2017 Winners & Shortlists

The Campaign

Our idea was to run a campaign across multiple channels- TV, Print, Outdoor, Radio, Cinema, Digital and In Store and make them integrated by one solution that drive the audience to our new E-commerce website by activating the MOBILE SHAZAM ME campaign and allowing the target audience to scan the ad (Visual or Sound) . All media channels were synchronized with a well thought out content and native integration making it the first integrated media campaign of its kind involving all media, BTL&ATL. A competition was executed on Sport 360 newspaper based on PROGRAMATIC CREATIVE OPTIMIZATION. Shazamable print ads daily, NATIVELY PLACED showcasing products, relevant to the adjacently positioned news story. This educated the target audience and led them directly through Shazam to SSSPORTS website. Multimedia competition was launched for the campaign. It involved recognizing sports-related sounds natively. Presenters integrated the idea within the program & engaged with listeners.

Creative Execution

We explored the world of smartphone music consumption with a focus on Shazam – a globally celebrated app. Shazam lately launched the visual scan technology through their app. We were the first to integrate this technology in the MENA region and with the existing sound recognition music scan system they have, we managed to integrate our execution throughout all our media selections. In order for this technology to work and perform, we have customized our Print to fit natively , Radio and TV commercial with a unique coding and customized sports music track rhythm orchestrated by sport elements that help synergize the technology with the campaign. In order to maintain the audience and engage with them, the challenge was to make sure that we link every material and detail natively and Creatively Programmatic so we can integrate with the audience and the app preference (MUSIC).

The campaign delivered 32 million impressions through shazam app only and registered 431,156 clicks at a CTR of 1.31%. 40,080 users were registered Shazaming the ad within 9 days across platforms , which contributed to 46,393 page views for the brand. 5,700 messages / registrations were received from the Radio competition alone through Shazam. The average Shazam user visited 1.90 pages per session and spent an average of 3 minutes and 4 seconds, which is twice the time spent by direct traffic users, indicating Shazam users consumed more content on the site.

Innovation is all about optimized creativity, nevertheless results are the only measurement to the success of your innovation. Our idea was implemented for the first time in the MENA region, it challenged the reality that offline media is dying (Our philosophy stands for how we use media rather than what media to use ) and finally our outstanding results given the challenge of the short period of the campaign were key for our success .