Case Study · Branding · Collaterals · Film · Performance

Client
Emaar India

Building addresses,
not just transactions.

How The Brand Bee turned Emaar India into the most aspirational lifestyle brand in Indian real estate - through storytelling, craft and consistency across film, collateral and the feed.

+220%
Impressions, 15M to 48M
+160%
Engagement lift
+30%
Uplift in brand recall
Client
Emaar India
Industry
Real estate & lifestyle
Region
India · NCR & NRI markets
Duration
12 months
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The Client

A global developer, chasing the most aspirational position in Indian real estate.

Emaar India is one of the country's leading real estate developers and the Indian arm of the global Emaar group. Headquartered in Gurugram, it has built a reputation for design excellence, quality and community living across Delhi NCR, Mohali, Lucknow, Indore and Jaipur - with landmark developments such as Emaar Digi Homes, Emerald Hills, Palm Hills and Urban Oasis.

Its objective is clear - to be the most aspirational lifestyle brand in Indian real estate while driving qualified leads across both domestic and NRI markets.

Industry
Real estate development & lifestyle
Portfolio
Digi Homes, Emerald Hills, Palm Hills, Urban Oasis & commercial
Region
Gurugram & Delhi NCR · Mohali, Lucknow, Indore, Jaipur + NRI

Objectives

01

Strengthen digital presence and brand storytelling across markets.

02

Generate high-quality leads for luxury residential and commercial projects.

03

Reduce overall cost per lead while improving conversion rates.

04

Establish Emaar India as the top real estate brand across the NCR and key Indian markets.

The Challenge

Selling a life, on a decision cycle measured in months.

High-value property is not an impulse purchase. Reaching investors and HNWIs across India and the diaspora - and holding them through a months-long cycle - demanded desire at the top and precision at the bottom.

Volume up and cost per lead down, simultaneously. That is the whole brief.

A

Lifestyle, not listings

Selling an aspirational way of life rather than transactional property features.

B

Domestic + NRI reach

Engaging NCR home-buyers and NRIs across the Gulf, the UK and the US at once.

C

High-value, long cycles

Reaching investors and HNWIs whose decisions span months, not days.

D

Efficiency at scale

Driving lead volume up while pushing cost per lead well below benchmark.

Our Approach

A 360 system: desire, capture, convert.

A 360-degree system blending aspirational storytelling with laser-targeted performance marketing - turning brand desire into measurable, cost-efficient pipeline.

1

360 brand storytelling

  • Lifestyle-led content - showcasing not just properties but the Emaar India way of life: luxury, community and convenience.
  • Premium creative - drone shots, cinematic lifestyle films and luxury walkthroughs across Instagram, YouTube and Display.
  • Localised messaging in Hindi and English for maximum domestic and NRI relevance.
  • Outcome: impressions up 220% (15M to 48M in six months), engagement up 160%, and a 30% uplift in brand recall among NCR home-buyers.
2

Performance & lead generation

  • Laser-targeted campaigns across Meta, Google Search & Display and LinkedIn Sponsored Content.
  • Audience - property investors, NRIs and high-net-worth individuals across India and key NRI markets in the Gulf, the UK and the US.
  • Optimised lead funnels - bilingual landing pages with interactive property walkthroughs, and CRM integration for real-time handover to sales.
  • Outcome: average CPL of ₹3,500 (vs ₹5,400 benchmark), 38,500+ leads, 7.8% lead-to-sales conversion and 4.3X ROI.
3

Launch, nurture & retargeting

  • Project launch campaigns - new Gurugram launches such as Urban Ascent and Serenity Hills via YouTube Masthead, Reels and email.
  • Urgency-driven creatives that compressed cost and accelerated conversion at launch.
  • Dynamic remarketing, drip email and WhatsApp business automation for drop-off audiences.
  • Outcome: near sold-out inventory within weeks of launch, 12,000+ launch leads at ₹3,000 CPL, cost per qualified lead down to ₹2,300 and lead-to-opportunity up 45%.
4

Brand & marketing collaterals, and video production

  • Sales collateral system - residential and commercial brochures, Times of India press insertions and launch-week ads, built to the same brand code as the digital work.
  • Film production - the Emaar India brand film shot across Dubai, carrying the group's global legacy into the India story.
  • Every collateral and film feeding the same lifestyle-first narrative used across social, performance and launch creative.
  • Outcome: a single, print-to-screen creative system across brochures, press ads and film.

Capabilities enabled

360 social media & brand storytellingPerformance marketing (Meta, Google, LinkedIn)Bilingual lead funnels & landing pagesProject & launch campaignsCRM integration & real-time nurturingRetargeting, drip email & WhatsApp automationBrand & marketing collateralsVideo production
The Work

Cinematic brand. Surgical funnel.

Lifestyle films, brochures, press campaigns and the brand film - collaterals, video and performance in the same system.

Brochures

The two lead-generation documents, spread for spread - flip through them exactly as a buyer would.

Urban Oasis brochure coverFlipbook
Residential · Urban Oasis

The Urban Oasis brochure

Reside in Prominence, Revel in Nature - masterplan, amenities, location map and the 3 BHK residence story, laid out page by page.

34 pagesOpen flipbook
Emaar Business District 75A brochure coverFlipbook
Commercial · EBD 75A

The EBD 75A brochure

Shop-cum-office plots on Southern Peripheral Road - project highlights, location map and the investment case.

10 pagesOpen flipbook

Print campaign

Times of India placements built for the Urban Oasis and EBD 114 NXT launches.

Urban Oasis press adFlipbook
Times of India

Urban Oasis · press ad

“Here, it actually is.” - the Reside in Prominence / Revel in Nature story, laid out for print.

2 pagesOpen flipbook
Urban Oasis launch ad mockupFlipbook
Times of India

Urban Oasis · launch ad

The launch-week insertion - masthead cover through to the full-page “Now Open” reveal.

3 pagesOpen flipbook
EBD 114 NXT press adFlipbook
Times of India

EBD 114 NXT · press ad

“Invest. Build. Grow.” - the shop-cum-office plots story for Sector 114.

2 pagesOpen flipbook

Film

The brand film shot across Dubai, carrying Emaar's global legacy into the India story.

Live Your Story with Emaar 1:45
Brand film · Dubai

Live Your Story with Emaar

Shot across Dubai's skyline - Burj Khalifa to Dubai Creek Tower - carrying Emaar's global legacy into the Emaar India story.

Social & Performance

The social feed, and the performance creative behind it.

Behind every masterpiece is a teacher who inspired the creator - Emaar India Teachers' Day post Instagram
Social Media · @emaarindia

“Behind every masterpiece is a teacher.”

A Teachers' Day post set against the Burj Khalifa - the brand's aspirational visual language, carried straight into the social feed.

View on Instagram
Elite Oasis performance ad - Pay only 20% and ownPerformance ad
Performance · Elite Oasis, Lucknow

“Pay only 20% and own.”

Sample ad campaign creative for Elite Oasis - the payment-plan hook and the lifestyle shot doing the selling in one frame.

1 pageView creative
Results

A year measured in pipeline.

A year of aspirational storytelling and performance marketing - measured where it matters: brand desire, qualified pipeline and marketing efficiency.

0
ROI on spend, up from a 2.1X benchmark
0
Qualified leads per year, up 92%
-0
Lower cost per lead - ₹3,500 vs ₹5,400, as low as ₹2,300
+0
Impression growth, from 15M to 48M
+0
Engagement-rate lift, 1.8% to 4.7% on Instagram
+0
Lead-to-sales conversion, 4.5% to 7.8%
Metric · before (industry avg) → with The Brand BeeOutcome
Impressions · 15M → 48M+220%
Engagement rate · 1.8% → 4.7%+160%
Average CPL · ₹5,400 → ₹3,500 (as low as ₹2,300)-35%
Leads generated · 20,000/yr → 38,500/yr+92%
Lead-to-sales conversion · 4.5% → 7.8%+73%
ROI · 2.1X → 4.3X+105%
The Outcome

Data-driven creativity, applied to real estate.

The category defaults to listings. Emaar sells a way of living - so the work had to build desire before it ever asked for a phone number.

By combining aspirational storytelling with data-driven performance marketing, The Brand Bee enabled Emaar India to scale both its brand equity and its business growth. The engagement exemplifies how data-driven creativity can redefine real estate marketing in India - building desire at the top of the funnel while delivering measurable, cost-efficient ROI at the bottom.

Net effect

₹10,000 Cr+ of qualified pipeline, 38,500+ leads a year, and a cost per lead 35-40% below benchmark.

Deeptanshu Bansal
Founder & CEO, The Brand Bee
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