Building Citiculture's social presence from zero & crowdfunding by Eleonora PanciBuilding Citiculture's social presence from zero & crowdfunding by Eleonora Panci

Building Citiculture's social presence from zero & crowdfunding

Eleonora Panci

Eleonora Panci

The Challenge

Citiculture started in 2023 with no social accounts at all. Nothing to build on, no audience, no tone of voice — just a brand that needed one from scratch. A year or so later came a bigger test: Campus Grapes, an urban vineyard project with Politecnico di Torino, needed to raise money through crowdfunding, and social had to carry a good part of that.

Strategy

I opened and ran 5 channels, each doing a different job. Instagram and Facebook for day-to-day brand presence and community. LinkedIn for the B2B side talking to corporate partners and potential consumers. YouTube and Spotify came later, tied to the brand's podcast launch.
When Campus Grapes went into crowdfunding, I took over both the organic content and the paid ads for that specific push planning what to post and where to put budget behind it. The campaign needed to reach two different audiences at once (private donors and companies) so alongside organic and paid content I used tools like PhantomBuster to find and reach out to potential company contacts on LinkedIn directly, rather than relying only on inbound traffic from social.
Citiculture slogan: Bringing nature back to the city, one leaf at a time.
Citiculture slogan: Bringing nature back to the city, one leaf at a time.

What I did

Set up each channel's voice and content approach from zero, adapted to what that platform actually needed
Ran the ongoing content calendar across Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn
Managed specific campaigns during the crowdfunding window
Handled the rollout of podcast content onto YouTube

Results

Campus Grapes raised €100,000 in 90 days.
On the channels: 927 followers on Instagram, 1.246 on LinkedIn, 400 on Facebook, 30 on YouTube — all starting from zero.
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Posted Jul 1, 2026

Built Citiculture's social presence from scratch and ran the social strategy (organic and paid) behind Campus Grapes' €100K crowdfunding campaign.