# How City of Linz uses Colossyan

**50%**: “save over 50% of her €1.9M COVID communications budget”

As published on [colossyan.com](https://www.colossyan.com/case-study/the-city-of-linz/), September 2025. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-07.

- Company: [City of Linz](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/city-of-linz.md)
- Tool: [Colossyan](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/colossyan.md)
- Teams: Communication and Marketing

## What the story says

The City of Linz used Colossyan AI avatars to produce multilingual COVID vaccination advisor videos for its residents, many of whom have limited German proficiency. Scripts were written in German, produced as video, then machine-translated and reviewed by native speakers.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Colossyan and City of Linz, not ours.

> She shared how she used Colossyan’s AI technology to save over 50% of her €1.9M COVID communications budget.

- **55,000**: “The City of Linz used Colossyan to create multilingual AI vaccination advisors, reaching 55,000 residents in 11 languages while saving over 50% of their comms budget.”

> I have found the Colossyan team to be extremely responsive and helpful, and appreciate their engagement with customers through various channels.
>
> Dr. Jürgen Tröbinger, Head of Communication and Marketing

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-07.

- Checked: the figure 50% is printed word for word on the page, near the name of City of Linz.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of City of Linz.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: City of Linz uses Colossyan. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-07.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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