Spencer McAfee-Gundrum

⛾ Starbucks' Social Glow-Up

Becoming Starbucks

When America’s biggest coffee house asked us to help them improve their social content, we took an unorthodox approach. My partner and I turned clients into colleagues and embedded ourselves within the Starbucks creative team at their Seattle headquarters. We navigated a challenging corporate environment by pitching ideas that made everyone laugh and earning a reputation as the duo anyone could come to with their best creative ideas.

 

teasing PSL season

Change is in the air. 🌞➡️🍂

Rolling into the season like…

Pick up, pumpkin.

 

Opportunistic Content

Keeping the vibes very demure and mindful around here.

Here’s to the many hands that turn coffee beans into your favorite brew. 💚☕️ #InternationalCoffeeDay

The holidays start with a peppermint mocha.

 

Announcements

There’s nothing like your first PSL of the season. 🧡

Stop in July 10. We’re celebrating summer by giving away a limited-edition reusable straw with every cold handcrafted beverage you buy.

Non-dairy milk customizations—oat, almond, soy, and coconut—won’t cost extra starting Nov 7.

 

CHEERS TO THE RESULTS

All this was an improvement for Starbucks. Their robust social reports showed that our content always blew away their benchmark metrics for likes, views, and shares. Our client-colleagues took notes and everyone from the CMs to the C-suites gave us our flowers.


 
 

Made at SPCSHP & STarbucks with Sydney Schulz