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  • QYOU Media to acquire influencer marketing firm Chtrbox

    QYOU Media to acquire influencer marketing firm Chtrbox

    Mumbai: QYOU Media Inc on Tuesday announced that it has entered into a definitive share purchase agreement to acquire leading Influencer marketing company Chtrbox in India.

    The acquisition is part of the company’s continued focus on India, and in the creator economy and content domain. QYOU Media will initially purchase a majority stake in Chtrbox, with a three year earn out. Founder and CEO Pranay Swarup and COO Julie Kriegshaber will continue in their leadership roles with Chtrbox.

    Founded in 2016 Chtrbox is a data-driven influencer marketing, with a diverse pool of over three lakh influencers, from celebrities, social media stars, Gen-Z creators to micro and nano influencers. According to the company, it will continue to run as an independently positioned brand, while benefiting from QYOU Media’s complementary businesses including the TV channel – The Q.

    Highlighting the common goals shared by the companies QYOU Media Inc., CEO and co-founder, Curt Marvis, said collective synergies between the two businesses could not be better aligned. “Our channel in India, The Q, with its massive recent ratings growth shows the power of the right creator led content. When we combine this with Chtrbox’s digital acumen and unparalleled knowledge of the world of influencer marketing, it is truly a match made in heaven,” he said.

    QYOU Media has been built with ‘influencers’ at its core. Its India TV Channel, The Q is also primarily creator-led and records nearly 100 million viewer impressions weekly. The acquisition is aimed at substantial expansion of QYOU’s influencer marketing business in India and also deliver immediate and accretive capabilities to QYOU’s India broadcast operations, said the company.

    Chtrbox, CEO and founder, Pranay Swarup said, “With QYOU, we gain access to massive distribution reaching millions of households, while we continue to power awesome creator-led content across digital platforms and apps. Our biggest stakeholders are influencers and brands and they now have the opportunity to positively influence millions more.”

    The Q India, chief operating officer, Krishna Menon said, “Chtrbox will also help strengthen our presence in the rapidly rising digital streaming space. Together, we are perfectly positioned to consolidate and advance influencer marketing, content development, distribution and engagement to the next level in India. We welcome Chtrbox to The Q family.”

  • Chtrbox launches Funbox, Influencer Gifting Service

    Chtrbox launches Funbox, Influencer Gifting Service

    Mumbai: Leading Indian influencer marketing company, Chtrbox announces the launch of Funbox, a creative and scalable influencer gifting solution, in time for the festive season. With the simple gesture of gifting, Funbox offers brands a smart solution to get their products in front of relevant influencers, build & strengthen meaningful relations, and most importantly get authentic reviews and earned media.

    Commenting on the launch, Pranay Swarup, CoFounder and CEO, Chtrbox said, “Sharing of new products & personalized experiences with influencers is one of the most authentic and cost-effective ways to let your influencers know what’s awesome about your brand and product. Unboxings with influencers are often a missed opportunity, and we want to make it fun and easy for brand and influencers with Funbox.”

    Unboxings are product reveals by influencers, and make for high impact quality videos that are most cost-effective and get above average engagement rates. “Our advantage at Chtrbox is that we’re able to analyze past unboxing performance of influencers to determine with whom and how a brand is most likely to see success. With the launch of our influencer gifting service Funbox, we aim to make marketers’ lives easier by getting the right product into the right influencer’s hands, at scale” adds Kajal Mehta, Head of Brand Partnerships at Chtrbox.

    Funbox is a full suite influencer gifting and sampling solution covering strategy, data-driven influencer selection by Chtrbox’s proprietary influencer discovery platform, engaging content creation, and performance reporting. Funbox is also available for digital products who may not have considered unboxing before, with creative strategies on how to best showcase the brand and product.

    Unboxing as a trend cannot be ignored, with exponential growth in usage in recent years. The best unboxings are done by category experts, who their followers look to for their knowledge and unbiased information. It’s a great, informal way to build a strong rapport with an audience to trust a product, assuming it is in fact a quality offering. Furthermore, Chtrbox recommends unboxings as great cost-effective approach for brands to validate whether popular social media influencers are true product advocates for them, prior to investing more heavily in them as formal brand influencers.

    With the festive season around the corner, it's the right time of the year for brands to think about gifting & building meaningful relations with the right influencers. Interested to learn more about Funbox? Get in touch on hello@chtrbox.com

  • Chtrbox launches Boombox, an open tool to shortlist India’s celebs & mega influencers

    Chtrbox launches Boombox, an open tool to shortlist India’s celebs & mega influencers

    MUMBAI: Chtrbox, a leading Indian influencer marketing company, announces the launch of Boombox to cater to growing demand for social media influencers. Boombox is the industry’s first open discovery tool of India’s most influential voices, aimed to make the marketer’s job of shortlisting relevant celebrities & influencers easier, smarter and ROI driven.

    Commenting on the launch, Pranay Swarup, Co- Founder and CEO, Chtrbox said, “Our objective in launching Boombox as a platform and end-to-end service is to empower marketers with strategic, data-powered, consolidated talent options when selecting celebs and top influencers for brand campaigns, events and endorsements. Today, when brands select talent, we’ve noticed that choices are decided largely on simple intuition such as – do I know & like this person? Do they represent the values my brand wants to represent? We are bringing data to this critical decision-making process, to ensure that when you invest & book India’s top talent for any purpose, you’re maximizing your ROI on social media. With Boombox, we want to help brands discover creative and budget-effective optimizations you may not have thought of before, paired with our expertise on creative strategy to create memorable influencer content.”

    Boombox enables brands & their agencies with easy access to search, filter and shortlist famous personalities for their next big marketing initiative. The launch of Boombox comes at the right time today when brands, celebs and influencers are all increasingly looking to optimize time, speed, budgets, and most importantly grab attention spans of end consumers in this digital first world.  Influencer powered content is disrupting the way brands created content traditional ads with talent; it's now a lot more cost-effective and impactful for talent to showcase authentically how they're engaging with the brand's product or idea, if it all it resonates with who they are. 

    Roshan Abbas, MD of Geometry Encompass, who is also an early investor in Chtrbox, adds, “Today more than ever, we’re offering brands digital extensions to their physical events and experiences. Chtrbox serves a great partner and platform through which agencies can now empower their brands with a new way to analyze and collaborate with all categories of celebs and influencers.”

    "What makes Boombox awesome for planners is that it's amplified by Macro, Micro and Nano Influencer Power Packs, customized as per target categories and audience demographics, hand-picked from Chtrbox’s massive 350,000+ influencer base, giving unparalleled strength to deliver influential people powered marketing & content for brands” adds Rohit Raj, Co-Founder at the Glitch and Chtrbox.

    Boombox has been launched as an open tool for a limited time period and can be accessed at Chtrbox.com/boombox.

  • Arushi Sharma to head Brand Partnerships & Strategy for Chtrbox in Mumbai

    Arushi Sharma to head Brand Partnerships & Strategy for Chtrbox in Mumbai

    MUMBAI: Chtrbox, India’s leading data-powered Influencer Marketing company, today announced the appointment of Ms. Arushi Sharma as the Head of Brand Partnerships & Strategy for Mumbai. In her new role, Arushi will be responsible for steering the growth of the firm’s specialized Influencer Marketing business in Mumbai, while also contributing towards team & culture building and product innovation. She will also work towards setting newer benchmarks for how strategically and creatively can social media influencers be leveraged for brands and agencies in India.

    Arushi has over eight years of diverse social media marketing & leadership experience across the UK, Singapore, Indonesia and India. Most recently, she was leading the social media team, including the influencer marketing division, for Iris Worldwide in Indonesia, & was previously with them in Singapore where she led the APAC Digital Command Centre for Philips. Among her many achievements, the highlights of her career have been winning the Bronze Social Campaign of the Year Award for Philips as well as being invited to speak at the Cannes Lions Festival 2016 held in France. She also managed the PR & digital launch of Spotify across South East Asia which organically achieved #1 trending status for the brand worldwide.

    Speaking about her association with Chtrbox, Arushi said, “In my experience across markets and sectors, the one thing that I have increasingly witnessed is the demand for authentic voices and storytelling in the social media space. It is exciting to work with a brilliant up-and-coming platform like Chtrbox that addresses the lack of consolidation on pricing and strong measurement models to give popular and emerging brands and influencers an effective and measurable way of partnering together. Together with this dynamic team, we are changing the way this space operates, and are excited to do more.”

    On Arushi’s appointment, Pranay Swarup, Co-Founder & CEO @Chatterbox said: “Arushi and I had connected almost a decade ago as colleagues and have been ‘Facebook Friends’ ever since. We’ve witnessed each other grow as professionals over the years, and I’m glad that we’re now doing some disruptive work together. With Arushi’s experiences across international markets, and the clientele and scale of work that she has managed, we are certain that she would provide newer avenues for Chtrbox to grow.  I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Arushi again and wish her on a successful and fruitful journey with us at Chtrbox”.