Case study
Creating viral organic reach through social listening.
Here's how we helped a leading consumer brand create its best-performing Instagram Reel by identifying a cultural moment and an unexpected product use case.
By GoodboyPublished 2024
- Client
- Instant Pot
- Services
- Social Listening · Strategy · Content
- Channel
- Year
- 2024
We help consumer brands uncover organic growth opportunities through social listening and cultural relevance. Instant Pot wanted to drive meaningful engagement on Instagram without feeling forced or off-brand — so we partnered with them to identify a timely organic opportunity, monitoring emerging conversations and pairing them with a lesser-known product use case to create the brand's best-performing organic Reel to date, driven entirely by relevance rather than promotion.
Approach
We treated social listening as a discovery tool, not a reporting exercise.
Opportunity identification through social listening
We monitored conversations at the intersection of food, lifestyle, and home, paying close attention to niche behaviors rather than mainstream trends. Through this process, we identified an unexpected but genuine use case: a small group of consumers were using their Instant Pots to germinate seeds for home gardening.
Campaign concept & cultural framing
With Earth Day approaching, we recognized an opportunity to enter the broader gardening conversation by highlighting this behavior in a way that felt useful, timely, and non-promotional.
Native Reel execution
Working with Instant Pot's in-house video creator, we quickly produced an Instagram Reel that demonstrated the germination use case. The content was framed to feel observational rather than branded, allowing the product feature to speak for itself.
Real-time performance monitoring
Once live, we monitored engagement closely and adjusted captioning and community interaction to sustain momentum as the post gained traction.
The content worked because it felt discovered, not manufactured.
Key results
This Reel remains the brand's best-performing organic Reel to date. Three factors mattered most: cultural timing through alignment with Earth Day, a novel but real product use case grounded in existing consumer behavior, and native, non-promotional execution that encouraged organic sharing and discussion.
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Frequently asked questions
Do you use social listening to identify content opportunities?
Yes. Goodboy uses social listening to identify emerging behaviors, conversations, and cultural moments that brands can participate in authentically.
Can this approach work without paid media?
Yes. This campaign was executed entirely through organic Instagram content, without paid support.
Is this approach limited to consumer appliance brands?
No. While this case study focuses on a consumer appliance brand, the approach applies to any brand looking to create culturally relevant, organic social content.
