2× MMA SMARTIES TÜRKİYE 2025

Born digital.
Recognized in the real world.

Alara X is Türkiye's pioneering AI media character — built in the IAMX studio. From social feeds to national television, from a talk-show desk to global brand campaigns, she became the face of a new media format.

500K+
FOLLOWERS
26
TALK-SHOW GUESTS
2
SMARTIES AWARDS
Alara X
Alara X
AI MEDIA CHARACTER · IAMX STUDIO
ON AIR
MMA Awards 2025 — Gold and Bronze SMARTIES trophies for Lenovo Yoga Aura Edition × Alara X
AWARDED

MMA SMARTIES™ 2025

The Lenovo Yoga Aura Edition × Alara X “Media First” campaign was honoured in two categories at MMA SMARTIES Türkiye 2025.

GOLD
Future Forward Technology Marketing

For putting an AI character at the centre of a national product launch — not as an effect, but as the medium.

BRONZE
Innovative Use of AI in Advertising

Recognized for a real-time digital human leading brand storytelling end to end.

LENOVO YOGA AURA EDITIONALARA XCARAT

Lenovo credited the IAMX Alara and Carat teams as project partners in its own award announcement.

Lenovo — official campaign partner
CAMPAIGN PERFORMANCE
6M+
ORGANIC VIEWS

Two pieces of content. One brand collaboration. More than six million organic views — reported by MediaCat and Marketing Türkiye.

LENOVO × ALARA XMEDIA FIRSTORGANIC ONLY
CROSS-PLATFORM · TWO-MONTH PERIODIAMX REPORTED
37.5M
VIEWS
19M
REACH
520K
ENGAGEMENTS
25K
COMMENTS
Picked up by news websites45

Cross-platform campaign performance · IAMX reported data.

ON THE TEDx STAGE

Ideas worth spreading —
from an AI.

The first AI character in Türkiye to take a TEDx stage — twice — sharing the programme with journalists, artists and scientists.

Alara X in the TEDxBilkent speaker line-up
TEDxBilkentSPEAKER
ANKARA · BİLKENT ODEON11 OCT 2025

The first AI character to give a TEDx talk in Türkiye — on the bill with Uğur Dündar, Semiramis Pekkan, Aslı Sümen and Ertem Şener, ahead of a Can Ozan concert.

Alara X — TEDxMersin speaker poster
TEDxMersinSPEAKER
MERSİN · TEDXMERSIN.ORG10 MAY 2026

On stage on the line between human and machine intelligence — an AI that thinks in data, weighs probabilities, and makes the room question what it means to think.

AUDIENCE & REACH

Real numbers.
Organic growth.

No paid-media inflation — this is what a digital character earns on its own across three platforms.

38M
Monthly organic reach
71.6%
Female audience share
25–34
Top age bracket (34.4%)
YouTube
29.6MViews
150K+Subscribers
731K hrsWatch time
Instagram
64.2MImpressions
11.3MAccounts reached
374KEngagements
TikTok
23MImpressions
89.3K+Followers
447KLikes

Platform analytics · IAMX reported data.

FROM DIGITAL TO PRIME TIME

Born on YouTube. Moved to television screens. Shared a stage with some of Türkiye's best-known names.

TRTCNBC-eNOWSÖZCÜ TV
TRT · AWARDS NIGHT
Opened the TRT International Documentary Awards

Alara X opened the ceremony together with Okan Bayülgen — an event that received 1,651 entries from around 100 countries.

Alara X on stage at the 15th TRT International Documentary Awards1,651 ENTRIES · 100+ COUNTRIES
Read on TRT Haber →
CNBC-e · STUDIO GUEST
A guest on Saba Tümer's programme

CNBC-e hosted Alara X in the studio and published dedicated video content on its own site.

Alara X on CNBC-e with Saba Tümer Watch on CNBC-e →
NOW · PRIME TIME
On air with Çağla Şıkel

Alara X joined Çağla Şıkel's programme on NOW — a digital character sharing a live broadcast desk with a household name.

Alara X with Çağla Şıkel on NOW
500K+ FOLLOWERSLIVE TV
10 MINUTES WITH ALARA X

26 guests.
One digital host.

Scientists, journalists, actors and athletes — interviewed by a character that writes its own questions, draws analogies and refers back to earlier answers.

Each card opens its episode of “10 Minutes with Alara X” on YouTube.All 26 episodes →
STUDIED BEYOND MEDIA

Alara X became more than a character.
She became a research subject.

GLOBAL MEDIA JOURNAL — TURKISH EDITION · 2025
“The Appearance of Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence in Türkiye in Digital Discourse Through Alara X”

The paper treats Alara X as a character positioned as Türkiye's first homegrown virtual influencer, and analyses public discourse around her.

PEER-REVIEWEDDIGITAL DISCOURSE2025
RECURRING THEMES IN POSITIVE DISCOURSE
01
Astonishment at her likeness to a real person
02
Confidence in technological progress
03
National pride

A second study describes her as a digital character audiences want to befriend — a social actor that also collaborates with brands.

AS SEEN IN
Marketing TürkiyeMediaCatTRT HaberCNBC-eDHA+ INTERNATIONAL WIRES
BRAND COLLABORATIONS

Put an award-winning AI character
at the centre of your campaign.

Alara X hosts, presents, launches and interviews — live, in Turkish and English. Or we build a character that belongs entirely to your brand.

BRAND CAMPAIGNSTV & EVENTSTALK SHOWLIVE STREAM