PostFinance x Kingfluencers Kampagne

PostFinance x Kingfluencers Kampagne

Influencer Marketing

When PostFinance became the first major Swiss retail bank to offer regulated crypto trading, Kingfluencers built a campaign about reassurance rather than persuasion.

2.7Mimpressions
1.7Mreach
15Kengagements
53posts over three months

About the campaign

PostFinance became the first major Swiss retail bank to offer regulated crypto trading in February 2024, and the strategic insight behind the product also defined the campaign. The bank's research had found that people were not avoiding crypto because they lacked interest, but because opening an account on an exchange meant leaving the secure environment of their bank. The product answered that, and so the marketing task was reassurance rather than persuasion, which inverts how crypto is usually sold.

Kingfluencers structured the work across three months in two phases. The first introduced the offering and stayed on mechanics, how a person actually invests securely through an institution they already use. The second widened awareness and introduced a giveaway with one Bitcoin as the prize. That prize is well chosen for a campaign about lowering barriers, because it gave people a reason to engage with the subject without having to spend anything or open anything, which is exactly the hesitation the product was designed around. Ten influencers, 4 micro, 4 mid-tier and 2 macro, published 53 posts on Instagram and TikTok, including street interviews.

Using established Swiss creators for a crypto product does specific work here, since the sector's reputation problem is largely about who is promoting it, and familiar mainstream names carry a different signal than crypto-native promoters.

Kingfluencers reports 2.7M impressions, 1.7M reach and 15K engagements. The conclusion states the campaign reached almost 2 million people, which does not match the 1.7M reach figure on the same page. Driving conversions was a stated objective and no account opening or trading data is given, and all figures are self-reported.

Case in 60 seconds

PostFinance became the first major Swiss retail bank to offer regulated crypto trading in February 2024 and needed the market to understand what that changed.

The bank's research had found that people were not avoiding crypto because they lacked interest, but because opening an account on an exchange meant leaving the secure environment of their bank.

Make the campaign about reassurance rather than persuasion, which inverts how crypto is usually sold.

Across three months in two phases, ten influencers, 4 micro, 4 mid-tier and 2 macro, published 53 posts on Instagram and TikTok, including street interviews. Phase one stayed on mechanics, how a person actually invests securely through an institution they already use, and phase two widened awareness with a giveaway offering one Bitcoin.

Kingfluencers reports 2.7M impressions, 1.7M reach and 15K engagements.

Strategy Breakdown

Swiss retail banking customers who are curious about crypto but unwilling to move money outside the institution they already trust.
Crypto is sold on upside by people with a stake in it, which is exactly what makes a cautious audience keep its distance.
A regulated bank entering crypto has to sound different from the rest of the category or it inherits the category's credibility problem.
PostFinance positioned itself as the familiar, regulated gateway, so the offer was access without the leap rather than a promise about returns.
When the barrier is discomfort rather than disinterest, explaining the mechanics does more than arguing the case. Showing how the money moves inside a known environment answers the actual hesitation.

Creative & Execution System

Assets & channels

  • Instagram creator posts
  • TikTok creator posts
  • Street interview video

Partners

  • Kingfluencers

Participation mechanic

  • Giveaway with one Bitcoin as the prize
  • Street interviews putting the subject to the public
  • Creative freedom for creators to develop their own concepts

Creator role

  • 4 micro influencers
  • 4 mid-tier influencers
  • 2 macro influencers

Results & Evidence

MetricValue
Impressions2.7M
Reach1.7M
Engagements15K
Posts Published53
Influencers Activated10

Why Kingfluencers' strategy worked

  1. 1

    Reading the barrier correctly changed the whole brief. Because the hesitation was about leaving the bank rather than about crypto itself, the campaign could explain mechanics instead of arguing for the asset class.

  2. 2

    Using established mainstream Swiss creators does specific work in this sector, since crypto's reputation problem is largely about who is promoting it.

  3. 3

    Splitting into a mechanics phase and an awareness phase let the campaign teach before it scaled, rather than reaching people who had no idea what they were being offered.

  4. 4

    The Bitcoin prize let people engage with the subject at zero commitment, which mirrors the product's own promise of a lower barrier.