IMC Toys VIP Pets and Cry Babies Campaign

Influencer Marketing

NeoReach cast family creators with daughters aged 4 to 9 to launch two IMC Toys lines during lockdown, reporting 2.5M+ impressions and a 1.6x ROI.

1.6xROI
62.8KEngagements
2.5M+Impressions
$140KInfluencer media value

About the campaign

IMC Toys needed to launch two new collections, VIP Pets and Cry Babies Magic Tears Paci House, to parents of daughters aged 4 to 9 during COVID-19 lockdown, with no in-store or event promotion available. Toy discovery normally happens in stores and at events, and both were gone, moving discovery onto the feeds families were watching together at home. Toy launches also depend on the child asking and the parent buying at once. NeoReach worked from the view that family creators whose own daughters were in the target age range could reach the buying parent and the asking child in a single placement, reading as genuine to both.

NeoReach cast family-focused influencers with daughters aged 4 to 9, including the johnson fam, and briefed them to fold the toys into real family life rather than product demonstrations. The creators published organic content across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, including quarantine-native formats such as prank videos, and doubled their content production during lockdown.

Casting households that contained both the buyer and the end user reached parent and child in one placement, and briefing for integration into real family life let the products appear without forcing a sales register. Content ran across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. NeoReach reports 2.5M+ impressions, 62.8K engagements, $140K in influencer media value and a 1.6x ROI. Every figure comes from the agency's own case study pages and is not independently verified; the launch year and budget are undisclosed, and the ROI is based on media value rather than sales, so commercial impact cannot be assessed.

Case in 60 seconds

IMC Toys needed to launch two new collections, VIP Pets and Cry Babies Magic Tears Paci House, to parents of daughters aged 4 to 9 during COVID-19 lockdown, with no in-store or event promotion available.

Family creators whose own daughters were in the target age range could reach the buying parent and the asking child in a single placement.

Cast family-focused influencers with daughters aged 4 to 9 and brief them to fold the toys into real family life instead of product demonstrations.

Creators published organic content across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, including quarantine-native formats such as prank videos, and doubled their content production during lockdown.

NeoReach reports 2.5M+ impressions, 62.8K engagements, $140K in influencer media value and a 1.6x ROI. None of the figures are independently verified.

Strategy Breakdown

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

Parents of daughters aged 4 to 9, and the daughters themselves, reached together through family content.
Toy discovery normally happens in stores and at events. Lockdown removed both, moving discovery onto the feeds families were watching together at home.
Toy launches depend on the child asking and the parent buying, and the campaign had to work on both at once without any physical retail moments.
IMC Toys appeared inside real family routines rather than through product demonstrations, so the toys showed up as part of everyday play at home.
Based on the available evidence, content from creators whose daughters actually play with the toys was intended to read as genuine to both the parent and child audiences.

Creative & Execution System

Assets & channels

  • Organic creator videos and posts on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram
  • Prank video format fitted to the quarantine context
  • Published campaign gallery of 1 YouTube video, 1 TikTok video and 4 Instagram posts

Partners

  • NeoReach (influencer campaign)
  • the johnson fam (family YouTube channel, 2.97M subscribers)

Participation mechanic

  • Creators integrated the toys into original family content rather than product demonstrations

Creator role

  • Family creators with daughters in the target age range producing organic content

Results & Evidence

MetricValueResult typeConfidence
Impressions2.5M+exposureAgency reported
Engagements62.8KengagementAgency reported
Influencer media value$140Kmedia valueAgency reported
ROI1.6xefficiencyAgency reported

Why NeoReach's strategy worked

  1. 1

    Casting creators whose households contain both the buyer and the end user reached parent and child in one placement.

  2. 2

    Briefing for integration into real family life, not product demos, matched how families were actually living during lockdown.

  3. 3

    Quarantine-native formats such as prank videos let the products appear without forcing a sales register.

  4. 4

    Creators had unusual capacity during lockdown and doubled content production, which the agency credits for the campaign exceeding expectations.