Case

Jimmy Alter Community

Briefing

Creating an active community for music minded youngsters, age 15-25, who are hard to reach through traditional media. This community of early adopters spreads the word about upcoming bands and events and actively takes part in campaigns promoting famous bands.

Solution

In 2005, Fortress created an online platform entitled Jimmy Alter comprising of a blog, a forum, and internet video and radio, supported by offline activities such as street marketing and TV. The platform produces its own content and has a large team of bloggers, journalists and photographers contributing to it.

Jimmy Alter stands for your alter ego who loves to check out real music that is fresh, original and at times alternative. Jimmy isn't interested in the hypes around "manufactured" bands and pop stars.  By combining  offline / street visibility with a very active online blog, passionate music lovers are reached and activated by the one thing they love most: music.

Result

Through various partnerships (e.g. print, retail, TV, online) and activation campaigns the platform has become one of the leading music portals in the Netherlands and Belgium. With over 15.000 members, 3.000 members in the offline streetteam, 320.000 mini magazines a year and a weekly TV show, Jimmy reached 245.000 youngsters a month.
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