Asian paints Bangladesh is one of the leading paint brands in Bangladesh. In the end of the 2020, it wanted to launch one of its exterior painting products named – Asian Paints Apex Glaze. As we all know that the year 2020 became a disaster for any kind of business as well as personal life. People would get bored getting stuck into the four walls as roaming outside is forbidden during pandemic. So, the only relaxation they could find on would be the social media platforms.
So, we were interested to carry on with a story in an interesting and funny way. We connected the story with the product highlighting the ‘Glaze’ thing. When there is too much glaze or shiny things, we need to wear sunglass, for example when there is sunshine, we wear sunglass. Therefore, we carried out the story leaving the message that the exterior emulsion – Asian Paints Apex Glaze is too much shiny that people wear even sunglasses when they are in front of the painted home.
The campaign included 3 phases - pre-hype, launching and post-hype.
During the campaign, we covered advertisement on the brand’s Facebook page, Instagram account, some online news portals including Prothom Alo, Daily Star to grab the attention of the audience wherever they visit online.
In case of Facebook promotion, the pre-hype gained more than 12% organic reach in one static and about 7.5% organic reach in pre-hype teaser video. Pre-hype teaser video gained almost 6% engagement. 3.1 million reach is in the main campaign video where more than 2% organic reach & 8.3% engagement happened.
The campaign video gained more than 558k views on YouTube channel.
Research proves messages are more effective when repeated. In advertising, the term “effective frequency” refers to 3 times exposure to each audience. While advertising on the online news portals, we kept this in our mind, and to keep the product in the forefront of consumer's minds, media plan was done accordingly with 3-frequency module. From online news portal advertisement including pop up, banner, paralux ad, impressions were created above 5.6 million, and including GPI advertisement total reach was 10.6 million (approx.).
Besides, we incorporated affiliated marketing along with the previous advertisements. The campaign created a buzz in the market. Some popular Facebook page like earki covered the campaign.
All these outcomes & buzz created the campaign successful. The product has been introduced as per the market interest & client’s demand. The client was happy and upon this successful launching, some employees involved from the brand end got an acknowledgment from their management which is a great thing for us, we believe.