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SCALING ORGANIC SOCIAL FOR A COMMERCE-LED BRAND PORTFOLIO

Unified 12 brands across TikTok, Shop, and affiliates with 1,000+ assets, doubling engagement and building a commerce-driven social engine.

Organic social scale for HanesBrands portfolio

The Client

Hanes
Company
Hanes
Website
hanes.com
Headquarters
Warrenton, Missouri, US
Employees
2-10

About Hanes

Hanes is an iconic American apparel brand and DTC e-commerce player specializing in comfortable, everyday basics including underwear, activewear, t-shirts, socks, and loungewear for men, women, and children. Part of HanesBrands Inc., the company operates a mature, direct-to-consumer business model with strong brand recognition and is currently leaning into…

The Challenge

HanesBrands manages a retail portfolio across Hanes, Maidenform, Bali Bras, and Playtex Intimates, spanning DTC, social commerce, brick-and-mortar, and online marketplaces. Its organic social presence was fragmented, with limited creative diversity and no cohesive omnichannel strategy, leading to inconsistent engagement. Execution was channel-driven, supported by a narrow content pipeline. The brand team aimed to upgrade social across 12 channels with stronger continuity, integrated leadership, and a scalable strategy to modernise performance and support growth.

Our Approach

Chameleon Collective embedded senior social leadership and fashion-focused talent to build and implement a platform-driven strategy across all brands. The team led a seamless transition while elevating social through integrated storytelling, real-time cultural engagement, expanded content production via multiple partners, and hiring an Influencer Lead to scale the programme. By shifting from channel-by-channel execution to early omnichannel integration, teams aligned around a unified quarterly planning framework, reshaping day-to-day social operations from within.

The Impact

Organic social evolved into a scalable, commerce-driven engine across the portfolio. All brands launched on TikTok, including TikTok Shop, alongside a new affiliate programme, creator expansion, and high-profile partnerships. A 12-month planning system aligned product launches, retail moments, influencer activity, and cultural relevance, driving coordinated execution across channels. The team produced over 1,000 content assets by capitalising on real-time cultural moments. Scaling high-impact opportunities across influencer, earned, and social channels led to doubled and quadrupled engagement rates without compromising brand integrity. Cross-functional collaboration strengthened across brand, legal, ecommerce, and email teams, while platform-based KPI reporting improved performance tracking and creative optimisation. The result was stronger social infrastructure, faster content production, and measurable engagement gains, positioning organic social as a key driver of brand equity and commerce.

The Team

The Chameleons who delivered this engagement.

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