YANKEE CANDLE

Driving a 9% Mother's Day sales uplift across 130+ assets from a single production

CLIENT
Yankee Candle
SECTOR
Consumer
SERVICES
Brand & Corporate Films
Yankee Candle x Skylark Media

Yankee Candle is one of the world’s most recognised home fragrance brands. Mother’s Day is their most commercially significant retail moment – a window where emotional resonance and precise timing matter as much as the product.

Our single shoot day produced 130+ creative assets resulting in a 9% Mother’s Day sales uplift for Yankee Candle.

The challenge

Following a brand-level campaign, Yankee Candle needed to shift focus to product and drive sales through cross-platform activation. That meant producing 130+ assets across digital, social, press, direct mail and OOH – at pace, without sacrificing creative quality, within an 8-week window.

Our approach to retail campaign video production

Working alongside creative agency Attinger Jack, Skylark produced three distinct vignettes. Each centred on a specific target persona most likely to purchase a Mother’s Day gift. Warm, elegant and celebratory in tone, the creative matched Yankee Candle’s premium feel while staying relatable to everyday gift-givers.

Engineered for volume from day one

Rather than treating this as a standard shoot, Skylark structured the entire production to maximise asset yield. Every setup, lighting state and performance served multiple formats and placements simultaneously — so the camera never rolled without feeding several outputs at once.

As a result, Skylark produced 130+ assets from a single, tightly coordinated production cycle. Each channel received tailored versions without returning to set. Furthermore, end-to-end production ownership meant brand consistency held across every touchpoint.

 

The result

The campaign delivered where it mattered most. A 9% sales increase during the Mother’s Day period, alongside a significant spike in website traffic, demonstrated the commercial impact of getting both creative quality and production efficiency right.

TV commercial production for Yankee Candle by Skylark Media
Screen capture from Skylark Media video production work

The quality and professionalism of Skylark really made the process so smooth – a great collaboration between Attinger Jack and Skylark.

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