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How Innovate UK turned their employees into brand advocates and grew their reach by 20x

With an already successful social media strategy underway, Innovate UK—a government agency that supports science and technology innovation across the UK—needed to get their message seen by more people.

Learn how empowering their employees to become advocates with Hootsuite Amplify,helped them grow their reach.

  • 20X
    increased reach on branded content
  • 70%
    engagement on posts shared by employees
  • 3X
    Social media followers and website traffic

About Innovate UK

Innovate UK is the UK’s innovation agency, supporting innovation in science and technology. The agency drives productivity and growth by supporting businesses to realize the potential of new technologies, develop ideas, and make them a commercial success.

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A dedicated team effort

Innovate UK assigned Camilla Barnes—Senior Digital Communications Executive—to lead the Amplify program. With a senior team member responsible for the program, Innovate UK ensured there was always content available for colleagues to share. This kept the content on-brand, relevant, and strategically aligned with broader marketing campaigns

Simplicity, advocacy, and shared growth

Colleagues could easily share content based on their interests and preferences. With preapproved content loaded into Amplify, team members simply selected the posts that interested them, then share them with their network with a few clicks. It created a win-win situation: employees could share relevant content with minimal effort and in nearly no time, and Innovate UK grew the number of people viewing their content incrementally with every share.With a solution in place that helps time-strapped or less confident employees share social content, employee advocacy has become second nature at Innovate UK. That advocacy continues to grow each employee’s online presence, increasing their reach and influence as they share high-quality, engaging, and relevant content. 

Creativity unleashed

An unexpected and valuable benefit of the Amplify program was the growth in team members’ sophistication and confidence using social media. As they grew comfortable sharing pre-approved Innovate UK posts, colleagues found their voice and started customizing content to resonate more with their individual networks, evolving and maturing their presence online and their influence in their industry.

The results

Using Amplify to complement their social media plan, Innovate UK grew their audience size by an additional two million people. And people weren’t just seeing content that Innovate UK colleagues were posting—they were taking action, with Amplify content seeing a 70 percent engagement rate.

Beyond seeing the number of Amplify users and their audience grow, Innovate UK used the insights from Amplify’s reporting features to help educate and empower their team. Through tracking active sharers and identifying less avid posters, Innovate UK has been able to train and support colleagues less engaged in sharing on social, and help convert them into active advocates.

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At a critical time in raising awareness of Innovate UK, we were able to monitor the specific impact of Amplify posts and see the reach they delivered—an additional two million. Having a well-planned content strategy meant Amplify really could live up to its name.
Peter Wilson
Digital Communications Manager
Innovate UK

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