How Digital PR launched Feaniks into the national press

Services
  • Content Marketing
  • Digital PR
Sectors
  • B2C Services
  • Healthcare

The challenge.

Feaniks, a brand-new online training start-up in the healthcare sector, came to us for a brand launch campaign. As a new entrant, they needed to introduce themselves to the market, build credibility, and position themselves as change-makers in an industry dominated by long-established competitors.

The objective was to drive as much earned coverage as possible, in tier-one national publications that their established competitors could only have dreamed of appearing in, while building brand awareness from a standing start.

 

A laptop displaying headlines from The Guardian, Metro, HuffPost and Mirror covering the NHS staffing crisis, secured by the Passion Digital Feaniks launch campaign.

Our response.

We led with insight. The UK was losing healthcare workers in record numbers due to poor working conditions, and at the same time, a large portion of the public still didn’t fully support strike action. There was a story to be told, and an audience that needed to hear it.

We timed our campaign to launch on the first day of the biggest NHS strike in history, giving healthcare workers a public platform to share the extreme experiences they had faced while trying to save lives. The result was a campaign with genuine cultural relevance and emotional pull, anchored in a real-world moment that the national press couldn’t ignore.

Our approach included:

The impact.

The campaign launched Feaniks into the national conversation, securing coverage in publications including The Guardian, Metro, HuffPost and Mirror, prompting a response from the BMA and the Scottish Government, and ultimately contributing to a pay rise for junior doctors in Scotland, and earned us two nominations at The Drum Marketing Awards.

 

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