Case Studies
Google Asia Pacific
Client
One of the world’s largest technology companies, Google (Asia Pacific)

Brief
- To source for co-marketing partners for Google Southeast Asia to promote Google AdWords and increase acquisition of advertisers
- Partners should originate from suitable industries with direct communication channels to an engaged corporate SME audience
- Partners should not be existing contacts nor resellers
Objectives
- To increase awareness of Google AdWords as an effective advertising solutions to SME audience, and acquire new advertisers
- To leverage on the trusted communication platforms by partners to promote & support the AdWords messaging
- To entice trial by partners’ customers (currently non-AdWords advertisers) with the free AdWords trial credit, and ideally continue as advertisers after trial
Solution
- To propose & negotiate with potential partners with suitable SME clientele base and engaged frequent communication channels. Partnership Marketing (PM) collaborated with Partnership Marketing Network (PMN) to:
- Assess
- Shortlist
- Source
- Acquire
- One of the successful co-marketing partners is DBS Singapore, who will leverage this AdWords trial credit to achieve their marketing goals (commercial card refresh) for a win-win situation
- Communication sent across multiple channels such as:
- Welcome Kit to 15k recipients
- Marketing messages in monthly statement inserts to 15k customers
Co-marketing PARTNER

DBS’ welcome kit
> Printed Communication – Cover

DBS’ welcome kit
> Printed Communication

Results
- This program is just launched at time of publish
- Final response of activation rate and continued usage from partner’s customer base will be shared at later stage