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Kerrygold Cheese Snacks Fifth Pocket Campaign

Influencer Marketing

1000heads launched Kerrygold Cheese Snacks with a fifth pocket campaign across owned, creator and PR phases, which the agency reports drew 129M social views.

129MSocial Views
+2BPress Impressions
10.3KGiveaway Entries
+64%Cost Efficiency

Case in 60 seconds

Kerrygold tasked 1000heads with driving awareness and demand for its new Cheese Snacks among Millennials and Gen Z, so the product had to become culturally relevant and PR-worthy rather than simply launched.

The campaign turns on a product truth rather than an audience claim, because the snacks fit the fifth pocket of jeans, and 1000heads frames the Irish lore of that watch pocket, where dairy farmers stashed cheese, as proof it was always meant to carry gold.

The organizing thesis held that the fifth pocket was never for coins, chapstick or Werther's, so every phase argued that Kerrygold Cheese Snacks belonged in that pocket and turned a small product fact into a cultural moment.

Owned and creator-led content used history, humor and tongue-in-cheek scientist breakdowns, answering rival brands in the comments, while an exclusive partnership with @ElleCordova added Kerrygold history and product credentials. On St. Patrick's Day, co-branded jeans made with Native Denims fed a national giveaway, fashion influencer seeding and a PR push.

1000heads reports 129M social views and +2B press impressions, while the national giveaway drew 10.3K entries, 17X more than jeans on offer, and the agency reports the campaign ran +64% more cost efficient than benchmark.

Strategy Breakdown

Millennials and Gen Z, the new generation Kerrygold wanted to adopt Cheese Snacks as their go-to cheese snack.
A new cheese snack had to earn cultural relevance and press interest with Millennials and Gen Z, so 1000heads needed a story that made the product talked about rather than merely noticed.
Kerrygold's Irish dairy heritage anchored the claim, because the watch pocket lore of dairy farmers stashing cheese and the Native Denims workwear history gave the brand a natural right to the pocket.
The page ties the snack to pocket portability and everyday utility, from cheese survival kits for work to 5 reasons to buy lists, so the product is framed as something carried through the day rather than kept at home.

Creative & Execution System

Partners

  • 1000heads

Participation mechanic

  • A national giveaway of co-branded Kerrygold and Native Denims jeans that people entered, alongside comment-section banter with other brands that claimed the fifth pocket.

Creator role

  • @ElleCordova — creator

Results & Evidence

MetricValue
Social Views129M social views
Press Impressions+2B press impressions
Giveaway Entries10.3K entries
Cost Efficiency+64% vs benchmark

Why 1000heads' strategy worked

  1. 1

    A physical product fact, such as a snack fitting the fifth pocket of jeans, can carry a whole launch because it gives content, creators and press one demonstrable claim rather than a list of attributes.

  2. 2

    Answering rival brands in the comments rather than backing down turns a contested claim into organic conversation, and the page records Werther's joining the exchange as a result of that banter.

  3. 3

    A merchandise collaboration lends credibility when the partner shares the story's heritage, which is why a denim label whose parent company made workwear for Irish dairy farmers suited a cheese pocket claim.

  4. 4

    Sequencing the work so that one phase states the claim, the next supplies reasons to believe and the last lands on a dated giveaway gives each phase a separate job rather than repeating one message.

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