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The digital landscape is evolving by the minute and so are we! Presenting the ever-evolving and prevalent Walnut Media, the only agency who creates milestones and crosses them in the blink of an eye. www.walnut-media.com www.facebook.com/walnutmediapkTRANSCRIPT
Who We Are
We’re crazy people.
We’re the brains behind some of the most exceptional campaigns ever done on Digital and endorsed by the platforms.
Almost everyone at our workplace has a knack for an art form, ranging from music, acting to sketching. Most of the times you get to see the
demo at our work place.
Our average age is 27, making us one of the youngest teams any brand can work with.
We believe in being a catalyst of change for the community we exist in. This also has helped us achieve many of our partners’ business
objectives.
Who We Are
We dare to experiment and raise the standards by breaking through the status quo. We empower our teams to think out of the box.
Over the past years, we’ve evolved from a small startup to a fully functional media agency for region’s top notch brands.
Almost 70% of our work is first of its kind, so yeah – we respect our partner brands for bearing with our experimental creativity.
We’re good at conceiving ideas, creating eco-systems and providing engaging and scalable solutions to our partner brands.
What we do,
Is what we love!
We’re designers by nature. User Experience iswhat drives us. We like anticipating how ourconsumers will behave on our touch points. Wewant to surprise them by our intuition.
We do:1. Responsive Web (Interface/UX)2. Social Media Application3. Mobile Application (iOS, Android, Windows,
Symbian and BB)4. Integrated Design (offline/online hybrid)
Design
Development
A great design can easily collapse on a poorly developed
platform. We realize the importance and thus are using
some of the most advanced, scalable and secure
development platforms.
We develop:
1. Websites/Portals
2. Social Media Applications
3. Mobile Apps (iOS, Android, Windows, Symbian, BB)
4. Content/User Management System (CMS/UMS)
5. Integrated Platforms (Web, Social, Mobile)
6. Web development on PHP, .net, Drupal, Joomla,
Ruby-on-Rails, Python, HTML5 etc.
Social
Social is where we belong. Winning Facebook Studio award – says it all.
We think, Social is more important than any other media touch point
because it gives freedom to your consumers for voicing their opinion
and if not channeled properly, things can get messy.
On Social, we do:
1. Digital Reputation Management
2. Community Management
3. Engagement and Talkability
4. Applications and User Generated Content activation
5. Viral Seeding
6. Consumer Research
7. Insights and Analysis
Content
In 2007, we started off as region’s first ever artist-direct mobilecontent company. Later, we delivered the biggest whitelabeled content campaign on mobile – Coke Studio II & someof the biggest viral content driven campaigns. Today, as WalnutStudios – We’re the only independent record label in theregion producing artists free of cost for the past 2 years andlaunching them through our virtual concerts. This is our beliefin content!
We do:
1. Audio Production (Walnut Studios)2. Video Production (35MM, RED, HD)3. Animation (2D, 2.5D, 3D)4. Concept/Storyboarding5. Talent Sourcing
Mobile
Technology kept on changing, but our connect withthis touch-point never rusted. Today, we talk tomore than 200 M consumers, through our partnernetworks, content partners and whitelabledservices.
On Mobile, we do:
1. SMS services (Enterprise and Content)2. IVR services 3. Operator side – Premium services4. SMS2TV/Radio/Outdoor5. IVR2TV/Radio6. UGC platforms on IVR7. Mobile Financial solutions
Advertising
Paid media is an important element of a successfuldigital strategy and in markets, where digital isgrowing exponentially – this becomes even moreimportant.
In Advertising, we do:
1. Media planning2. Media Bidding/Investments3. Creative development – Rich Media, User
triggered ads4. Partnerships with global platforms like Google,
Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin etc.5. Investing in owned properties and partnering with
brands.
Activation
In an industry as dynamic as advertising, thinking out of the box andensuring the presence and launch of brands become larger than life is doneperfectly through Activation. We offer experiential marketing to brands.
In Activation, we do:
1. Live Augmented Reality
2. Holograms
3. Projection Mapping
4. Animated Studio
5. Interactive Art Installations
6. Animation Studio
Our Clients,
Help us create history.
Local Clients
Regional Clients
Some of our work,
Over the years.
Pakistan’s biggest music show.
We made it even bigger on
mobile platform when Coke
generated
5 million unique interactions
in 70 days.
SMS/IVR/WAP/RBT were used
for content delivery
Pakistan Idol
(Mobilink, Clear, QMobile)
Our first 360 degree campaign (TV,
Web, Mobile) – resulting in 23% sales
uptake of McDonald’s in the first quarter.
For McDonald’s it was the first ever
change of their call-in number anywhere
in the world. Gyara Bara actually
became the most hummable jingle for
McDonald's after the pa-ra-rapapaa- I’m
lovin’ it!
This year, Fashion Edition was bigger and more glamorous than in 2013. More
celebrities. More Engagement. More Reach. More fans. Fashion Edition '14 faced
spectacular engagement of more than 140k fans and the campaign reached out to an
audience of 1.4 million!
Partnering with FIFA in the World
Cup 2010, we launched
Pakistan’s first ever CLEAR
Football fantasy league where
more than 2,500 people took part
in the game spending over 25
minutes every day on our portal.
We were the second most active
Fantasy League Portal after the
official English Premier Fantasy
League.
One of the biggest online media campaign – MasterChef Pakistan, where we got
roadblocks on Facebook, to launch the first ever season in Pakistan with much hype
and share of voice. It was the first time any TV channel experienced a complete
roadblock on Facebook reaching out to the whole userbase in a matter of 3 days!
Pakistan’s biggest Fashion event goes
live on Digital. With all of our activities
synced to create a major buzz around
style and fashion on ground and online,
we introduced the region’s first Invisible
Fashion Show and with over 7,500 on
ground viewers, we became the talk of
the town, stating it all as ‘nothing less
than magic!’ PR value from this activity
alone was over PKR 1.5 M.
Pakistan Superstar is Pakistan's first ever digital music reality show. Received 3000
entries online. With the support of platforms (Facebook & Soundcloud) - social was used
as a voting mechanism to select the winners. Served more than 3.2 million minutes for
10 episodes and their promos with more than 125,000 votes on social.
Youth brand of Pakistan’s biggest
telecom giant, Mobilink. Jazba
became the voice of Pakistan's
youth on digital. We featured Atif
Aslam, streaming his Rockumentry
online with a 360 degree
coverage.
We also seeded the branded viral
video - Dekha Na Tha feat. QB &
Bilal Khan generating 1M+ viral
views in 7 weeks
Celebrating the undiscovered yet rich talent of Pakistan; giving them a platform to make
it big for themselves, we launched Cornetto Music Icons. Pakistan’s first ever music
reality show with a nationwide digital recruitment on web, social and mobile. The show
was aired on National and Satellite Channels.
Re-established a connection with PSFW '14 and kept our fans involved and engaged
with the biggest fashion trends, right off the PSFW' 14 runway. The campaign managed
to reach over 3.5 million fans and it became one of the most fashion inspired events for
our TG.
Aimed to create a strong emotional
connect between tea and
brightness. And reinforce Positivity,
Surprise, Brightness and Excitement
completely, on Digital and on
ground through various activities.
The results were phenomenal as the
total interactions for the campaign
were more than 36,000.
Redbull launched world’s biggest collective art festival online bringing more
than 50 countries to create one big artwork. Walnut proudly partnered by
sponsoring and investing in the digital marketing, application integration and
university program.
Innovation at its best, we came up
with Pakistan's first Viral Saeen,
featuring the infamous Ali GulPir
(who crossed 4M views for his video
– Waderay ka beta), set out to find
the one person who would go viral
in the blink of an eye. Sending out a
series of episodes, we encouraged
our audience to send us their viral
video ideas. In less than a week, we
got 9,000 entries.
Everyone knows that kids use digital. But how
should a brand get in touch with them,
especially if the
TG is 6-12?
We used TV2SMS campaign partnering with
Cartoon Network, Pogo and Nickelodeon to air
one of the all-time favorites, Ben10 and tried
creating legit leads and took them to our web
platform for retention. We also developed
Pakistan’s first online Mathematics competition
- Mathelete, by creating a stand-alone portal
where children got a chance to showcase their
academic talents. More than 25,000 kids took
part online.
Joining hands with Instagram,
Lipton and Walnut initiated an
online photography contest
across 27 countries with a
different theme every week. In
ten weeks more than 10,000
entries were received. The
content was seamlessly integrated
on all Digital touchpoints.
An Award winning application, which integrated the social media giant, Facebook and
Pakistan’s leading news channel Samaa.
A real time Social2TV platform allowed user feedback to be portrayed in the form of
graphs. The video stream of the channel was being broadcast on Facebook in parallel for
maximum user engagement.
Pakistan’s biggest consolidation
by any brand on digital. Mobilink
consolidated its brands Jazz,
Jazba, Indigo to one brand –
Mobilink. All social media
partnerships were straightaway
brought to action when the major
migration took place and we
crossed 1M fan base, making us
the fastest growing youth brand
on Social Media.
Paddlepop launched the latest of
their Adventure sequel. Brand faced
a lot of problems as the kids felt
alien to the characters, so a massive
on ground activation and consumer
promotion was planned. More than
8million sticks carrying codes were
placed in the market and
consumers were to send the
numbers on a shortcode. It was
integrated with Social too, so we
generated organic leads as well.
After doing Pakistan’s first ever virtual
concert in 2011, we brought Music
Latte’ to life again.
This time, it was louder, more fun
and engaged more than 5,000 people
online as live viewers.
Live from Levi’s flagship – 6 artists
performed and entertained more than
8 M facebook users across Pakistan.
The show was recorded live
(Audio/Video) and content was
released in episodes on Social.
Ramadan is a very tricky period for a
brand like Closeup, which always
talks about the confidence to
express. We gave it a spicy twist,
and launch Pakistan’s biggest
Aftar party. Menu? Well, you
decide. We placed a lot of
options and users voted for the
best aftari items. The application
instantly went viral and generated
more than a million organic
impressions in less than 3 weeks.
With our partner network in more than 86
universities across Pakistan, we launched
Pakistan’s first ever Digital Apprentice
program in partnership with
Unilever and endorsed by CLEAR.
From the first form submission till the final
interview by the Chairman, everything was
on Digital. The candidates spent 8 weeks at
Unilever with an opportunity to work with
the regional team in the official Digital
Accelerator Program at Unilever, Srilanka.
A responsive design for Cornetto
Music Icons Portal, made it an easy-
to-access touch point, on both
internet and mobile.
For the talent and viewers there were
separate categories and the API
utilization of Facebook, Soundcloud,
Vimeo gave us a fantastic organic
growth too!
Pakistan Idol, one of the biggest reality show to take place in Pakistan was sponsored by
Clear. We came up with Last Chance Auditions, to give those individuals a chance to
be a part of the shortlisted contestants who were talented but were unable to audition.
Cornetto Cupidity- one of the most innovative outdoor integration in Pakistan was
brought by Walnut Media, in the form of SMS to billboard integration. Individuals
were encouraged to send message for their loved to a short code which appeared on a
billboard.
We came up with Clo & Su Kahaani
for Close Up.
Individuals were encouraged to make
stories by creating one scene and then
taking the help of 9 friends to
complete it.
Two main characters with various
scenes were given to the users in the
form of an application.
Launching our own Predict & Win portal as the World Cup 2014 began, named: ‘CLEAR
FIFA LOUNGE’. With more than 3,500 predictions made everyday, it is one of the most
active local portal featuring fixtures, score database and predictions.
Giving into the latest trend on the
internet; we came up with Supreme
Apnapan Memes. It started with
generating memes for users with the
phrase: Apnapan Is…
to giving them a meme generator to
make memes themselves.
With more than 9,200 entries on
the application, ‘Apnapan Is…’
became the most viral local
trending memes.
We aimed to start Pakistan’s biggest
dance event, with Lipton’s campaign:
Lipta-Dance; featuring one of the most
celebrated artist of Pakistan, Ali Zafar.
Users were encouraged to send in their
videos imitating the dance steps of Ali
Zafar, to see if they were good enough
to dance with Ali Zafar on the stage in
the grand event, to be held in London
O2 Arena.
A Virtual Hair Centre, Style My Locks,
was launched to give the TG a portal to
try on different hairstyles and experience
a new look and feel.
Individuals had to upload their picture
on the portal and try on different
hairstyles.
Entries started rolling out as soon as the
Virtual Hair Centre went live, with more
than 1500 entries on the day of launch.
A Pinterest themed website was designed
for Sunsilk. We kept it graphically
appealing and fluid in design – so that our
female TG is constantly retained.
It had a backend CMS which allowed us
for a multiple source content syndication
from different contributors ranging from
Lawn experts to Hair Stylists. We had
something for everyone!
December, 2012 and we had all the
brands going crazy on Digital with
heavy investment on Paid media.
Closeup on the other hand had a major
budget cut, but still being a strong
believer in the brand, we proposed an
idea of owning the resolutions! We
asked our fans to give us their top
resolutions for 2013, so we make a
charter for Pakistani Youth! With
negligible media investments, our Share
of voice, was over 12%!
Cricket can be easily termed as the second
religion of our nation. T20 World Cup; was
the meet up of Gods.
We tried capturing the same energy and
launched the first ever live fb commentary
on Jazba’s page.
With the organic shares going in thousands
and impressions in millions, we were able
to do an organic recruitment of more than
10,000 fans during the series.
Cornetto Youth Campus – will
feature an integrated network of all
colleges across the country and the
top three activities of today’s youth
– Music, Hangout and Food! We’ll
create virtual hotspots for them to
bond with each other. 2013 was
all about – “Enjoy the Ride and
Love the ending!”. We created this
experience online.
Garnier wanted to own the Hair Styling
Category with special focus on Hair Color.
We launched Hair Color Workshop and a
Virtual Hair Studio. Both gave users first hand
experience of how to select hairstyles and hair
colors.
Hair Stylists were hired by L'Oreal Paris which
actually responded to the queries of our users
and created the highest level of authenticity
and consumer engagement.
Pakistan’s biggest online media
campaign – Har Dil, Har Din, where
we got roadblocks on all major
properties online and utilized
Google Search, Display, Contextual
and Topical placements for highest
Share of Voice. We maintained a
decent frequency of less than 5, using
Media Mind ad placement engine
and served more than
1 Billion Impressions in 20 days.
Nesvita wanted to take Women Empowerment to a
whole new level by launching ‘Women of Strength’,
where the brand recognized and rewarded the most
inspirational females of our country.
The only way to take part in the campaign was
through a dedicated SMS and an IVR.
Almost 5,000 entries were received from which the
jury chose 10 contestants to be on the TV show.
An iOS application for our
partner TV Channel – Samaa.
The application because of it’s
user experience and content
syndication soon became one of
the most downloaded news apps
on iOS (iPhone and iPad) from
Pakistan.
Today, we have over 200,000
users using the application.
We celebrated Pakistani culture and the best of sufi music and poetry amongst hordes of
fans and admirers. The ethnic culture and what Pakistan is rich in, performances by the
likes of Saeein Zahoor and Sanam Marvi had everyone swooning on their feet with their
popular numbers being an instant hit.
‘Ask Garnier’ and ‘Garnier
Mobile Club’ were launched for
our Facebook family members to
ask anything related to hair care
and get the response in the form
of an SMS on their mobile
phone. We also created
weekly tutorials and mobisodes
for the consumers.
We love creating our platforms.
As huge as a recording studio, as tiny as a music mood player.
Some screen grabs to give you an idea.
AbsolutePakistan.com
LahoreDigitalFilmFestival.com
WalnutImages.com
BuySell.com (UAE, PK, OMAN)
autoarabia.comAutoArabia.com
ArabiaProperties.com
Biladi.ae
Stylecatchup.comStyleCatchup.com
Mubileo.com
InspectSocial.com
DigitalExcellenceCenter.com
Mycinema.pk
AurBajao.com
Womenzone.pk
GoMobile.pk
…and today, we
Talk to over 8M users everyday, on Social Media
Interact with more than 6M users on mobile devices
Already served more than 5 Billion ad impressions
More than 1M users have interacted with our apps
We’ve set more than 350,000 statuses and responded to more
than 100,000 customer queries
We change perceptions, create positive emotions and give birth
to our brand advocates.
This happens, everyday.
Walnut Media TodayBecoming the first independent digital
agency in the region to partner with
Cannes Lions.
Walnut Media partners with Eurobest, the
biggest European festival of creativity.
Walnut Media partners with Webit, the
only Digital & IT Industry Event for Central
& Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa.
Talk to us.Walnut Media LLC,
P.O.BOX 390667,
DWC Business Centre
Dubai Logistics City
Dubai, UAE
123 E-1, Unit 13,
Hali Road, Gulberg III,
Lahore, Pakistan
+92 42 35870530-31
www.walnut-media.com
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