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Case Studies · Anwar Media

Brands we've helped go to market.

Consulting, launches, events, marketing, and creator partnerships for founders and companies building in the US.

Companies launched
45+
ARR client (ImagineArt)
$40M+
Gala applicants
30,000
Follower reach at one dinner
103M
Case Study

ImagineArt from Pakistan to San Francisco.

Challenge
An AI creative suite built in Pakistan needed a real presence in the US market and the people who shape it.
Plan
We advised on the US go-to-market and threw a packed launch party in San Francisco with a couple hundred founders, creators, and investors.
Result
ImagineArt has since passed 6 million web users and grown to an estimated $40M+ in annual recurring revenue without raising outside venture capital.
Annual run rate
$40M+
At the SF launch
200+
Web users
6M+
Ilias Anwar with the ImagineArt team in front of the ImagineArt backdrop at the San Francisco launch party
Case Study

A $32B company on tour.

Challenge
A $32 billion company needed creators making content on its platform, and gave us two weeks' notice.
Plan
We built and ran a creator tour, teaching creators at every stop how to make content on the platform.
Result
Every stop sold out, and the platform grew to 3 million monthly users.
Company valuation
$32B
Notice to launch
2 weeks
Monthly users
3M
Speaker at a podium presenting a slide about 300+ million monthly users to a packed room of students
Packed lecture hall of students scanning QR codes on two projector screens during a creator workshop
Case Study

RedNote building a US creator base.

Challenge
RedNote needed American creators on the platform, starting with a campus creator program in the US.
Plan
We hosted a private dinner at the Harvard Club in New York and seated 30 creators with a combined 103 million followers at one table.
Result
One night put RedNote in front of 103 million followers' worth of reach and gave its US campus creator program its first wave of creators.
Combined followers
103M
Creators at the table
30
New York
Harvard Club
Case Study

Color Coded Crime at New York Fashion Week.

Challenge
Color Coded Crime, a Pakistani fashion brand, wanted to break into the US market.
Plan
We put them on the New York Fashion Week calendar, matched them with an agency and the partners they needed to stage the show, and shut down an entire street for it.
Result
The show generated 500,000+ views and grew their following by a few thousand across every social platform.
Views generated
500K+
Shut down for the show
1 street
New York
NYFW
Case Study

Canvas Creators Are The New Studios.

Challenge
Canvas, an AI studio that helps creators build and own micro-dramas and short-form shows, needed creators with real audiences to make shows on the platform.
Plan
We produced the Creators Are The New Studios launch party in San Francisco during SF Tech Week, filled the room with 400 creators, founders, and investors, and brokered deals with the creators in it.
Result
We helped Canvas secure 15 shows. It now distributes its original series, built with creators reaching 3M+ followers combined, through its own streaming channel, Canvas OTT.
Shows secured
15
At the SF launch
400
Creator reach
3M+
Case Study

Black Tie Gala with SpaceX, MongoDB and more.

Challenge
Sponsors like SpaceX and MongoDB wanted to reach founders, engineers, and builders, not just buy a logo on a wall.
Plan
We built an application-only black tie gala, so every guest had to raise their hand to get in.
Result
30,000 people applied, giving sponsors a demand signal and an audience far larger than the room. The night was covered in the San Francisco Post.
People applied
30,000
Sponsors
SpaceX, MongoDB
As featured in
San Francisco Post
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