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Spotify
Music & Technology
New Product Category

Echo Lens

See Your Sound

Introduce AR sunglasses that visualise music frequencies as ambient holograms in real time.

Campaign brief

The strategic inputs

Everything the generated asset set had to satisfy, stated before any image existed.

Objectives

  • Boost Spotify Premium retention among Gen Z
  • Drive 100M #EchoLens TikTok views
  • Create a new wearable-tech revenue stream

Target audience

Urban commuters & music trend-setters

Brand
Spotify
Industry
Music & Technology

Deliverables

Campaign assets

Each asset keeps its prompt, model, and output size so the generation is reproducible.

Hologram Walk (Print)

Hologram Walk (Print)

Twilight street style portrait with neon-green waveforms.

Prompt

Editorial photography, 4800x3200 px, 300dpi; subject wearing slim black AR glasses; translucent neon audio ribbons wrap around; soft bokeh city lights.

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Product Cut-Out

Product Cut-Out

Isolated Echo Lens on white with soft shadow for catalog.

Prompt

High-key pack-shot, 4800x3200; reflective black acetate frame, subtle Spotify green accents; room for spec call-outs.

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Spectral Cityscape

Spectral Cityscape

Wide shot of skyline with music frequencies floating in air.

Prompt

Cinematic panorama; equaliser bars hover above crosswalks; cool teal/green palette; print-quality 6000x2400 px.

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Lifestyle Duo

Lifestyle Duo

Two friends comparing hologram effects in a café setting.

Prompt

Documentary style; warm café interior; subtle lens flare; AR waveforms reflected in lenses; print-ready 300dpi.

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video

Synaesthesia POV Story

8-second vertical POV clip through glasses—beats turn into floating bars.

Prompt

Vertical 1080x1920; first-person view; equaliser bars dance over zebra crossing; background audio low-fi beat.

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Teaching notes

Why this campaign is worth studying

Strategic framing for a data-driven decision making discussion.

Learning objectives

This case study shows how AI can visualize abstract concepts (like music visualization) for emerging technology products.

Business context

Spotify's Echo Lens AR sunglasses represent a new product category, requiring education of consumers about augmented reality music visualization. The campaign targeted urban commuters and music trendsetters with goals of boosting Premium retention and creating viral social content with 100M TikTok views.

AI application

AI generated campaign assets that made the abstract concept of 'seeing music' tangible through visual metaphors, holographic effects, and lifestyle photography that demonstrated the product's unique value proposition.

Key insights for marketers

  1. 1

    Abstract tech concepts need concrete visual representation.

  2. 2

    Lifestyle photography helps consumers envision product usage.

  3. 3

    Social media formats require different creative approaches than print.

  4. 4

    AR/VR products benefit from POV (point-of-view) content.

Model credits

What generated each asset

Every deliverable stores the model that produced it, so the creative record stays auditable.

Image generation

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  • Hologram Walk (Print)
  • Product Cut-Out
  • Spectral Cityscape
  • Lifestyle Duo

Video generation

fal-ai/veo3/fast

  • Synaesthesia POV Story

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