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Unicom Marketing

Brand activations that bring their own venue, in Malaysia and Singapore.

Kuala Lumpur · Malaysia
English, Malay, Mandarin
Also Singapore
Right now in Kuala Lumpur--:-- ·
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

Unicom Marketing POP Space activation for Safi on the street at Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur
Unicom Marketing POP Space activation for Safi on the street at Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur
Unicom Marketing event truck activation for Benefit Cosmetics, Make Pore Decisions
Unicom Marketing event truck activation for Benefit Cosmetics, Make Pore Decisions
Unicom Marketing 44-foot LED trailer for Celcom Business and Koble, The Fastest Route to Growth
Unicom Marketing 44-foot LED trailer for Celcom Business and Koble, The Fastest Route to Growth

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.

04Work

Case studies

Three of the agency's 11 write-ups. Each one opens 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

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.