Hair Therapy

TRIBE ran an influencer marketing campaign for Dove's Hair Therapy haircare range in which 37 creator posts reached a combined following of 985,392 people.

Average CPE 0.48 $0.62 0.86average cost per engagement
Combined Followers 985,392combined followers
Creator Posts 37creator posts
Engagement 0.76%engagement rate
Likes & Comments 7,503likes and comments

Case in 60 seconds

Dove needed creator posts for its Hair Therapy haircare range that showed results without reading as staged product photography, which the campaign objective addresses by ruling out clutter and heavy filtering.

The campaign appears to turn on the belief that haircare proof is more credible when it arrives in a creator's own words about their own hair, because the brief ties personality and visible results together rather than treating either alone as sufficient.

The organizing thesis is that natural personality is the most beautiful thing about a person, so the range is shown through creators describing their own results rather than through a product claim.

TRIBE ran the campaign as influencer marketing, briefing creators to submit posts celebrating results using the haircare range and to feature their hair, the product and the results in clean, unfiltered images.

TRIBE reports 37 creator posts against combined followers of 985,392, with 7,503 likes and comments and an engagement rate of 0.76%, alongside an average CPE printed as 0.48, $0.62 and 0.86.

Strategy Breakdown

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

Haircare results are difficult to show credibly in a single image, so the brief asks creators to carry the proof in their own words alongside the product and their hair rather than relying on the photograph alone.
Dove sits behind a personality-first proposition, with the brief casting natural personality as the most beautiful thing about a person, so the range is positioned as supporting what a creator already has rather than changing it.

Creative & Execution System

Partners

  • TRIBE (lead_agency)

Results & Evidence

MetricValueResult type
average cost per engagementAverage CPE 0.48 $0.62 0.86engagements
combined followersCombined Followers 985,392reach
creator postsCreator Posts 37content_pieces
engagement rateEngagement 0.76%engagement_rate
likes and commentsLikes & Comments 7,503performance

Why TRIBE's strategy worked

  1. 1

    Writing production constraints into the brief, such as avoiding clutter and not over-filtering, appears to be how a beauty brand keeps creator output consistent while still asking each creator to speak in their own words.

  2. 2

    A cost-per-engagement figure printed as a range rather than a single number suggests the brand was buying across creators at different rates, though how the rate was calculated is not stated.