Case Study

Brand building: Localising a global story.

Our Role

Strategic consulting, digital campaigns, influencer marketing, Google ads, Meta ads

Fish has an irreplaceable part in Kerala’s food culture. Kerala’s ubiquitous rivers and long coastline ensure the high availability of fresh fish around the year for its fish-loving populace. With easy access to homegrown spices and condiments, malayalees have a unique style of preparing their flavourful seafood delights.

Context

Canned tuna is one of the key products of Tasty Nibbles, a brand owned by a large Indo-Japanese seafood export house based in Kerala. Packed with Japanese retort technology it has a shelf life of 18 months. The brand wanted to enter and grow the domestic market to offset the demand fluctuations in the export market.  

Task assigned to Storygraphs

Storygraphs was assigned the task of generating demand for Tasty Nibbles Canned Tuna in Kerala market. After research and deliberations, four sets of content assets were created to drive this. Set one, communicated the health benefits of Tuna. The high protein content of this middle sea swimmer made it an excellent choice for fitness enthusiasts and muscle builders. Set two, communicated the convenience of using ready-to-eat Tuna in preparing quick hunger busters like sandwiches, wraps, salads etc. Set three, communicated that the cooked Tuna chunks in cans were an easy way to make curries. All one needed was to make the gravy, the chunks could just be added to it to make curry. Set four, was to create brand preference among people who could be using canned tuna already by positioning Tasty Nibbles as the world’s favourite Indian tuna. These content assets were AB tested on meta platforms. None of it delivered sales. An analysis of data points revealed that Set three had generated significantly higher traffic to the e-commerce platform though did not result in conversions. One-to-one enquiries with a small group of this segment revealed that the communication direction of easy fish curry did generate interest among them but the form of the product ie, canned tuna was the deterrent.

Telling stories that sell

On the basis of this insight Tasty Nibbles launched three test products. Shappile Fish Curry, which brought the toddy shop flavours in a ready-to-eat pack. fish mulakittath, brought the authentic Kerala spicy flavours to the table. Kerala fish curry in coconut milk drives the Japanese Retort Packaging Technology and its capacity to lock in the freshness of food with 0% added preservatives, even with an ingredient like coconut milk. Focused campaigns on meta, google and influencer marketing were deployed to communicate the offerings. Content assets like Fish Curries of Kerala; and Shaap Stories delivered high engagement and conversion.

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