Creator Casting
Brand Strategy

Dockers

We rebuilt Dockers' relevance by passing the mic to creators and letting genuine storytelling do the heavy lifting.

16M+

Total impressions

Reintroducing Dockers by shifting from reach to brand recall–driven creator storytelling

About the brand

Dockers is the khaki brand that effectively defined business-casual in the '80s and '90s. The challenge of a heritage label is relevance: staying recognisable while feeling current to shoppers who weren't alive at its peak.

Industry: Apparel / Heritage fashion / CPG

Audience: Style-aware shoppers across generations, reachable through creators rather than catalogue imagery.

Why inBeat: Dockers needed to shift from chasing raw reach to building brand recall through genuine creator storytelling.

The challenge

A heritage brand can buy impressions but not relevance. Dockers needed to be re-introduced — not as a logo people half-remember, but as a wardrobe choice creators would actually narrate. The brief moved the goalposts from reach to recall.

The solution

inBeat handed the mic to creators across style sub-niches, letting authentic storytelling re-frame Dockers for a new audience while whitelisting kept CPMs efficient.

The numbers

80+

Creators engaged

16M+

Total impressions

167K+

Total engagements

The creative

How we did it

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Scope of work

Creator casting and brand-recall storytelling, with whitelisting to extend the strongest creator posts as efficient paid media.

Strategy

Diversify the creator pool to widen relevance. By sourcing across distinct style communities, inBeat reached different corners of the target without a single homogenous message — recall built through many credible voices.

Execution

Creators were briefed for authenticity and produced for performance; the best organic posts were whitelisted into paid to push reach at a lower CPM than studio creative.

Results

The recall-first approach reconnected Dockers with a modern audience: 80+ creators engaged, 16M+ impressions, and 167K+ total engagements — reach that translated into the kind of brand conversation a heritage label needs.

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