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the running brand we gave three faces. on purpose.

Craycol sells eyewear to runners: pros who read specs, functional buyers who want proof, beginners who choose by colour. One voice would reach none of them. We built three.

The running community looks like one audience and buys like three. Pros read spec sheets, functional buyers want the product demonstrated fast, beginners pick by colour. One campaign voice would average them into nobody. Craycol needed aesthetically different systems for each cohort, without the brand falling apart in the middle.

Services

Creative strategy
Creative production
Film
Photography
Creative strategy
Creative production
Film
Photography

the running brand we gave three faces. on purpose.

Craycol sells eyewear to runners: pros who read specs, functional buyers who want proof, beginners who choose by colour. One voice would reach none of them. We built three.

The running community looks like one audience and buys like three. Pros read spec sheets, functional buyers want the product demonstrated fast, beginners pick by colour. One campaign voice would average them into nobody. Craycol needed aesthetically different systems for each cohort, without the brand falling apart in the middle.

Services

Creative strategy
Creative production
Film
Photography

Date

Aug 2024

Client

Craycol

Industry

Sports eyewear / D2C

Timeline

0 Months

Creative Strategy

The norm is one brand voice. We deliberately built three.

The algorithm clusters people by the content they respond to, so each system was designed to be found by its own cohort. For the marathons, a look and feel made for the occasion: Mumbai and Ladakh each got campaign aesthetics that announced the stall and matched the event's energy. For the functionality-first buyer, a fast-paced unboxing built to demonstrate, not decorate. Different speeds, different registers, one brand underneath.

Creative Production

One shoot brief, cut three ways: colour for beginners, speed for the functional, spec for the pros.

Multiple hook patterns per concept, each engineered to travel and to teach the algorithm who it belongs to. Four shoots across Bandra's Wings and Ladakh fed the system. The colour statics leaned into the product itself, built around the frames' own palette for beginner runners who buy the colour before the tech. Unboxings and concept films like Spoilt for Choice, all crafted without AI, all heading one direction: by race day, every runner already knew which pair was theirs.

Results, not prophecies

Shoots across Mumbai and Ladakh, separate crews

Shoots across Mumbai and Ladakh, separate crews

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Assets across three cohort systems

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Assets across three cohort systems

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Event sales target, achieved

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Event sales target, achieved

Three systems, one brand, no confusion at the stall. At the marathons, people didn't discover Craycol. They arrived knowing which pair was theirs.