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Unicom Marketing
Brand activations that bring their own venue, in Malaysia and Singapore.
- Best for
- Media & ActivationActivation, Events, Outdoor
- Works in
- MalaysiaEnglish, Malay, Mandarin
- Established
- Independent agency2 offices · English, Malay, Mandarin
01Overview
Who they are
Unicom Marketing is an event and brand activation agency based in Seri Kembangan, on the southern edge of Kuala Lumpur, with a second office in Bukit Batok, Singapore. It puts the count of brands it has taken on the ground across the two markets at more than a hundred.
What it owns is the venue itself. POP Space is a modular unit that opens out of a truck into a room; beside it sit 44-foot LED trailers, event trucks and kombi vans, so a campaign can stand outside a mall in Bukit Bintang one weekend and a resort in Sentosa the next. The interactive layer is built rather than hired: event gamification, digital and non-digital interactive devices, and Unilytics, the agency's own tool for capturing and reporting what happens at the stand.
The client list runs from beauty and fashion, among them Lancome, Jo Malone, Estee Lauder, Jimmy Choo and Charles & Keith, through automotive with Toyota, Honda and Mercedes-Benz, to platforms and telcos including Grab, WeChat, Airbnb and Celcom, plus the Malaysian broadcasters Astro and Media Prima. Unicom puts its own aim beyond the two markets it holds: to redefine event experiences across the Asia-Pacific region.
Inside Unicom Marketing
02Services
What they do
3 service lines the agency publishes on its own site. Open one for the result behind it, who it is for, what it includes and how it runs.
Unicom builds digital activations around the consumer. Its interactive media work includes virtual experiential events such as conferences, webinars, launches and online concerts run with an in-house broadcasting team; virtual showrooms made with 360-degree video, VR and AR by 3D designers and content creators; personalised mini games that carry brand messages; and face analysis for beauty brands. Unilytics adds crowd analytics: zoning heat maps, demographic data from face recognition, location- and weather-based content and a live dashboard.
- Built for
- Brands in retail, events and real estate that want online or on-screen activations and data on how people engage.
- Includes
- Interactive MediaUnilytics
- Platforms
- UnilyticsPLAYROOM 2.0ARVR
- Clients get
- Customer skin concerns known before they visit the store
- Physical showrooms explored from home
- Plain-language dashboards by hour, day or month
- Content matched to location, weather and time
- Outcome
- Digital brand experiences with data behind them
Unicom owns proprietary devices and builds interactive media that mix physical and digital elements at an activation, an approach it calls phygital. Its digital range includes photo booths, face analysis panels, interactive panels and tablets, touchscreen TVs, digital vending machines and motion and voice sensor panels. The non-digital range covers claw machines, cotton candy machines, sampling dispensers, gashapon machines, human billboards, lucky draw spin wheels and wind chambers. Devices can be paired with event gamification, with the stated focus on brand recall and data capture.
- Built for
- Brands running activations that want people to play, interact and leave data at the booth.
- Includes
- Digital Interactive DevicesNon-Digital Interactive Devices
- Clients get
- Stronger brand recall from hands-on interaction
- Consumer data collected at the touchpoint
- Engagement that keeps audiences coming back
- Selected work
- TOP Custom game on truck-mounted digital panels teaching product USPs and collecting a database.
- Eu Yan Sang Shout-to-win challenge on truck digital panels during a month-long CNY tour.
- Result
- TOP. A month-long CNY tour where audiences played a custom game on digital panels that also enabled database collection.
- Outcome
- Interactive event touchpoints that capture data
Unicom offers full event management from concept to culmination. Services include product sampling and demonstrations, on-ground advertising, instant surveys, database collection, content creation and interactive activities, mobile sales, flyer distribution and event staffing, where the team recruits brand ambassadors for attitude, look and communication skills. It also uses event content to drive social media traffic. Its case studies show logistics, production and staffing handled under one roof, and user flow managed with stations for sampling, pre-orders and enquiries.
- Built for
- Brands running on-ground activations, sampling or mobile sales that need the whole event handled.
- Includes
- Product sampling & demonstrationOn-ground advertisingInstant surveys & database collectionEvent content & social trafficMobile sales activitiesEvent staffing & flyer distribution
- Clients get
- Consumers can taste, touch and try the product
- Customer data captured for future marketing
- Audience feedback that sharpens communication strategy
- Fewer suppliers, with logistics, production and staffing in-house
- Selected work
- Singapore Airlines Mock-up of A380 Business Class and Suites on a truck and LED trailer, toured across Singapore.
- Yogood Month-long Kombi van sampling and sales tour staffed by trained brand ambassadors.
- Crystal Jade End-to-end Mid-Autumn activation with sampling, pre-order and enquiry stations.
- Result
- Singapore Airlines. Gave over 10,000 people a mock-up A380 Business Class experience, with logistics, production and staffing under one roof.
- Outcome
- Activations run from concept to close
03Clients
Who they work with
Brands the agency names on its own site. Those with a case study come first; select one to see the work behind it.
UNICEF · case study
Safi · case study
Singapore Airlines · case study
Courts · case study
Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix · case study
Victoria's Secret · case study
G2000 · case study
Eu Yan Sang · case study
TOP · case study
3INA · case study
Toyota
Mercedes-Benz
Lancome
Jimmy Choo
Grab
Astro
Lenovo
CapitaLand
04Work
Case studies
Three of the agency's 11 write-ups. Each one opens on unicommarketing.com.my.
A 15-footer truck turned mobile beauty station for 3INA's launchUnicom customised its 15-footer truck into a mobile beauty station and spent 12 days at high-traffic Klang Valley locations, with make-up artists doing lip touch-ups and trained Brand Ambassadors expl…
Read it on unicommarketing.com.my ↗
An interactive truck game for TOP detergent at Chinese New YearFor almost 1 month a branded 10-footer truck visited 2 locations a day across Peninsula Malaysia, where audiences played a custom game on its digital panels designed to explain product USPs and collec…
Read it on unicommarketing.com.my ↗
A shouting game on two event trucks for Eu Yan Sang's Chinese New YearUsing two 10-footer mobile event trucks with digital panels, Unicom spent 1 month travelling across Peninsula Malaysia, inviting audiences to shout into the panels for prizes, backed by Brand Ambassad…
Read it on unicommarketing.com.my ↗
05Evidence
Proof of results
Awards
- 2017Bronze, Excellent in Direct Marketingadvertising + marketing Magazine’s Marketing Excellent Awards
- 2017Finalist, Excellent in Sport Marketingadvertising + marketing Magazine’s Marketing Excellent Awards
06Working together
How they work
Offices
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysiainquiry@
unicommarketing.com.my
+60 12-608 9216+60 12-871 3048 - Singapore
07Perspective
Recent writing
How they think, in their own writing. Filed for AMIN APAC first, then from their own site.
All posts
Brief Unicom Marketing through AMIN APAC
One brief, straight to the team in Kuala Lumpur. No holding company in between.





