Make German football feel relevant to global Gen Z.
Bundesliga wanted to get Gen Z audiences worldwide watching their matches and interested in traveling to Germany for live games. The target was 18–30, an audience that responds to creator content, not traditional sports ads.
The brief: find creators who actually watch football and post in formats Gen Z spends time on.
Three creators, a season-long content series, sports × lifestyle crossover.
We partnered with three creators who cover both sports and lifestyle - the audience overlap that lets football reach beyond the existing fan base. @mafshof anchored the campaign across the full season with a mix of Instagram Reels and TikTok; @luanamaluf added reach with a complementary set of pieces.
The content series tracked the football calendar. "New Season" launched the campaign; "Top 5 Bundesliga," "Der Klassiker," "The Big One," "Theater of Goals" and "MD14 Super Liga" landed against key match weekends. A six-part "Visiting Germany" series ran in parallel, showing the cultural side of Bundesliga through travel-style content.
Every piece was scripted by the creator in their own voice, with light Bundesliga input rather than a fixed brand script. That's what kept engagement above 9% across the season.
Visiting Germany #2 alone hit 1.5M views and 22.9% engagement - more than most one-off mega-creator placements deliver.
5M views, 9% engagement, one piece at 1.5M views alone.
Across 19 pieces of content, the campaign delivered 5M total views, 2.86M reach and 357K engagements. Average post engagement rate landed at 9% - above the sports-content benchmark for global creators of this tier.
The standout piece was Visiting Germany #2 on TikTok by @mafshof - 1.5M views and 22.9% post engagement rate. The combination of travel content and football storytelling pulled an audience that wouldn't have engaged with match clips alone.
The campaign hit Bundesliga's brief at a fraction of what a mega-creator one-off would have cost, and built a content library Bundesliga's social team kept using after the campaign ended.
Voices at the intersection of sports and lifestyle.
- 2.86M
- Unique reach
- 357K
- Total engagements
- 19
- Content pieces over 12 months