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  • Star India defines the future of digital media consumption at the Kyoorius Student Awards

    Star India defines the future of digital media consumption at the Kyoorius Student Awards

    MUMBAI: The only awards for India’s student community returns with10 new briefs set out by some of India’s biggest brands. Kyoorius, a not-for-profit initiative by Transasia Fine Papers, in association D&AD has announced the launch of the second edition of the Kyoorius Student Awards.

     

    Kyoorius has created India’s only awards programme dedicated to the next creative superheros of India. In a format that’s never been seen before, real clients have set out briefs for students. Partnering with some of India’s biggest brands and creative business — briefs have been set out for specialist categories — Identity, Typography, Illustration, Packaging Design, Motion Design, Graphic Design, Product Design, Digital Design, & two Open Briefs.

     

    Star India has partnered with Kyoorius to create a brief for the digital design category asking students to define the way India will watch TV on the go. Gone are the days where media and content is consumed on a single screen shared by the family; on demand and personal is the need of the hour. And this is an emerging trend that is especially prevalent with the youth.

     

    Students will work on challenges such as the approach of how a user will navigate the site, the filtering of content and the UX, and the behaviour of this experience across devices such as laptops, tablets and smartphones.

     

    All entires in response to Star India’s digital design brief and indeed all entries at the Kyoorius Student Awards will be judged by an international jury that will be flown down to India for the jury session to be held on ground and will be managed by D&AD

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    Students are encouraged to work on and submit their entries over a two month  period, the entry deadline being — 19th of May 2014. Priced at just Rs. 500 per entry, Kyoorius and D&AD stay committed to their not-for-profit causes and to help develop, recognise and reward the young creative talent across India. Winners of the awards stand to
    win the Red Elephant Trophy, a cash prize of Rs. 50,000/- and a student pass for Kyoorius Designyatra 2015 alongside being featured in the Kyoorius Awards Annual.

     

    Gayatri Yadav, EVP, Marketing & Communications at Star India said “We believe that innovation is at the forefront of growing the media industry. And the students are its creative torch bearers. Encouraging and engaging such talent is part of Star’s culture and this platform plays a significant role in preparing them for the industry. With the Kyoorius Student Awards, Star wishes to celebrate this juncture of art & commerce that will define the future.”

    Rajesh Kejriwal, Founder CEO of Kyoorius commented, “Design is most effective when it works. And Star is a great example of great design working hard for a great brand. The Kyoorius Student Awards are a great opportunity for younger creative minds to showcase their talent all while getting involved with creating real world solutions for real brands — brands that they can relate to.”

     

  • STARCJ appoints Digital Strings as its Digital marketing agency

    STARCJ appoints Digital Strings as its Digital marketing agency

    MUMBAI: STARCJNetwork India Pvt. Ltd. (“STAR CJ”) appoints Digital Strings, a Mumbai based startup, to manage their online marketing activities. The account will be handled by a team of young and aspiring digital professionals. All online marketing activities of STAR CJ across various social media platforms will be handled by the startup agency.

    Digital Strings will be responsible for managing the online reputation of STARCJ. The mandate will also include managing STAR CJ’s social media presence, driving online visitors through search engine marketing and managing online advertising for creating a strong presence of the brand digitally.  

     
    Confirming the appointment, Mr. Kenny Shin, Chief Executive OfficerofSTARCJ,said, “After a rigorous evaluation of various agencies, our team at STARCJ made a decision of appointing these young bunch of professionals to manage our online marketing activities.”

    Adding to this, Mr. Shin said, “We have been quite successful in the business of home-shopping on our channel STARCJ alive. But looking at the change in the consumer behavior in India due to the penetration of online shopping, we intend to strengthen our presence online and reach out to a wider consumer base. We believe that Digital Strings would stand up to our expectations and help us create a niche in the online shopping business.”

    The estimated online media spend for STARCJ is 5.5 Crorefor the year 2014. STAR CJ intends to expand its online business drastically by the end of this year and take a strong position in the e-commerce space through the online sale of premium category products such as mobile phones, kitchen appliances, electronics, household goods, etc.

     

    Mr. RohitKerkar, Managing Director, Digital Strings, added, “It is a big win for us as a start up. I am grateful to the team of STARCJ for seeing us capable enough to manage their online reputation as against various well established agencies currently present in the country. We are privileged to be associated with STARCJ.  Our team at Digital Strings will strive hard to manage and build STAR CJ’s online image.”

    About STARCJ Network India Pvt. Ltd.: STAR CJ Network India Pvt. Ltd. is one of India’s largest home shopping company, selling premium yet affordable products via television and the internet.

    STAR CJ is a joint venture between STAR Group and the South Korean home shopping major, CJ O Shopping Co. Ltd. This venture was started in the year 2009, with the launch of STAR CJ program slots on STAR Utsav. In 2010, STAR CJ alive was introduced as a 24X7 home shopping TV. The channel at present reaches out to 25 million households across 3200 cities in India. After the success of the television arm of the company, STARCJ.com was launched in the year 2011to reach out to more consumers.

    About Digital Strings: Digital Strings is an emerging digital marketing agency located in Mumbai. The agency aims at providing affordable yet thorough digital marketing solutions to entrepreneurs and SMEs. Their expertise spans a wide range of services like social media marketing, online PR, search engine optimization (SEO), online reputation management, pay per click (PPC), online advertising, web design & development.

    Media Contact: Shital Pawar shital@digitalstrings.com +91 9702635209

     

  • Raising iBrows launches operations in Mumbai

    Raising iBrows launches operations in Mumbai

    MUMBAI: Raising   iBrows,   a   leading   Audience   Engagement   Specialist   with   a   wide   range   of   services, announced today the launch of its operations with the opening of its new office in Mumbai.  
     
    Raising iBrows’ Audience Engagement Services have enabled brands across a wide range of businesses to transform the way they engage with their prospects and customers. With multiple points of engagement  in a connected world, Raising iBrows brings deep understanding,  insight and expertise of user experience, user interface design, technologies and applications for brands to offer the best possible experience to their audiences at the point of engagement, no matter what the size of the screen. This improves the experience of those engaging with them, increases productivity, and growth in customers and revenues.

     
    Speaking on the launch of operations in Mumbai, David Appasamy, Chairman, Raising iBrows, said, “We are excited  to launch  our services  in Mumbai  and look forward  to partnering  with brands and businesses to transform the experience they provide across multiple points of engagement. Ganapathy Vishwanathan, with years of experience in marketing, advertising and communications,  heads the team, while Carl Noronha,  our Head of Engagement  Strategies,  is based in this office. Together, they bring years of expertise and experience to bear on the brands we are entrusted with.”

     
    Ganapathy  Viswanathan,  Head-­?Mumbai  Office, Raising iBrows, has many years of marketing, brand and business management experience with Ogilvy & Mather, RMG David and 20:20 MSL. Speaking on the launch of operations, he said, “Mumbai has always been a vibrant centre for businesses and brands in India, and we look forward to expanding our client base in the city. Our cutting edge design, technology and services will give an edge to companies and brands as they have to our clients across verticals.”

     
    Carl Noronha, Head-­?  Engagement Strategies, Raising iBrows, has over 25 years of experience in marketing and advertising, and was Creative Director at Leo Burnett, Sify and Dzine. He was in charge of design for Sify’s consumer portal, and the architect of India’s first and largest online community.  Commenting  on the Mumbai  Launch,  Carl  Noronha  said,  “Our  expertise  is relied upon  by  clientele   across   real  estate,   finance,   media,   healthcare,   information   technology, educational  institutions,  lifestyle  and jewelry,  foods,  fashion,  automobiles  and paints.  We are happy to be able to offer our experience and services to brands and businesses in Mumbai”.
     

    The  company  currently  has  offices  in  Chennai  and  Mumbai,  with  plans  to  expand  its  footprint  further in India and overseas.

  • Ozone Media, MicroAd partner to serve digital consumers in southeast Asia

    Ozone Media, MicroAd partner to serve digital consumers in southeast Asia

    MUMBAI: Ozone Media, an India-based digital technology company, has entered into a partnership with MicroAd, an online ad platform company in Japan, to enable dynamic retargeting which allows advertisers to create and manage personalised advertisements for every single customer.

     

    The collaboration with MicroAd will ensure that display campaigns, served via its integrated management platform ‘MicroAd BLADE’, are optimised to meet the specific goals of advertisers in southeast Asia – especially in the travel and tourism, and e-commerce verticals. Online ad spend is growing rapidly and, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, is forecast to reach nearly US$34 billion in Asia Pacific by 2015, highlighting advertisers’ growing confidence in online media.

     

    On the tie-up, Ozone Media founder Kiran Gopinath said, “We are pleased to enter this alliance with MicroAd, and are confident that we will provide great value to advertisers with increased returns on their retargeting campaigns.”

     

    Ozone Media recently launched ‘Adadyn’ – a creative optimisation solution – which allows for a deeper and meaningful engagement with online users by serving dynamic creatives to selectively targeted audience segments.

     

    “We look forward to working closely with Ozone Media, and equip our clients across southeast Asia with real-time advertising capabilities that will help them reach their target audience with relevant and customised messaging,” said MicroAd Vietnam CEO Kosuke Sogo.

  • Dentsu Digital bags digital duties for Mandom’s Gatsby

    Dentsu Digital bags digital duties for Mandom’s Gatsby

    MUMBAI: Dentsu Digital has recently been awarded digital duties of Gatsby, a part of Mandom India.
     

    The account win was the outcome of a multi agency pitch process.

    Commenting on opening 2014 on a high by winning the Gatsby’s account, Dentsu Digital CEO Glen Ireland said, “It is a great feeling to start the year with a new business win – especially, if it’s in a category that continues to grow rapidly across markets. The mandate given to us is to create an overall online presence for the brand with a strong focus on creating engagement via social media. Given the TG definition of Gatsby – Facebook will play a dominant role in creating that conversation – other channels like YouTube would help deepen the brand experience via demo-based video content. We also plan to leverage Instagram and Pinterest – relatively newer social media platforms to enhance the visibility of Gatsby online.”

     

    Gatsby was launched in Japan in 1978 and the brand made its India debut in 2003 when Mandom Indonesia started distribution of Gatsby products in the country. The year 2008, marked a new chapter in Mandom’s India plans when it appointed Mumbai-based Gardenia Cosmocare as its distributor.

     

    Since then the brand has moved from strength to strength and resulted in the company establishing a direct presence in India through Mandom Corporation (India) in 2012, making it the 11th country where the company has a direct presence.

  • GroupM delves into Digital World 2013

    GroupM delves into Digital World 2013

    MUMBAI: “Internet is just a world passing around notes in the classroom,” said American television host and stand-up comedian Jon Stewart about the whole world wide web.

    Considering that the classroom has increased manifolds in the past couple of years with each and everyone using the internet ever second, every day of their life, Indiantelevision.com takes a look atGroupM’s recently released report, “This Year Next Year Interaction 2014” which highlights the impact of technology and tech companies on consumers and advertiser behaviour.

    The preview report mostly talks about the social media and video platforms and how the platforms have been utilised by various brands. The penetration and growth of smartphones in the world is stating the obvious and hence, it elaborates on how a few of the next billion online users will use a PC-like object as the principal method of access. Tablets and smartphones rule the roost, these days.

    The report goes on to state that by one mean or other, one-third of the world population is online. With television and print taking a backseat, advertisers have made PCs and now mobile devices a priority to reach out to the attentive audiences.   

    “However, with magnification of fragmentation, multi-tasking, active screen time and increasing adoption of over-the-top (OTT) and often ad-free media, the challenges among advertisers is increasing. Advertisers have to deliver effectively in more places and on more platforms with little additional resources,” highlights the report.

    The report goes on to say that 25 years after the web’s conception, what it delivers to consumers and to the business could not have been imagined by its creator. “Google is the 800-pound gorilla that has seamlessly combined its core revenue engine, search with a strong position in online video and successfully evolved both into mobile.”

    The report adds, “More significantly, Youtube has become the uber-network of video networks and is the wireframe on which more and more of the world’s video content hangs. With 25 per cent of all views on mobile devices and by Google’s definition that excludes tablets, Youtube sits alongside Facebook, twitter and Goggle search as one of the dominant applications of mobile consumption.”

    Global Youtube revenue is estimated, as per the report, at $5 billion and the top 10 brands which have been the platform’s biggest content creators include: Blackberry, DCShoecoUSA, Google, Coca Cola, Old Spice, GoPro, Samsung, Nike, Volkswagen and RedBull.

    Furthermore, the report goes on to say that if 2013 was the year of mobile advertising then Facebook and Twitter made it so. “Of its 700 million daily users, 500 million use the platform of Facebook via a mobile device. And if advertisers create more high-frequency engagement, they will in turn increase the algorithmics distribution of messages to a greater percentage of their fans and beyond, reducing the need to pay for that reach,” says the report.

    Also in 2013 Facebook positioned itself to participate in two new areas – search, long dominated by Google and ‘moments’ news, TV and otherwise on which Twitter has begun to build its revenue base. However, the report also states that twitter will never achieve the level of penetration of Facebook. “The platforms are so often referenced in the same sentence yet they have little in common other than as examples of the network effect as a catalyst of growth.”

    The top brands on the social networking site, as mentioned  in the report, are: Coca Cola, MTV, Disney, Red Bull, Converse, Starbucks, etc.

    Having said that, the report adds how many media companies have embraced Twitter as a tool  to extend the reach of their programming and deepen their advertiser relationship by re-distributing content on it. Top brands on Twitter are: Samsung, Starbucks, Whole Foods, Blackberry, Disney, Zappos, Chanel, says GroupM.

    The agency’s report has highlighted the benefits that professional networking site Linkedin provides to HR managers globaly, even, surprisingly in China. One third of the world’s profesionals, 95 per cent of Americans and 40 per cent Europeans use Linkedin, it says. With a quarter of a billion individual profiles, as well as 300,000 corporate profiles, it states and  goes on to explain how corporations, through their own profiles, sponsored updates and influencer content postings are investing significantly in building their brands and cohorts of followers.  The most-followed companies on the professional networking site are Google, IBM, HP, Microsoft, Apple etc.

    The report also looks at the online presence of  Apple, and its online music service iTunes and iTunesRadio. With almost 700 million iOS users globally, and 200 million iTunes accounts in the US it is a tour de force able to offer varying advertising options to advertisers. The report then goes on to examine how Yahoo, Microsoft (it acquired Nokia’s handset business this year), AOL, Amazon (almost 35 per cent of all digital customer journeys in the US end up at this online retailer, GroupM research states) and Electronic Arts have been dealing with the rapid evolution online and in digital and what kind of advertiser offerings they are drawing up, and how much success they are achieving.

    If one has to wrap up the year and see what’s next? “For advertisers the world will get more complex. The promise of the cloud and of big data implies an information adjacency and the ability to deliver content to the customer that promises super-precision in segmentation and targeting and by inference a value in an increasingly granular, dynamic and data-informed media environment,” as per the report.

    The report aims to give readers a real understanding of what’s happening in the world of online, and how they as marketers can get prepared to efficiently use the evolving ecosystem.

  • FoxyMorons executed Garnier Mens initiative enters its second phase

    FoxyMorons executed Garnier Mens initiative enters its second phase

    MUMBAI: Garnier Men that initiated the PowerLight A Village campaign earlier this year in collaboration with Project Chirag with an aim to light up hundreds of rural households in India that are without any electricity entered its second phase.

     

    The campaign was aimed at creating awareness among consumers to contribute through their pledges on social media and be a part of a movement that will help Garnier Men in the identification and electrification of lightless villages across India using solar power. The initiative, which is digitally executed by FoxyMoron, provides electricity to remote villages in India.

     

    In its second phase, close to 800 households across India have benefited via the process of rural electrification with over 1,487,426 watts generated online. The initiative has received 7589 tweets and the total user engagement has increased by almost 900 per cent till now on the social media platforms.

     

    Through the simple medium of social media, Garnier Men reached out to more than a million consumers and encouraged them to participate in the campaign.

     

    FoxyMoron co-founder and online strategist Harshil Karia said, “Brands taking on projects for social good is the future. We believe that a brand speaks through its actions more than advertisements and are humbled to be associated with Garnier Men that has taken this bold step through the ‘PowerLight A Village’ campaign. We have received tremendous support from all the fans who truly care and believe in this cause. It will be our aim to continue to drive strong engagement to light up not only homes but lives of people living in darkness.”

     

    Garnier, L’Oréal India general manager Rupika Raman said, “At Garnier, we believe that our tagline ‘Take Care’ does not mean only taking care of yourself, but also taking care of the society. In keeping with this, we are proud to present ‘PowerLight a Village’, which is a unique campaign that helps empower change in our society through a simple action on social media.”

     

    Garnier Men has collaborated with Chirag Rural Development Foundation (Project Chirag) as its implementation partner. The Foundation has been championing the cause of rural electrification and is instrumental in providing electrification to over 125 villages across the country.

  • Defiance Technologies, Bridgeline Digital partner for iAPPS

    Defiance Technologies, Bridgeline Digital partner for iAPPS

    Mumbai: Defiance Technologies, a Hinduja Group Company, has announced its partnership with Bridgeline Digital to bring the iAPPS, an integrated digital marketing platform to its customers.

     

    Defiance Technologies VP & head of emerging technologies and enterprise solutions business Kumar Mallampalli said that technology led marketing moves to the core of the enterprise and businesses expect more from their digital marketing assets.

     

    “With the iAPPS platform, we bring next generation digital enablement for tighter customer connects across multiple channels. Businesses that depend on channel partners such as dealers and franchises can reap particularly rich benefits from iAPPS. They now have a world class tool to create superior customer engagement across hundreds of dealers and franchises backed by strong out-of-the-box personalisation and content automation abilities,” added Mallampalli.

     

    In other words, the entire brand management process gets significantly enhanced and becomes easy to manage and is also cost-effective. The entire platform is cloud enabled and integrated with robust analytics.

     

    “We’re very pleased to be able to offer iAPPS solutions to Defiance Technologies customers,” says Bridgeline Digital’s vice president for APAC Titas Gupta. “Bridgeline sees great growth opportunities in the APAC region and is excited to be able to partner with a player as strong as Defiance Technologies. We’re confident that we can replicate the success we’ve had with iAPPS in the North American market across AsiaPac”.

  • Get set for an International Conference on Digital Libraries

    Get set for an International Conference on Digital Libraries

    MUMBAI: Wouldn’t it be really good if all the knowledge from across the world can be accessed from one place? That is what a recent initiative by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) aims to do. TERI is organising the International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) from 27-29 November 2013 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

     

    The ICDL 2013 is titled “Vision 2020: Looking back 10 years and Forging New Frontiers” and will review the developments in the past and chalk out a strategy for the future. In addition to conference sessions, thematic workshop-cum-panel discussions are planned to provide a deeper meaning to the theme of the conference.

     

    The objective of the conference is to focus on the creation, adoption, implementation, and utilisation of Digital Library (DL) and their future implications. It also aims to provide an international forum for sharing of experiences among researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers from a variety of disciplines such as library and information science, information and communication technology, archival and museum studies, knowledge management and many areas in the fields of Science, Social sciences and Humanities.

     

    Some of the eminent speakers who will be attending the conference include Ian Witten, Professor, Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand; P Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research India, India; Jagdish Arora, Director, INFLIBNET, India; Jean-Marc Comment, Chef d’unité, Département fédéral de l’Intérieur, Archives fédérales AF Unité des techniques de l’information Archivstrasse, Switzerland; Yan Quan Liu, Professor, Southern Connecticut State University, USA; A R D Prasad, Professor and Head, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, India; Chunxiao Xing, Professor & Director, WEB and Software Technology, R&D Center, RIIT, Tsinghua University, ChinaR&D Center, RIIT, Tsinghua University, China and A R D Prasad, Professor and Head, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, India among others.