The target audience - politically active people interested in obtaining true information. They actively use social networks and live in metropolitan cities.

The project was trending in press and among ordinary users by a lots of posts, memes, reaction videos and photos.

The only Russian independent TV-channel was taken off air by all satellite and cable providers because of an order from ‘above’.

The TV-channel continues to broadcast online through paid subscriptions.

The goal was to increase the number of channel subscribers.

In 2014 the country’s only independent TV-channel was taken off air by all satellite and cable providers because of an order from ‘above’. The TV-channel, however, hasn’t stopped covering the real state of affairs in Russia. Now one can get an access to truth only through paid subscriptions.

In 2015 Vladimir Putin promised to help the channel ease the censorship burden. He did it again in 2016 and 2017 during his annual press conferences. But the miracle has not happened yet.

A week before the regular press conference-2018 we made his promises true. Everyone could get access to the channel’s broadcast for 24 hours if they demonstrated the president’s portrait to the web camera.

The target audience - politically active people interested in obtaining true information. They actively use social networks and live in metropolitan cities.

A week before the regular Putin`s press conference we launched ‘Putin turns on the Rain’.

Everyone could get free access to the TV-channel for 24 hours if they demonstrated the president’s portrait to the web camera.

The information spread in social networks, blogs; interest to it reached the peak by the time of Putin's press conference. At the press conference, a journalist ‘turned the Rain on’ with the real president’s face.

Face recognition technology identified Putin’s face and opened access to TV-channel’s broadcast.

At Putin`s press conference representatives of the TV-channel opened the channel using the real face of the President.

14,520,076 Media impressions.

Conversion rate 16.7% (every sixth person opened the access).

For two weeks only the number of subscribers grew by 3.9 %