How Honor built a Douyin launch around travel photography for the 300 series
Honor used 25 creators and 26 videos to turn the Honor 300 series’ portrait and lighting features into a travel-led lifestyle pitch, supported by an ambassador, the 永夜星河 (Love Game in Eastern Fantasy) IP and store-search calls to action.
Make camera performance tangible through travel, guofeng and campus stories
Honor used a burst-then-sustain launch built around "带着拍神去旅行" (Travel with the Photography Ace) and the "旅拍神器" (ultimate travel-photography tool) position. A global brand ambassador and the 永夜星河 (Love Game in Eastern Fantasy) IP supplied the entertainment hook, while guofeng events, ancient-town visits, city travel and campus stories carried the demonstrations. Travel Vlogs, roleplay, tutorials and comedy sketches showed full-focal-length portraits, backlit shooting, AI light control and AI retouching. A multi-hashtag matrix and friend-tagging prompts extended the activation, while technology creators added side-by-side comparisons with OPPO Reno13.
The work addressed urban professional women and Gen Z students, especially young women interested in travel, guofeng culture, design and portrait quality while remaining price-conscious. Creators framed the series around a roughly 3,000-yuan price band. The launch focused on brand communication with no discount mechanism. Calls to action asked viewers to search for the store or product showcase, with store-direction activity adding an offline route for year-end phone replacement demand.
- Objective
- Product Launch
- Occasion
- New Launch
- Funnel
- Awareness
- Messaging
- Design and Aesthetics · Hands-on Testing · National Pride (Guochao) · Specs and Performance
- Scenes
- Travel Scenario · Festival Scene
- Formats
- Character Roleplay · Tutorial · Comedy Skit
- Activation
- @-friend Viral · Multi-tag Matrix
- Discount
- No Discount, Pure Brand Push
What set it apart
| Choice | Share of campaigns |
|---|---|
| Distinctive | |
| @-friend Viral | 4.5%1 in 22 |
| National Pride (Guochao) | 5.2%1 in 19 |
| Festival Scene | 6%1 in 17 |
| Film and Variety | 7%1 in 14 |
| Multi-tag Matrix | 15%1 in 7 |
| Tutorial | 18%1 in 6 |
| Typical | |
| Specs and Performance | 60%6 in 10 |
Share of the 714 Douyin Tech campaigns in the unrandom archive that made the same choice. Counted Nov 5, 2026.
A female-led, top-heavy mix of comedy, travel, tech, beauty and entertainment creators
457K–8.74M
25 creators with a public follower count
Head Ignite, Mid-tail Volume Pyramid
Top Heavy
Female Dominant
The first step to copy
- 1
Open with the ambassador and IP, then hand the story to creators
Start with the ambassador as the topic trigger and an IP tie-in. Then give head comedy and travel creators the main storytelling role: place the phone in Vlogs, guofeng settings and travel shoots, with demonstrations embedded in the narrative rather than delivered as a stand-alone product lecture.
- 2+
More steps in the full teardown
Creator-led scenes, consistent camera claims, competitor comparisons and store-search conversion
The full teardown adds
- Reads and engagement for all 26 posts, ranked against similar creators
- Estimated spend and cost per read
- The breakout post, and why it led
- What 218,887 comments asked for most
- The rest of the playbook
- Casting risks and smart moves
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