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  • GroupM, Ogilvy launch Effectiveness Lab in India

    GroupM, Ogilvy launch Effectiveness Lab in India

    MUMBAI: Wavemaker, GroupM’s media, content and technology agency, has partnered with creative powerhouse Ogilvy, to create a first of its kind Effectiveness Lab in India. This unique collaboration, between the two WPP agencies will develop data-validated points of view on creating effective communications across consumer interaction platforms.

    Branded content is the first space the Lab will explore, probing how consumers respond to different content strategies, creative approaches and formats. As marketers increase spends on the creation and deployment of content, it is crucial to bring intelligence to what drives effectiveness in the content space.

    GroupM South Asia country manager, WPP India and CEO CVL Srinivas says, “At WPP, our focus is to provide ‘horizontality’ across our agencies and create a seamless structure to provide effective solutions. While we have a wide range of services on offer, the focus of our agencies is on creating efficient solutions to help our brand partners strengthen their engagement with the audience. Launching the Effectiveness Lab as a combined initiative by Wavemaker and Ogilvy is a great example of this.”

    Wavemaker managing director of South Asia Kartik Sharma adds, “At Wavemaker, we connect media, content and technology to drive growth for clients and we understand how effective marketing can be. By being able to better understand how content moves consumers to action along their purchase journeys, we’ll be able to help our clients to make informed decisions on how and when to create engaging content and therefore drive growth for them across their consumer journeys.”

    Ogilvy India CEO Kunal Jeswani mentions, “The Effectiveness Lab will bring the best minds at Ogilvy and Wavemaker together to throw light on creative effectiveness across new age platforms. With digital communications across multiple platforms becoming core to any integrated campaign strategy, the industry needs new thinking on effectiveness. Ogilvy has always stood for Great Work That Works. The more informed we are, the better we will get at delivering creative effectiveness.”

  • Redington unveils new global brand identity

    Redington unveils new global brand identity

    MUMBAI: Redington, the $6 billion distribution and supply chain giant for international brands in the IT and mobility sectors, has unveiled its new global brand identity with a new logo and tagline – Seamless Partnerships. 

    The new brand identity reflects the core values of Redington as a contemporary and innovative company, which has developed its messaging strategy to reflect its evolution as a brand and its global role as one of the largest providers in the supply chain solution industry. The new logo and tagline epitomises the new direction that the company would like to take in the years to come.

    Unveiling the impressive new logo and tagline, Redington managing director Raj Shankar says, “I am proud to launch today our rejuvenated brand and visual identity that fully reflects what we stand for as an organisation. This is not a mere change of brand identity but a coming of age for Redington, a transformation that the company is engineering to take it to the next level. The new identity carries forward our core values on which our company is built – adaptability, collaboration, know-how, objectivity, simplicity, transparency and trust. We look to expand our horizons from being a ‘brand behind brands’ to a platform that enables seamless partnerships. Redington is committed to do everything to achieve its ultimate goal of being the preferred company for connecting buyers and sellers. Re-emphasising the word ‘preferred’ as in a competitive world, Redington wants to build and grow lasting partnerships.”

    The new logo of Redington symbolises synergy – while the existing colour green has been retained, different shades have been introduced as well, keeping in mind the ever-expanding portfolio and services of the company. It represents the synergy and oneness that Redington possesses as an organisation – be it with vendors, customers, team, the environment, technology and the ecosystem within its circle of influence. The latticed geometric design depicts technological innovation as well as simplicity in complexity. The symmetrical form shows harmony between Redington and the other organisations that it collaborates. The energy is depicted in the reverse white lines, also representing the common thread of Redington’s philosophy and spirit running through the organisation towards a common good.

    As a heritage brand, Redington is stepping into its 25th year and the new branding builds on its well-established reputation in the industry.

    Established in Chennai in the year 1993, Redington is a well-known global brand having its operations across India, South Asia, Middle East, Turkey and Africa. With a strong network of 37,500 partners, Redington distributes more than 200 brands across 24 markets and has leadership position in most markets and brands.

    Redington, which has a strong distribution base, prides on the trust that it enjoys among not only its customers but also the vendors whose brands it distributes. Some of Redington’s brand and vendor relationships have been existent for decades.

  • Future Group’s aLL assigns creative duties to Marching Ants

    Future Group’s aLL assigns creative duties to Marching Ants

    MUMBAI: Future Group’s aLL – The Plus Size Store has assigned its creative duties to Marching Ants. Salt is the incumbent agency on the account.

    Confirming the win, Marching Ants director and chief creative strategist Joy Ghoshal adds, “Early in its life cycle, The Plus size fashion category presents huge opportunities for us to create experiences for the consumer through content and environments. We are looking forward to creating some memorable and effective work for aLL and making it the most preferred Plus Size Fashion brand in the country.”

    Commenting on this development, aLL CEO Hetal Kotak says, “ As an agency, Marching Ants truly understood the brand at grassroots level. Their in-depth consumer insights, and their ability to build consumer intent made us partner with them for our marketing and promotional duties and we are hopeful that this association with Marching Ants will help establish aLL as the most desirable plus size destination store among our TG. We are looking forward to achieving great things going forward with Marching Ants”.

    Under the mandate, Marching Ants will create campaigns that will enable the brand to attain top-of-mind recall and conceptualise ideas for across all mediums and touch points.

  • Publicis Media bags digital mandate for ZEE5

    Publicis Media bags digital mandate for ZEE5

    MUMBAI: Publicis Media has won the full digital duties of ZEE5 in India, the newly launched digital entertainment platform from Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL). The business was won as part of a multi-agency pitch.

    Zenith India group CEO Tanmay Mohanty says, “The OTT segment in India is poised for exponential growth and requires specialist expertise trained to navigate this new and emerging area. We look forward to making ZEE5 a powerful business.”

    ZEE5 India digital head Archana Anand adds, “ZEE5’s language focus makes it strongly relevant to people across the length and breadth of India. We were therefore looking for a partner that could bring in the necessary digital marketing solutions and deep consumer insights to help take us across markets and quickly establish ZEE5 as the go-to digital destination for language content. Publicis has strong credentials and experience in digital marketing and understands the changing milieu of the digital and entertainment business.”

    Publicis Media is one of the four solutions hubs of Publicis Groupe alongside Publicis Communications, Publicis.Sapient and Publicis Healthcare.

  • Net sensation Priya Varrier promotes Pringles

    Net sensation Priya Varrier promotes Pringles

    MUMBAI: At a time when the whole wide world seemed to be lingering around with cupids and love-struck angels, Kellogg’s popular potato crisps brand and the world’s second-largest potato chips player Pringles created a frenzy by striking the right chord with singles! 

    Unlike other popular brands that were hopping onto the Valentine’s Day buzz, creating fancy coupled campaigns, Pringles was trending on Twitter (alternating between number 2 and 3) on the afternoon of 14 February securing much affection with an intriguing singles campaign. 

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    To further amplify the buzz around the campaign, overnight internet sensation, Priya Prakash Varrier joined the bandwagon by sharing a Facebook post on Valentine’s Day, “So many Valentines requests but I’m staying #SingleAsAPringle because I’m just Puurrfect. Pringles ;)”; with a photo of her eating Pringles. Overnight, the post went viral with more than 1.4 million ‘likes’ on Instagram alone.

    Love is surely not in the air for many of us all the time; and with so much hype around Valentine’s Day and the week before, the pressure of being alone and insignificant tends to bog even the best of us down. Pringles activated a noteworthy campaign on Facebook and Twitter a week ago where it celebrated eternal singlehood and the unending love one has for Pringles. The brand helped embrace the singlehood status and that Pringles is all they need hence, they’re happy to be #SingleAsAPringle.

    Pringles has always been atop topical campaigns. From interactive experiences to engagement formats, it is all about being fun and fresh along with highlighting their value proposition in a unique way. This particular activity managed to reach about 7.5 million people, garnered over 300 million online impressions and generated close to 40 thousand conversations. 

  • Digital takes centre stage on tepid Valentine’s Day for brands

    Digital takes centre stage on tepid Valentine’s Day for brands

    MUMBAI: Love has been in the air and on the internet all week. Valentine’s Day is no longer about just a day you spend with your loved one but is rather a week-long affair of gifts and celebration. Valentine’s Day has become no less than a festival in India, a country that takes much pride in its traditions and culture.

    Although the phenomenon is only a few years old, the enthusiasm of brands investing in Valentine’s Day seems to be only increasing every year. Gifting and food and beverage (F&B) industry are most active during this time of the year and it is a big occasion for all sectors other than BFSI.

    Earlier, brands focussed mainly on print advertising backed by television for Valentine’s Day promotion. But that seems to have changed now. Brands are increasingly looking at newer avenues to connect with consumers and remind them about the brand. Although the market sentiment for the day in 2018 has been tepid as major brands chose to stay away from advertising, some SMEs and new players leveraged the day to connect with consumers. The day also saw e-commerce, a major advertiser during major festivals and occasions in India, not being too gung-ho but small gifting websites such as Chumbak, Bigsmall, Dailyobjects among others got the most from the occasion on the digital platform. 

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    iProspect India associate vice president, branding and affiliate marketing Mihir Mehta notes that brand sentiment this year has been weak as advertisers have stopped force fitting their products to occasions. 

    Over the years, Mondelez India has built and led the occasion through its concerted marketing efforts and gifting innovations. This year, Cadbury Dairy Milk Silk announced the launch of its new special edition pack with a heart pop, which urges consumers to not hold back from expressing their love.

    Dentsu Aegis Network’s digital agency, Carat, collaborated with Snapchat to create India’s first ‘National Snapchat Lens’ for the product. Through this lens, one can blow a kiss with the Silk bar, which creates a drool effect around the consumer. Additionally, the agency also used 3D filters on Facebook that allowed users to engage and post a variety of animations on their pictures/videos, which could be downloaded and shared later.

    This year, we saw brands leverage digital as the primary medium for brand activation as the occasion caters to people in the age group of 16-30 years and as the millennials are more active on digital than on traditional mediums. Other than the usual promotional ads, brands started Valentine’s hashtags to attract online audiences and organised social media contests.

    Consumers have today become more product-centric and brands are making sure they deliver that. Mehta says that this year brands have not used Valentine’s Day for customer acquisition but have rather concentrated on engagement with existing customers.

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    Food-delivery platform Swiggy created an opt-in platform called, My ValenDine, that used interested Swiggy users’ order history, and matched them based on their favourite food and preferences. On Valentine’s Day, users could come back to the microsite to find out who their Valendine’s matches were. 

    Jewellery brand Tanishq created an 8-minute digital film that captured seven real love stories. Kellogg’s launched a digital-only campaign on Facebook and Instagram to create buzz around its chocolate flavoured crunchy snack. 

     

     

     

    Kellogg’s believes that the response to its campaign has been very encouraging as both their branded creatives as well as content co-created with leading youth influencers like Tanmay Bhat, Ashish Shakya and Kaneez Surka have surpassed their expectation. This goes on to show that bite-sized and engaging pieces of content create relevant conversation around the brand.

    Brand-Building.com founder and brand guru Ambi Parameswaran notes that this year Valentine’s Day did not see too many ads in the daily newspapers as brands decided to play it low key. “It is possible that after the furore around Padmaavat they were just playing safe but the final pudding is in the eating and if Indian upper-income consumers and youngsters do want an occasion to celebrate, then they will use Valentine’s Day to do that.”

    Also Read :

    How iProspect’s Vivek Bhargava foresaw a digital future two decades ago

    Kids’ candy segment: Communication sees a shift

    Dairy Milk innovates Silk for Valentine’s Day

    Brands pick digital over TV and print for Diwali marketing

  • Unibic awards media duties to Mindshare

    Unibic awards media duties to Mindshare

    MUMBAI: Unibic, a renowned name in the cookie industry has awarded its media duties to Mindshare, after a competitive multi-agency pitch. The mandate involves handling the media strategy, planning and implementation across all media in India. The account will be handled out of the Mindshare Bangalore office.

    Unibic is one of India’s largest ‘real’ cookie production company with a range of over 24 variants and an added sugar free segment. It has also just launched its healthy range of biscuits such as Gluten-free, Ragi and 40 per cent Oats. 

    On the new appointment, Unibic Foods managing director Nikhil Sen says, “We were looking for a seasoned and versatile partner who will work towards building our brand and taking it to the next level. Mindshare is a reputed agency and comes with high recommendations. We are confident that together we will be able to reach our desired goal.”

    Commenting on the new win, Mindshare South Asia CEO Prasanth Kumar adds, “We are delighted to work with premium cookie brand Unibic. We look forward to working with the team on their strategic marketing initiatives to deliver their business outcomes and strengthen the brand’s position in the cookie category.”

  • Happy mcgarrybowen to handle BharatBenz’s creative and media mandate

    Happy mcgarrybowen to handle BharatBenz’s creative and media mandate

    MUMBAI: Happy mcgarrybowen has been selected by Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) as the agency on record for its BharatBenz brand, known for its range of modern trucks and buses. The appointment followed a multi-agency pitch held in Chennai.

    Happy mcgarrybowen, the creative agency from the Dentsu Aegis Network, has been brought on board to manage the integrated mainline and digital communication mandate for BharatBenz trucks and buses, along with the media duties for the brand. The brand will be handled out of Happy mcgarrybowen’s Bangalore office.

    The BharatBenz brand is tailored for the Indian market and its demanding customer requirements by Daimler AG, the world’s leading commercial vehicles manufacturer with a global reach. First unveiled in February 2011, it celebrated its market launch in September 2012. By end of 2017, more than 60,000 BharatBenz vehicles had already been handed over to customers – an unprecedented ramp-up in the Indian CV industry. BharatBenz trucks and buses are sold and serviced through a pan-Indian network of more than 130 touch-points which is also continuously being expanded beyond the tier-2 and tier-3 cities.

    On the partnership, DICV vice president of marketing and sales Rajaram Krishnamurthy says, “We are happy to have Happy mcgarrybowen on board. We will be reaching out to more and more customers in the coming years, and we are counting on their expertise to deliver successful integrated traditional and digital campaigns for BharatBenz.”

    Happy mcgarrybowen chief executive officer Kartik Iyer adds, “It’s been a year of automobile account wins for us at Happy mcgarrybowen. First 2 wheelers, then 4 wheelers and now 14 wheelers. It’s an honour to be chosen to work on a brand like BharatBenz. Their patience to get the right solution and their appreciation for quality is something we have already enjoyed in the short span of working together. We are extremely positive about this partnership and we look forward to growing their market share in the country.”

  • iCubesWire bags digital mandate for AMB Group

    iCubesWire bags digital mandate for AMB Group

    MUMBAI: iCubesWire,a digital marketing solution and concept provider has bagged the digital media mandate for AMB Group, a renowned real estate developer of Delhi NCR. 

    iCubesWire will be responsible for driving and delivering the overall digital marketing requirements of AMB Group. The entire mandate covers social, ORM, listening, search, technology, digital creative and other media duties.

    iCubesWire CEO and founder Sahil Chopra says, “We are delighted to add yet another prestigious account to our kitty. We are geared up to present out-of-the-box ideas which will uplift its brand presence digitally and helps meet their desired goals. It is a great opportunity for us and we look forward to a splendid start.”

    AMB group director Manoj Sethi adds, “We are excited to onboard iCubesWire as our digital partner. With their innovative ideas & pathbreaking strategies, we are certain to soar new heights in the digital world. We look forward to maintaining a healthy relationship with them.”