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Olé Cocktails - Launching a U.S. Social Media Presence

Komodo launched Olé Cocktails' U.S. social platforms across California, Nevada and Arizona with creators, events and paid support, reporting 15.5M content views.

15.5Mcontent views
997Kengagement
8events
1.3Mimpressions
45influencer collaborations

Case in 60 seconds

Olé Cocktails had no U.S. social platforms, and Komodo was tasked with launching them across California, Nevada and Arizona at once, which meant building an audience in three separate state markets from nothing.

The campaign appears to turn on the reading that a new drinks brand earns belief through volume and proximity rather than polish, because the page pairs professional shoots with lo-fi content and UGC creators and backs the whole thing with 45,000 physical samples.

Establish the brand through a layered content supply rather than a single launch moment, blending professional and low-fi output with creator storytelling, live events and paid growth so the accounts had something to say continuously.

Komodo deployed a dedicated content team making professional shoots, lo-fi content and platform-specific creative for Instagram and TikTok, combined UGC creators with key influencer partnerships across 45 influencer collaborations, ran 8 events distributing 45,000 samples, and added targeted paid support and proactive community management across the three launch states.

Komodo reports 15.5M content views, 45 influencer collaborations, 8 events and 45,000 samples, and describes record-setting account growth that made Olé Cocktails the most engaged and fastest-growing brand in the Mark Anthony Group portfolio.

Strategy Breakdown

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

Instagram and TikTok audiences in the brand's U.S. launch states of California, Nevada and Arizona; the page does not describe them in demographic terms.
A ready-to-drink cocktail entering the U.S. with no social presence competes against established portfolio stablemates for attention, so the page frames the task as launching platforms and building an audience rather than shifting an existing one.
Komodo positioned Olé Cocktails as the portfolio's most engaged and fastest-growing brand, which means the work was measured against the Mark Anthony Group's other brands rather than against a category benchmark the page names.
Based on the available evidence, the mix of UGC creators alongside professional shoots reads as an attempt to make the brand look already adopted rather than newly launched, because peer-made content carries a claim about consumption that brand-made content cannot.

Creative & Execution System

Assets & channels

  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • UGC
  • lo-fi content
  • platform-specific creative
  • professional shoots

Partners

  • WE ARE KOMODO (lead_agency)

Creator role

  • 45 influencer collaborations
  • UGC creators
  • key influencer partnerships

Results & Evidence

MetricValueResult type
content views15.5M - Content viewsvideo_views
engagement997K Engagementengagements
events8 - Eventsperformance
impressions1.3M Impressionsimpressions
influencer collaborations45 - Influencer Collaborationscreators_count
reach1.1M Reachreach
samples45,000 - Samplesperformance

Why WE ARE KOMODO's strategy worked

  1. 1

    Launching into several states at once appears to favour a mixed content supply over a single hero asset, because the accounts need enough regionally relevant output to read as present in California, Nevada and Arizona simultaneously.

  2. 2

    Pairing 45,000 samples with 45 influencer collaborations suggests physical trial and creator content were treated as one mechanism rather than two budgets, since a drinker who has tasted the product is a more receptive audience for the content that follows.

  3. 3

    The page attributes the engagement result partly to proactive community management, which suggests the reply layer was resourced as campaign work rather than as maintenance, and that this is where the engagement loops it describes were built.

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