Making national PR 'child's play' for Eden Project

Driving a 68% increase in organic awareness for the Eden Projectโ€™s summer children’s programme.

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Highlights

Pieces of coverage (over a six-week campaign)
Media reach
Increase in organic users

The brief

To make the Eden Project’s new Nature’s Playground installation a must-visit for families in the summer of 2023 through features, what’s on guides and expert interviews.

In the height of Summer, our eco attraction client โ€“ Eden Project โ€“ were keen to build awareness around their two new summer campaigns, โ€˜Natureโ€™s Playgroundโ€™ and โ€˜Summer of Playโ€™, with the aim to boost ticket sales, build quality links to their campaign pages, and amplify their message of the benefits of reconnecting with nature. ย 

In a landscape where thereโ€™s similar seasonal events occurring across the UK, No Brainer was entrusted with the challenge of crafting a compelling Digital PR strategy to ensure The Eden Project would be the go-to destination to visit over summer.ย 

ย Our key objectives:ย 

  • Generate brand awareness for the two summer campaigns at attractions venueย 
  • Focused on promoting the Eden Projectโ€™s new programmes in an authentic and relatable way to families using influencers and Education Expertsย 
  • Create engaging thought leadership stories to attract visitors and boost conversionsย 
  • Activating our strategy to create compelling campaign ideasย 
  • Increase traffic to the websiteย 
  • Boost conversions on the eventโ€™s landing pageย 

What we did

To ensure the success of the overarching campaign, we delved deep into our strategic insights and drew upon our experience to craft a robust campaign plan.ย 

We placed a large focus on our chosen audiences as they were the key to driving results. Utilising our audience insights on how the demographics interacted, behaved and roamed online, we were able to build and develop our stories.ย 

ย We also created bespoke media lists in order to achieve the broadest and highest quality media coverage and links, including national and regional publications, as well as consumer titles.ย 

Digital PR:

  • Using Digital PR strategies, we created a range of stories that achieved brand awareness, a number of followed links and a high reach
  • Brand building through relevancy and authenticity by highlighting the benefits of connecting with nature and making nature play accessibleย ย 

Thought leadership and expert comments:

  • We worked with experts and influencers which resonate with the media and reinforce the Eden Projectโ€™s key messaging of creating more opportunities for children to engage in natureย 

Feature-lead stories:

  • Whilst the thought leadership stories were proving successful, we also boosted Eden Projectโ€™s online presence by creating a โ€˜Play and Stayโ€™ eco competition, an interactive competition that achieved 7 pieces of coverage and over 200 entries.ย 
  • Numerous features were landed, including Mail Online, Cornwall Live and The Parenting Daily.ย 

The results

  • A successful Digital PR campaign, exceeding client expectationsย 
  • Landed 20+ pieces of coverage in the space of 6 weeks, with a reach of 291mย 
  • 68% increase in users coming from organic search for โ€˜Summer of Playโ€™ย 
  • 60% increase in organic sessions for โ€˜Summer of Playโ€™ย 
  • 26% increase in users coming from organic search for โ€˜Natureโ€™s Playgroundโ€™ย 
  • 24% increase in organic sessions for โ€˜Nature’s Playgroundโ€™ย 
  • Hundreds of entries for the โ€˜Play and Stayโ€™ competition carried outย 
โ€œNo Brainer was able to work nimbly with us at short notice on a story that had already performed very well across mainstream travel and lifestyle media. They leverage the hook, exploring different features and angles to enhance its online impact and SEO.โ€ – Becky Bennett, PR Manager at Eden Project
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