Migros x Kingfluencers Campaign

Influencer Marketing

For Easter 2024 Kingfluencers cast Migros for the occasion rather than for audience size, briefing 13 food, cooking and family creators with full creative freedom.

1.3Mimpressions, 43% above forecast
974Kreach
11Kengagements
46posts over one month
13creators, weighted to micro

About the campaign

Migros is the largest retailer in Switzerland, and Kingfluencers' work for it runs across several brands in the group, including Migusto, M-Budget and Frey. The Easter 2024 campaign documented here sits inside that wider relationship, and Easter presents a specific difficulty: it is a fixed date that every Swiss grocer competes for simultaneously, with broadly the same chocolate, the same decorations and the same four-week window.

The response was to cast for the occasion rather than for audience size. Food, cooking and family influencers were briefed with full creative freedom, which produced festive brunches and menus, decoration projects and baking, all of which are things people were going to do anyway and which happen to require groceries. Thirteen creators, 6 micro, 5 mid-tier and 2 macro, published 46 posts on Instagram and TikTok over the month. The micro-weighted roster is notable, since it favours creators whose audiences plausibly cook rather than those with the largest followings.

The rest of the Migros relationship shows the same instinct for finding an occasion. Dry Migros put the non-alcoholic range, including an alcohol-free gin, into a cocktail-making context. A Migusto event had influencers cook a three-course meal in teams and compete in a blind tasting. An M-Budget activation at Zurich Street Parade ran a Love Mobile through the city and a boat on Lake Zurich, which is access rather than product.

Kingfluencers reports over 1.3M impressions, 43% above forecast, 974K reach and 11K engagements. Migros' media manager is quoted on the partnership. The forecast is not published, no sales data is given, and figures are provided only for the Easter campaign, not for the Dry Migros, Migusto or Street Parade activations described alongside it. All figures are self-reported.

Case in 60 seconds

Easter is a fixed date every Swiss grocer competes for simultaneously, with broadly the same chocolate, the same decorations and the same four-week window.

Differentiation was not going to come from the products, so it had to come from who was holding them and what they were doing with them.

Cast for the occasion rather than for audience size, and let creators show Easter in their own style.

Thirteen food, cooking and family influencers, 6 micro, 5 mid-tier and 2 macro, published 46 posts on Instagram and TikTok over the month, producing festive brunches and menus, decoration projects and Easter baking.

Kingfluencers reports over 1.3M impressions, 43% above forecast, 974K reach and 11K engagements.

Strategy Breakdown

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

Swiss households already committed to marking Easter with a meal, a decoration or baking, reached through creators whose audiences plausibly cook.
Every Swiss grocer sells the same seasonal assortment at the same time, so the shelf offers no reason to choose one over another.
Seasonal retail campaigns are timed identically, which turns Easter into a contest of volume rather than of relevance.
Migros positioned itself as the source of the ideas rather than of the ingredients, appearing inside brunches, decorations and baking projects people were planning anyway.
Occasion-led content works because the audience already has the intention. The campaign only has to supply the how, which is why a food creator's audience converts better than a larger general one.

Creative & Execution System

Assets & channels

  • Instagram creator posts
  • TikTok creator posts
  • Recipe and baking content
  • Decoration projects

Partners

  • Kingfluencers

Participation mechanic

  • Full creative freedom for creators
  • Festive brunch and menu content
  • Easter decoration and baking projects

Creator role

  • 6 micro influencers
  • 5 mid-tier influencers
  • 2 macro influencers
  • Food, cooking and family creators

Results & Evidence

MetricValueResult type
Impressions1.3Mimpressions
Impressions against forecast+43%benchmark
Reach974Kreach
Engagements11Kengagement
Posts published46output
Influencers activated13output

Why Kingfluencers's strategy worked

  1. 1

    Casting food, cooking and family creators rather than the largest available accounts put the products in front of audiences who were going to cook regardless.

  2. 2

    Full creative freedom produced brunches, decorations and baking, all activities that require groceries without needing to argue for them.

  3. 3

    A micro-weighted roster suits an occasion campaign, where the credibility of the person cooking matters more than the size of the following.

  4. 4

    The wider Migros relationship shows the same instinct repeatedly, finding an occasion, whether a cocktail context for the non-alcoholic range, a cooking competition for Migusto, or access at Street Parade for M-Budget.