Never Miss a Moment
Safaricom : Mobile Network Operator
The Challenge
Safaricom’s data business was under attack from customers and its main competitor. Customers, especially the youth, were complaining about the affordability of Safaricom data bundles and believed that Safaricom was stealing data from them. Disgruntled and with Airtel aggressively running an “Unliminet” data campaign our consumers started to switch networks.
The Solution
We needed to address this outcry and develop a campaign to stop customers from switching to other networks for data. We moved away from the usual communication of MBs, price and validity and start evoking conversations around data bundle usage through appealing stories about the data users.
Thought Process
We discovered that every internet user has two kinds of personalities, the online and the offline personality. The negativity towards Safaricom stemmed from the offline personality, which was disappointed when the online personality got disconnected due to the bundles running out so quickly. ‘MASTERS OF THE INTERNET’ a funny, quirky campaign about Internet characters was created, with each character reflecting the different personalities the youth assume whenever they are connected with friends online.