Swiss Lips moved into the warehouse. Together with the band, we hosted lots of live events at their new location. It was a creative, adventurous atmosphere built around a solid business aim. Content was pumped out to our audience for them to discover on Facebook. We also positioned the band within the highly-revered Vice editorial and The Huffington Post. The fan base grew. But our formula was a radical new approach to music marketing. Personal connections between the fans and the band were critical. This led to Shares and Likes on Facebook. And these were the criteria for our objective: their first single being played on Radio 1, and a new underground band going mainstream.

Before our campaign was launched, Swiss Lips struggled to attract four friends to their gigs. Just one month later, over 1,000 were turning up to each gig and they had to turn many people away (including cool established artists like Pixie Lott). Swiss Lips had 21,000 Facebook fans, 164,000 views, and coverage in influential sites like Vice and The Huffington Post. And on 14 January, they made it onto the Radio 1 Playlist with their first single, ‘Danz’, being played by DJ Sara Cox. This radical approach has changed the way SONY markets music in the UK.