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  • Dentsu International merges The Story Lab with C’Lab in India

    Dentsu International merges The Story Lab with C’Lab in India

    NEW DELHI: Dentsu International has announced the merger of its celebrity, influencer, and sports marketing division C’Lab with its global branded content division The Story Lab (TSL) in India. Deepak Kumar, erstwhile director C’Lab, will now lead the business in India as country head TSL.

    The unification of these two agencies is aimed at simplifying clients’ needs in the content space and leverage TSL’s footprint and IPs across the globe. The merged entity will operate under the TSL brand and further strengthen its foundation in the country. 

    For the record, TSL is a global content specialist that inspires and delivers innovative content solutions. These solutions, in-turn, help in creating connect with audiences and thus, deliver value to clients and partners. Some of its popular IPs are Game of Clones, Ninja Warrior, No Sleep No FOMO, and a host of other exclusive IPs and branded content properties. C'Lab, meanwhile, specialises in creating tactical content in the space of sports and entertainment. In its last three years of operations in India, C’Lab has created some very effective campaigns with celebrities and influencers.

    With the merger of these two entities, TSL will work with brands to innovate the art of storytelling. It will also introduce global learnings into the local market, infused with local understanding. The merged capability will help enhance the current offering and provide access to global IPs with local flavor.

    Kumar said, “‘Content is king’ is an old adage but the relevance continues. Its significance, in fact, has increased manifold during the lockdown and further fueled with the advent of newer platforms. It’s an exciting and challenging time to be in this business wherein harnessing a brand’s interest and relevance to the consumer will be the key guiding force for us.”

    dentsu COO India – media brands Haresh Nayak added, “As we enter an era of simplification, this move will only help clients achieve single-window content solutions. TSL will redefine content across multi-platforms and multi-devices, offering brands immersive experiences. Our global and local experiences will only help brands to get the best of both worlds.”

  • Kundan Gold Refinery launches campaign for gold coins

    Kundan Gold Refinery launches campaign for gold coins

    MUMBAI: Gold has deep routed significance in the Indian culture, its traditions and is an integral part of religious connotations. It holds an auspicious status in Indian marriages and considered to bring blessings of Goddess Lakshmi for the bride and groom. Therefore, people are more conscious and look for trustworthy sources while purchasing a precious metal as a blessing for the new member of the family.

    Private gold refinery, Kundan Gold Refinery has launched a new brand campaign with the tagline “Bharosa Hai toh Hum Hai”.

    The TV commercial starts with a woman asking her husband to buy gold as a shagun for their daughter-in law, to which husband nodded that he has already bought it. Hearing this, wife gets annoyed and says, he should have consulted her as people, nowadays, sell anything in the name of gold and one must check whether the gold is pure and certified. 

    The husband smiles and brings a box of Kundan Group Gold Coin and emphasises that this is from the government approved refinery with 999.9 percent guaranteed purity and 100 per cent buy back. The wife becomes happy at the husband’s efforts on researching the right product and asks him to gift to their daughter in law. To her surprise, the husband says that it is for her.

    The campaign aims to highlight the brand’s commitment and priority towards quality and customer satisfaction and is launched to strengthen customer trust and make Kundan an ultimate choice for customers.

    Kundan group director Vidit Garg says, “Since the inception of Kundan Gold refinery, we have been committed to providing best-in-class products and services to our customers. Our core priority is to bring right quality products for end customers. Moreover, through the campaign, we have taken an unconventional route and shift the focus to educate customers on the importance of buying a right product at an affordable price.”

    “Trust plays an important role while buying a precious and expensive item like gold, especially when it comes to gifting this bride or groom. As a brand, we have always understood customer requirements and brought products and solutions matching up their expectations in terms of affordability and quality. We are committed putting our customers first by providing unmatchable experience in buying gold coins,” he adds. 

    The campaign was conceptualised by creative agency, C’lab. 

    C’lab national creative director Saurabh Dasgupta mentions, “Gold holds great importance in Indian culture. However, when it comes to gifting gold, people think of only jewellery, we wanted to change that perception and replace it with Kundan coins.”

  • CLab, Dentsu Impact team up for V-Mart’s latest campaign

    CLab, Dentsu Impact team up for V-Mart’s latest campaign

    MUMBAI: V-Mart Retail has partnered with Dentsu Impact and CLab, to launch its new campaign introducing the Bollywood pair of Ayushmann Khurrana and Bhumi Pednekar as brand ambassadors.

    V-Mart Retail commenced operations in 2003 and has grown to become one of the most preferred destinations for all fashion and lifestyle needs for consumers residing in tier-2 and tier-3 cities. With a presence across 14 states with 176 stores across 148 cities, V-Mart caters to approximately four crore customers every year. According to a data compiled by Bloomberg, V-Mart, which has recently been conferred as the ‘world’s best performing department stores chain this year’, is one of the leading value-retailers of the country and caters to the aspirational middle class residing in tier-2,3 and 4 cities across India.

    V-Mart Retail senior vice president of marketing and operations Snehal Shah says, “We are super-excited to associate with young talents like Ayushmann and Bhumi. We are a brand that believes in hard work, understands the requirements and dreams of the country that resides outside the reach of metros. It is these beliefs and values which make both Ayushmann and Bhumi a great fit to represent us as our brand ambassadors. Making their way into the tinsel town through sheer hard work and talent, their stories are what connects and resembles with V-Mart’s DNA and that of the millions enduring through daily struggle and yet daring to dream big.”

    The association was designed by CLab, the entertainment and sports marketing arm of Dentsu Aegis Network. CLab vice president Deepak Kumar mentions, “We are extremely happy to have crafted a successful alignment between the celebrities and V-Mart. Our approach for the brand was based principally on factors of immediacy, quick recognition and response, relevancy and lastly demographic integration and acceptance.”

    CLab has been set up under the mentorship of Haresh Nayak who is the managing director at Posterscope India. He says, “We have evolved from the time in which celebrity endorsements were a product of gut feeling and perception to the time which involves intelligent and scientific planning for celebrity-brand matchmaking. With Star Matrix, our proprietary celebrity recommendation tool, our vision is to bring accountability and informed decision making in a discipline which functions on probability and gut feeling of advertisers in getting celebrities/sports personalities to associate with their brands.”

  • DAN launches data-driven celebrity endorsement and sports marketing agency ‘CLab’

    DAN launches data-driven celebrity endorsement and sports marketing agency ‘CLab’

    MUMBAI: With the launch of CLab, the media and advertising conglomerate Dentsu Aegis Network, which operates 25 businesses in India, has expanded its footprint into celebrity endorsement and sports marketing.

    CLab will deliver solutions that range from brand endorsements, brand integrations, property and content creation to digital associations and sports marketing offerings including in-stadia branding, image rights, associations, activations, live events and appearances.

    CLab aims to introduce actionable insights with informed decision-making into the process of celebrity endorsement. Therefore, to address the existing gaps and evolving nuances of the industry, the unit has developed, The Star Matrix, a unique celebrity insights tool. The tool enables both, qualitative and quantitative learning, of the celebrity’s social sphere, giving a deeper understanding of their multifarious influence vis-à-vis their social interactions.

    Dentsu Aegis Network – South Asia chairman and CEO Ashish Bhasin said, “We hope to bring a data-based, scientific approach in the area of establishing brand image with the help of celebrity endorsers under CLab.”

    CLab ‘mentor’ Posterscope MD Haresh Nayak said, “Our vison with CLab is to bring accountability and informed decision-making in a discipline which functions on perception, probability and gut feeling of advertisers.

    CLab aims to break the myth of notional acceptability that has its roots in experimentation rather than information. A team of experts is now in place at CLab to deliver it.”

    CLab VP Deepak Kumar said, “If we look at celebrity and sports marketing separately, the two might differ in their operational mechanism but the driving force is common. People, popularity, occasions and influence share the common angle, governing the dynamics of the business. We took timely cognizance of the lacunae and (formed CLab).”