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Integrated Marketing for Shopping Malls & Commercial Facilities

Shopping Malls & Commercial Facilities
Full-Funnel Marketing

The mall site sits with a web agency, social with the promotions team, the app with another company and ads with an agency: everyone holds a piece. We design one path from before the visit to after it, and run it as one company.

  • The mall's official site and SEO
  • Social accounts
  • Paid social
  • Mall app and LINE
  • Measurement (GA4, UTM)

Numbers

Shopping centre sales are at a record high. Young people come every month. Instagram decides where they go

33.1tn yen

Shopping centre sales are at a record high

Total annual shopping centre sales (2025, estimate). The council attributes the rise to more promotional activity by malls and more events

Japan Council of Shopping Centers, SC Sales Statistics Report, 2025 annual

74.1%

Three in four young people come every month

Share of 18-24-year-olds in Tokyo and the three neighbouring prefectures who visit a commercial facility at least once a month (n=497)

COUNTERWORKS and the Waseda University Shopping Mall Study Group, Survey on Gen Z Use of Commercial Facilities, October 2025

~70%

For a limited event, they'll travel further

Share of 18-24-year-olds who said they would go to a commercial facility further away than usual if there were a limited event or pop-up

COUNTERWORKS and the Waseda University Shopping Mall Study Group, Survey on Gen Z Use of Commercial Facilities, October 2025

64.6%

Where young women go is decided on Instagram

Share of women aged 15-24 in the Tokyo area who use Instagram to find places to go (n=413). TikTok was 39.0%

SHIBUYA109 lab., Latest Trends in Gen Z Social Media Use 2025

41.0%

Four in ten visitors post on social

Share of 18-24-year-olds who have posted on social media after visiting a commercial facility

COUNTERWORKS and the Waseda University Shopping Mall Study Group, Survey on Gen Z Use of Commercial Facilities, October 2025

Why Integrated Marketing

4 benefits of integrated marketing for shopping centers and malls

  • Illustration of concentric ripples spreading and overlapping from social posts and ad placements

    Merit 01

    Combined impact

    One consistent image of your mall everywhere

    Commission the mall website, social media, app and ads separately, and the message and design never line up. Layer the same message across channels, and people build an image of your mall that's about more than sale notices.

  • Illustration of drawing the whole funnel from awareness to purchase on a whiteboard

    Merit 02

    Landing visits

    Turn event views into visits

    Even after seeing an event in a video, people won't add it to their weekend if the date and place aren't clear right away. Link everything through to the event page, and viewers can plan their visit on the spot.

  • Illustration of a dotted line from a video on a phone to a crowd in an event plaza, broken partway, with the visitor tally left blank

    Merit 03

    Clear paths

    Show tenants what your promotions achieve

    If monthly footfall is the only metric, you can't say whether events, ads or social media made the difference. Count actions by traffic source, and you have numbers to explain to tenants.

  • Illustration of an official account screen packed edge to edge with sale tags, and a shopping mall building fading in the background

    Merit 04

    Return visits

    Members who open more than coupons

    App and LINE members who only open messages for coupons don't come back because of them. Share events and new store openings too, and the mall itself gives people a reason to return.

Why TripClear

Four reasons shopping centers and malls choose TripClear for integrated marketing

  • Illustration of icons for strategy, planning, filming, posting and analysis on a single loop around a vertical phone

    Reason 01

    Designed end to end

    One team, from before the visit to after

    We split the audience into stages, from people who don't know the mall to regulars, and decide where to start. Work from the mall website to the app comes to one partner, and we carry it with one message.

  • Illustration of one path running from an ad on a phone to a landing page, a chat screen and a checked goal, with measurement icons

    Reason 02

    Past the click

    One yardstick through to coupon use

    We add tags and UTMs to the mall website and event pages, and compare visits and coupon use by source. Each effort leaves numbers you can show tenants.

  • Illustration of a phone chat with a coupon and notification, circled by an arrow carrying a shopping bag, calendar, shop entrance and heart

    Reason 03

    Repeats included

    Send the next event via the app and LINE

    Pre-visit event news, in-mall coupons and post-visit invitations are built into one scenario. The settings and member data stay under the mall's own name.

  • Illustration of a glowing chip fanning out into a grid of ad banners and vertical video cards, with one starred as the winner

    Reason 04

    AI-powered

    Spot the events that work with AI

    We analyze mall website articles and Instagram and TikTok performance with AI, and back the ideas that land with ads. POV videos walking through the mall can also go where people stumble on you.

Process

From designing the path through running each channel to the monthly overall report: how it runs

Workflow

From the overall design through awareness, measurement, the app and LINE to improvement, we handle it all without breaking it up

Illustration of assessment and overall design, mapping the full customer journey

Phase01

Assessment and overall design

We look at where the mall site, social, ads and the app stand now, and decide which channels to grow.

Illustration of the awareness phase, combining SEO with paid social

Phase02

Running the awareness work

We create several ways in for people who don't know the mall, on different channels.

Illustration of building the conversion measurement layer with tracking tags and dashboards

Phase03

Building the measurement layer

We get you to where "which activity got people moving?" can be answered in numbers.

Illustration of nurturing design, developing leads through LINE scenarios

Phase04

App and LINE scenario design

People who have visited once hear about the next event without any ad spend.

Illustration of the analysis phase, iterating quickly with AI reporting

Phase05

Analysis and improvement

Budget moves to the channels that worked, and you're left with material to explain to tenants.

The channel mix at a mall, and what we watch on each

The mall's official site and SEO Where search finds you. Catching people who look later

What we watchSearch traffic, event page visits

Social accountsInstagram and TikTok Discovery and consideration. Kept as information people save

What we watchSaves, visits to the profile

Paid socialMeta and TikTok Pushing winning concepts, narrowed by catchment and dates

What we watchCost per coupon redemption

Mall app and LINE official account Return visits. Different messages before, during and after the visit

What we watchNew members, coupon redemptions, block rate

Measurement layerGA4 and UTMs The yardstick. Comparing reach and behaviour by traffic source

What we watchCoupon redemptions by traffic source, referrers

Whether you have a mall app and how your contractors are set up changes where to start. The mix above is only an example.

FAQ

Questions we are often asked by shopping mall operators

Our work is split across several contractors. Can you take all of it?

We can, through a single point of contact. SEO and improvements to the mall site, social media management, ad management, and LINE design and messaging all sit with the same team. Video isn't outsourced either; we film it ourselves, including POV walking the mall. For the filming details, see POV video for shopping malls and commercial facilities.

What do you set as KPIs? Social alone won't move footfall.

Quite right, and we don't treat footfall itself as a social media result. What we set are event page visits, coupon redemptions and new app and LINE members. Footfall is viewed alongside them each month.

Whose name do the LINE official account and the tools sit under?

Everything is in your name. The LINE official account and tools like L Step and Liny are contracted by you. The follower data and the messaging configuration stay with you, which is what makes it easy to hand over.

We have a mall app. Do we need LINE as well?

Often you don't need both. If the app already gets events and coupons to members, we make the app the landing layer and just put the measurement and paths in order. If the route into membership is weak, we add LINE as the way in.

We're under contract with an existing agency and production company. Can you run in parallel?

You can. The usual approach is a parallel period of around three months timed to the contract renewal, so you can compare on the same metrics. For work that can't stop, we build the handover plan first.

Can you also produce the reports for tenants?

We do. Monthly reports are made to go straight to tenant meetings and store manager meetings. Whole-mall numbers and numbers by floor or event are set out separately, down to what the mall will do next month.

Services

Every social marketing service can be taken
on its own or in combination

Social Media Management

End-to-end support from account strategy through filming, editing, posting and analytics

Supported platforms
Instagram TikTok YouTube
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POV Studio

First-person short-form video. No cast, fast turnaround, low cost — and the experience comes through

Supported platforms
TikTok Instagram YouTube
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Influencer PR

Cast the right creators for your goal from a network of over 20 million combined followers

Supported platforms
Instagram TikTok YouTube
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Social Ads Management

Small tests identify the winners first, so budget goes only where it drives traffic and revenue

Supported platforms
YouTube TikTok Meta
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Inbound Tourism Marketing

Multilingual social marketing that maximizes the inbound visitors you attract

Supported platforms
Instagram TikTok Xiaohongshu (RED)
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Full-Funnel Marketing

Awareness, conversion tracking and nurturing in one pipeline, powered by our playbooks and AI

Supported platforms
Google (SEO) Meta Instagram TikTok LINE
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Performance-based Recruitment Marketing

Recruitment marketing that reaches the 94% job boards never touch, through short-form video ads made for you

Supported platforms
TikTok Instagram YouTube Meta LINE
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Japan Market Entry Marketing

End-to-end Japan market entry for overseas brands: localization strategy, official social accounts, POV video, PR and on-site activation

Supported platforms
TikTok Instagram YouTube Meta
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EC Operations & System Integration

Shopify and BASE store operations, plus channel manager, LINE and Meta ads integration with your booking system, so your marketing has somewhere to land

Supported platforms
LINE Meta Instagram TikTok
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