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Zanzi Hot and Spicy value pack surrounded by noodles, tomatoes and green chillies
A Video Cartel Case Study

From launch assets to Zanzi power

From launch assets
to Zanzi power.

Finding the direction.
Bringing it to life.

Brand consultancy
Molo ↗
Creative & production
The Video Cartel
Applications
Social / Point of sale

Zanzi, a startup instant noodle brand, needed launch assets. Working alongside Marina from Molo, a brand consultancy company, we helped define how Zanzi would be visually represented through their social and point of sale imagery.

AI helped us shape the creative strategy and deliver it within the business’s time and budget.

A launch brief with bigger questions.

The packaging was in place. Our task was to explore how people would see it: individual packs, product groupings and lifestyle. In all formats.

Chicken flavour product launch image
Hot and spicy flavour product launch image
Zanzi value pack with individual sachets
“Most importantly, as a new challenger in the category, ZANZi couldn’t look like the established brands. The imagery had to be highly distinctive.”
Marina, Molo

What does Zanzi power feel like?

We wanted to make “Zanzi power” visceral: the feeling of breathing in the power as you eat.

Who was enjoying it? Where? And how could we make that feeling visible?

Enjoying Zanzi at home
Enjoying Zanzi at a hair salon
Friends enjoying Zanzi on the go

Finding the direction by seeing it.

AI let us explore different answers quickly. Together with Marina and the client, we developed numerous design iterations which enabled us to compare, question and refine the imagery.

That visual journey helped shape the creative strategy and sharpen the brief.

Zanzi creative exploration board showing variations in pack composition, noodles, ingredients and flavour imagery
Exploring the visual direction: pack compositions, ingredients and flavour.

Making the ambition achievable.

We established the scope, timing and budget early. A traditional shoot would have been difficult within Zanzi’s launch constraints.

AI offered a practical way to produce the creative we had developed together.

“Their real-world production experience also shows in the styling, lighting and attention to detail.”
Marina, Molo

From the feed to the shop floor.

We developed the imagery for social media and larger point-of-sale formats, carrying Zanzi power across each application.

Buttercorn point-of-sale image
Beef point-of-sale image
Hot and spicy point-of-sale image

The right fit for the brief.

AI helped us define what to make, then make it. Delivering a connected set of launch assets quickly and at a substantially lower cost than a comparable traditional production.

For Zanzi, it fitted the ambition and the realities of the business.

Lifestyle / Late night work
Product / Curry
Lifestyle / Varsity girls
“We had limited time, a tight budget and a long list of deliverables, and everything was delivered on time and within budget.”
Marina, Molo

Making Zanzi power visible.

“The process ended up producing the ZANZi lifestyle image blueprint we’ll use going forward.”
Marina, Molo
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