2016 Winners & Shortlists

SAVE STEVE'S JOB

BrandINSYDO
Product/ServiceWEBSITE & APP
EntrantOMD Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
CategoryUse of Social or Community (including emerging platforms for brands)
Media Agency OMD Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Entrant Company OMD Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Media Agency 2 OMD Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Creative Execution

• Our interactive microsite savestevesjob.com gave users an option to engage via social through the button ‘Watch Steve Sweat‘ – leading to insydo‘s Facebook page. Our rigorous social calendar included: • Steve plastered across billboards around the city • Radio DJs making noise over social • Competitions to win experiences by searching on insydo • Steve engaging the public through old-school campaigning • Rallying support from businesses featured on Insydo • Key influencers campaigning over Instagram & Twitter • LinkedIn article on the campaign to intrigue the expat professionals. • Every post linked back to insydo and educated people about our product.

‘Save Steve‘s Job‘ campaign is still ongoing, but here are our results 2 weeks in: • Over 250,000 searches on insydo. • User engagement on insydo increased by 1000%. • Reached over 3.3 million on Facebook. • Over 56,000 interactions on social. • 72% of the target audience engaged via social. • Conversion of 37% from Facebook to insydo. • 9-minute response time to every post (officially stated by Facebook). • Overwhelming user comments e.g. “Finally… some creative work worth shouting about in a very vanilla marketing environment…”

• We‘re a digital start-up launching our brand ‘insydo‘ in a highly competitive industry; we had one shot to put insydo on the map. • Took a high-risk approach and built the campaign around our Marketing Manager, Steve. • We publically set him a one-month challenge to campaign and get 100,000 people searching on insydo to save his job. • The campaign - ‘Save Steve‘s Job‘- played on the cheeky connection to Apple. • Target audience is mass; both genders, expats, aged 25 – 40 and spend approx. 1.6 hours on social daily. As Digital Natives, they‘ve become numb to marketing messages. Our approach: • Create curiosity and sell the truth: Steve represents the real start-up pressure, humanising the marketing and hooking people into our brand story. • Steve‘s relatable to the demographic of our target audience. • We unfolded the story and engaged our audience through daily campaign updates on social.

Credits

Name Company Role
Tanaz Dizadji insydo CEO/Founder
Steven Worobec insydo Marketing Manager
Siobhain Spear insydo Editor in Chief
Walid Aktouf insydo UX/UI Designer
Nadim Samara Omd Mena MD of OMD/UAE/LG
Waseem Afzal Omd Mena Executive Director - Integrated Solutions
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