Isak Danielson

Overview

Isak Danielson’s third album campaign, Tomorrow Never Came, was focused on creating meaningful interactions between Isak and his global fanbase and it reflected the overall album theme of honesty around personal experiences.

When creating the album, Isak crafted a physical scrapbook, which included moodboards, collages of inspiration and video treatments for the songs. This handcrafted book became an important part of providing fans with an insight into the album and its vision.

Each song on the album had an accompanying video, which premiered on YouTube. Isak did a live redirect on the platform where he hung out with fans answering questions before the viewing of each music video and he participated in multiple live chats.

Upon album release an interactive book site was launched. Fans could unlock the digital scrapbook containing voiceovers from Isak alongside videos/ images, by typing the password that could be found via the songs’ Spotify Canvas covers (for fans using other DSPs, a hidden entrance button could be found on the page).

When unlocking the scrapbook fans could sign up to win the physical book and have the chance of getting invited to an intimate digital hangout with Isak Danielson (25 of his fans were invited).

Isak’s track ‘Always’ (remix version) trended on TikTok globally and particularly in Indonesia during the campaign. We made sure to create a presence on the platform quickly, where Isak addressed his new listeners and re-created the dance videos. The videos were supported by a targeted campaign, which gave an incremental follower increase.

Additionally, Isak’s streams have grown over the years on Anghami and with the help of The Orchard’s international team we worked at addressing those fans and the platform specifically with a tailored campaign for the platform.

Key Learnings

We set out to create a campaign that created meaningful interaction between Isak and his fans and we wanted to grow his international audience across platforms he had previously underutilised, such as YouTube and TikTok.

YouTube stats

• 80k growth (43.2% increase) in YouTube subscribers over six months

• Overall YouTube streams growth to over 5m weekly streams (2647% increase in weekly streams compared to Jan. 2021).

 

Indonesian fanbase grew to be his largest streaming territory overall over past year.

 

TikTok ads campaign gave an incremental follower increase on the platform (3264% growth) and ‘Always’ (the original track) reached the TikTok global charts (#1514).

 

A specific focus on Anghami and Middle Eastern fans

• He is currently in the top 5 streaming artists within The Orchard’s roster – and the only international artist present on that list.

• Besides exponential playlist support, Isak got the cover of New Pop and more. Anghami also supported the pre-save campaign through their Instagram with specialised messages that Isak recorded as well as across the Anghami music charts.

• The album has over 8.3m streams since its release.

 

Social media results

• 43.2% increase in YouTube subscribers

• 80k new subscribers in six months

• TikTok increase 3,264% in follower growth

• 11.4% increase in Instagram followers

• 20.2% increase in Spotify followers

 

Traffic campaign

Impressions – 18,037,997

Clicks – 241,489 / CTR – 1.34%

 

TikTok performance engagement campaign

Impressions – 2,563,047 Follows – 44, 053

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