Digital Brand Influencer Kapil Sharma – Solvetude Marketing Consultancy

OLX India onboarded Kapil Sharma, India’s most popular mainstream comic artist as brand ambassador to build brand affinity with his massive following using digital content.

Business objective behind this campaign was to reinforce the usage of OLX amongst customers at different phases of their lives where selling unwanted goods is a possibility.

Campaign Strategy

Consumer insights at the center of campaign theme and launch timing.

Creative approach leveraging the brand ambassador's popular avtar.

Media approach used best practices of distribution on YouTube & Facebook.

Selling of used goods is extremely relevant at every life-stage change like moving from school to college, college to first job, wedding etc.

Wedding related searches peak in April & May, which was the campaign launch timeline.

Creative Approach

Shareable & contextual digital content using wedding as the theme
Leverage viral nature of humour as a genre using rising popularity of Kapil Sharma
Create 3 videos having high relevancy for the brand – Just Married with unwanted wedding gifts; After Marriage with used-less wedding accessories; After Kids with old accessories of kids

Media Approach

Usage of annotations & playlist leading to a click through of 19% to the sequential video. This had 15% contribution to overall YouTube views organically.
Leveraged YouTube tag optimizations to ride on popularity of Kapil Sharma & related content
Targeted In-display & In-search campaigns using trending YouTube videos.These campaigns had even higher viewer retention than organic viewers.

Results

16% WoW increase in business metrics
5% increase in organic app downloads
1.7 Mn+ views, 53 K+ likes, 5 K+ shares, 11:1 like to dislike ratio(combined data from YouTube & Facebook)
45% organic views compared to industry benchmark of under 10% as per YouTube
Growth on Google trends at country level, driven by Hindi speaking regions targeted for this campaign
Significant increase of 12% in brand salience amongst non-category users
16% increase in purchase intent among competition users

We were able to… bump the conversion rates for our own channel from 9-10% to 20% and higher.

Binoo Joseph

Ex-CTO Emaar

Ankit helped in bringing a strong digital, tech and data driven culture at Emaar. His launch strategy for marketing campaigns proved to be very effective in driving business growth.

Rami El Tawil

Chief Marketing Officer, EMAAR

Ankit is extremely knowledgeable when it comes to performance marketing/acquisition. Despite the time difference, it was very easy to collaborate with him on global projects.