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Livestrong.com

Objectives
  • Position www.LIVESTRONG.COM as  the most influential health/fitness site on the web
  • Drive site subscribers and visitors daily
  • Encourage use of site tools including The Daily Plate application which is an online calorie and food food/calorie intake tracker
Program
  • Executed multi-tiered approach to traditional and online media to ensure maximum exposure on day of launch
  • Highlighted differentiating health and fitness features, such as the site’s ‘DARES’ community application that allows users to form groups and challenge each other to specific healthy goals  
  • Carefully leveraged Lance Armstrong’s very limited time for greatest impact
Results
  • 84 broadcast, 130 print and online hits, reaching more than 33 million people in first week
  • Top tier placements included “Late Night with David Letterman,” Associated Press, “The View”
  • Visitors issued nearly 15,000 DARES on topics ranging from “DARE TO drink more water” to “DARE TO lower your blood pressure”
  • LIVESTRONG.COM was named one of the best health and fitness sites on the web by Outside Magazine, a publication among the most relevant to our target demographic
  • At launch, 54 percent of the traffic to LIVESTRONG.COM came from direct navigation (links from articles or people typing in LIVESTRONG.COM directly) absent any advertising
  • Just three months after launch, the site was receiving 3 million visitors per month, logging 40 million page views

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