Nike

A deeper connection with the running community

Client

Nike

Industry

Tech

Services

Emails Newsletters

www.nike.com/gb/nrc-app

Nike Run Club is a completely free running app and community that works from your watch or phone, recording runs and offering coaching, guidance and motivation. Originally launched as Nike+ in 2010, the app now boasts over 100 million users worldwide. When Nike wanted to show a deeper connection with the running community by creating content made specially for them, they ran with Craft Words.

Good sports

Why Craft? Well, for a start, we have deep experience with sporting clients. We’ve been fortunate to work for some amazing brands in the sector, including Dunlop, Oceans Apart and 50-Sport. But perhaps most importantly, we have a long relationship with Nike itself, having written content for the brand over many years, across virtually every sub brand. Football, running, basketball, sportswear, and women, you name it. Nike also appreciates working with a partner who understands and will protect their crucial brand voice.

By runners, for runners

Together with the digital agency Anchor Leg, we quickly put together a nimble, agile team to create on-brand copy for Nike’s core division – running. Our specific task was to help them enliven a slightly updated tone of voice. This has shifted in recent years to be less aggressive and more inclusive. Therefore it was vital that we understood the evolved voice, and got its nuances exactly right. Once we felt on top of it, we went on to produce a successful and engaging series of emails and newsletters that connected with Nike’s running audience. Our task was to prove that Nike gets runners like no one else. So our copy had to read as if it was written by runners for runners.

A personal best

We felt proud that we had once again been asked to work for such an inspiring and iconic brand. Not only that, but we helped Nike solve a thorny problem by finding a way to reconnect their audience with the mother of all running brands.

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