Alone With Me: A one-on-one AI experience with The Weeknd.

The Weeknd’s latest record-shattering album, After Hours, was the biggest album of 2020. We were tasked to promote the album during the global pandemic when The Weeknd could no longer tour. Because of this, we had to find an entirely new way to connect and engage with his fans. Since fans couldn’t see The Weeknd perform, we brought The Weeknd to them. Using deep learning technology, each fan could have a personalized one-on-one with the biggest artist in the world. The Weeknd starts by personally thanking you for being a fan. He seems to know everything about you as he comments on your Spotify data – your name, your favourite song, even the year you started listening to his music. The experience turns into an intimate listening session of his After Hours album, allowing fans to interact with his

This digital experience ran online and was shared by The Weeknd to his ~30 million Instagram followers and ~14 million Twitter followers. Over 600,000 fans visited the site in the first 48 hours.

The digital site experience launched August 18th, 2020, and is still up and running.