Level 350 Success Case Studies

Duval Loop: 42% Ridership Lift from an integrated GTM campaign

Written by DCA Team | Sep 17, 2026, 6:32:42 PM

Website, GTM Architecture, Growth Strategy

Launch Brand; Generate Awareness, Leads and Increase Ridership

Our team, in partnership with South Florida Commuter Services, the City of Key West and District 6, developed the "Car-Free Key West" brand, messaging and campaign. Instead of treating this as a pure branding effort, we framed Duval Loop’s campaign as a full-funnel revenue operation. Media, creative, and offers were architected around a single objective: move visitors from awareness into trackable actions and, ultimately, seats on the loop.

We understood the importance of the role of local businesses, and though our efforts, 75+ hospitality and retail businesses signed up to be partners in the first 3 months. Destination messaging drove clicks into campaign-specific landing experiences, where offers and itineraries captured intent and contact data, feeding a CRM that linked marketing touchpoints to ridership trends over time.

Dashboards stitched together media spend, engagement, and ridership metrics so stakeholders could finally see which channels and messages filled buses, not just generated impressions. This RevOps lens turned a tourism slogan into an integrated system that aligned marketing, operations, and finance around shared numbers—and made future budget conversations data-driven rather than speculative.