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  • WATConsult celebrates 11 yrs with unique board game

    WATConsult celebrates 11 yrs with unique board game

    MUMBAI: WATConsult, the digital and social media agency from Dentsu Aegis Network, has launched PlayAgency, an innovative board-game, as part of its 11th anniversary celebration. To break the monotony of regular anniversary campaigns, the agency came up with something unique which caters to all advertising industry individuals. 

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    The idea behind launching PlayAgency is that every agency in India, be it digital, creative, OOH or BTL is somewhere connected. They might be different in nature, but deep down they all are the same; every agency has diverse strengths, but one common aim. The approaches may differ at times, but the challenges connect them; they might be divided by experiences, but their spirit remains the same. 

    Taking this thought forward, the board-game has been made, which allows players to run an ad agency and experience all the highs and lows of it. Players will have to take tough decisions, win clients, acquire companies, manage pay-cheques, chart a vision for the company along with other similar tasks.

    Along with this, WATConsult ran a digital campaign called #EveryAgencyEver, which highlighted the daily challenges and joys which takes place in every agency, in terms of client approvals, campaign ideas, pitches and follow ups amongst others. The agency even launched its own Facebook party filter for everyone to join in the celebrations.

    WATConsult founder and CEO Rajiv Dingra says, “On the occasion of our 11th anniversary, I would take this opportunity to thank every single person who has been a part of the WAT journey. Our team, former teams, clients and our network; it wouldn’t have been the same without you.”

    Dentsu Aegis Network chairman and CEO South Asia Ashish Bhasin mentions, “I would like to congratulate WATConsult on their 11th anniversary and wish them many more successful years ahead. I had a great time playing PlayAgency with Rajiv. It’s interesting to actually play a game of something we all agency individuals live by every day.”

  • India ad spend to grow by 12.5% in 2018: DAN report

    India ad spend to grow by 12.5% in 2018: DAN report

    MUMBAI: The advertising spend in India is expected to grow by 12.5 per cent in 2018 from 9.6 per cent last year, according to Dentsu Aegis Network’s latest ad spend report.

    Asia Pacific ad spend growth is forecast to accelerate to +4.2 per cent in 2018, up from +3.5 per cent in 2017. The region is forecast to be the leading contributor to global ad spend growth in 2018, contributing 39.7 per cent, $8.1 billion of the total $20.3 billion incremental global increase, led by markets China, Japan, India and the Philippines. 

    Events will play an important role in 2018 – Winter Olympics, Commonwealth Games, Asian games and state elections are all expected to stimulate ad spend growth. However, a slowing of growth in markets like Australia and China can be attributed to multiple contributing factors such as a naturally maturing market, ad fraud and data accuracy issues on top of a general economic slowdown.

    Digital media channels will continue to power ad spend growth and mobile will go from strength to strength, reaching $121.1 billion having overtaken desktop as a share of total digital spend in 2017. Desktop will continue to lose global share (-1.5 per cent since 2016), versus mobile’s gains (8.2 per cent since 2016).

    Video and social will also drive growth within digital ad spend, powered by smartphone take-up and mobile-video in particular. Programmatic spend will rise by 23 per cent as established players and startups compete over ad tech. 

    Dentsu Aegis Network CEO Jerry Buhlmann says, “The latest ad spend forecasts show a market in transformation, but not recession. The challenge for brands is to navigate an uneven economic outlook alongside a rapidly evolving tech & innovation landscape. In many markets, disruptive innovation – from mobile, voice activation and new ad tech players – is still providing new sources of growth and we forecast this trend will continue into 2018.”

    Dentsu Aegis Network Asia Pacific CEO Nick Waters adds, “Asia Pacific continues to lead the growth in digital ad spend. With the region’s fast adoption of technology and innovation, there will be a substantial shift towards mobile and smart devices. As a result, mobile online video ads will be the main drivers of growth within digital ad spend across the region. Data continues to be central to our business in Asia Pacific and with better understanding of new technologies, structures and models for business growth, agencies must help brands move from being disrupted to disruptor.” 

    Dentsu Aegis Network India Media Brands and Amplifi president Kartik Iyer mentions, “In India, the significant improvement in availability of high-speed networks at a lower cost is making a huge impact in the efficiency metrics of digital media. This will continue and therefore will support the faster growth of digital advertising. As marketers, we need to be prepared to harness this change and maximise engagement with our customer and thereby deliver higher returns for our brands. As an agency group, DAN has over-invested in this area and today has the largest, most experienced group of companies which are harnessing this rapidly changing area.”

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  • Adidas rolls out 3D billboard for Predator

    Adidas rolls out 3D billboard for Predator

    MUMBAI: Out of home (OOH) agency Posterscope India, from Dentsu Aegis Network, has rolled out a massive OOH campaign to announce the launch of Adidas Predator.

    The core objective of the campaign is to build awareness about the launch of this flagship product from the house of Adidas. The one-month-long campaign is aimed at reaching out to people who are enthusiastic about football — both players and fans – across various age groups.

    Posterscope has created a campaign using a specially designed 3D face of the brand ambassador Paul Pogba to build impact and efficiency. The plain image was converted into a digital 3D model. While the creative was converted into a 3D file and was used for print production, detailing and painting of the final piece was done by hand.

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    The innovation showcased 9ft long 3D face of Paul Pogba that protruded 4.5ft on a 20X10 billboard. The innovation helped the brand to stand out and ensure long distance visibility. It is pertinent to note here that this is for the first time in India that a massive 3D face has been placed on a unipole in the OOH space.

    Adidas senior manager of omni channel marketing brand communication Sharad Singla says, “As a brand we wanted to make a bold statement, that was also in line with our product relaunch. We identified a powerful execution for outdoor which had an element of innovation, it brought to life the predatory instincts through the Pogba 3D execution on few sites.” 

    Based on the agency’s deep understanding on the requirement of the brief and with the help of their primary research (OCS), patented analytical tools (OOHZONE) and accumulated understanding, Posterscope zeroed down on a specific location in Delhi for the innovation. Innovation was done on Inner Ring Road at RK Puram towards Dhaula Kuan. The location of the unipole was specifically chosen so that it covers the high volume traffic on Ring Road and is a solitary unit at the required stretch of the road.

    This resulted in the flawless execution of the campaign and all timelines were maintained without any compromise in quality. The innovation led to creating extensive and significant buzz around the product. This in-turn has led to the desired exposure of the brand launch in the Indian market.

    Posterscope used large media formats like billboard, bridge panel, unipole to create impact for this multi city campaign.

    Posterscope senior business director Aditya Goel adds, “This was a brief where we had to think beyond the work that we had already executed for Adidas in the past. The creative, servicing and operation teams at Posterscope came together to execute a larger-than-life size 3D model. It is something which has not been tried so far in the country in the OOH space.”

  • India is 18-24 months away from an inflection point: Ashish Bhasin

    India is 18-24 months away from an inflection point: Ashish Bhasin

    MUMBAI: Today’s advertisers aren’t short of options to choose from through which they can get a message across. But the difficult task at hand is to identify the one that allows optimisation of reach and viewership.

    The digital media itself slices into many types of patterns – branded viral videos, advertorials, branded chat rooms and much more. In 2017, the muttering about artificial intelligence, chatbots, virtual reality, internet of things and m-commerce grew more than ever. With the hangover of GST and demonetisation in recovery mode, brands are back at leveraging the power of digital.

    According to a recent report by IPG Mediabrands’ agency Magna, advertising expenditure in India will grow at 12.1 per cent to reach Rs 68,334 crore by 2018. While television is expected to grow at the rate of 12.2 per cent to reach Rs 27,617, digital is projected to grow at 25.2 per cent and will reach Rs 12,808 crore from its existing Rs 10,277 crore. 

    Though his age may confound you, Dentsu Aegis Network chairman and CEO of South Asia Ashish Bhasin is vociferous about the digital medium. For over 30 years, he has seen the media transform from print to TV and now evolving into digital. Indiantelevision.com got talking to Bhasin where he spills the beans on television, digital advertising, plan for Dentsu and much more. Excerpts: 

    When will the digital advertising market in India gain critical mass?

    In terms of the digital advertising market, countries such as South Korea and China are ahead of India. In these markets, where smartphone penetration is over 40 per cent, an inflection point comes in because ultimately, advertising is driven majorly by FMCG, automobiles, consumer durables and others who want to reach mass numbers. 

    Out of the Rs 55,000 crore advertising market, Rs 10,000-11,000 crore is driven by FMCG across all media, although most of their spends are on television. Traditionally, these advertisers spent 90 per cent of their budget on television but that will soon change as digital will gain more importance. India is 18-24 months away from an inflection point. Out of every 100 phones in India, only 24 are smartphones. But there are some things that can make this whole calculation go haywire and expedite this and that is the entry of Reliance Jio as it is offering smartphones almost free of cost. Once every individual in India owns a smartphone, video consumption will increase and you already have data available at cheap prices.

    Facebook and Google account for 78 per cent of advertising on digital… 

    They do, but I believe a new player will emerge in that segment, three years from now, and that is going to be Amazon. The reason for that is you can advertise and complete the transaction on one platform. 

    Google’s model is very simple. Platforms like Google and Facebook have one of the largest consumer base. Their consumer base is growing at the rate of 30-40 per cent every year. It took big players like Google, Amazon and Hindustan Unilever years to become a multimillion dollar companies . It took Dabur maybe a 100 years to get to a $1 billion but it took Patanjali only a year and half. The Patanjali story makes for a great marketing case study. He (Baba Ramdev) has done everything opposite to what we have ever been taught. He has used himself as the brand ambassador for all his products and that has worked brilliantly for his brand. 

    Where do you see Dentsu Aegis Network 5 years down the line?

    We are driving change in the digital transformation direction. We are investing heavily in data. Dentsu Aegis Network has acquired Merkle in the United States which has platforms like M1 that house and use PII data of hundreds of millions of people. In India, we have acquired Sokarti and SVG media. Between these two, we have PII data of around 120-130 million people.  We are building our DMP (data management platform) and I want to have PII data of 200 million people very soon. Out of the 26 agencies in Dentsu umbrella, eight are digital agencies. In 2018, 45 per cent of our revenues will come from our digital business. 

    What about television? 

    In India, for the next five to seven years, all mediums will grow including television because the penetration is increasing. FreeDish will drive the penetration in smaller markets. By the next year, around 30 million television sets will be sold in India and all of them will have flat screens while CRT (cathode ray tube) TV will be phased out of India eventually. Today, the consumer is driving the change. Affordability is a big issue in smaller markets but the moment flat screen TV becomes affordable, every house will have it. India is a price-sensitive market. Everybody wants a smartphone but not everyone can afford it. The moment it becomes available at Rs 2000, no one will have a feature phone. Likewise for TVs. 

    Do you think outdoor will be impacted because of digital?

    We have to stop seeing digital as a medium. Outdoor will be significantly impacted by digital but that doesn’t mean outdoor will go away. I see 100 per cent of our business being digitally impacted five years from now but that doesn’t mean there won’t be non-digital business. Every business around the world will be impacted by digital. But OOH as a medium will thrive and grow rapidly in India with so many airports, metros and infrastructure projects coming up. 

    What about non-traditional platforms used for business transactions?

    WhatsApp is becoming bigger than Facebook. A huge amount of business happens on WhatsApp today in India. A few years from now, all social media platforms will become banks where you will be able to compete your transaction just like Paytm. This is the first year where the number of ATMs and banks has reduced in India. Why do people need to go to banks and ATM when they can transact online!

  • Dalmia Group assigns OOH duties to Milestone Brandcom

    Dalmia Group assigns OOH duties to Milestone Brandcom

    MUMBAI: Dalmia Bharat Group has awarded its OOH mandate to Dentsu Aegis Network’s OOH Media & Experiential agency Milestone Brandcom for the eastern region following a multi-agency pitch. The business will be handled by the agency’s Kolkata office. This win adds to the growing kitty of Milestone’s clients in India.

    Milestone Brandcom shall provide OOH Media & Experiential Service to Dalmia Bharat Group, which includes planning, buying & creative innovations of outdoor media & experiential communication across six states in East region which includes Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Sikkim, UP and WB.

    Dalmia Bharat Group Group marketing head BK Singh says, “We have very strong confidence in the long-term growth opportunity of the Indian cement industry. We have ambitious plans to leverage this opportunity through our core experience and proven expertise in the industry.”

    Dalmia Bharat group executive director of sales and marketing in East Indrajit Chatterjee adds, “We are the fastest growing cement manufacturer in Eastern India with unique multi-brand portfolio and have an ambitious growth plan for this region. We want to leverage the expertise of Milestone Brandcom in this market to establish all our brands.”

    Dalmia Group Cement is one of the leading brands in the country in terms of annual turnover. In the East, especially in Orissa and Bengal, Konark cement is a household name and carries solid equity among the customers.

    Milestone Brandcom CEO and MD Nabendu Bhattacharyya mentions, “We are excited at the prospect of partnering with Dalmia Bharat Group to comprehensively leverage OOH to engage with their consumers across brands & markets. I truly believe, OOH promises a great brand engagement through innovative outdoor solutions and drive conversations around their brand promise. We hope to deliver value on back of our ability to mine data and research for them and create some disruptive iconic campaigns for them through this association.”

  • WAT’s Your Big Idea wraps up second edition

    WAT’s Your Big Idea wraps up second edition

    MUMBAI: Digital and social media agency WATConsult wrapped up its second season of WAT’s Your Big Idea (#WYBI) yesterday in Mumbai.

    The winning trophy was awarded to WAT’s in the Name from MICA. The first runner-up was team BhaiBhaiBhai from MICA, while the second runner-up position was awarded to ThreeTwoOne from IIMC – Delhi.

    This year WAT’s Your Big Idea received over 240 entries from 390+ students who participated from leading institutions like MICA, SIMC, XIC, IIMB, IIM (Indore), SP Jain, Jamnalal Bajaj, NMIMS, MET and Jai Hind.

    Teams had to create campaigns on the basis of brand objective, target audience, target market and challenges faced. ITC Savlon’s brief was to increase usage of hand-wash in households and to increase usage, while HE Face Wash looked for an integrated marketing idea for its newly launched product, waterless face wash.

    Naturolax’s marketing objective was to establish a new brand positioning, thereby driving new trials and increase market share. Jack & Jones’ core objective was to establish itself in the men’s comfort zone brand and gain branding visibility along with garnering actual footfalls and sales. Madame Tussauds looked for ideas which helped in increasing repeated walk-ins and ideas on new possible opportunities to drive revenues while Swarovski wanted ideas which helped increase sales and create a brand visibility in its TG.

    The shortlisted teams got an opportunity to work with the team at WATConsult, to understand the nuances of digital campaigns and improvise their entries before presenting in front of the esteemed jury, which comprised Rajiv Dingra (founder and CEO, WATConsult), Jaikishan Chhaproo (head media and PR, ITC), Praveen Das (co-founder & managing director, Happy Mcgarrybowen), Vineet Gautam (CEO, Bestseller Group) Sukanya Dutta Roy (MD, consumer goods division, Swarovski),  Sabia Gulati (head, sales & marketing, Madam Tussauds) Rajesh Kamat (VP, strategy & operations, Piramal Enterprises) and Anoop Agarwal (DGM marketing, Emami Group).

    WATConsult founder and CEO  Rajiv Dingra says, “This year we have received a tremendous response, the entries were more than double from last year and the quality of work was also commendable. We hope to take this initiative to greater heights next year.”

    Dentsu Aegis Network chairman and CEO of South Asia Ashish Bhasin adds, “WATConsult has been doing an excellent job with WAT’s Your Big Idea and I would like to congratulate them on the same. Also, would like to extend my wishes to the winning teams on the fabulous ideas they came up with.”

    WYBI provides a unique platform and opportunities to the next generation in the field of digital advertising and marketing. Launched last year, the first edition saw more than 150+ registrations, 120 entries, 250 students participating and 28 teams. This year besides the cash prize of Rs 1 lakh, an endorsed certificate and an assured job offer, the winning team will also get an opportunity to visit Cannes Lions in 2018.

  • WAT’s Your Big Idea​ 2.0 receives over 240 entries this year

    WAT’s Your Big Idea​ 2.0 receives over 240 entries this year

    MUMBAI: WATConsult, India’s leading and most awarded digital and social media agency, a part of the Dentsu Aegis Network, has received a phenomenal response to their second season of WAT’s Your Big Idea (WYBI). With participation from over 30 educational institutes, WYBI 2.0 has received a total of 240 entries with more than 390students contributing. Out of these, 27 teams have been shortlisted for the second round, and only 12 teams will be selected for the finale round which will take place in Mumbai this week.

    Every brand associated,shared their background and company history along with the objective, target audience, target market, challenges faced and the requirement from each team in terms of a campaign.ITC’s Savlon’s brief was to increase usage of hand-wash inhouseholds and to increase adoption in usage while HE Face Wash looked for an integrated marketing idea for their newly launched product, waterless face wash.

    Naturolax’s marketing objective was to establish a new brand positioning, thereby driving new trials and increasing market share. JACK & JONEScore objective was to establish them in the men’s comfort zone brand and gain branding visibility along with garnering actual footfalls and sales.Madame Tussauds looked forideas which helped in increasing repeated walk-ins and ideas on new possible opportunitiesto drive revenues. Swarovski wanted ideas which helped increase sales and create a brand visibility in their TG.

    WATConsult founder and CEO  Rajiv Dingra says, “We have received a terrific response this year. The entries are nearly double of last year and the quality of work is incredible. We are all set and excited to see the final presentation, wherein the students will get mentored by the team of WATConsult, improvise their ideas and present it to the jury. We look forward to an exciting day ahead this week.”

    WYBI is one of its kind digital ideation competition for colleges across the country which provides a unique platform and massive opportunities to the next generation in the field of digital advertising and marketing. It is a college contact program, where students get an opportunity to work on live projects, understand the nuances of creating digital campaigns for notable brands and showcase their creative skills to the best brand marketers in the country.

    Launched last year, the first edition saw more than 150+ registrations, 120 entries, 250 students participating and 28 teams. This year besides the cash prize of 1 lakh, endorsed certificate and an assured job offer, the winning team will also get an opportunity to visit Cannes Lions in 2018.

    Hyperlink : www.watsyourbigidea.com

  • Smart city initiatives in APAC to improve quality of life: DAN & MIT

    Smart city initiatives in APAC to improve quality of life: DAN & MIT

    MUMBAI: Dentsu Aegis Network has launched a new white paper examining the progress of Asia Pacific’s smart cities, including local deep-dives into eight key markets in the region. In its third year, this series on Asia Pacific’s digital disruption aims to deliver thought leadership to arm Dentsu Aegis Network and its agency brands’ clients and partners with the insight they need to succeed in the digital economy.

    In collaboration with MIT Technology Review, the report argues that increasingly, smart city initiatives in Asia Pacific are being developed and driven to improve quality of life for the region’s citizens and consumers, to manage cities’ growth sustainably, and to maintain their global competitiveness.

    The paper titled “Connectivity and QoL : How digital consumer habits and ubiquitous technology are driving smart city development in Asia Pacific” – consolidates extensive in-market research and nearly two-dozen in-depth interviews with key industry players from India, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Australia.

    Dentsu Aegis Network Asia Pacific CEO Nick Waters said, “Asia Pacific has enjoyed robust economic expansion in recent years, with cities at the heart of this growth. With development comes challenges, but cities in the region are transforming these challenges into opportunities with the help of technology and innovation. Smart cities in Asia Pacific are quickly becoming pilot markets for the digital economy.

    “The white paper helps us understand what drives the development of smart cities in Asia Pacific, how businesses can leverage them to develop digital economy solutions and how we can contribute to make these cities more viable, livable and sustainable,” Nick added.

     The report found two key factors that distinguish Asia Pacific’s smart city efforts from other regions around the globe. Governments and businesses are more willing to invest in experimental models that exploit new technologies, business models, and urban planning design. For example, the development of new ‘greenfield’ smart cities from scratch such as South Korea’s Songdo International Business District, Japan’s Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town, Hong Kong’s Smart City @ Kowloon East, and others.

    Asia Pacific also has a unique approach in its efforts to engage private sector players in developing smart cities. More collaboration has emerged between the government and the region’s leading technology firms – China’s Alibaba, India’s Reliance Communications, Japan’s Panasonic, and others – to deliver smart city projects.

    MIT Technology Review CEO and Publisher Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau explains, “While no two Asia Pacific markets have the exact same mix of smart city strategies or assets, we have found that nearly all such projects attempt to use smart cities to serve two goals simultaneously: address immediate infrastructure or service delivery challenges while ‘future-proofing’ their economies against threats looming on the horizon.”

    The paper also outlines six common themes of Asia Pacific’s successful smart city initiatives, including: leveraging cloud technology; creating ‘open’ and accessible ecosystems, and through this harnessing the power of startup ecosystems; consumer-driven application development; mixing ‘greenfield’ and ‘brownfield’ smart city experiments; IoT and sensor-based platforms; and cashless economies.

    Dentsu Aegis Network chairman and CEO South Asia Ashish Bhasin said, “India is currently moving towards massive urbanisation. Consequently, its need for building smart cities is immediate when compared to many other countries. Home to one of the most populated and diverse demographics in the world, India witnesses the migration of 20-30 people every minute from rural regions to urban cities. Yes, India is a complex country and therefore, its infrastructural challenges are huge but so are the opportunities. We have a large consumer base, we are well-connected and mobile-enabled. And these elements will act as huge enablers to create our smart cities and introduce economic transformation.”

  • WATConsult launches DASH (board) to view data insights

    WATConsult launches DASH (board) to view data insights

    MUMBAI: Digital and social media agency WATConsult, part of Dentsu Aegis Network, has announced the launch of DASH, a singular dashboard to view all digital data with insights.

    DASH will be a new service as a part of its digital solution stack, which is designed to offer Integrated Digital Services. DASH will allow tracking of paid, owned & earned POV on a single Dashboard, thus allowing brands to view and look at metrics across platforms and campaigns at a glance.

    It has integrated various platforms like ComScore, Facebook, Facebook Ads, Twitter, Twitter Ads, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Ads, Instagram, Instagram Ads, AdWords and DCM. With this, brands can now get access to real time data; integration of social media platforms, ad platforms, web analytics; ability to add titles, sections, comments & notes and include custom data with CSV files.

    WATConsult founder and CEO Rajiv Dingra says, “We aim to be at the forefront of cracking digital solutions using automation for planning and operational processes to drive effective results. With the launch of DASH, we continue to drive efficiencies through deployment of technology on digital media for clients.”