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Slimline Wines

The Challenge

Slimline Wines — a British-born, low-calorie wine brand — approached Hummingbird with a clear ambition: to become the go-to lifestyle wine for health-conscious consumers who still wanted to enjoy “lighter moments worth savouring.”

Despite a strong product and a growing retail presence, their digital ecosystem wasn’t supporting their ambition. Their online sales channel was underperforming, and their social content — while visually appealing — lacked a strategic narrative that tied the brand together. There was limited email automation, inconsistent audience targeting, and no unified go-to-market strategy to drive awareness, conversion, and retention.

In short, Slimline Wines had a brilliant product and a passionate audience waiting to be reached — but they needed a digital foundation that could scale.

Our challenge was to build and execute a strategy that did three things simultaneously:

1. Elevate the brand positioning — making “Slimline” synonymous with lifestyle-led indulgence.
2. Drive measurable DTC revenue growth through paid and organic channels.
3. Create a repeatable performance framework for long-term customer retention.

Year

2025

Channels

GTM | Organic Social | PPC | Paid Social | Email Marketing

Industry

FMCG / DTC Lifestyle
Slimline Wines
Slimline Wines
Slimline Wines

Our Approach

We started by going back to the fundamentals — understanding Slimline’s audience, tone, and market position within a growing “better-for-you” drinks category. From there, we rebuilt the digital engine piece by piece.

1. Go-To-Market Strategy

The campaign began with a complete GTM audit — covering audience segmentation, brand messaging, and channel priorities. We defined the target audience around key lifestyle segments: the mindful drinker, the social sharer, and the modern entertainer.

Each segment received its own creative narrative, centred around the core positioning line:

“Lighter Moments Worth Savoring.”

This tagline became the heartbeat of every channel — a unifying theme across content, ads, and email marketing that celebrated enjoyment without compromise. We also mapped out the full customer journey — from discovery to purchase to repeat — identifying where each platform played its role in the funnel.

2. Paid Media: Meta & Google

Slimline’s paid strategy focused on high-impact storytelling and measurable conversion. We launched an integrated Meta and Google campaign built around seasonal activations, limited-edition product drops, and lifestyle-led creative.

Using Meta’s Advantage+ campaigns for efficiency, we A/B tested creative angles including “weekend moments”, “lighter celebrations”, and “the guilt-free glass”. On Google, we optimised search and shopping campaigns to capture purchase-intent traffic from both branded and non-branded low-calorie wine searches.

The result was a powerful cross-platform ecosystem — Meta drove discovery, Google captured intent, and together they reduced cost-per-acquisition by 38% within three months.

3. Organic Social: From Polished to Personal

The organic strategy was built to humanise the brand and create a sense of community. We pivoted Slimline’s content mix from polished product shots to UGC-style storytelling — featuring real people, real moments, and real enjoyment.

Weekly reels captured the brand in lifestyle settings — picnics, dinner parties, and at-home celebrations — designed to be instantly relatable and thumb-stopping.We also introduced seasonal campaigns such as “Summer of Slimline” and “Light the Night” to spark conversation and organic reach.

Within six months, Slimline’s organic engagement grew by 186%, with video views and shares driving a consistent increase in brand visibility across social discovery platforms.

4. Email Marketing: The Retention Engine

We built Slimline’s first full email marketing system — from welcome series to post-purchase flows and loyalty journeys.

Every sequence was designed around the same emotional and visual language as their paid campaigns — ensuring that once a customer clicked an ad, they entered a coherent brand experience.

The new automated flows included:

• Welcome series: introducing the brand story and key benefits.
• Nurture campaigns: highlighting pairings, lifestyle tips, and community stories.
• Loyalty reactivation: win-back and VIP discounts tailored to past purchase behaviour.Email soon became a high-performing revenue stream, contributing 24% of total online sales and increasing repeat-purchase rates by 42%.

The Results

Within just six months, Slimline Wines transformed its digital performance — and its perception in the marketplace.

Key Highlights:
🧭 +214% increase in online revenue within six months
📈 3.4× return on ad spend (ROAS) across Meta and Google
💌 42% higher repeat-purchase rate through automated email flows

Slimline Wines not only doubled its online sales but also established itself as one of the UK’s most recognised lifestyle-led wine brands on social media.

By connecting creative storytelling with data-driven marketing, Hummingbird helped turn Slimline Wines into a brand people didn’t just buy from — they belonged to.

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