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Case Studies→Megabuild

A fixed budget, a dual audience, 2.5 weeks — how we filled Megabuild Indonesia to 110% of its attendee target on Meta.

110%Of the attendee target, on a lean managed Meta budget.
On-site peakMost demand converts on-site, not before — so spend was concentrated into the four event days.
Fully trackedEvery registration tracked and attributed to a source, end to end.
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The organiser had already sold every booth. So our job was never to just 'run ads' — it was keeping the promise they'd made to their exhibitors: a full aisle and the right buyers in front of them.

Shem
Growth Strategy Lead, GTMLab
MEGABUILD
Industry
B2B & B2C trade exhibition
Lens
Ads
Channel
Meta (Facebook / Instagram)
Approach
Dual audience · geo · same-day
LensAds
IndustryTrade exhibition · building materials
The audienceB2B professionals + B2C homeowners
The jobDual-audience library · city-by-city geo · same-day budget shifts
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B2B Matchmaking
Services
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Part of the Megabuild Indonesia series · one client, three lenses

This is the Performance Marketing. On Megabuild Indonesia comes apart into three deep-dives — same client, three disciplines, readable in any order: Gtm and Growth, Overview , and Performance Creatives.

Megabuild Indonesia is one of Indonesia's largest building-materials and architecture trade expos — now in its 22nd edition at NICE PIK2 Jakarta, co-located with its ceramics counterpart, and running in June 2026. This lens is the Meta media problem: a single paid engine that had to reach two completely different buyers at once. Architects, contractors, and distributors — B2B professionals — live on Meta as a professional tool and convert on a professional edge. Homeowners — B2C — scroll the same feeds for renovation ideas and convert on something that feels made for them, not for the trade.

The constraint made the problem harder: one library and one budget, run inside a 2.5-week emergency sprint, had to serve both audiences without diluting either. Say “trade show” too loudly and homeowners tune out; lean too consumer and the specifiers stop taking it seriously. Meta paid media was one of three parallel tracks — and its job was to hold both audiences in the same campaign without letting one crowd out the other.

The ICP, and the strategy per ICP.

ICPHow we targetedThe angle that converted
Architects & SpecifiersB2BProfessional-interest signals plus a high-income Jakarta geo layer“Material Trends 2026” — a professional edge, not a field trip
Contractors & BuildersB2BConstruction and trade interest plus regional targeting by city and island proximitySupply breadth plus on-floor deals — “save sourcing time”
HomeownersB2CBroad consumer reach filtered to renovation intentA renovation-planning destination — “for you, not just the trade”

The live segmentation ran roughly 10× more nuanced than this — sub-hooks split by material category, buying stage, and region — but these three ICPs are the spine everything else hung off.

Attach a photo — the GTMLab pod on the Megabuild Indonesia floor

On-ground at Megabuild Indonesia · NICE PIK2, Jakarta.

The geo engine.

The campaign was built city by city, not as one national blast. Greater Jakarta is where the expo lives and where the trade concentrates, so it carried the weight of the budget and drove roughly88% of registrations. That was the plan working.

The signal worth keeping was in the other~12%. Out-of-region registrations converted with almost no targeting behind them — people who found the event and signed up anyway, from cities the campaign barely touched. That's a clear untapped pool for next year: the same intent, reachable earlier, with a longer travel-planning runway to convert on.

Budget that followed behaviour.

Most Indonesian expo registrants don't sign up weeks ahead — they register during the event itself, once it's live and the FOMO is real. So the campaign couldn't just build a pre-event pool and coast. The weight had to move into the live event window and keep converting through all four days.

That's what it did. Budget shifted into the days the event was open and kept pulling registrations across every one of them, matching the way this audience actually behaves. Attendance ramped roughly45% higher on Days 3–4than on opening day — the tail of the event was the busy part, and the media was funded to be there for it.

Fully tracked, fully attributed.

Every registration was tracked back to a source, so nothing went dark. Pixel-tracked ads directly drove and claimed a large share of registrations end to end — the conversions Meta could see. Self-reported discovery, where registrants told us how they first heard of the event, tied the rest back to Meta and Instagram.

Between the two, every result is tracked and attributed to a source rather than guessed — the pixel proves the direct path, and self-report closes the gap wherever the last click landed somewhere else. Nothing is left in the dark.

Results — the Meta engine.

Everything relative — the attendee outcome against target, the geo split, the day-over-day ramp, and every result tracked and attributed to a source.

110%Of attendee target
~88%Greater Jakarta concentration
~45%Higher attendance Days 3–4
Fully trackedEvery result tracked and attributed to source

Honest read: the out-of-region pool that converted with almost no support behind it is the clearest opportunity for next year — the same intent, reached earlier and with a longer travel-planning runway, is registrations left on the table this time.

A fixed budget and a dual audience, in 2.5 weeks — filled to 110% of the attendee target on Meta .

One library and one budget served B2B professionals and B2C homeowners without diluting either; the geo engine concentrated where the trade lives and flagged where next year's growth is; and the money followed real registration behaviour into the live event window. The creative that carried it and the wider go-to-market live in the other two lenses.

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The rest of the Megabuild Indonesia engagement.

Megabuild Indonesia was one client engagement built across three connected disciplines. This is the Performance Marketing deep-dive — continue into any other section below:

  1. Overview — see how the full Megabuild Indonesia engagement came together across strategy, media, and creative execution.
  2. GTM & Growth — see how the go-to-market strategy, audience structure, and demand-generation roadmap shaped a clearer path for reaching the right buyers, exhibitors, and visitors.
  3. Performance Creatives — see how the strategy became clear, conversion-focused assets that made Megabuild’s value more immediate, credible, and actionable across the funnel.
Who built it

The sprint pod.

A growth-strategy-led pod that ran three tracks in parallel and held the floor for four straight days — media, creative, data, and on-ground under one plan.

Shem
Growth Strategy Lead

On Megabuild: Set the three-tracks-in-parallel model and the trust-dividend thesis — the reason 2.5 weeks was enough.

Albert Lie
Co-Founder · Account Director

On Megabuild: Client alignment, four-day on-ground oversight, and the mid-sprint budget shifts into the live event window.

Danny
Strategic Planner

On Megabuild: Built the ICP and messaging framework across B2B and B2C, plus the matchmaking qualification playbook.

Anna Tan
Senior Meta Ads Buyer

On Megabuild: Ran the dual-audience Meta acquisition — the creative tournament, the Monday pause after the Sunday shift, and the D-day budget shifts.

Dikmas Putra
Creative Director

On Megabuild: Owned the creative library — segment statics and native reels — and shipped the segment variants inside 24 hours during the Sunday shift.

Ridho Wahyu
Data & Analytics

On Megabuild: Owned funnel and attribution — the per-creative breakdown that concentrated spend on winners, and the source-to-registration tracking.

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