Talkability

Tesport Travel

Your Ride or Fly

The luggage category sells control and order. Tesport packs joy into the trip — the bag that never stands in your way and says yes to more.

Tesport Travel — Your Ride or Fly
  • 44pieces of press coverage
  • 89,100influencer impressions
  • 20+local TV markets

The challenge

Launch Tesport with the Cloud collection as hero product in a category that sells restraint, and move the brand out of functional luggage messaging into ownable emotional territory for travelers who want more adventure and more of themselves on every trip.

What we did

We positioned Tesport around packing joy into your trip: luggage that doesn't stand in your way. The creative campaign, "Your Ride or Fly," made the bag your partner in crime for saying yes to more joy in travel. Every feature was rewritten as happiness: the drink holder became the vessel for your happy hour margarita, durable wheels the reason you sprint for the best room in the Airbnb, packing cubes the tool to pack in more joy. We ran the social and influencer strategy alongside the PR push, placing creators at AnimeCon, the Renaissance Festival, Coachella, the Pickleball Championships and the Kentucky Derby — events where what you pack is part of the experience.

The consequence

A presence that read native to those communities rather than sponsored, amplified by an earned media push built around the cultural moments themselves and trade, travel and lifestyle coverage at launch.

The work itself.

"Your Ride or Fly" campaign filmVideo
Social: the Ride or Fly system in motion
Social: the Ride or Fly system in motionImage
Social: the pickleball bag find, a top-performing post
Social: the pickleball bag find, a top-performing postImage
Creator content: Bora Bora with Tesport
Creator content: Bora Bora with TesportImage
Social: packing joy in, not just packing
Social: packing joy in, not just packingImage
The Hotel Guide — "Tesport Launches with an Aim to Bring Joy Back to Travel Gear"
The Hotel Guide — "Tesport Launches with an Aim to Bring Joy Back to Travel Gear"Image
Trazee Travel — "New Luggage Brand Just Hit the Market … And It's Pretty Cool"
Trazee Travel — "New Luggage Brand Just Hit the Market … And It's Pretty Cool"Image
Beauty News NYC — "The Understated Carry-On That Gets Everything Right"
Beauty News NYC — "The Understated Carry-On That Gets Everything Right"Image

Scored on the
consequential triangle.

Talkability
"Your Ride or Fly" is a permission slip people repeat to each other.
Defensibility
Owning joy in a category built on restraint is hard to follow.
Indispensability
The bag becomes the companion, not the container.
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