When Does It Actually Make Sense to Build a Campaign Microsite on a New Domain?
Someone in every marketing meeting suggests it: what if this campaign had its own site? Its own domain? Sometimes that's the right call — but far more often it's an expensive mistake dressed up as a creative decision. We know the cost precisely, because we launched on a brand-new domain and documented every day of it. Day one produced two impressions. Meaningful traffic took five months. Here's what that means for your campaign, and the six situations where a separate domain is genuinely worth it.
Why Dropping on the Same Day Beats Staggering Every Time
Most brands stagger their creator campaigns — one post Monday, one Wednesday, one Friday — thinking they are extending their reach and avoiding oversaturation. What they are actually doing is eliminating the most powerful effect that multi-creator campaigns can produce. When multiple trusted voices talk about the same brand on the same day, something happens that staggered posting cannot replicate: the brand appears to be everywhere at once. Here is why that perception is one of the most powerful forces in consumer marketing and how to engineer it deliberately.