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Bluebird Care

Bluebird Care is a leading provider of at-home care services across the UK and Ireland, operating through a network of local franchise businesses. Over three months from February to April, Buymedia partnered with Bluebird Care to reposition the brand as a premium, life-changing care provider, combining high-impact outdoor advertising with a precision-targeted digital strategy to reach the right audience at the right moment.

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The Challenge

Repositioning a trusted brand as a premium, life-changing choice

With a strong presence in a competitive and often commoditised sector, the organisation set out to reposition itself as a premium provider of life-changing care.

At the heart of this repositioning was a new creative platform: “Which feels more like home?”. The campaign centred on the idea that, as we age, it is the small, deeply personal details that matter most - the mug we choose, the chair we sit in, and the daily routines we’ve shaped over decades. These are the elements that preserve identity and independence.

Traditional care models often strip away these choices, replacing them with standardised routines, generic environments, and “one size fits all” systems. Bluebird Care sought to challenge this narrative by reframing care as an active, empowered choice - one that preserves dignity, individuality, and a sense of self.

The launch of the "Which feels more like home?" campaign represented a significant creative step forward, and the media strategy needed to match that ambition. The core challenge was twofold: deliver a high-impact brand awareness campaign with genuine mass reach, while simultaneously ensuring the campaign was precisely targeted to reach the people most likely to be actively seeking home care, typically the adult children and family members of older people navigating care decisions.

The Strategy

Mass reach with precision at its core

The strategy was built around a clear duality. Brand awareness would be the primary driver, getting the new creative in front of as wide an audience as possible and establishing "Which feels more like home?" as a distinctive, recognisable platform. At the same time, the digital elements were designed to work harder and more precisely, ensuring impressions were not just broad but meaningfully targeted to people most likely to be in-market for home care services.

Channel selection was informed by Bluebird Care's AI homecare persona, with the plan built using the Buymedia Smart Planner, a data-led approach that shaped both the channel mix and the timing of activity across the full campaign window.

Innovation Used

The standout format of the campaign was the use of mega rear outdoor placements on buses - a high-impact format positioned strategically in cities aligned with Bluebird Care's franchisee network. This ensured the awareness campaign directly supported local business development, generating meaningful brand presence in the markets that mattered most.

Channels Used

Google Search
Social
Programmatic Display
National Radio
Digital Audio
Out-of-Home

The Results

Significant uplift in reach and commercial intent

The campaign delivered substantial results against both brand and performance measures, with meaningful year-on-year growth across the metrics that matter most to the business including an additional 1,700 enquiries versus the same period last year and 150K additional website visits.

Conclusion

Emotional storytelling, precision-delivered

The Bluebird Care campaign demonstrated the power of pairing emotionally resonant creative with a precisely targeted, data-informed media strategy. By combining the mass reach of outdoor and radio with the surgical precision of always-on digital, Buymedia helped Bluebird Care make a bold statement in a crowded category and backed it up with results that went straight to the bottom line.

Buymedia took our brand repositioning and paired it with a data-driven strategy that truly delivered. Their precision targeting ensured our campaign reached the right people, resulting in a significant uplift in both website traffic and enquiries.

Kara Skehan, Head of Communications & Campaigns

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