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  • This summer vacation, make new friends with Tang’s new campaign!

    This summer vacation, make new friends with Tang’s new campaign!

    Mumbai: Tang from Mondelez India, is to announce the launch of their innovative campaign centred around fostering kids’ creativity this summer- ‘Tang Summer Break Bestie’. It is an exciting campaign which promises an engaging and interactive experience for parents and their kids. Based on the insight that children may often experience boredom during their summer break as their friends are away travelling, the ‘Summer Break Bestie’ aims to bring a difference to the school break and introduce a refreshing take on summertime fun. Through this campaign, which features the popular television actress – Shruti Sheth, the brand aims to stir every child’s creativity by giving them a chance to create their bestie with the help of unique animations.

    By simply scanning the QR codes on the Tang packs and visiting www.tangindia.in- Children along with their parents can embark on an imaginative and fun journey to create their unique bestie aka friend-like avatar for the summer. Whether it’s a panda, an alien, a wizard or even an astronaut, the possibilities are immense with over 1.25 lac possible combinations. Kids can engage in various fun activities such as skipping, dribbling, cycling, and jumping jacks with their besties and capture these memorable moments. Not only will this campaign ignite the spark of creativity in kids, but parents can also share the heartwarming clips on various social media platforms using the #TangSummerBreakBestie with an opportunity for participants to win exciting prizes and rewards this summer.

    Speaking about Tang’s creative campaign for the summer vacation, Mondelez India vice president- of marketing Nitin Saini said, “Summer, with its promise of freedom and fun with friends, turns into a period where children are always eager to experience moments of laughter and adventure with their friends. However, they might get separated from their buddies due to other travel plans during this crucial downtime. So, we saw an opportunity to bridge the gap and bring the perfect summer companion to life for children, which also serves as a great opportunity for them to bond with their parents during the break. With a commitment to infuse fun and excitement, we are happy to introduce the new campaign ‘Summer Break Bestie’ for the young hearts yearning for a fun-filled summertime. A child’s imagination is endless, and we are excited to see the avatars these kids will create to enjoy their summer break.”

    Bates India group creative directors Pashyn Sethna and Pranav Bhide added “Summer vacation means 24×7 fun. But it also means friends travelling away and boredom creeping in. So as a brand that champions kids’ break time, the challenge was to keep the fun going all summer. Tang’s ‘Summer Break Bestie’ is an interactive new platform for kids and parents to come together and create their virtual BFF. Using their imagination, kids can design their own characters, going up to over 1,00,000 combinations! The idea brings alive summertime activities like playing, learning, dancing, reading and more, that kids can engage in throughout the summer. For the campaign, digital, social and influencer channels will spotlight this unique coming together of tech and kids’ imagination to defeat summertime boredom.”

    Wavemaker India’s chief client officer & office head, West, North & East Shekhar Banerjee also mentioned “With simple and easy-to-access tech, we are enabling kids to create memorable experiences when they are locked indoors during peak summers. The objective is to drive engagement through various media touchpoints and effectively strengthen Tang’s association with summer.”

  • Space Creattors Heights appoints Henna Misri as chief executive officer

    Space Creattors Heights appoints Henna Misri as chief executive officer

    Mumbai: Space Creattors Heights, a leading premium co-working, has appointed Henna Misri as their chief executive officer, she will contribute in making decisive and strategic business decisions aimed at propelling dynamic growth and success. This step will massively augment the company’s operations, marketing strategies, business development initiatives, financial endeavors, and human resources.

    Being a high-end coworking space, Space Creattors Heights offers world class amenities and stellar workspaces. It is an eminent Indian brand with three centers in Delhi NCR market and a compelling expansion plan to increase their footprint across geographies in the coming years. Their workspaces have an ISO 45001 certification for the management of occupational health and safety.

    Space Creattors Heights co-founder & managing director Aryann Suri said “I welcome Henna and extend my heartfelt congratulations on her appointment as the CEO. Henna has demonstrated exceptional leadership qualities and a keen understanding of our industry. Her strategic vision and dedication to excellence align perfectly with our company’s ethos. I have full confidence in her capabilities, and look forward to scaling new heights of success, innovation, and unwavering commitment to delivering unparalleled value to our clients and stakeholders.”

    Misri said on her appointment, “I am really looking forward to stepping into the role of Chief Executive Officer at Space Creattors Heights. I am committed to driving our business forward by fostering innovation, strategic collaborations, and a people-first approach. I am looking to engage with our talented team to elevate our operations, strengthen our market presence, and uphold our core values. Together, we will navigate challenges and seize opportunities to achieve colossal growth and success.”

    Prior to Space Creattors Heights, Misri has held leadership positions in legacy companies such as Hindustan Thompson Associates, Ogilvy & Mather, Bates India, and Times of India, with a track record of twenty two years. 

  • VOD service Viu rolls out first ad campaign targeting new millenials

    VOD service Viu rolls out first ad campaign targeting new millenials

    MUMBAI: After about a year and a half of building its content catalogue and also on organic customer acquisition, the Hong Kong headquartered PCCW-owned-VuClip-promoted freemium VOD service Viu is now looking at upping the tempo through an integrated marketing and advertising campaign from 28 August.  Titled Kaaf Feels Bro, it is targeted at the new millenials and aims to encapsulate the very essence of the brand that delivers fascinating stories to today’s young and digital-first audience.  While showcasing an array of genres that viewers can choose from, the advertising seeks to focus  the customer’s attendtion on the riveting, fresh and original stories available on the platform, including movies and Korean shows.

    Since its India launch in 2016, Viu claims to have showcased over 15,000 hours of content and has managed to log in a subscriber base of four million.

    And since this is the first ad campaign it is resorting to, it is hoping to get a of  lot of bang for the buck and also help it make up for lost time.

    Says Viu India head of marketing Shantanu Gangane:  “The concept comes right from the heart of the product which is content. The whole plot was to look at the millennials as the TG, and also we had some data from YouTube and our own app that who is actually consuming our content. We had a vision of our TG but the actual consumers were really different — that was the first thing,”

    One needs to dress up the content from the TG’s perspective, Viu realised.

    “What will the content deliver” — was the brief given, and that’s how the emotion and plot emerged in the spot: “the content versus consumer” in the campaign.

    Conceptualised by Bates Chi & Partners, the ads have been created in two languages, Hindi and Telugu, signifying the availability of multilingual content on Viu, both original and licensed.

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    Produced by Dev Chugani and Rupali Mehta’s Greenlight, the film echoes the essential intent of offering content that appeals to consumers’ emotions in a variety of genres such as horror, drama, romance and comedy on Viu. The TVC shows people who are immersed in the viewing experience to the extent of feeling they are a part of the story, going through the fears and joys the show has to offer. The film has been directed by Karan L Butani and DOP is Rishi Punjabi.

    “The campaign will go on air on 28 August and will run across GECs, Hindi movies, music channels, English movie channels for five to six weeks. It’s a packed week coming for us,” shares Gangane.

     The ads are being  rolled out across TV, print (Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Pune), OOH (across key markets) and radio. The social platforms are ensuring buzz for the highly captivating content that the OTT platform has to offer.

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    “At Viu, kaafi is happening. We are planning to launch four shows by December this year, so a lot of things are happening. And, 2018 will be overflowing. You will be having a number of originals even from a television standpoint and not from OTT standpoint. There is excitement coming your way, consumer’s way and our way,” adds Gangane.

    “We have to look at few things. First is that we are not the only OTT player out there, we are the late entrant in that space. Also, we are focusing on originals. We have to make sure that whoever we get on board should have a mass appeal, has popularity. There were two problems that we needed to get sorted.  First, that we have to make this familiar fascinating concept but there were other facets. They sound like synonyms but they are not. The intensity of the content, the pace with which the content moves is not same. But, all this content makes you feel something. That inspired us to take the idea that this is the content that will make you feel something. We were very focused who is our target audience. You are talking to millennials and that’s how we came up with Kaafi feels bro!,” says Bates Chi & Partners India CEO V.S Srikanth.

    Creative agency:
    CEO: VS Srikanth
    HEad of Office: Samrat Bedi
    Business head: Sachin Ramchandani
    Creative team: Bates Creative Team
    Account planner: Nishu Raina
    Account management:  Bhavesh Nainani, Hemchandra Shah, Prashant Motwani
    Producer: Dev Chugani, Rupali Mehta
    Production house: Greenlight Productions
    Film director: Karan L Butani
    DOP: Rishi Punjabi

     

     

     

  • Bates gets Sourabh Mishra as planning head

    MUMBAI: Bates India has appointed Sourabh Mishra as the agency‘s national planning head and group chief strategy officer.

    Mishra will commence his new role in October.

    He moves in from Saatchi & Saatchi India where he was working as chief strategy officer.

    Based out of Mumbai, Mishra will lead strategic planning and brand management at Bates across its offices in India. His mandate includes integrating media and discipline neutral solutions into Bates‘ core planning process and practices.

    Bates India chief executive officer Sanjay Thapar said, “We are excited to welcome Sourabh within the bates fold and have him as part of the leadership team. Sourabh‘s strategic planning abilities, knack to get under the skin of brands combined with his incisive consumer insights are second to none and will play a critical role in delivering solutions to clients that will take their campaigns to the next level. We have great confidence in his abilities and are privileged to have recruited someone of his calibre into the business.”

    Mishra added, “I am very excited to be a part of bates in the current juncture of its journey. bates‘ holistic solutions driven approach and the ‘changengage‘ philosophy represent an opportunity to create solutions for today‘s fast changing times driven by engagement ideas that provoke conversations among brands and customers”.

    Mishra comes in with two decade of experience in ad agencies and client organisations. He has headed the strategy planning function in agencies since 2004 and started his career with Contract Advertising where he spent almost seven years. He later worked at BPL Telecom, Ogilvy & Mather, McCann Erickson, Everest Brand Solutions, Reliance Capital and TBWA India. On the client side, he has worked with companies like General Mills, Cadbury, Coca Cola India, Skoda Auto and ITC Foods.