Interact Works is a digital marketing agency that specializes in offering programmatic advertising services. To create campaigns that deliver excellent results to their clients, they target specific audiences with ads that contain relevant content.
Its client, Digitrax, is an innovative music platform that contains a music catalog with over 15,000 note-perfect sound-alike recordings for sale. Interact Works was tasked with creating and implementing Digitrax’s pre-launch campaign — and the project came with challenges that needed to be solved.
Given the specialized nature of the platform and its offerings, Digitrax's pre-launch campaign success was directly tied to reaching and engaging two specific audience groups. These audience groups were individual musicians and music production businesses, with a focus on those within the hip-hop and rap genres.
Discovering and learning about these groups in detail was critical to ensure Interact Works could create ads that targeted different segments and converted — so they would result in:
This meant the agency needed a tool that could help them gather data to learn what Digitrax's target audience is like — going beyond demographics.
To solve these challenges when creating Digitrax’s pre-launch campaign, Interact Works adopted two tactics. This included proprietary blockchain analysis to understand Digitrax’s target audience’s activities within blockchain networks.
Secondly, it used Audiense Insights to gather detailed information about the behaviors, preferences, and interests of the audience. Let’s take a look at what their analysis uncovered.
Interact Works used Audiense to analyze the followers of the social media accounts @BandLab, @Splice, @BeatStars, @FL_Studio, and @SCsupport. This allowed them to gather a holistic view of Digitrax’s target audience that included the following data:
Interact Works then created specific audience segments.
Segment profile:
The DJ segment accounts for 14.06% of the total audience size, characterized predominantly by young males in their twenties from the US. These individuals are music enthusiasts who identify themselves as DJ producers within the electronic music landscape, showing a strong affinity for Electronic dance music (EDM).
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To successfully engage the DJ segment, the campaign centered its attention on platforms and pages associated with DJ producers, electronic music, genres like dubstep and trance, and other related themes.
Segment profile:
The hip-hop producers segment makes up 13.57% of the total audience. Predominantly male, a significant portion of these individuals are in their twenties and are mainly based in cities across the US. They identify as hip-hop producers, songwriters, and rap recording artists.
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The campaign focused on platforms and content that resonated with hip-hop culture, including rapping, recording artists, and beat-making. Key domains for targeting include xxxlmag.com, billboard.com, and vibe.com, offering valuable marketing outlets to reach this audience effectively.
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Comprising 20.58% of the total target audience, songwriters are primarily young males in their twenties. Their geographic distribution leans towards the US, but they also have a substantial global presence.
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Given the broader interests of the songwriter segment, the targeting was more expansive. While music remains this audience’s core passion, their diverse interests meant the campaign could be more versatile.
The SoundCloud producer segment encompasses a sizable 21.73% of the total audience. These individuals predominantly identify as beat makers, music producers, and enthusiasts of the trap genre.
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For this segment, the campaign pivoted towards advertisements highlighting beat-making and music production. An added advantage was the potential to engage users directly from SoundCloud to Digitrax, ensuring a deeper reach and connection with the segment.
As previously mentioned, two primary KPIs gauged the campaign's success, reflecting the audience's readiness to embrace Digitrax. They are:
After the campaign, both the registrations and NFT sales surged, meeting the KPIs. Interact Works and Digitrax are satisfied with the campaign's performance and its impactful results.
Here’s a quote about the pre-launch campaign from Nikals Andersson, co-founder of Interact Works:
"In the rapidly evolving digital marketing landscape, the key to success lies in understanding and adapting to your audience's behaviors and needs. Tools like Audiense that enable detailed social analysis are invaluable in achieving this, providing marketers with the insights they need to deliver relevant and impactful campaigns. As our work with Digitrax demonstrates, when used effectively, these tools can drive meaningful engagement and results."
Audiense played a key role in the campaign. Its deep analysis provided insights into the target audience's behaviors, interests, preferences, and more — helping decide what users to target in programmatic ads and increasing the ROI of Digitrax’s pre-launch campaign. Find out more about Audiense here.