Get discovered in the recipe, not just on the shelf
For supermarket chains, online grocers and FMCG brands that want a place on the shopping list before the customer walks into the shop. Coporo, an organic distribution agency, designs and runs a network of brand-owned accounts on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube Shorts, each aimed at a different kind of household, posting daily recipes, meal plans and tips where your product or your supermarket is simply what gets used.
More and more of the weekly shop is decided on the sofa. People plan the week's meals from recipes they've seen on social, copy the ingredients exactly as they appeared in the video, and go looking for that specific product in the aisle. Food trends move in days, and whoever features in this week's quick-dinner carousel lands in the trolley without needing a promotion. Whoever doesn't is left waiting for the shopper to notice them on the shelf.
A food brand's official profile usually shows the product on a clean background, and that rarely gets saved. What people save is the answer to their Tuesday-night problem: what to cook in fifteen minutes, how to eat well on a tight budget, what to pack for lunch, what to make when someone at home has an allergy. Each of those questions is its own audience with its own tone, and none of them follows a corporate account.
The decision is made before they reach the store
If your brand wasn't on the list written at home, it competes in the aisle on price and shelf position alone, right next to the retailer's own label.
Promotions drive volume, not loyalty
Deals shift units while they last. Once they end, shoppers go back to their habits because nobody gave them a reason to make your product part of their week.
Very different households, one message
A large family, a student and someone cooking gluten-free shop in the same aisle but want opposite things. A single message ends up speaking to none of them.
One audience per account
Each account speaks to one specific audience with its own hook. These are some we would work with.
Monday-to-Friday dinners for four from a single shop:
Five days of meals from one roast chicken. Here's how I do it.
Dinner in 12 minutes with 4 things already in your fridge.
5 packed lunches you won't be embarrassed to open at your desk.
What I check on the label before buying anything for my coeliac son:
I tried everything new in the frozen aisle. Here's what I'd buy again.
What your network could look like
Four example accounts from a network of around 20. Each on its own phone, all owned by your brand.
How people discover you
First they're interested, then they discover you. An example carousel with a natural mention of your brand.
How we work it
Your product as an ingredient, not the star
Recipes and meal plans solve the week's question and your product appears in the list and in the method. Whoever saves the recipe also saves what they're going to buy.
Shopping lists made for screenshots
A final slide with the list sorted by aisle. It's what people capture and take to the shop, with your brand written exactly as it appears on pack.
Honest new-product tests
When you launch something, the new-products account tries it alongside others from the same aisle. It works because not everything gets praise: credibility is what makes people buy.
A calendar tied to seasons and in-store activity
Back to school, Christmas, barbecue season, citrus season: production follows your in-store campaigns so customers arrive knowing what to look for.
Your private dashboard with the stats of every account and every post, updated throughout the day.
See Coporo Live →FAQ
How do you handle nutrition and health claims?
Food content can only use the nutrition and health claims permitted by the applicable regulations, under their conditions of use. The accounts won't call a product “healthy” or say it helps weight loss unless that claim is authorised; we only work with the claims your quality or legal team signs off.
Does it work for a supermarket as well as a product brand?
The mechanics are the same, but what appears changes. For a retailer, the mention leads to your shop, your app or your online grocery site; for a product brand, it leads to the product page or the stockists that carry it.
How does it fit with our media spend and in-store activity?
The network doesn't replace TV, paid digital or in-store promotion. It works alongside them: if there's a shelf campaign running, the accounts post recipes with that product in the same weeks so shoppers already have it in mind.
Do we need to send product or recipes?
Product, yes, so creators genuinely cook with it. Recipes, menus and copy are prepared by Coporo's team; you only check the product information and any wording that can't change.
Who owns the accounts and the content?
The accounts belong to your brand and each runs on its own phone. Everything published is yours as well, so you can reuse the best-performing recipes on other channels.
How soon does the network start posting?
Roughly 20 days from kickoff. If a seasonal campaign is close, start earlier so the accounts already have content live when the peak arrives.
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