House of Bestival delivered a destination experience in the centre of the UK’s biggest and best family festival, Camp Bestival.
We recreated the First Choice Holiday Island resort, complete with beach, bar and family holiday entertainment. Guests were treated to a taste of the First Choice all-inclusive offering in the UK for the first time.
With a choice of 33 venues on site, we recorded that 46% of the festival audience visited the First Choice Holiday Island during the weekend. Half of all visitors picked it as one of their top 3 venues.
The activity’s reach was over 2.5million via the family photo booth, live stream and all social media coverage
“In six years of coming to Camp Bestival, First Choice is the best area we have ever seen” Amy Bromsgrove, aged 30
Rimmel London partnered with women’s lifestyle ELLE magazine to find a festival to launch their brand new revolutionary 24hr super curler mascara product.
The activation was held at Bestival and exclusively launched the new product to the UK market, and did so in true House of Bestival style.
Over four glorious days we opened the doors to the ELLE / Rimmel Beauty Cupboard at Bestival’s Summer of Love-themed extravaganza, offering festival makeovers and giveaways...
A fully-functional, visually impactful makeup salon custom-produced by House of Bestival.
Bestival-goers could book an appointment at the beauty cupboard and choose from four festival looks to get the ultimate makeover from a team of professional makeup artists. Festival-goers got to trial the product first hand and even take a some away with them.
Easily the most popular brand activation onsite in 2015, the cupboard ran back-to-back makeovers everyday for 4 days.
SEE THE CUPBOARD IN ACTION >We partnered with international fashion brand REPLAY to curate and activate a live music strategy to launch their new global music platform Beatclash.com. By creating the Replay with Rob Da Bank stage at Bestival, we gave the brand a genuine voice and delivered a world class line-up of new music for four days of live sets and exclusive backstage content. Live content was amplified to social audiences via live streaming solutions and media seeding.
To ensure early conversations with target audiences we produced and programmed in-store gigs at Flagship REPLAY stores to ensure genuine interest prior to the Bestival collaboration and importantly at point of purchase.
At the festival we produced the brand experience, secured and liaised with all artists for backstage exclusive acoustic sessions, and gifting, and helped facilitate the live streaming.
The Replay with Rob da Bank Stage was one of the most attended arenas of the festival with stand-out line ups. The solution provided both a credible and genuine music editorial voice for REPLAY at the event and across all their marketing channels.
Bestival worked collaboratively with Agency Space who run the Cocio activity in the UK as a whole. We were tasked to find a solution for a new creative concept in the UK and to produce and build a Cocio area at Bestival 2014.
An informal social space where festivalgoers can meet, gather, hangout and indulge in spontaneous happenings from music performance to immersive theatre and games - Taking inspiration form the pop-up style social spaces taking over London’s East and NYC’S Brooklyn, the activation utilised a mixed pallet of materials that created a structure from re-used, borrowed, acquired, and collated materials.
Two acoustic performances programmed by Rob da Bank - Gideon Reeling theatre collective - full service sampling bar - VW van facilitating sip sampling - Private Party for VIP guests and comp winners – Big Apple Hot Dogs and bespoke Cocio cocktails - fine art Illustrator
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The space was intended to be discovered; a prime location and striking structure ensured the space drew consumers, in and actively engaged them, resulting in a strong dwell time. The popularity of the music performances provided key spikes of activity across the day keeping the space animated.