De Mol

About the project

A new voting system with personalised journeys

Emakina and Wunderman Thompson had one challenge: to give De Mol's passionate fans a more seamless and personalised voting experience. Together with Selligent, Emakina designed a new voting system, with a personalised journey for each viewer, which perfectly integrates with the existing TV channel VIER architecture. The result was an efficient voting organism designed to connect with voters in surprising ways and guarantee a truly immersive experience.

Client SBS Belgium
Agency Emakina.BE
Services Content & Motion design Digital advertising Marketing automation
Technology Selligent

The challenge

De Mol fans don't just follow the show intensely: they participate in real time, trying each week to uncover the mole through a voting platform that allows them to join in the fun. So, for the show's 2020 season, Emakina and Wunderman Thompson had one challenge: to give De Mol's fans a more seamless and personalised voting experience.

Our solution

Together with Selligent, Emakina designed a new voting system with a personalised journey, within VIER's existing technical architecture. Emakina and Selligent created an efficient system capable of handling a massive 2,000 data calls (votes) per minute. All of this, with dynamic pages synchronised with the start and end times of each episode.

We also ensured each user could log in with their existing credentials or create an account. It was also possible for participants to opt-in to the show's sponsor and into the VIER database. To encourage and reward participation, Emakina built loyalty mechanics so viewers won points for voting and sharing on Facebook.

The team applied member-get-member logic to give points to those who referred other new members through their unique ID, to spread the word and build the fan base.

The technology

With Emakina's and Selligent's combined expertise, we brought the full power of technology to optimise customer relationships.

Emakina Selligent

To connect with voters in a personalised way, Emakina set up automated and personalised email flows to stimulate action, with invitations and confirmations sent to the database at just the right moment. A dashboard was created to allow viewers to track voting results in real time, both on the website and shown on the TV show.

The results

  • Mini site
    131K
    votes cast
  • 14K
    Facebook shares from the platform
  • 3K
    votes by referral
  • Mini site
    6,181K
    new VIER users
  • 16K
    opt-ins for sponsor Rodenbach
  • 54%
    e-mail open rate
De Mol mockup pc and smartphone
De Mol 2019 finalists
Groups pciture De Mol