HIT ME BABY
In less than a year, we created 18 campaigns - each one finding a fresh way to bring Spotify into the hearts of Gen Z fans across the world.
That's the result of total collaboration and impeccable coordination. But let’s break it down into a few main elements
UNCOVERING
INSIGHTS NOT JUST
OBSERVATIONS
For us, insight harvesting means going beyond the first swipes and connecting with Gen Z’s on a deeper level, often going off-script to find what's truly meaningful.
Local Antenna - South East Asia
Partnering with a cultural research ground crew based in Malaysia, we’ve built a team of music-loving Gen Z ambassadors in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Through multiple exchanges during our insights phase, we got inside their daily worlds - and captured those authentic feelings, quirky obsessions and cultural nuances that are crucial to inspire and inform our creative process.
Social Sweat Sessions
For the global launch of the lyrics feature, we went to where the magic was happening: TikTok.
With the help of a social media specialist, we swiped our way through hours of content - and mapped out the major trends affecting audiences’ relationship with lyrics right now.
CURIOSITY
FUELS
CREATIVITY
Sure, we could have created one, two, three global ideas and let the gods decide their fate.
Instead, we gave each team the confidence to ask a big “what if?” - and go deeper into uncharted parts of world culture.
Colombia.
2 days. 64 ideas.
Sprints get everyone’s minds working together. This results in dozens of ideas, which get stretched, probed, merged and chopped until only the best survive.
Greatness never reveals itself the way you think it will. So we look for it from every angle.
Cairo.
2 days. 72 ideas.
Great things happen when you combine perspectives in a room full of insights. Think you’re the least creative person in the world? You’ll end up saying the thing the whole campaign’s based on. Anything’s possible when everyone’s allowed to play.
Better to doubt
yourself than
second guess
your audience.
The longer you work on something, the harder it is to remain objective. So, like any good scientist, we put our ideas to the test. Always.
Work. Test. Repeat.
Testing rounds are built into all sprint milestones.
Across each region, we gathered together a unique group of real consumers in our exact target audience - who accompanied the evolution of the ideas and helped us make decisions.
By breaking the internal bubble of marketeers and experts, we can guarantee that the final product will deliver its desired effects.
TURNING JAMS
INTO GEMS IN
record time
If you want spectacular fluff, make a presentation. If you want to see if your ideas actually work, make a prototype.
From idea to prototype in just 5 days
Fast-prototyping ensures that the big calls on the final creative product are made before production, rather than during it. Which makes the whole process smoother, faster and cheaper.
and then IT’s payoff time
6x
MENA vs. control group
+442%
Colombia vs. planned
+27%
India vs. pre campaign
15MM
upon the launch of Lyrics
8x
to Apple Lyrics launch
200k
shared daily