Turning Boxing Day burnout into loveholidays’ top-performing influencer campaign for bookings Turning Boxing Day burnout into loveholidays’ top-performing influencer campaign for bookings
UK, Ireland, Germany

Turning Boxing Day burnout into loveholidays’ top-performing influencer campaign for bookings

UK, Ireland, Germany

By playing on the pain points of an intense period of festive fun, our Getaway campaign showed people how they desperately need the transformative power of a loveholidays holiday to escape their December and January problems.

The brief

During the peak Boxing Day and January sales period, travel brands flood social feeds with aspirational creator content - making it tricky to truly stand out. It was our job to cut through the sea of sameness on social and embrace loveholidays' challenger brand mindset with a creator campaign that would feel fresh, unexpected and entertain during the festive period.

The results

16.5m impressions
168k engagements
20% increase in bookings vs. target
7.9% average ER

Our solution

After an intense period of festive fun, family chaos and celebrations, audiences are left craving an escape.  

Boxing Day has become synonymous with the post-Christmas slump, from busy shops to annoying in-laws to dry turkey to the relatable “why did I eat that much?”. We saw an opportunity to tap directly into those cultural pain points and position loveholidays as the solution. 

To bring this to life, we developed a two-part, creator led campaign spanning across the UK, Germany and Ireland, partnering with eight creators across Instagram and TikTok to deliver the message of “The Getaway.”

Meet our creators

Durk and Ski @durkandski   

Monica Geldart @monicageldart   

Enya Martin @gizalaugh   

Abbie Budden @abbiebudden  

Paul Olima @olima_omega   

Kirafin @kirafin 

Maurizio Pastore @mauriipastore 

Naima Da Silva @naimadasilva

Part One centred around relatable skits rooted in infamous Boxing Day scenarios. Each creator made light of the playfully triggering moments we all recognise: leftover turkey sandwiches for days, overflowing rubbish bins, your family eating all the Celebrations. With the content going live on Boxing Day itself, it reflected the very moments that audiences were experiencing that day. At the height of the chaos, loveholidays became the escape route as the creators realised they “just need a holiday.” 

@monicageldart AD the Boxing Day madness can all get a bit much, that’s where @loveholidays ♬ original sound – Monica Geldart

Part Two brought that holiday to life. We sent our creators on loveholidays holidays to destinations such as Morocco, Egypt and the Canary Islands. The creators captured the experience through Ray-Ban Meta glasses to create an immersive, first-person extension of their original storyline, maintaining the same character from Part One to ensure continuity.  

@abbiebudden ad | and you just know she’s taken 1000+ pics too… Sun, sea…. and savings!!! 💸✈️ Use code POVABBIE for £75 off holidays £750+ AND with @loveholidays Best Price Promise, if you find the same holiday cheaper they’ll match it + £5 per person. Take that Kathy. #TheGetaway ♬ original sound – Abbie Budden

The two-part structure turned traditional influencer travel content on its head. Rather than leading with aspirational and destination-focused content, our narrative was instead rooted in cultural insight and comedy, letting creators do what they do best.  

The result was a campaign that felt native, entertaining and strategic: repositioning loveholidays as the ultimate post-Christmas remedy and standing out from the sea of same by lifting those holiday blues by getting people far, far, away from their December and January problems. 

“The post-Christmas period is one of the busiest times in travel, with everyone competing for attention and content starting to feel very similar. We wanted to do something different - bring our brand vision to life in a way that turns ordinary moments into something unexpected. Social Chain × The Fifth helped us bring that idea off the page, working closely with creators to let their humour and personality shine. The result was content that felt genuinely relatable, cut through the clutter, and reminded audiences why a loveholidays escape is the perfect reset after the festive chaos.”
Jacqui Grimsey-Jones
Brand Director
loveholidays
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