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Telecom · Ghana

How Vodafone Ghana reached 4.2M people in 3 weeks

One campaign, run across the content Ghanaian audiences already trust — at a flat price, measured down to the creator.

4.2M
People reached in 3 weeks
8.7%
Average engagement rate
38
Creators at a flat GH₵ price each

Vodafone Ghana wanted to lift brand affinity among under-30s ahead of its Red Season push — the audience that lives on creator video and tunes out traditional advertising. The team had three weeks, one hero creative, and a mandate to prove the spend.

The challenge

Ghana's youngest, most connected audience is also its hardest to reach with conventional media. They skip the ads on the open web, ignore static display, and trust their favourite creators far more than any brand channel. Vodafone's marketing team had a clear brief and a clear goal — measurable brand lift among 18-to-29s in Accra and Kumasi — but no efficient way to get that message inside content this audience actually watches through to the end.

Sponsoring creators one by one wasn't viable on the timeline. Each conversation meant separate negotiations, separate briefs, separate invoices, and no shared view of performance. The team needed reach and accountability, and they needed both inside three weeks.

The campaign

Vodafone posted a single brief to ClipAd: target markets, audience, budget in cedis, and the kind of creators they wanted. Within 48 hours they had a shortlist of vetted creators and approved a roster of 38 across Accra and Kumasi — lifestyle, comedy, football, and everyday-life channels whose audiences matched the brief.

From there the platform did the heavy lifting. ClipAd's AI scanned each creator's long-form uploads, detected natural scene breaks, and surfaced each creator's strongest clips. Creators approved the clips on their side, and Vodafone's campaign ran across every approved clip — the creator featuring the brand in their own content. The brand reviewed and signed off on each placement before anything went live.

  • One campaign booked across 38 creators — no per-creator production.
  • AI clip detection surfaced the strongest clips in existing long-form video.
  • Placements ran across approved clips, with the brand signing off on each one.
  • A flat GH₵ price per creator, set by view tier — no CPM, no per-impression billing.
  • Creators paid in Ghana Cedis via Mobile Money (MoMo), keeping ~70% of each placement.
  • A basic delivery dashboard broken out by creator and city — advanced impression analytics coming soon.

Because everything ran through one marketplace, Vodafone could shift weight toward the creators that were over-delivering while the campaign was still in flight — moving budget toward Kumasi football channels that were posting engagement well above the roster average.

We finally had reach and proof in the same place. We could watch performance by creator in real time and move budget the same afternoon — that just isn't possible with traditional sponsorships.

The results

Over three weeks the campaign reached 4.2 million people across Accra and Kumasi and held an average engagement rate of 8.7% — multiples above what Vodafone's team saw from comparable paid-social activity. Most importantly for the finance team, the cost was a flat GH₵ price per creator, set by each creator's recent view tier and known before launch — no per-impression true-up, no surprise invoice at the end. Every cedi was traceable to a creator and a city in the campaign dashboard. Creators were paid in Ghana Cedis via Mobile Money, and several have since joined Vodafone's always-on roster for the next campaign.

“ClipAd gave us the reach of the whole creator economy and the accountability of a performance channel. For the first time, a creator campaign was something our finance team could sign off on without a leap of faith.”
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Nana Adjei
Marketing Lead, Vodafone Ghana

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