2018 was a year that the mobile phone industry suffered a market downturn in China(overall sales declined 13%).2018 was also a year of consumption aesthetic upgrade. Under this trend, phone is not only a tool but also a fashion item. To turn sales around, Chinese popular mobile phone brand vivo upgraded its aesthetic releasing a new wide shot series, including a special designed version ‘vivo logo phone’ which its logo printed in the back of the phone to show its sense and attitude of fashion.

Meanwhile, in China, rap became a fashion icon due to the show ‘The rap of China’. vivo, as a young brand, who wants to be popular, must be featured by rap to make it into a fashion item.

Therefore, vivo join the show to feature its wide shot series into a fashion item by co-creating branded masterpieces of rap.

The music co-creation of vivo &‘The Rap of China’ introduces a concept of ‘brand rap album’. We invites the competitors from this show, combining vivo selling point-wide angle, to create their own style rap copies, concept video and golden melody to make up an album showing vivo’s wide horizon.

With the show’s 13 episodes on airing, each masterpieces of vivo’s album released in sequence according to the competitors ‘journey in the show. Take vivo’s rap album as the OST of the show to make a perfect fusion of brand and content.

We introduced a producing concept of ‘brand ablum’first. Then, benchmarked vivo wide series to luxury, using luxury making philosophy(visuality /spirituality /rarity) to produce vivo’s contents forming the album, including twelve raps fitted in vivo’s aesthetics by different rappers?a concept video to show vivo’s spirit narrated by popular rapper Young Jack and a rare golden melody ‘Call my name’ for Logo Phone.

These three kinds of masterpieces are not only played along with the show in the form of video , but also transformed into mp3 to play in the music platform(QQ music\ Netease music )or BGM in the e-commerce platform. It even transformed into interactive short video to play in the short video platform-Tik Tok. So as to make vivo’s album influence over the net.

Article debut in the show of ‘The Rap of China’:

(The show on air in the top online video platform from the 14th,July, 2018 to the 6th ,Oct,2018 )

(1) Article 2:Twelve Rap Copies

Different styles and rappers for each rap debut in each episode(one episode per week )

(2) Article 2: Rapper’s Narrating Concept Video

Young Jack as representative rapper showing the spirit of hip-pop and vivo at his encore( at the 11th episode)

(3)Article 3: Brand Melody ‘Call My Name’

A brand melody sang by champion candidates debut at the moment of champion revealing

Article spread outside the show:

(1) Recommended on music platform (QQ music\ Netease music) from the 14th,July to the 2ed ,Nov

(2) Taking ‘Call my name ’as the BGM to launch short video interact in Tik tok from 6th ,Oct to the 2ed ,Nov

Three kinds of masterpieces gained a high reach, talk and interaction(4 billion views totally). (1)Twelve rap copies gains 1.3 billion views; (2)Young Jack’s narrating concept video gaining 100 million views, became a viral in the internet; (3)The golden melody ‘Call my name’ getting 2.6 billion video views totally, became a rare advertisement song appealing in the Top Musics. All these enhance vivo’s preference in different dimensions:

Sales:

During the communication period (Q3), vivo has changed the downturn, its year-on-year growth rate reach to 15%. And its sales volumes reaches to 20.62 million, becoming the top sale brand.

Brand asset:

The correlation index between vivo and ‘The rap of China ‘reach to249, 3 times over average correlation. Strongly bounding vivo with hip-pop, enhance vivo’s sense of fashion.

User Relationship:

The golden melody get 78% favourable comment in the SNS. And gained 230 thousand fans in Tik Tok.