Case Study: Instagram Ads Mathieu Laca
How we leveraged his popular posts as ads, gaining over 3000 new Followers and driving 688% more traffic to his site in the process.
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Mathieu Laca
Mathieu Laca – a contemporary portrait painter from Quebec, Canada. His work is held in private and public art collections in 12 countries across 4 continents.
Mathieu started following our guidance and began advertising on Instagram, which lead to increased brand awareness, followers and traffic.
"It’s nice to have small wins. I intend to advertise on a continuous basis. I see it as an investment now and less as an expense."
Mathieu Laca, Artist
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Increase Brand Awareness and Traffic.
The goal of this campaign was to increase Mathieu's brand awareness and social referral traffic from Instagram and Facebook, by adding Instagram ads to his marketing efforts.
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Run Successful Instagram Posts as Ads
For this ad campaign, we took his most popular posts and advertised them on Instagram, running one ad at a time on a continuous basis.He realized some of his posts were showing as "Top Posts" for the hashtags he was using. These were the posts he mainly used in his ads, which targeted Instagram users who lived in North America and were interested in the visual arts.
Starting out with $20 per day spend for each ad, We increased the spend to $100, or even $200 or more, depending on the success of the ad.
Unique Art + Ads = Success
Hi-Fructose saw one of these ads on Instagram and proceeded to share Mathieu's art on their Facebook page, resulting in 416 shares to date. That equates to thousands of unique impressions, massively increasing his brand awareness across Facebook.
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Huffington Post saw another one of his ads and requested permission to use this image on their platforms and in their productions.
After only a couple of months running these ads, Mathieu achieved his goals – increasing his brand awareness and increasing traffic to his site.
Final Thoughts & Actionable Learnings
- Hi-Fructose, a contemporary art magazine, also wrote a blog post sharing Mathieu Laca's art on their site. Chances are he'll get even more backlinks now just from people seeing his art on other sites and social pages and wanting to share it themselves.
- Start with regular Instagram posts to get some feedback on what content works well with your audience. Take note of your most popular posts and begin by advertising those. Laca also chose to advertise images of his top-selling pieces.
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