The Sideline Standard
To mothers of student-athletes, MinuteClinic read as the cheap option. Moonbrush worked out what luxury meant to each of them and placed the clinic inside the life they already admired, lifting branded search 37% in eight weeks.
Revised edition of a 2023 engagement
The numbers
- +8.4%
- new MinuteClinic enrollmentsYear over year, Q2 2023; client analytics aggregated at store-group level
- +9.1%
- net-new appointment bookingsAcross test markets
- +6.7%
- appointment-to-show rateIn the matched exposed audience
- +26 pts
- agree MinuteClinic is “convenient and aesthetically pleasant” (27% to 53%)Pre/post panel, n = 4,783, balanced across gender and income
- 3.8% → 5.4%
- click-through on branded searchEight weeks after launch vs. the eight weeks before
- $0.018
- cost per engagementAcross 83,214 content assets and about 780M estimated impressions
Branded search, indexed to the eight weeks before launch
National branded-term tracking with no geographic holdout, treated as a leading indicator.
Click-through on branded search, before and after
- Before
- After
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| Eight weeks before launch | 100 |
|---|---|
| Objective, set before any creative was briefed | +30% objective |
| Eight weeks after launch | 137 |
| Branded search click-through | 3.8% before, 5.4% after |
The challenge
MinuteClinic’s core prospects, suburban mothers of school-age athletes, were staying away for reasons that had little to do with price or clinical quality. Research across regions and income bands found the brand read as cheap and convenient. For a parent taking a teenager with a sprained wrist to get care before Saturday’s game, that image clashed with the choice she wanted to be seen making. Convenience was the brand’s strongest association and, for this group, the reason to go elsewhere, so promoting price, hours or locations would have deepened the problem.
The insight
People prefer brands whose image matches the self they want to present, and for these mothers the cost being weighed was social. Luxury meant something different in each household: time returned, calm, taste or certainty. Each definition called for its own visual and verbal register, and a format that reassured one group read as slow to another, so the four were never cross-run. Early reads pointed the same way: search lift was highest in ZIP codes with the most aesthetically aligned creator content rather than the most content, a finding treated as directional until a second term of data.
What we did
- 01
Map the perception gap
A multi-region study mapped how people felt about seeking care at CVS against cues of modernity, safety and self-worth. Three of the four axes came back inverted.
- 02
Decode luxury into four cohorts
Four behavioral cohorts were built around what luxury meant to each mother, defined by what she reliably does: when she researches, what she reads for and how fast she decides.
- 03
Brief creators to each register
5,100+ lifestyle creators with parenting, wellness and productivity credibility received a per-cohort aesthetic template, a lexicon guide and a platform-affinity curve.
- 04
Score tone and reallocate weekly
A tagging engine scored tone, palette and sentiment on every asset, and paid amplification moved each week toward the register that was landing.
The cohorts
Each got its own reason, and its own message.
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The Time-Sovereign
Luxury is time returned. She books care in the gap between school drop-off and her next obligation and checks hours and wait times before anything else.
Lands“Modern parenting means knowing where to go fast.”
Misses“Walk-ins welcome. Most insurance accepted.”
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The Naturalist Guardian
Luxury is calm. She avoids institutional settings and scans reviews for words like calm, clean and kind before anything clinical.
Lands“Care and calm, in one stop.”
Misses“Fast, affordable care when you need it.”
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The Curator
Luxury is taste. What she chooses reflects on her, so aesthetic coherence has to come before any claim.
Lands“Smart, quick, and curated care when you need it.”
Misses“Quality care at a price you can afford.”
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The Assurance-Seeker
Luxury is certainty. She has never used walk-in care and needs to see exactly what a visit looks like before she will go.
Lands“Follow me in. This is what it’s actually like.”
Misses“No appointment necessary.”
How it was measured
Branded search was read from national branded-term tracking against the eight weeks before launch, with no geographic holdout, and is treated as a leading indicator; the objective set before any creative was briefed was a 30%+ lift. Enrollments and bookings come from the client’s own analytics, aggregated at store-group level for the Q2 2023 activation window: enrollments year over year, bookings across test markets, and show rate in a matched exposed audience (a quasi-experimental read). Perception came from a pre/post survey panel (n = 4,783) balanced across gender and income. Content performance comes from platform analytics across three networks, with cost per engagement measured on the paid-amplified subset; organic view counts are platform-reported estimates.
Results
Branded search moved first, rising 37% in eight weeks (index 100 to 137) against a 30% objective, with click-through on branded search up from 3.8% to 5.4% and “MinuteClinic near me” impressions up 41.4%. Bookings followed: enrollments rose 8.4% year over year, net-new bookings rose 9.1% in test markets, the show rate rose 6.7%, and time from discovery to appointment fell 14%. All four perception attributes rose 21 to 26 points, with the strongest lift among suburban women 30–45. Lift concentrated in urban markets and in affluent suburbs with above-average wellness spend. Beyond the paid program, the look spread on its own through 12,000+ fan-created pieces, 300+ remix videos and 72 earned-media features.
Results describe a specific engagement and are not a guarantee of future results. Platform-reported figures are labeled as such.