Barilla and Spotify Playlist Timer campaign header showing eight illustrated Spotify playlist covers timed to match pasta cooking durations, including Spaghetti, Fusilli, Penne and Linguine playlists on dark navy background
Barilla and Spotify Playlist Timer campaign header showing eight illustrated Spotify playlist covers timed to match pasta cooking durations, including Spaghetti, Fusilli, Penne and Linguine playlists on dark navy background

Barilla

Helping people around the world cook their pasta exactly right.

Barilla

Helping people around the world cook their pasta exactly right.

Introduction

Introduction

Barilla needed to increase sales but more importantly, brand love. The solution came from an insight, people outside of Italy usually cook pasta wrong (or at least by Italian standards)

Year

Year

2022

2022

Duration

Duration

Ongoing

Ongoing

Client

Client

Barilla

Barilla

Categories

Categories

Digital & Web

Challenges

Challenges

For the global consumer, pasta is pasta. Other than shapes, they're all the same.

We wanted to put Barilla above product level and sell an experience.


Because cooking is an experience. It's sensorial, it's a moment to connect with yourself and others. We focused on behaviour, human insights and above all entertainment value. We gave them an excuse to cook and to do it with Barilla.

For the global consumer, pasta is pasta. Other than shapes, they're all the same.

We wanted to put Barilla above product level and sell an experience.


Because cooking is an experience. It's sensorial, it's a moment to connect with yourself and others. We focused on behaviour, human insights and above all entertainment value. We gave them an excuse to cook and to do it with Barilla.

Barilla Playlist Timer Spotify campaign promotional graphic showing Spaghetti No.5 pasta box alongside branded Spotify playlists, with tagline 'cooking time equals playlist length' on bold blue background
Hand holding smartphone displaying Barilla 'Best Song Penne' Spotify playlist in kitchen with Barilla Penne Rigate No.73 pasta boxes in background, Playlist Timer campaign lifestyle shot
Hand holding smartphone displaying Barilla 'Best Song Penne' Spotify playlist in kitchen with Barilla Penne Rigate No.73 pasta boxes in background, Playlist Timer campaign lifestyle shot

Results

Results

The Playlist Timer campaign aimed to highlight cooking as an art form and as entertainment.

Barilla integrated the playlists to work with several home voice assistants, including Apple’s Siri, Amazon Alexa and Google Home, to make starting the timer even easier while prepping food.

Using Spotify’s algorithm, the targeted audio ads changed depending on the genre of music being played. As a result, a user who likes indie music would be served an ad for the Moody Day Linguine playlist, which contained instructions on how to activate the timer using their home smart speaker. The campaign was also advertised on Instagram within the Stories section of the app.

The Playlist Timer campaign aimed to highlight cooking as an art form and as entertainment.

Barilla integrated the playlists to work with several home voice assistants, including Apple’s Siri, Amazon Alexa and Google Home, to make starting the timer even easier while prepping food.

Using Spotify’s algorithm, the targeted audio ads changed depending on the genre of music being played. As a result, a user who likes indie music would be served an ad for the Moody Day Linguine playlist, which contained instructions on how to activate the timer using their home smart speaker. The campaign was also advertised on Instagram within the Stories section of the app.

The Playlist Timer campaign aimed to highlight cooking as an art form and as entertainment.

Barilla integrated the playlists to work with several home voice assistants, including Apple’s Siri, Amazon Alexa and Google Home, to make starting the timer even easier while prepping food.

Using Spotify’s algorithm, the targeted audio ads changed depending on the genre of music being played. As a result, a user who likes indie music would be served an ad for the Moody Day Linguine playlist, which contained instructions on how to activate the timer using their home smart speaker. The campaign was also advertised on Instagram within the Stories section of the app.

Barilla Spotify Playlist Timer campaign results infographic showing four key metrics: 2 million organic reach in 3 days, 1022% increase in social media followers, 148k Spotify followers, and 510k streaming minutes in first 2 months
Barilla Spotify Playlist Timer campaign results displayed in mobile-optimised 2x2 grid infographic showing 2 million organic reach in 3 days, 1022% social media follower growth, 148k Spotify followers and 510k streaming minutes in 2 months
Barilla Spotify Playlist Timer campaign results displayed in mobile-optimised 2x2 grid infographic showing 2 million organic reach in 3 days, 1022% social media follower growth, 148k Spotify followers and 510k streaming minutes in 2 months
Barilla Playlist Timer Spotify campaign showing illustrated playlist covers including Mixtape Spaghetti, Boom Bap Fusilli, Moody Day Linguine and Best Song Penne, each timed to match pasta cooking durations, on a bold blue background

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