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How Jinx placed dog food into real mealtimes across 14 pet-parent creators.

Jinx wanted real mealtime footage from real pet-parent creators, not staged shots of the bag against a clean countertop. Pet food converts on real-dog-eating-it credibility, not lifestyle imagery. Ainfluencer activated 14 pet-parent creators across an evenly-distributed wave with no single anchor, spanning dog-first accounts, family-with-dog lifestyle, and home-and-dog content: Princess Penny, Juju, Dagmar Gudmundsson, The Hayeks, Emma Tyrrell, Claudia Harrington, Colby Troy, Lyss, Alex Serna, Kaitlin at Home, Jem, Mel Jayne, Carrotlime, and Yelena Friedman. The result: 14 native pieces, a 15% engagement rate, and 10M+ combined reach across the pet-parent audience.

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14 creators · 3 niches · 14 pieces · 10M+ combined reach
Campaign Performance

The numbers behind a 14-creator, pet-parent-led mealtime Jinx activation.

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Total Creator Reach
10M+
Combined audience
Engagement Rate
15%
~8x fashion-cat. avg.
Creators Activated
14
Pet-parent creators, evenly distributed wave
Pieces of Content
14
Native mealtime pieces across pet-parent feeds
Pet-Parent Audience
100%
Dog-first accounts, family-with-dog, home-and-dog lifestyle
Avg. Followers / Creator
14
Unique pet-parent creators across three niches
Content Format
Short-Form
Dog mealtimes, feeding routines, dog reactions, pet-parent rituals
Wave Distribution
1 each
Evenly distributed across 14 pet-parent voices
Collaboration Type

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Jinx focused on the brand story and premium-pet-food positioning. Ainfluencer's strategists handled creator sourcing across dog-first accounts, family-with-dog lifestyle, and home-and-dog content, briefing tailored to mealtime authenticity, contracts, content approvals, and unified campaign reporting. End to end.

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Weekly + final wrap
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The Playbook

From staged dog-food bag shots to dogs actually eating it.

CHALLENGE

A premium DTC dog food brand that sells on real pet-parent trust and real mealtime footage.

Jinx is a premium DTC dog food brand selling clean-ingredient dry food, wet food, and treats across direct subscription and retailer channels. The category challenge: pet food is one of the most trust-driven consumer categories. Pet parents are skeptical of brand-led claims and won't switch a product their dog already eats unless they see another pet parent they trust feeding it. Staged photography of the bag, ingredient close-ups, and lifestyle shots of cute dogs do nothing for conversion. What converts is real pet-parent creators showing their actual dog at an actual mealtime actually eating the food, with the dog's real reaction. The challenge: run a distributed activation across enough pet-parent voices that the food appears organically across the category's media surface, with no single anchor doing the work.

SOLUTION

14 creators. Pet-parent-led wave with no single anchor. 14 pieces.

Ainfluencer activated 14 pet-parent creators across 3 niches with an evenly-distributed wave structure, deliberately avoiding a single dominant anchor. Dog-first accounts bringing dedicated dog-content credibility: Princess Penny, Juju, Dagmar Gudmundsson. Family-with-dog lifestyle: The Hayeks, Claudia Harrington, Emma Tyrrell, Alex Serna, Lyss, Mel Jayne, Yelena Friedman. Home-and-dog lifestyle: Kaitlin at Home, Colby Troy, Jem, Carrotlime. 14 native pieces of real-mealtime footage, with every creator showing actual feeding routines, actual dog reactions, and real pet-parent endorsement in their natural content style.

RESULT

10M+ reach. 15% engagement. 14 pieces. Distributed pet-parent placement across the category's exact buyer profile.

A 15% engagement rate, well above pet-food category paid social benchmarks. Native presence across dog-first accounts, family-with-dog lifestyle, and home-and-dog content from 14 distinct pet-parent voices. Library of 14 native mealtime pieces Jinx can repurpose across paid social, retailer co-marketing, subscription-acquisition retargeting, and pet-parent loyalty campaigns.

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Why Macro

Why a distributed pet-parent wave was the right call for Jinx.

For a pet food brand, a single high-reach anchor concentrates risk and concentrates skepticism. Pet parents don't convert off one celebrity creator endorsement. They convert when they see the food showing up across multiple pet-parent voices they already follow, all using it the same way. Three dog-first accounts (Princess Penny, Juju, Dagmar Gudmundsson) bring dedicated dog-content credibility for the dog-obsessed pet parent. Seven family-with-dog creators (The Hayeks, Claudia Harrington, Emma Tyrrell, Alex Serna, Lyss, Mel Jayne, Yelena Friedman) cover the family pet-parent who buys the food alongside groceries. Four home-and-dog lifestyle creators (Kaitlin at Home, Colby Troy, Jem, Carrotlime) cover the home-lifestyle pet parent who treats the dog as part of the household aesthetic. Every creator shows the food the same way: at a real mealtime, with a real dog, with a real reaction. The breadth is what closes the sale, not the depth of any single voice. The result: native content that hits the pet-parent audience from every angle they consume content, with engagement well above any single celebrity-pet placement.

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15%
Engagement
10M+
Total reach
9
Creators
5
Niches

"Ainfluencer ran exactly the kind of distributed pet-parent activation Jinx needed: 14 real pet-parent voices showing real dogs really eating the food. No single influencer carrying the campaign. No staged photography. Dog-first creators, family creators, and home-lifestyle creators all showing the same thing: actual mealtime. That kind of breadth across the pet-parent audience is what builds trust in a category where pet parents only switch food when they see other pet parents they already follow doing it first."

Jinx Marketing Team
Pet Food & Nutrition · Pet-Parent-Led Wave Activation
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