Live Entertainment · San Francisco Historium
From launch to 90% sold in two months.
A brand-new Bay Area cultural experience sold 5,400 tickets against a 3,000 goal — 180% of goal — in just two months.
The challenge
Launch a brand-new Bay Area cultural experience in just two months — with no established email program, social presence, or paid media infrastructure — and quickly build the awareness and audience needed to fill a 6,000-ticket event.
Our approach
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Built the complete Meta infrastructure and launched coordinated organic and paid social campaigns.
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Developed a full email strategy, including campaign sends and an automated drip campaign to past ticket buyers.
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Led an aggressive earned media campaign — 120 articles and broadcast stories, including a San Francisco Chronicle Datebook cover — amplified through email and paid social.
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Created a high-volume organic content strategy led by short-form video.
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Integrated PR, email, organic, and paid media into a single campaign, continually optimizing toward ticket sales.
The results
In two months, CBCO transformed a new event into a near-sellout — while building the integrated communications engine to support the Historium's future growth.
