Freezone is a grassroots, drug- and alcohol-free community festival in the UK.
Brought in to manage a 20-week organic social media campaign. I developed and executed a content strategy across Facebook and Instagram designed to drive ticket sales and grow the audience reach beyond the existing community, without any paid budget.
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This involved defining clear content pillars, identifying key audience motivations, and structuring a marketing funnel that moved people from discovery to ticket interest. The strategy focused on highlighting the festival’s unique position as a sober, community-led gathering centred around wellbeing, creativity, and authentic human connection.
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To bring the strategy to life, I designed a storytelling framework that translated Freezone’s values into engaging, narrative-led content. Rather than relying on typical festival promotion, the content focused on real moments of connection, personal transformation, and community spirit. This approach helped differentiate the festival from mainstream events and created a more emotionally resonant digital presence.
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I managed the end-to-end execution of the social media campaign across Instagram and Facebook. This included planning a multi-month content calendar, producing and editing short-form video content, writing captions and scripts, scheduling posts, and coordinating visual assets from existing festival footage. The aim was to build momentum leading up to the event while maintaining a consistent and authentic brand voice.
Measuring Success
The success of the campaign was measured through a combination of social media engagement metrics. I monitored the performance of short-form video content and carousel posts, tracking reach, impressions, engagement rates, and follower growth to assess how effectively the content was expanding the festival’s visibility.
These insights helped refine the content approach throughout the campaign and informed ongoing adjustments to both organic content and paid advertising as the festival marketing progressed.
Social Media Content Calendar
To deliver the strategy, I designed a structured content calendar mapping posts across five content pillars to maintain variety while building consistent momentum toward the event.
Working from a large archive of existing festival footage, I sourced, organised and curated video assets for repurposing into short-form content. I produced and edited Reels, wrote captions and scripts, designed text overlays, and scheduled all content through Meta Business Suite.
The calendar was built around key campaign milestones to create a deliberate arc — from awareness and audience warm-up in February and March, through ticket sale urgency in April and May, to live coverage across the festival weekend itself.
Results At a Glance
305K Views
Total times content appeared on screen
Doubled from the period before
106K Views +100%
8.6K Interactions +2.3K%
16.4K Reach +1.8K%
Unique accounts that saw the content
Likes, comments and shares
1.08K New Followers
100% Organic Views
627 on Facebook & 454 on Instagram
All content during the campaign was organic
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All figures cover the 20-week campaign period
(January – June 2026).