Immersive storytelling meets festival culture in an experience built for – and powered by – the people.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — [16 December, 2025] Bold Creatives, the creative and content arm of The Bold Group, has partnered with MDLBEAST, the region’s leading music, culture, and entertainment platform, to lead the creative direction for Soundstorm 2025. The collaboration introduces “A City of Beats | مدينة تنبض”, a first-of-its-kind campaign powered by the people — turning Soundstorm’s bold promise, “We built a city for the music,” into a living, explorable experience.

The partnership marks a homegrown creative milestone for Saudi Arabia’s cultural landscape. As part of the campaign, Bold Creatives developed a 3D WebGL digital city where fans could explore DWN TWN and its four distinct districts even before construction was completed. This experience brought the Soundstorm identity to life across film, outdoor, and digital channels bridging physical and virtual worlds and making the city a cultural reality, not just a campaign line.

What sets the collaboration apart is its digital-first approach placing the audience at the heart of the communication. Every like, comment, and share became a pulse of energy feeding into the City Pulse Index (CPI), a dynamic visual system that measured and reflected fan engagement in real time. This transformed audience interaction into participation, turning social energy into the city’s heartbeat and connecting thousands of fans to the festival before Day One.

Saud Saudoon, General Manager of Bold Creatives, said:
“Delivering a project of this scale required incredible agility, precision, and trust. Our team moved with the rhythm of the festival itself combining streamlined creative processes with an experimental spirit. With SOUNDSTORM, we introduced a digital-first campaign that truly put people at the heart of communication. This wasn’t just storytelling; it was world-building an innovative fusion of technology and culture that defined the biggest music festival in the region.”

The A City of Beats platform represents a regional benchmark in creative technology and audience participation. Beyond its innovative execution, it celebrates the strength of Saudi-born partnerships driving transformation across entertainment, culture, and technology proving that when creativity meets collaboration, a city can quite literally come to life.