#celebratemytree

TRIBE ran a Christmas tree content campaign for Mars brand Celebrations Chocolate in which creators produced 327 Creator Posts reaching 11,436,649 Combined Followers.

Case in 60 seconds

Celebrations is a Christmas sharing format competing for attention inside a season when confectionery brands all address the same household occasion, so the page positions the tub against a family ritual rather than against rival chocolate.

The campaign appears to turn on the observation that a decorated Christmas tree is already a thing people photograph and compare, because every tree differs by household in the way the page likens to the assorted chocolates in one tub.

Match the product truth to the ritual truth by treating variety as the organizing thesis, so that a tub containing many different chocolates and a street containing many different trees make the same point about a shared occasion.

TRIBE briefed creators to submit posts of themselves celebrating their Christmas tree and to ask followers to share theirs under #celebratemytree for the chance to win a personalised tub of Celebrations, producing 327 Creator Posts including video content.

TRIBE reports 327 Creator Posts, Combined Followers of 11,436,649, Engagement of 2.33% and Likes & Comments of 266,274, with Average CPE listed as 0.19, $0.25 and 0.34.

Strategy Breakdown

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

Christmas tree decorating is a private household ritual that people nonetheless display, and the campaign works that seam by asking creators to open the room to an audience rather than to stage a product scene.
Not stated in the source beyond the seasonal framing, which sets Celebrations inside a family occasion rather than against named competitors.
The brand supplies the analogy and the prize rather than the content, since the page has TRIBE briefing creators on their trees and reserving Celebrations for the comparison and the personalised tub.
Based on the available evidence, the campaign assumes people will share a tree they have already decorated when a hashtag and a prize give the picture somewhere to go, which the page does not test but the mechanic depends on.

Creative & Execution System

Partners

  • TRIBE (lead_agency)

Participation mechanic

  • Creators posted their own decorated Christmas tree and asked their followers to share theirs using the hashtag #celebratemytree, with a personalised tub of Celebrations offered as the prize for taking part.

Results & Evidence

MetricValueResult type
average CPEAverage CPE 0.19 $0.25 0.34performance
combined followersCombined Followers 11,436,649reach
creator postsCreator Posts 327content_pieces
engagement rateEngagement 2.33%engagement_rate
likes and commentsLikes & Comments 266,274performance

Why TRIBE's strategy worked

  1. 1

    A brief that asks a creator to photograph something already present in the home lowers the production cost of entry, which reads as one reason 327 Creator Posts were filed against a campaign built on a single sentence of instruction.

  2. 2

    Attaching a prize to a follower hashtag turns each creator post into a recruitment device rather than an endpoint, because the audience is given a reason to produce its own version instead of only registering the brand.

  3. 3

    Anchoring a product claim about assortment to a ritual that visibly varies by household gives creators a reason to differ from one another, which suggests why volume did not require the brand to script each execution.

  4. 4

    The comments TRIBE selected under Sentiment are about the chocolates rather than about the tree, which suggests the seasonal mechanic carried the participation while the product carried the response.