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Apex Motors Bangladesh · Launch Film

Midnight Protocol

Introduce a performance trim to a market that had never seen the badge, and make it feel inevitable.

Client

Apex Motors Bangladesh

Discipline

Launch Film

Year

2026

Objective

Introduce a performance trim to a market that had never seen the badge, and make it feel inevitable.

Challenge

A three-week window, a single pre-production car, and a monsoon forecast that closed every daytime shoot option.

Strategy

We turned the constraint into the concept: shoot exclusively at night, in the rain, and build the entire campaign around wet-city cinematography.

Execution

Six night shoots across Dhaka, a 90-second hero film, nine vertical cutdowns, a stills library of 140 frames and a launch-night projection activation.

Selected Frames

Midnight Protocol frame 1
Midnight Protocol frame 2
Midnight Protocol frame 3

Results

4.2M

Total views

11.4%

Engagement rate

+318%

Test-drive bookings

27 outlets

Earned media

They did not deliver an ad. They delivered a piece of the brand we did not know we had.

Head of Marketing, Apex Motors Bangladesh