Arnott's Entertainers

TRIBE ran an influencer marketing campaign for Arnott's Entertainers crackers in which 16 creator posts reached combined followers of 834,718 and drew 9,709 likes and comments.

Average CPE 0.28 $0.37 0.51average cost per engagement
Combined Followers 834,718combined followers
Creator Posts 16creator posts
Engagement 1.16%engagement rate
Likes & Comments 9,709likes and comments

Case in 60 seconds

Arnott's Entertainers is a cracker range created to accompany dips and cheeses across three variants, so the product only makes sense in the context of a spread it is served with rather than on its own.

The campaign appears to turn on the platter being the unit of content that food audiences already share, because a cracker photographed alone carries no occasion while a platter carries the hosting moment the range was built for.

Serving Entertainers crackers for occasions big and small, which puts the range inside everyday hosting rather than reserving it for a single event type.

TRIBE briefed creators to submit posts with a cracker platter, and 16 creator posts were produced against that brief, with the three flavour variants of Rosemary and Sea Salt, Crispy Oat with a Hint of Honey and Poppy and Sesame Seed Scoops available to style into each spread.

TRIBE reports 16 creator posts, combined followers of 834,718, 9,709 likes and comments, an engagement rate of 1.16%, and average CPE figures of 0.28, $0.37 and 0.51.

Strategy Breakdown

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

Based on the available evidence, the challenge is that a cracker is an accompaniment rather than a destination, so the range had to be shown alongside dips and cheeses for its reason to exist to be visible at all.
Arnott's positions Entertainers as the base of a spread for occasions big and small, which casts the brand as the host's starting point rather than as the centre of the platter.
The platter is a format people already build and photograph when they have company, so the brief asked creators for something they had reason to make anyway rather than for a staged product shot.

Creative & Execution System

Partners

  • TRIBE (lead_agency)

Participation mechanic

  • Creators submitted their own posts against an open brief, so the mechanic sat with the creator marketplace rather than with the audience, which took part only by liking and commenting.

Results & Evidence

MetricValueResult type
average cost per engagementAverage CPE 0.28 $0.37 0.51engagements
combined followersCombined Followers 834,718performance
creator postsCreator Posts 16content_pieces
engagement rateEngagement 1.16%engagement_rate
likes and commentsLikes & Comments 9,709performance

Why TRIBE's strategy worked

  1. 1

    A one-line brief that names the artefact rather than the message, in this case a cracker platter, keeps 16 submissions on-product while leaving flavour choice and styling to the creator, which is where the variety in the set comes from.

  2. 2

    Casting food and entertaining creators puts a shared-occasion product in front of audiences already primed to comment on spreads, and the comments TRIBE prints respond to the platter and to a named flavour rather than to the brand.