Founder, Brand, Strategy, Social and Execution

Woo, a once in a generation media brand and e-commerce eco-system designed to redefine wellness for gen z.

Created by Stephen Mai. Funded by ITV

From

Generation

Anxious to

Generation

Z(en) 

Original shows, thought provoking editorial, viral feel good social media and 4500 products across wellness, beauty, fashion and homewares.

Woo’s ambition was to reshape media and commerce to help solve the mental health crisis facing Gen Z.  Redefining wellness for a generation. Feel good here.

Welcome to the wooniverse

Feel Good Here

No Purchase Necessary

Feel Good Here • No Purchase Necessary •

Watch Here

Watch Here •

New world culture

Retail “Therapy” 

No Purchase Necessary

No Purchase Necessary’, a multi-channel UK launch campaign launched our new feel good concept store shop.planetwoo.co, shoppable via unique mood filters, featuring brands and products designed to redefine wellness for Gen Z. The campaign challenges the toxic, anxiety-inducing norms of retail, including drop culture and fast fashion, with a message that no purchase is necessary to feel good.

Our first marketplace campaign No Purchase Necessary embraces a non-negotiable core value system whilst pledging sensitivity to socio-economic issues affecting modern consumers. With our comprehensive mix of shows, editorial, storytelling and experiences, you don’t have to buy anything to feel good here 

Through social storytelling, unique content formats and products we’ve been able to turn a new way of thinking about mental health and wellbeing into a genuine subculture, making generation anxious into generation zen.

The feel good concept store featured over 150 brands and 4500 products.

Shop by mood

Woo’s marketplace was developed with fluidity in mind. The tech allowed us to integrate with over 150 independent brands and retailers curating products into categories that resonate with Gen Z. Alongside standard shopping filters, woo created an ecommerce experience designed to take personalised shopping one step further. Leaning into Gen Z’s desire for self discovery, the feel-good marketplace allows shoppers to search through its vast catalogue of products according to their ever-evolving moods (as narrated via real-world conversations with Gen Z).

Think Trippy, Chill, Horney and Main character energy.

New Balance

Earl Of East

Nike

More Joy

Suri

Shrimps

New Balance Earl Of East Nike More Joy Suri Shrimps

Ross Barr

Innermost

Dirt Tea

Form Nutrition

She’s Lost Control

Gestalten

Ross Barr Innermost Dirt Tea Form Nutrition She’s Lost Control Gestalten

Adidas

The Upside

Versa

Tripp

Have a GD Day

Adidas The Upside Versa Tripp Have a GD Day

Artefacts of

Planet woo

A fashion lifestyle brand born out of the third reality called the wooniverse.

Artefacts of planet woo include objects and garments designed to elevate citizens who engage in radical wellbeing.

Designed in collaboration with Space Available, soft and easy t-shirts, hoodies and track pants feature vibrant graphics highlighting wellbeing for both people and planet using organic cotton and recycled or upcycled materials in a soothing colour palette.

In collaboration with

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Year
01/01/000

Results

In year one we generated:

  • Generated 1 billion impressions against a target of 385M (260% above target).

  • Drove 32M video views across long-form original programming, social first content and UGC.

  • Amassed 1.6M social followers across Instagram: Woo, Travel by Woo, Streetwear by Woo, TikTok: Woo, Facebook: Memes by Woo, YouTube: Woo.

  • Generated 15M+ engagements with an average social engagement rate of 2.4%  above established youth media brands like Vice, I-D and Dazed.

  • Collaborated with the pop culture including Jake Gyllenhaal, Gabrielle Union, Beabadoobee, Ashnikko and Avatar’s Jamie Flatters

  • Featured in Forbes, Mashable. Campaign, Creative Review, The Drum, Marketing Week, Variety, Adweek, Design Week, GQ with a combined earned press reach of 1.4 billion.

Through social storytelling and unique content formats we’ve been able to turn a new way of thinking about mental health and wellbeing into a genuine subculture, making generation anxious into generation zen.

New World Culture

Original Shows and IP

Original Shows and IP

Awards

“redefining gen z culture”

Forbes

Finding the Feelgood, Redefining Wellbeing for “Generation Anxious”

Helmed by award-winning London-based, Asian-Australian strategic marketing don Stephen Mai, it’s mission to “turn generation anxious into generation zen” by making wellness “discoverable, aspirational and culturally relevant” not only draws on the post-pandemic fetishization of wellness as a form of protection and self-optimisation, but an elasticated understanding of what wellbeing actually means, particularly to young people.

Woo taps into the “fluidity” of youth culture today

-Design Week

PRESS COVERAGE

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