Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Local adtech startup Rodeo has teamed up with buy-now, pay-later player hoolah to launch an advertising campaign for hoolah across Rodeo’s fleet of cars and on foodpanda delivery bags.

Hoolah sees a huge potential in partnering with Rodeo as their out-of-home (OOH) media partner to run their advertising campaign that aims to amplify awareness amongst consumers. In addition to external branding, Rodeo created an in-car experience that utilises QR code for active engagement with passengers bringing the online experience to them, wherever they are.

Valens Subramaniam, CEO at Rodeo, said, “Being our first BNPL advertiser, hoolah, we have executed a campaign with them in Klang Valley as well to turn heads on the streets using Rodeo’s media on e-hailing cars and food delivery bikes to promote its Raya campaign.”

He also added that on average, a rider makes about 30 to 40 deliveries per day at selected zones while E-hailing drivers on the other hand commute about 20 to 30 trips per day within Klang Valley. 

“We want to make use of this ‘missed opportunity’ to our advantage for our advertisers. In Klang Valley alone, there are more than 30,000 food riders and about 100,000 drivers supporting the gig economy and we are looking at 100,000 to 300,000 trips per day based on our findings,” Valens added.

Meanwhile, Jason Wong, general manager at hoolah, commented, “We are excited to be kickstarting our first advertising campaign in Malaysia with Rodeo and foodpanda. This partnership gives us the opportunity to reach out to thousands of commuters daily in Klang Valley and bring the retail experience to them via the QR code, so they can shop at their favourite brands and pay later in a convenient, flexible, and responsible manner.”

Bernard Chong, marketing director at foodpanda, said, “We are delighted to be partnering with Rodeo and hoolah on this campaign. When we launched our rider bag ads, our goal was to work with brands to achieve a wider and more effective reach since road users have started to progressively increase over the past few months. To add to that, we also wanted to be able to provide our delivery partners with an additional source of income while delivering their orders.”

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Rodeo, an ad-tech company specializing in transit advertising mainly on ride-sharing, food delivery, and last-mile delivery has announced that it targets to raise a minimum of $120K (RM500K), and has opened its first round of funding via equity crowdfunding platform pitchIN.

The company is currently live on pitchIN, and it has prepared an exclusive 30% lifetime discount or rebate from all Rodeo media assets to brands, advertisers, and agencies who will be investing.

Inspired by the company’s revenue that hit $1.2M (RM4.4M) in 3 years, Rodeo seeks to increase the bar even higher by setting a new target revenue of $500K (RM1.9M) by end of 2021.

The investments raised will be used to increase workforce, to incorporate AI technology such as Computer Vision and Machine learning, and for marketing to scale the business and capture market share.

Launched three years ago, Rodeo comprises of 10,000 fleets of cars, taxis, motorcycles, and trucks. During the country’s Movement Control Order (MCO) amid the pandemic, it decided to pivot to online by introducing RodeoGO, an influencer marketing gamification app,

Rodeo’s Chief Executive Officer and Founder Valens Subramaniam shared, “Due to the pandemic, we saw that there was a growing demand and trend for RodeoGO especially when users are practically on idle mode; be it at home and glued on their mobiles phones, TVs and computers. This brings us a good mix of Offline and Online.”