Bumble Localized Campaign

  • Campaign
  • Creative
  • Strategy
  • Design
  • Copy
  • Casting
  • Production
  • Post

The Ask

Engage Gen-Z and younger millennials to believe in the experience of dating online (again) by showcasing the interesting people they can meet on Bumble – right in their city.

Executive Creative Director & Director

Cameron Debe, SEE ME

Photographer

Alex Hodor Lee

Casting Director

Nafisa Kaptownwala / Lorde Inc. 

What We Did

Create a localized and community-led campaign, celebrating the individuality of US/CAN cities and the real users who call them home. Showing up across multiple touchpoints including city-specific OOH like NYC subway car takeovers to social-first videos. The campaign videos are developed and directed by Cameron Debe, with photography shot by Alex Hodor Lee – both on the SEE ME Artists roster.

Our Alchemy

As returning agency partners for our Find Me On Bumble 2025 campaign, we evolved the concept into a contemporary visual and emotive language for the Gen-Z audience. To drive home the peer-to-peer creative, we involved our cast in the process – by collaging intimate moments of self-filming and archival footage from their everyday lives, amplifying our truly personalized video approach. Each city features the talent’s real life hobbies, interests and favorite local spots – which made its way as in-app dating guides per city. The platform we created in 2021 sustained itself as one of the most culturally resonate creatives for the brand, bringing it back as 2.0 with an even more personalized viewpoint. With the versatility of the concept, the campaign comes to life in both digital and real-world, working cross-functionally from billboards to beloved Instagram series content like Subway Takes.

“SEE ME’s collaborative approach stood out the most. They fostered an open dialogue throughout the process, always willing to gut-check ideas, refine creative in real time, and bring us along for the journey. Their transparency and willingness to problem-solve made them feel like an extension of our team rather than just an external partner.”

– Bumble Marketing

Strategy

Qualitative local market research via in-depth interviews to inform an authentic casting approach per city and ensure the creative truly resonates. 

Casting

Hyper-local casting of real singles in cities across North America including New York City, Toronto, Dallas, Chicago and DC. 24 unique individuals were selected to be shot both on-set and self-record with personalized prompts creating peer-to-peer multimedia collages of the dating experience.

Creative

Video creative direction and execution for robust asset suites per city inclusive of both in-person filming and remote UGC captures. Copy direction for multiple touchpoints, talent interviews and prompts. Integrating a youthful and emotive collage-inspired direction across photo and design art direction for OOH ad unit production.

Production & Post

Art Buying for all creative teams, including director and photographer. Photography and motion pre-production planning into on-set shoots on-location with multiple company moves each shoot day for a docu-style approach in 3 major cities. We saw the project through to final delivery with editing, MGFX/VFX, music composition, and color grade.

“SEE ME’s ability to blend cultural nuance with strategic creativity made all the difference.”

– Bumble Marketing

Talent

George Bautista, Haley Culp, Sjournee Quaidoo, Stella Fortier, Tristao Azor

Executive Producer, SEE ME

Nicole Van Straatum

Creative Producer, SEE ME

Kimberly Goedhart

Producer, SEE ME

Alexes Bowyer

Creative Production Assistant, SEE ME

Louise Akani

Post Producer, SEE ME

Kerry Mack

Copy Writer

Gloria Zingales

Designer

Yan Sze Li

Strategist

Maria Galindo

Video Post Production

Forager

Editors

Kat Yi, Joey Doyle

Music Composition

Fidelio Sounds, Chester Anand

Photo Retouching

Chroma

DP

Jonathan Charles

1st AC

Alexis Aguilar

2nd AC / Media Manager

Jade Alexia

Gaffer

Colegrove Heller

Key Grip

Lulu Larrazolo Lopez

Swing

Kelly Ortiz

Sound Op

Anthony Charles

Photo Assistant

Racher Filler

BTS Cam Op

Eric McArthur

Production Assistants

Adam Morales, Kyle Camacho, Santiago Vanegas, Melinda Griffith

Thank you to our locations

Close Up Jazz Bar & The Ground NYC