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Clarity’s approach was to construct  test approach to determine the most successful strategy and one that would inform campaigns. We ran 1-week test phases across creative, brand messaging, and targeting and leveraged the learnings from each test phase to underpin optimisation throughout the wider project.

Founded in Australia in 2012, F45 Training is one of the fastest growing fitness franchises in the world, but brand awareness in the US market lagged behind its other key regions. F45 engaged with Clarity to up-level share of voice in the fitness sector and drive both franchise sales and new member signups.

Clarity proposed a communications reset, beginning with building a strong foundation from the ground up in the US market. This included refreshing the corporate messaging to appeal to a US audience, building a multi-pronged media relations strategy to get spokespeople in front of the right reporters, and integrating with F45’s in-house marketing team to ensure all external facing initiatives laddered up to its larger business objectives.

Clarity began by executing full court press to increase visibility among tier one media while being very precious with the leadership bench to ensure all secured coverage would be directly responsible for moving the needle (a strict quality over quantity approach).

“Clarity’s work has been invaluable to the growth of F45 Training’s brand recognition in the U.S. market, and the team consistently delivered on-target coverage over the course of their tenure.”
Mitchell Raisch, CMO, F45 Training

Clarity also overhauled the corporate narrative and identified timely initiatives/announcements to both generate a steady drumbeat of coverage across both national and local market press and to drive new members to studios.

The team also supported with on-the-ground press and influencer events, including initiatives for key partnerships with brands like APL and investors like Mark Wahlberg. Clarity also worked with select reporters to bring them into the studios to experience the F45 difference for themselves and convert them into true fans of the brand.

Our global team was challenged to raise money for a new VR headset by Pimax, a completely unknown brand. The founder hoped to raise $175,000 so they could go into production, and get reviews comparing the device to VR hit Oculus Rift (which was eventually bought by Facebook).

Our main task was to get media familiar with Pimax, so we first researched relevant press that would understand the hard core tech behind the VR headset. Integrated closely with media relations, we worked with Pimax across the Kickstarter page, website messaging towards a Western audience and social tone of voice.

Once we started to build trust with press, we requested access to back-end analytics to the Kickstarter page, allowing us to re-target sites with higher conversions, sharing stats with editors to highlight the interest of their readers, and making sure they had all the latest updates.

Using 4 prototypes, Pimax travelled for 2 months, across 3 continents, 11 cities, and 12 events testing sessions, meeting over 2,000 VR enthusiasts in-person to demo the 8K technology and get their feedback, with our global team orchestrating key meets and messaging, as well as hosting demos in our own offices

We expanded efforts outside traditional tech media to focus on the die-hard fans, VR publications and gaming communities, as opposed to relying on typical tech media to drive interest.