ECCO AW21 Shoe Range Campaign

Influencer Marketing

Disrupt Marketing paired fashion ambassador Alanna Doherty with six micro influencers to put ECCO's AW21 shoe range in front of a younger audience.

61,306Total engagements
915K+Total impressions
3.91%Average engagement rate

About the campaign

Nature's Best, a UK supplement brand, had no presence in the creator economy and needed to introduce two products, Myo-Inositol and Collagen, to health-conscious 20 to 30-year-olds without sounding scripted or purely promotional. Wellness audiences are surrounded by supplement claims from influencers of uneven credibility, which makes purely promotional creator content easy to dismiss, and a first-time entrant had to establish authority around science-backed products with no existing creator footprint. Disrupt Marketing's read was that in science-backed wellness credibility comes from recognised expertise, so expert voices would land where trend-led content would not.

The agency built the brand's first influencer campaign around education from credentialed specialists, a nutritionist, an aesthetician and a PCOS specialist, rather than around reach. The three experts published a three-phase content plan on Instagram, with staggered drops and defined messaging guidelines covering supplement benefits and practical health advice, backed by paid amplification.

For a first campaign in a science-adjacent category, credentialed experts carried credibility that lifestyle influencers cannot, and pairing organic content with paid amplification let a first-time entrant reach scale, with paid activity accounting for 939K of the reported impressions. The work ran on Instagram. Disrupt Marketing reports over 1M total impressions at a £22.71 CPM, a 2.42% Instagram Stories open rate and 35.5K link clicks against an 8K target; every figure comes from the agency's own case-study page and is self-reported, with the launch date and spend not disclosed.

Case in 60 seconds

ECCO needed to reach a younger demographic and drive awareness of its AW21 shoe range, a market the heritage comfort brand was not naturally cracking.

A relatable ambassador who is a genuine customer, styling the shoes in her own fashion content, would make the brand feel more down to earth and the campaign more authentic than a polished brand push.

Front the AW21 range with fashion creator Alanna Doherty as brand ambassador, supported by six micro influencers with a natural fashion fit, all showing what encourages them to move with style.

The ambassador and micro influencers styled the new collection in their own content while Disrupt delivered a new suite of more than 60 web and social assets for ECCO, plus a campaign highlight film on YouTube.

The agency reports 915K+ total impressions, 61,306 total engagements and a 3.91% average engagement rate, with new audiences drawn to the brand. All figures are self-reported and not independently verified.

Strategy Breakdown

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

Younger, style-conscious consumers who did not yet see ECCO as a brand for them. The agency describes the brief as cracking a younger demographic market through highly targeted creator match-up.
Based on the available evidence, the tension was between ECCO's established comfort-first reputation and the expressive, style-led content younger audiences follow. The campaign leaned on creators to show the shoes are wearable and stylable, not just practical.
Seasonal footwear ranges compete for attention at launch. The production reality added a category-typical problem: the autumn campaign had to be shot in summer, making the aesthetic hard to capture, and shoot delays compressed the edit window.
ECCO appeared as a wearable, down-to-earth fashion choice, demonstrated by a genuine customer rather than asserted by the brand.
Seeing a relatable ambassador and real customer style a collection lowers the barrier for new audiences to see themselves wearing it, and micro influencers posting within their regular content sustain interest beyond launch day.

Creative & Execution System

Assets & channels

  • 60+ assets delivered for web and social
  • Ambassador and micro influencer social content
  • Campaign highlight film on YouTube (ECCO AW21 X DISRUPT)

Partners

  • Alanna Doherty (brand ambassador, fashion content creator)
  • Six micro influencers with a fashion focus

Participation mechanic

  • Ambassador styled the new collection as a genuine customer
  • Micro influencers integrated the range into their regular fashion content

Creator role

  • Ambassador as relatable proof of how wearable the range is
  • Micro influencers keeping up momentum and long-term interest

Results & Evidence

MetricValueResult typeConfidence
Total impressions915K+reachAgency reported
Total engagements61,306engagementAgency reported
Average engagement rate3.91%engagementAgency reported

Why Disrupt Marketing's strategy worked

  1. 1

    A genuine-customer ambassador can make a heritage comfort brand feel approachable to a younger audience without repositioning the product.

  2. 2

    Pairing one lead ambassador with a layer of micro influencers sustains momentum and longer-term interest instead of a single launch spike.

  3. 3

    Choosing creators whose regular content already fits the category makes partnerships read as natural rather than sponsored.

  4. 4

    Out-of-season shoots carry real production risk; delayed shoots compress edit timelines and threaten the seasonal aesthetic.