Brandtone wins at Global Smarties for Unilever campaign
30 September 2015: Brandtone, the world’s leading mobile marketing company, picked-up an award at this year’s Global MMA Smarties Awards for its work with Unilever’s Inmarko in Russia.
Brandtone took GOLD in the “Lead Generation” category and was shortlisted for “Best in Show” at Monday night’s Global Smarties Awards Gala in New York, organised by the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA).
Brandtone’s gold-medal winning work with Unilever’s Inmarko branded ice cream (Magnat, MAX, Cornetto, Ekzo) was built around a countrywide campaign that engaged and rewarded traders who operate in the traditional sales channels and have been previously difficult to engage with.
Unilever used a reward ladder of incentives devised by Brandtone to connect Inmarko with these traditional traders, using mobile for its entire communication. A key driver to motivate traders to participate actively was the guaranteed airtime reward. Brandtone also used Konnect, their innovative online reporting platform and unique coding solution allowing Unilever to track the full sales history of the store. The ‘call to action’ for the traders was to register via SMS message with a short store code and give permission for future communications.
As a result, Unilever and Brandtone were able to build a database of 33,000 permission-based traders, who can now be retargeted and communicated with directly. The campaign also resulted in a double-digit measurable increase in sales.
Accepting the award on behalf of Brandtone and Unilever, Alexander Ragozin, General Director, Brandtone Russia, said: “We are thrilled to have picked up an award at the Smarties this year. This is a great reward for our cooperative and fruitful work with Unilever and the commitment across the teams. Not only have we delivered a huge uplift in sales but also loyalty to our client and the building of relationships in the traditional trade channels.”
This year the MMA received over 1,000 submissions from more than 30 countries. As well as winning for its campaign with Inmarko, Brandtone was shortlisted in the “Relationship Building/CRM” category for its ‘360° – 365 days always-on engagement’ campaign with Bru Coffee in India, another of Unilever’s brands.
View a video case study of the Inmarko campaign
View a video case study of the Bru Coffee campaign
Brandtone works with brands including Unilever, PepsiCo, Heineken and Mondelēz, to deliver high-impact mobile marketing campaigns in the world’s fastest growing markets.
Headquartered in Dublin, the company, which is funded by Unilever Ventures, Verlinvest and Syngenta ventures, has grown from one market into thirteen since it launched in 2010. Its expert teams in each local market combine mobile and Big Data to conduct highly personalised and targeted campaigns that deliver measurable ROI and brand building opportunities for clients in the developing & emerging markets.
As a result of these campaigns, Brandtone has built up a proprietary database of millions of consumers who have opted into engaging with brands. It has recently launched a suite of tools to allow marketers to access and segment this database to drive powerful, targeted campaigns among their key audiences.
In the past year the company has won five awards at the Marketing Week Engage, Smarties, Meffys and the Irish Mobile Marketing Awards.
For further information please visit: http://www.brandtone.com
