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How Blancrème built its ambassador community and industrialized its UGC with Kayba

How Blancrème built its ambassador community and industrialized its UGC with Kayba

Impact

€10,000

saved every year on product testing

At a glance

“Kayba changed the way we work with creators. We finally have a structured ambassador community, and we run everything, UGC, gifting and product testing, from a single place.”

Company

Blancrème is a French cosmetics and indulgent skincare brand, sold online and through a network of retail points. Its community of customers sits at the heart of its growth.

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Industry

Cosmetics & beauty

Headquarters

France

Use case

Community, UGC, Gifting, Product testing

Every day, Blancrème received dozens of messages from customers and creators eager to talk about the brand, with no tool to channel them. The team wanted to build a real ambassador community, industrialize its UGC production and move faster on campaigns, without blowing up its budget or its calendar. By centralizing everything in Kayba, the brand took back control.

We were getting dozens of messages a day from customers who wanted to create content for us. It was simply impossible to keep up by hand.

Marion Guérin, Digital Communications Manager at Blancrème

TL;DR

  • More than €10,000 saved every year on product testing
  • Dozens of hours saved every month activating influencers
  • Campaign gifting launched in under 20 minutes, down from 1 to 2 weeks
  • 100% of UGC requests centralized and qualified in Kayba

The problem

A community ready to go, impossible to manage

Before Kayba, Blancrème handled its creator relationships entirely by hand. Content offers landed in Instagram DMs, dozens of them every day. There was no way to sort them, answer everyone, or keep track of who had received what.

Building a real ambassador community was a puzzle: no central database, no tracking of the content produced, and slow, artisanal activation. Meanwhile, product testing for new launches went through expensive external panels, and gifting a single promotional campaign tied up the team for one to two weeks.

We spent more time organizing our creator relationships than actually creating with them.

Marion Guérin, Digital Communications Manager at Blancrème

The solution

One platform for the whole community

Blancrème adopted Kayba as the single platform to activate its ambassadors. Recruitment, qualification, gifting, UGC collection, product testing and affiliate: everything now runs in one place.

In a few weeks, the team moved from a setup scattered across Instagram, spreadsheets and agencies to a single, readable and measurable flow. Here is how, use case by use case.

Use case01

Taking back control of UGC requests

Every day, dozens of customers spontaneously offered content to Blancrème through Instagram DMs. An exceptional signal of brand love, but unmanageable by hand: the best offers got lost, replies dragged, and nothing was archived.

Kayba centralizes those requests. Every creator signs up, gets qualified, and her content lands in a single space. The team approves in one click, reuses the best visuals straight on product pages, and keeps the full history of every collaboration.

No more sorting DMs by hand. Today everything our ambassadors produce arrives in one place, ready to be approved and reused.

Marion Guérin, Digital Communications Manager at Blancrème
Taking back control of UGC requests
Use case02

Activating influencers in a matter of hours

Activating a creator used to mean days of back and forth: finding the right person, negotiating, shipping the products, chasing the post. An artisanal process that simply did not scale.

With Kayba, the team launches an activation campaign in a few hours. Ambassadors already qualified in the platform are contacted at scale, briefs go out in a single send, and follow-up is automatic. The result: dozens of hours saved every month.

What used to take a week now happens in an afternoon. We activate our community at the pace of our campaigns.

Marion Guérin, Digital Communications Manager at Blancrème
Activating influencers in a matter of hours
Use case03

Launching campaign gifting in 20 minutes

For every promotional campaign, picking ambassadors, preparing product shipments and tracking results tied up the team for one to two weeks. A direct brake on marketing responsiveness.

Today, Blancrème sets up campaign gifting in under 20 minutes from Kayba: profile targeting, bulk sending, tracking of the content generated. The brand can finally align its influencer operations with its commercial calendar, and not the other way around.

We trigger a gifting campaign in the morning and it is running by the afternoon. That is a complete change of scale for our campaigns.

Marion Guérin, Digital Communications Manager at Blancrème
Launching campaign gifting in 20 minutes
Use case04

€10,000 saved every year on product testing

Blancrème had its new products tested by external panels, a heavy line item that was slow to mobilize on every launch.

By leaning on its own community through Kayba, the brand now gets qualified feedback from real users, faster and for a fraction of the price. The saving is over €10,000 a year, and it brings the product team closer to its customers.

Our product tests are faster, cheaper, and above all run by the women who actually buy our products.

Marion Guérin, Digital Communications Manager at Blancrème
Blancrème’s monoï range

Kayba’s impact

Kayba’s impact on Blancrème

Kayba fundamentally changed the way Blancrème works with its community. Where the team spent its days organizing, sorting and chasing by hand, it now runs a structured, measurable machine. The impact shows in costs, in time saved, and in the quality of its creator relationships.

  • More time to create: the team runs its community instead of organizing it by hand.

  • A structured community: ambassadors are qualified, tracked and activable on demand.

  • Costs under control: product testing and gifting brought in-house, over €10,000 saved a year.

  • Reusable content: UGC feeds product pages and campaigns directly.

  • Speed: activation in a few hours, gifting in a few minutes.

Kayba has become the heart of our creator relationships. We could not go back.

Marion Guérin, Digital Communications Manager at Blancrème
Kayba’s impact on Blancrème

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