE competes on price, and a discount positioning that wins shoppers on cost can cost the brand on quality perception.

Value reads as more credible when it is demonstrated repeatedly in ordinary shopping contexts than when it is asserted once in a seasonal burst.

Small in price, big in heart, taste, freshness and locality, a line that let creators talk about cost and quality in the same sentence.

A tiered roster of 3 micro, 3 mid-tier and 4 macro influencers published 57 posts on Instagram and TikTok across twelve months, punctuated by a Christmas in Summer Dinner on 5 September 2024 at Marmite Foodlab in Zurich where creators saw the Christmas range months early.

Kingfluencers reports 3.3M impressions, 1.9M reach and 20K engagements for the year, plus 90K impressions, over 45K reach and a 3.6% engagement rate for the Zurich dinner.

Strategy Breakdown

The primary strategy-learning section — interpretation, not a press-release summary.

Swiss grocery shoppers across life stages the brand names directly, students, people starting a family and people moving into a first home, all of whom buy groceries every week regardless of the season.
Shoppers want to spend less without feeling they are accepting less, so a discount retailer has to answer a quality question it is rarely given credit on.
Grocery retail advertising concentrates on seasonal peaks, which leaves the everyday assortment, where most of the basket actually sits, largely unspoken for.
ALDI positioned itself as the place where value and quality are not a trade-off, using the assortment itself rather than price messaging as the proof.
Familiarity does the persuading. A creator the audience has already seen buying ALDI groceries in an ordinary week is a more credible source on the Christmas range than the same creator appearing once in December.

Creative & Execution System

Assets & channels

  • Instagram creator posts
  • TikTok creator posts
  • Event content from the Christmas in Summer Dinner

Partners

  • Kingfluencers
  • Marmite Foodlab, Zurich, event venue

Participation mechanic

  • Creator invitation to a first-look Christmas assortment dinner
  • Seasonal and everyday assortment content published across the year

Creator role

  • 3 micro influencers
  • 3 mid-tier influencers
  • 4 macro influencers

Results & Evidence

MetricValueResult typeConfidence
Campaign impressions3.3MimpressionsAgency reported
Campaign reach1.9MreachAgency reported
Campaign engagements20KengagementAgency reported
Christmas in Summer event impressions90KimpressionsAgency reported
Christmas in Summer event reach45KreachAgency reported
Christmas in Summer event engagement rate3.6%engagement_rateAgency reported
Posts published57outputAgency reported
Influencers activated10outputAgency reported

Why Kingfluencers's strategy worked

  1. 1

    Running one roster across twelve months let the campaign attach to seasonal moments as they arrived, using creators the audience already associated with everyday ALDI shopping.

  2. 2

    A creative line that names both price and quality gave creators licence to address the discount trade-off directly rather than avoiding it.

  3. 3

    Bringing the Christmas assortment forward to a September dinner pulled seasonal content into a period when grocery retailers are usually silent about it.

  4. 4

    Mixing micro, mid-tier and macro creators covered both broad reach and the closer everyday register that value messaging depends on.