Pawlooza 2025

Graphic Design | Event Marketing | Social Media Management

Generating Barks: Pawlooza Community Growth Campaign

The Context

Pawlooza is one of Ontario’s largest and most beloved dog festivals, drawing thousands of attendees and vendors each year since 2009.

With a three-month promotion window, the goal was to increase ticket sales, boost attendance, grow Pawlooza’s digital community, and create a unified, upbeat brand presence across platforms and promotional channels.

My Responsibility

  • Improved Pawlooza’s online presence through consistent posting, upgraded visuals, and faster audience engagement, while maintaining cohesive messaging across all platforms and vendor materials.

  • Designed visual assets, including outdoor signage, print ads, posters, and branded digital graphics

  • Developed and executed a cross-channel marketing strategy (Meta, radio, CTV) over a 3-month promotional period

  • Ensured consistent messaging and design across all platforms and vendor promotional materials

  • Executed live event marketing:

    • Monitored social channels in real time

    • Posted live updates

    • Highlighted vendors

    • Responded to DMs

    • Engaged with attendees via comments, shares, and reposts

  • Strengthened attendee and vendor experience through timely communication and increased visibility

Before

  • The main character only take up 1/3 of the space

  • Plain use of colour makes it hard to stand out among other ads

  • Brand Logo not obvious

After

  • The dog at the centre naturally attracts viewer’s attention

  • Brand logo brough to the front

  • More colourful creates more excitement

  • Added scannable QR codes for easier access to website and ticket sales

Campaign Impacts

$87.5K

ticket sales with 5K+ attendance

5.95%

average engagement rate across Meta platforms over 3 months

1.75%

Click-Through-Rate of Meta ads in 5 days

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