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  • BBH India creates live radio spots for Abbott

    BBH India creates live radio spots for Abbott

    MUMBAI: BBH Mumbai has released a case study on the first ever live radio spots for Abbott’s The Race of Possible’ campaign, which received overwhelming response in India.

    Here’s some background to the case study.

    Abbott launched ‘The Race of Possible’ campaign as part of its global brand campaign – ‘Life to the fullest.’

    The campaign celebrates people who have lead healthier, fuller lives because of Abbott’s breakthrough products and innovations.

    As a part of the integrated campaign, BBH was tasked to drive local relevance through radio. BBH created a radio campaign that was recorded live across three locations in India.

    Using real people with real medical conditions, audio was captured when these patients performed three different high adrenaline sports, pushing their physical boundaries.

    “We’ve all done thousands of radio spots before, generally, in a studio, with trained voices acting out a situation. In this case our studios were Goa, Bir and Ladakh and our voices were real patients who were really white water rafting, paragliding off a cliff and running a marathon in the Himalayas. Establishing the authenticity of what we were doing was incredibly important and working with Resul on this project has been a masterclass in audio craft. His approach to the reality of the experience, his commitment to excellence and his technical inputs have been inspiring. And then Bejoy did a tremendous job of capturing this reality, in a cinematically exciting way. It could very easily have been a very scrappy making of video and while these are technically still making of in nature, they are cinematically a joy to watch,” said BBH India managing partner Russell Barett.

    To extend the campaign to a larger audience, BBH captured ‘the making of’ the radio spots.  The digital films, released on 19 September, 2016, have received overwhelming response, with over 2.6 million views and growing activity across social media networks.

    The stories were also taken to outdoors across Mumbai and Delhi.

    BBH collaborated with the best in the business on the campaign – with Oscar winning sound designer Resul Pookutty, acclaimed filmmaker Bejoy Nambiar and National Film Award Winner DOP Rajeev Ravi.

    CREDITS:

    Client: Abbott Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.

    Agency: BBH Mumbai

    Chief Creative Officer & Managing Partner – Russell Barrett 

    CEO & Managing Partner –  Subhash Kamath
    Creative Director – Sapna Ahluwalia
    Copywriter – Yohan Daver, Shivani Krishan
    Art Director – Sapna Ahluwalia
    Executive Producer – Rahul Kulkarni
    Business Head – Delon Mascarenhas 

    Sr. Business Partner – Tejal Turakhia 

    Business Partner – Shivani Dand 

    Strategy Director – Soumitra Patnekar
    Senior Strategist – Naina Meattle

    Production House – Black Sheep Live

    Head of Production – Niddhish Puuzhakkal
                          

    Sound Mixer / Designer – Resul Pookutty                                

     DOP – Rajeev Ravi
                                                                      

     Director – Bejoy Nambiar

  • BBH India creates live radio spots for Abbott

    BBH India creates live radio spots for Abbott

    MUMBAI: BBH Mumbai has released a case study on the first ever live radio spots for Abbott’s The Race of Possible’ campaign, which received overwhelming response in India.

    Here’s some background to the case study.

    Abbott launched ‘The Race of Possible’ campaign as part of its global brand campaign – ‘Life to the fullest.’

    The campaign celebrates people who have lead healthier, fuller lives because of Abbott’s breakthrough products and innovations.

    As a part of the integrated campaign, BBH was tasked to drive local relevance through radio. BBH created a radio campaign that was recorded live across three locations in India.

    Using real people with real medical conditions, audio was captured when these patients performed three different high adrenaline sports, pushing their physical boundaries.

    “We’ve all done thousands of radio spots before, generally, in a studio, with trained voices acting out a situation. In this case our studios were Goa, Bir and Ladakh and our voices were real patients who were really white water rafting, paragliding off a cliff and running a marathon in the Himalayas. Establishing the authenticity of what we were doing was incredibly important and working with Resul on this project has been a masterclass in audio craft. His approach to the reality of the experience, his commitment to excellence and his technical inputs have been inspiring. And then Bejoy did a tremendous job of capturing this reality, in a cinematically exciting way. It could very easily have been a very scrappy making of video and while these are technically still making of in nature, they are cinematically a joy to watch,” said BBH India managing partner Russell Barett.

    To extend the campaign to a larger audience, BBH captured ‘the making of’ the radio spots.  The digital films, released on 19 September, 2016, have received overwhelming response, with over 2.6 million views and growing activity across social media networks.

    The stories were also taken to outdoors across Mumbai and Delhi.

    BBH collaborated with the best in the business on the campaign – with Oscar winning sound designer Resul Pookutty, acclaimed filmmaker Bejoy Nambiar and National Film Award Winner DOP Rajeev Ravi.

    CREDITS:

    Client: Abbott Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.

    Agency: BBH Mumbai

    Chief Creative Officer & Managing Partner – Russell Barrett 

    CEO & Managing Partner –  Subhash Kamath
    Creative Director – Sapna Ahluwalia
    Copywriter – Yohan Daver, Shivani Krishan
    Art Director – Sapna Ahluwalia
    Executive Producer – Rahul Kulkarni
    Business Head – Delon Mascarenhas 

    Sr. Business Partner – Tejal Turakhia 

    Business Partner – Shivani Dand 

    Strategy Director – Soumitra Patnekar
    Senior Strategist – Naina Meattle

    Production House – Black Sheep Live

    Head of Production – Niddhish Puuzhakkal
                          

    Sound Mixer / Designer – Resul Pookutty                                

     DOP – Rajeev Ravi
                                                                      

     Director – Bejoy Nambiar

  • Havas Media’s Mobext reaches Singapore and Malaysia

    MUMBAI: Havas Media has launched its mobile marketing agency Mobext in Singapore and Malaysia with Michael de Souza as general manager of the newly launched agency.

    Mobext Singapore and Malaysia will leverage the strengths of sister agency MPG and Havas Digital siblings Media Contacts and Ecselis and their portfolio of clients like Resorts World Sentosa, DBS Bank, NTUC Fairprice, Abbott, to expand their business in the market.

    Mobext is currently present in 19 markets globally and offers a truly end-to-end, mobile marketing agency service to clients. In Singapore the agency will offer messaging services like SMS and download; mobile internet services like WAP consulting and development, mobile display, mobile search. It will also provide proximity based services including LBS and mapping. Besides, it will offer integration through reporting and analytics by Havas Digital‘s campaign management platform.

    de Souza is a digital strategist with broad agency, ad network, media planning and content development experience. He joins the agency from global advertising network Buzzcity Pte Ltd, where he served as VP for Media. During his 12 year career, he has managed cross-channel campaigns and developed content for brands including Coca-Cola, Nestl?©, EAGames, Disney, Nike and MTN.

    Havas Media Asia Pacific CEO Vishnu Mohan said, “Singapore and Malaysia are strategically important markets for Havas Media and very advanced when it comes to mobile penetration and usage. We think that the time is just right for the launch of Mobext in the two markets. Our vision is to be the only pure-play mobile marketing agency network with truly regional scale across the entire Asia-Pacific, with strong mobile leaders in every major Asian market. This will allow us to work with the largest advertisers across the region for region-wide mobile marketing agency campaigns.”

    Mobext head of mobile APAC Arthur Policarpio said: “We invest in people, and with Michael, we have a leader with years of experience in mobile who can provide our clients with expert advice in this field. We are likewise the largest mobile agency network in the world, with offices in 19 markets, allowing us to leverage significant international experience in mobile best practice.”

    The launch of Mobext in Singapore follows the launch of the agency brand in Asia Pacific starting from India in the second quarter of 2011. Earlier in 2012 in February the media group acquired a majority stake in Snapworx Mobile Inc in the Philippines, following which the agency was rebranded as Mobext.