Grammarly six-month creator education campaign

Influencer Marketing

HireInfluence put 133 creators on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram to show everyday Grammarly use, reporting 214M impressions over six months.

23.5Mreach
214Mimpressions
33.1Mvideo views
$15.9Mearned media value
$15,944,034Estimated media value (EMV)

About the campaign

Grammarly wanted to be seen as an essential daily tool for students and professionals across school, work and projects, and needed more awareness and traffic among those groups. Writing quality shapes how students and professionals are judged, yet grammar tools tend to be treated as an occasional fix rather than everyday equipment. HireInfluence worked from the view that firsthand demonstrations from creators who already live the target routine, college students, NCAA athletes and working professionals, carry more weight than scripted product ads.

The idea was to recruit creators who matched Grammarly's own demographic and have them show exactly how they use the product in everyday school and professional life. Over a six-month window, 133 creators across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram posted everyday-use content tied to moments like back-to-school and exams, covered new features such as ToneAI, and prompted followers to download and upgrade. The roster spanned lifestyle, daily vlog, education, sports, and science and technology categories, letting one product message run across niches.

Casting from the brand's own user base kept the demonstrations plausible, and calendar anchors gave the program recurring reasons to post. Content ran across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. HireInfluence reports 214M impressions, 23.5M reach and 33.1M video views, with a Vendry marketplace listing adding $15,944,034 in estimated media value. Every figure comes from the agency's own case study or that listing, with no client, press or platform verification and no conversion data published.

Case in 60 seconds

Grammarly wanted to be seen as an essential tool for students and professionals across school, work and projects, and needed more awareness and traffic among those groups.

Firsthand demonstrations from creators who already live the target routine, college students, NCAA athletes and working professionals, carry more weight than scripted product ads.

Recruit creators who match Grammarly's own demographic and have them show exactly how they use Grammarly in their everyday school and professional lives.

Over six months, 133 creators across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram posted everyday-use content tied to moments like back-to-school and exams, covered new features such as ToneAI, and prompted followers to download and upgrade.

The agency reports 214M impressions, 23.5M reach and 33.1M video views, with a Vendry listing adding $15,944,034 in estimated media value. No figure is independently verified and no conversion data was published.

Strategy Breakdown

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

College students, NCAA athletes and working professionals, and the followers who resemble them, reached through lifestyle, daily vlog, education, sports, and science and technology creators.
Based on the campaign's stated positioning, writing quality shapes how students and professionals are judged, yet grammar tools tend to be treated as an occasional fix rather than everyday equipment.
Writing-assistant software is easy to ignore between deadlines, so the campaign had to make Grammarly read as standing equipment for school and work rather than a one-off utility. This framing is interpretation of the agency's account.
Grammarly as an essential daily tool for school, work and projects, demonstrated through real creator routines rather than claimed in ads.
Creators sharing how they actually use the product, from their own experience, was the stated route to credibility, paired with direct prompts to download and upgrade.

Creative & Execution System

Assets & channels

  • Creator videos and posts on YouTube
  • Creator videos on TikTok
  • Creator posts on Instagram
  • Agency sizzle reel

Partners

  • HireInfluence (lead agency)
  • 133 creators across lifestyle, daily vlog, education, sports, and science and technology categories

Participation mechanic

  • Creators showed firsthand how they fit Grammarly into school and work routines
  • Followers were encouraged to download and upgrade Grammarly

Creator role

  • Everyday-use product demonstration
  • Feature education, including the then-new ToneAI feature
  • Seasonal tie-ins such as back-to-school and exams

Results & Evidence

MetricValueResult typeConfidence
Impressions214MmediaAgency reported
Reach23.5MmediaAgency reported
Video views33.1MmediaAgency reported
Estimated media value (EMV)$15,944,034media valueAgency reported

Why HireInfluence's strategy worked

  1. 1

    Casting creators from the brand's own user demographic, students, athletes and professionals, kept product demonstrations plausible.

  2. 2

    Everyday-use content let one product message run across education, sports, lifestyle and tech niches without changing the core idea.

  3. 3

    Calendar anchors such as back-to-school and exams gave a six-month program recurring reasons to post rather than a single burst.

  4. 4

    Pairing awareness content with download and upgrade prompts tied a reach campaign to a concrete action, even though conversion results were not published.