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AI & Web3

Lay’s: Messi Messages
Challenge
Scale a Messi-led fan interaction so it felt personal while still working as a robust campaign platform.
Idea
A personalized message experience combining generated content, clear user flow, and launch-grade front-end delivery.
Role
Technical Lead
Tech
  • Personalization
  • AI-assisted media
  • Campaign platform
  • Front-end build
Result
FWA-recognized personalized campaign experience for Lay's.
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Lay’s Messi Messages is a deepfake-powered experience allowing fans from all over the world to generate their own personalised video messages from the football star himself, spoken flawlessly in their local language. Using an intuitive chat-based interface, users can communicate with Messi and provide key information to fill him in on their plans for watching the match. Seconds later, the footballer springs onto their screen with a Cameo-style personal invitation to watch the game, filled with references to their submitted names, dates and places. With ten different language options to choose from, users can generate an almost limitless store of bespoke invitations to share with friends and family from all over the world in group chats and on social platforms.

Challenge

The campaign had to make a celebrity-led message feel personal at scale.

Idea

Let personalization drive the experience, then keep the surrounding interface simple enough for a broad fan audience.

Execution

Led the front-end delivery around generated message flow, media states, and campaign-grade reliability.

Result

An FWA-recognized personalized experience that turned Messi fandom into a shareable digital moment.

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Role
Technical Lead
Start
01 Dec 2020
Launch
01 Mar 2021

Project context

The experience supported ten languages and generated personalised video invitations through a chat interface. UNIT9 reports 38 million hits in the first 24 hours and lists both FWA and Cannes Lions recognition.

Lay’s: Messi Messages — UNIT9 case study visual
Studio
UNIT9
Archive release
2021-03-22

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