Kris Makuch

Tandem

Social media for a challenger bank launching into a market where nobody had heard of it and trust was the entire product.

Client
Tandem
Role
Social media
Discipline
Campaign and social
Year
2016

Objective

Tandem was building a challenger bank. A new bank has a problem no other new company has: the product it is selling is trust, and trust is the one thing a launch cannot manufacture.

Social is an awkward channel for that. It rewards personality and speed; a bank is bought on the opposite qualities. Sound too corporate and there is no reason to follow; sound too loose and you have undermined the only thing you were selling.

Creative response

Social media.

  • Social media for the Tandem launch period. Delivered 2016
  • Social media for the Tandem launch period. Delivered 2016

Results

10,000clicks to the website via This is Money
1,000+new customers, attributed to that content

0 → 6,000+, Twitter following built from a standing start

11,000co-founders in Tandem's community at the time