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Campaign Trail: Mailchimp has a ball turning ‘clustomers’ into customers

October 13, 2023
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Campaign Trail is our evaluation of a few of the very best latest creative efforts from the marketing world. View past columns within the archives here.

For small and midsize businesses, marketing to customers can require the identical level of personalization sought by major brands. 

“Personalization really helps spur a ton of business and makes customers feel like they’re being heard and that they’re not only one other cog in a brand’s wheel,” said Javier Molinos, creative director at Intuit Mailchimp’s in-house agency Wink Creative. “They can grow to be more emotionally invested in a brand once they feel just like the brand is caring for them properly and talking to them in the proper way at the proper time.”

But without the proper tools, a few of these businesses find yourself spamming and blasting all of their customers without delay. This familiar customer experience is dropped at life in a latest Mailchimp campaign created by Wink Creative alongside production corporations Prettybird and Breakfast for Dinner and director Calmatic.

In “Turn Clustomers into Customers,” business customers are presented as a “clustomer”: a mass of diverse people jumbled in as a giant ball. In a 30-second spot, everybody — whether an influencer, yoga practitioner, musician, cyclist or office drone — receives a personalized email that permits them to separate from the clustomer collective and grow to be a singular entity once more. 

For Mailchimp, the “clustomer” idea creatively illustrates a pain point shared by marketers and customers and introduces its platform’s value proposition: Allowing businesses to personalize at scale whether their customer list is 10 people or 10,000.

“[Our customer bases] have all of those different people, all with different buying behaviors, goals and buy patterns,” said Pete Kehr, associate creative director at Wink. “We need to be just like the Coinstar machine for our customers. We help them sort them, segment them after which market to every one in all those customers, as uniquely as possible.”

From AI rabbit hole to a ‘circus act’ production

Once Wink Creative landed on the “clustomer” concept, the team went “down the AI rabbit hole” to assist determine what a clustomer would seem like. The agency has been working with artificial intelligence for a while, and its parent company recently introduced Intuit Assist, a generative AI platform.

“I just began to prompt [AI program] Midjourney with different words,” Kehr said. “We were trying to search out some form of daring, eye-catching visual representation of what a customer was going to be.”

While generative AI has been a hot topic in marketing all yr, Kehr noted that the human element was still key and that automation won’t do “your entire job for you.” Wink still needed to determine the emotional mind states of the assorted customers within the ball and write dialogue and scenarios that may deepen the campaign and be utilized in bumper ads and six-second clips on social.

The most striking a part of the campaign is the clustomer itself, which was created practically in production and resembles a Cirque du Soleil act comprised of each traditional actors and contortionists. A multi-day shoot for the spot ended up being rewarding not only for Wink and its partners, but in addition a few of the performers within the clustomer.

“You stick people in an enclosed space for a while, they’re gonna get to know one another, and by the top of the shoot, a lot of the solid members had developed real relationships, exchanging numbers and [making plans to] communicate,” Kehr said.

In-house insight

“Turn Clustomers into Customers” is the most recent work from Wink, an in-house agency that was founded in 2020. The shop now employs greater than 40 creatives and was named Ad Age’s in-house agency of the yr. While each Molinos and Kehr got here up within the agency world — past gigs include Wunderman Thompson, J. Walter Thompson and 22squared between them — the in-house approach has distinct advantages.

“It sharpens the whole lot,” said Molinos. “The indisputable fact that [the clients] are your co-workers… a lot of the friction that is perhaps inside a traditional agency-client relationship is broken down, and conversations feel a lot more casual and inclusive.  

“The best strength that any in-house place has is that they really know the product higher than anybody else,” he continued. “We live it, breathe it, every single day. So it’s sort of a superpower… it is unquestionably unique when it comes to speed and closeness.”

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