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  • Dentsu Webchutney appoints Ajay Ahluwalia as ECD

    MUMBAI: Dentsu Webchutney, the digital agency from Dentsu Aegis Network, has roped in Ajay Ahluwalia as executive creative director. He will be based out of the agency’s Gurgaon office. His last stint was with Contract Advertising where he handled some of the biggest brands in the country including Microsoft, Ten Sports and JK Tyres.

    With over 20 years of cross-category, cross-platform experience along with a diverse set of exposure spanning sales, marketing, photography, martial arts, and naturally, creative, Ahluwalia is all set to lead the charge for the agency.

    The keen motorcyclist and the black belt holder expressed his delight by saying, “I’m excited to join Dentsu Webchutney and the young brigade that is bubbling with energy to break the conventions with digital innovations.”

    Not only has Ahluwalia launched brands like Samsung and Bacardi in India, but also has helped nurture names like NIIT, and set up Oxygen – one of India’s first agencies to engage in the digital workspace.

    Commenting on Ahluwalia’s appointment, Dentsu Webchutney co-founder and chief creative officer Sudesh Samaria said, “It’s great to have someone of Ajay’s experience onboard in a digital environment, especially when the lines between mainline and digital are blurring as we speak. We look forward to him driving infectious ideas which resonate with the Dentsu Webchutney culture.”

    Dentsu Webchutney remains by far, the most awarded agency. Webchutney’s clientele include Airtel, Flipkart, Quikr, Swiggy, Tetra Pak, Canon, Whirlpool, Indusind Bank, Red Bull amongst others.

  • Oppo launches F3 Plus, kickstarting ‘group selfie’ trend

    MUMBAI: The ever-evolving global smartphone brand Oppo, kick started the ‘Group Selfie’ trend today by launching the new Selfie Expert F3 Plus, priced at Rs 30,990. The F3 Plus features the brand’s first dual front camera including a first-ever 120-degree wide-angle Group Selfie Camera. The F3 Plus First Sale begins from 1 April 2017 across India. It will also be available in Oppo online stores on Flipkart, Amazon and Snapdeal. The pre-order will be till 31 March 2017.

    Oppo’s brand ambassador, youth icon and Bollywood superstar– Deepika Padukone and renowned photographer – Dabboo Ratnani also shared their own selfie experience with Oppo F3 Plus during the event.

    Oppo F3 Plus delivers great selfie photos through the revolutionary dual selfie front cameras: a 16-megapixel camera for selfie and a 120-degree wide-angle lens for group selfie. The rear camera is co-developed with Sony, equipped with a customized IMX398 sensor for serious photography. The F3 Plus is a high-end smartphone that is efficient, long-lasting, secure and beautiful, addressing today’s highly-demanding mobile-first world.

    “Oppo is an industry leader in the Selfie Revolution with the recent ‘Selfie Experts’ F-series. Our brand has been growing rapidly across Southeast Asia and other regions around the world. As per the GFK data, we became the No.2 smartphone brand in India offline market last year. The dual selfie camera F3 Plus marks a new ‘Group Selfie’ trend, and reinforces our position as the Selfie Expert,” said Oppo India global VP & president Sky Li.

    “It’s amazing to see the way Oppo has identified the nerves of the Indian youth and the trend – Selfies. Wherever I go, I find people taking selfies. I’m excited that I have also joined the wagon,” said Deepika Padukone.

  • Amazon’s Amit Agarwal promoted as SVP in parent company

    MUMBAI: Amazon.com has promoted its India country head Amit Agarwal to the level of senior vice-president. Agarwal, who will continue to remain the India head for now, was the vice president at Amazon earlier. The company confirmed the news in an emailed statement.

    “This indicates how excited Amazon is about the progress the company is making in India, and the opportunity Amazon sees ahead,” it added.

    Amazon CEO and president Jeff Bezos recently included Agarwal in a senior leadership team that reports directly to him.

    Amazon entered India in June 2013, years after Flipkart (2007) and Snapdeal (2010) started. It has made more than $3 billion investments in the country and has $2 billion in its plan.

    Competition is further heating up as the Chinese e-tailer Alibaba gears up for a stronger play in India through Paytm.

  • Healthy lifestyle on Women’s Day

    MUMBAI: A leading Finnish brand Tango has launched a wide range of most accurate and high quality Fitness Trackers “Wellness Motivator” in India.This could be a perfect gift for your women.

    Life becomes meaningless without the wonderful women we have in our life. Woman is one who brings cheers and happiness on our faces in various ways, as a mother, sister, daughter or a wife. A woman is defined by tenderness, love, affection and care. Make your women feel special on this International Women’s Day and gift her healthy Lifestyle. This year gift them motivation of health with Tango wellness motivator, the range of European fitness trackers.

    The world’s most accurate fitness bands are now available in India. It motivates people to stay fit and achieve a healthy lifestyle. The tracker is CE certified and is the most accurate among the available brands in the market. It provides the 24 hour activity details of step counts, distance travelled, calories burned and sleep hours. The band has a high-resolution and sunlight-readable display. The band gets sync with the app Act2Fit2 at the push of a button which also helps the user to post the activity data on social networking sites.

    And to make your life more hassle free, you don’t need to charge the band for upto 3-4 weeks once completely charged. The wear and water resistant feature allows the person to use the band 24*7. The range of its vibrant colors will make you fall in love with it.

    On the occasion of International Women day, the fitness band is available at major e-commerce sites like Amazon, Flipkart and Tangoworld.in.

    Campaign: Women’s day special – Tango has launched an innovative campaign for women in which they just need to write their fitness funda/mantra creatively in exact 8 words #Act2fitwomen #Tangofit #stayfit #liveyoung #Gotango #Liveyoung #live the tangolife and post it on Tango’s Facebook Page and the best 8 mantras will get the Tango wellness motivator at just INR 8 which has a market cost of INR 4990.

  • Collegedunia tops at India Digital Awards

    MUMBAI: Collegedunia, one of India’s largest college information aggregator and review site, has bagged first rank at the 7th edition of India Digital Awards organized by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). The Award Ceremony was accompanied by 11th India Digital Summit, which is the premier digital event of the country.

    Collegedunia, India’s largest College Information Aggregator and Review site of India, bagged first rank at the 7th edition of India Digital Awards organized by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). The Award Ceremony was accompanied by 11th India Digital Summit, which is the premier digital event of the country.

    This 7th edition of India Digital Awards, which was a part of 11th India Digital Summit, held at The Lalit Hotel, New Delhi, was attended by an audience full of Founders and Co-Founders of numerous successful startups. Collegedunia.com had been nominated for the Education category in the Website Awards genre.

    India Digital Summit is an annual event organized by IAMAI and is attended by startup enthusiasts from all over the country. With an aim to spread awareness and an agenda to discuss numerous pre-defined topic over some expert sessions, the event has received success in its old editions. The 11th edition also remained one of the biggest events of the nation.

    The summit acted as a playground for more than 1,500 Senior Executives from companies spread in genres including Mobile Tech, AdTech, Consumer Tech, Cloud Services, Digital Payments, Digital Startups, etc. Flow of knowledge took place during the summit in the form of keynote speeches by founders and co-founders of services like PayTM, Freecharge, Flipkart, Saavn, etc. which was followed by the much-awaited Award Ceremony.

    The 7th edition of India Digital Awards constituted nominations spread across seven categories and 38 sub-categories. The jury comprised of personalities spread throughout the genres of the awards who ranked the nominations based on the various parameters laid down. The awards surely do provide the top-performers, a totally different outlook in the world outside.

    Collegedunia bagged the first position in the category it was nominated for Sahil Chalana, founder of Collegedunia Web Pvt. Ltd. overwhelmingly said, “Education industry has a scope of tremendous growth and development. It must always be remembered that providing best-suited information to the seekers should be the aim of every such company.” He added, “The company has been able to grow exponentially and always aims at growing further. For the company being at such a young age and making this achievement is something that I feel pride in.”

    Collegedunia has aimed at providing detailed information about numerous colleges and courses and also provide free counselling to students who are confused by this huge plethora of options. The website plays host to information of more than 20,000 colleges and 5,000 courses. The information is updated regularly so that each student could get the exact information he needs through this medium.

    With a dynamic growth model, Collegedunia has become the largest of its kind in this genre and is continuously setting new benchmarks for the others to achieve. The daily traffic on the site is averaged at three lakh visits per day.

    The mobile app variant of Collegedunia is also flagging on heights of success as it has reached a number of 100,000 installs and the numbers are growing further. The Live Counselling session is also being extended to WhatsApp version for a further outreach.

  • Network18 strengthens digital arm with pros from Jabong, Flipkart & India TV

    MUMBAI: Network18, one of India’s most diversified media conglomerates is re-imagining and thereby bolstering its Digital proposition. In this direction, the Group announced the rebranding of Web18 as Network18 Digital last year. Network18 Digital boasts of highly successful and pioneering digital properties like Moneycontrol, Firstpost, News18 and Pradesh18. In order to grow these platforms and seed new ideas within the network so as to claim a leadership position in digital space, Network18 has been taking proactive initiatives. It appointed Manish Maheshwari as CEO of Network18 Digital.

    Network18 Digital is among the largest multi-platform destinations for objective breaking news, opinions, financial data and infotainment for the evolved digital news consumer. It caters to all sections of society, especially to the millennials and Generation Z users who access and consume content on the go. In an effort to offer the best in digital space, the company has been continuously hiring unmatched talent from the market. Lakshmi Potluri, former co-founder of Jabong.com and recent hires include Rajiv Singh from Flipkart and Anushrav Gulati from India TV Digital.

    Speaking about the appointments, Maheshwari, says, “We are in an exciting phase of time when changes in content consumption are happening at an accelerating rate and it is indispensable to stay relevant to the new consumers that are getting hooked onto digital platforms each day. With web becoming a passé and action moving to Mobile and further to Wearables, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), it was necessary to reinvent ourselves and be future-ready. And that explains the power of Network18 Digital or its numeronym N18D. We have brought the finest team together to bring the most innovative offerings for consumers and the recent appointments will bolster our efforts towards the same.”

    Rajiv Singh has joined N18D as the Business Head for News18. Rajiv is an Alumnus of IIM- Kozhikode with significant experience in media, both traditional and Digital. Prior to N18D, he was with Flipkart where he was responsible for Digital Ad sales for third party clients. In past he has worked with companies like Star TV – TV Ad sales & Online Ads Sales for Hotstar & Starsports.com. He was responsible for setting up and mentoring the Ads business for Amagi media and prior to that was part of Radio Mirchi in various capacities across India.

    Anushrav Gulati has joined Network18 Digital as Business Head for the Languages portfolio. Anushrav comes with experience across e-commerce, search and publishing domains. In his last assignment Anushrav was responsible for setting up the Digital team, processes and business initiatives for India TV Digital.

    Both Rajiv and Anushrav will be reporting to Maheshwari.

    N18D is an integral part of the Network18 family that is home to some of India’s most prominent TV stations in both news and entertainment genres straddling multiple languages. Some of these include CNBC-TV18, CNBC Awaaz, CNN-News18, ETV Network and Colors. The network is partner to some of the most respected international brands, notably CNN, CNBC, Viacom and Forbes. N18D’s family legacy and its international partnerships gives it access to the most exhaustive and trusted content from across India and around the world in multiple flavors, languages and subject genres.

  • NCR, Bengaluru lead mobile phone sales: #FlipTrends2016 annual report

    NCR, Bengaluru lead mobile phone sales: #FlipTrends2016 annual report

    BENGALURU: Indian eCommerce major Flipkart said that sales on its platform were led by shoppers from the NCR region closely followed by metros Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad in 2016 in its annual #FlipTrends2016 report. Among the tier-2 cities, Guwahati and Jorhat in North East India were first time entrants to the top gainers list; amongst other tier 2 cities Mysore, Salem, and Tirupur from South India led sales in the smartphones category. South India emerged yet again as the most tech-savvy region, accounting for over 35 per cent sales, while North stood at 28 per cent, West at 22 per cent, and East India at 15 per cent.

    Flipkart Head – Mobiles Ajay Yadav said, “The popularity of smartphones in India, as clearly indicated by #FlipTrends, highlight the shift consumers are making towards 4G enabled smartphones. Today consumers are opting for brands and models that could not just offer them the features, but were smart on the pocket as well.”

    Yadav further added, “More of our customers are choosing Flipkart as their preferred platform of choice when it comes to shopping for mobiles. Industry-first innovations such as No Cost EMI and Easy Product Exchange, along with exclusive brand partnerships and flash sales, have helped us to maintain the market leadership in this segment.”

    The IOT category of smart bands and smart watches saw tremendous growth of over 500 per cent from 2015 reveals the report. Top sellers in this category were Apple, Motorola, and Samsung.

    Attributing more than 50 per cent of its sales to mobile phones because of affordable 4G smartphones from national and international brands, the report says that the smartphones category in India continues to be one of the most hotly contested arenas in online shopping. Redmi 3S Prime, Redmi Note 3, Moto E 3 Power, and Lenovo K5 and Samsung J5 were the top 5 bestselling mobile phones of the year says the seven point annual report. Lenovo, MI, Samsung, Motorola, and LeEco remained the most favourite brands.

    Analysing online shopping of over 10 crore or 100 million customers across India, #FlipTrends2016 recorded data collected from online shoppers over 2016 across all Flipkart-owned platforms.

  • NCR, Bengaluru lead mobile phone sales: #FlipTrends2016 annual report

    NCR, Bengaluru lead mobile phone sales: #FlipTrends2016 annual report

    BENGALURU: Indian eCommerce major Flipkart said that sales on its platform were led by shoppers from the NCR region closely followed by metros Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad in 2016 in its annual #FlipTrends2016 report. Among the tier-2 cities, Guwahati and Jorhat in North East India were first time entrants to the top gainers list; amongst other tier 2 cities Mysore, Salem, and Tirupur from South India led sales in the smartphones category. South India emerged yet again as the most tech-savvy region, accounting for over 35 per cent sales, while North stood at 28 per cent, West at 22 per cent, and East India at 15 per cent.

    Flipkart Head – Mobiles Ajay Yadav said, “The popularity of smartphones in India, as clearly indicated by #FlipTrends, highlight the shift consumers are making towards 4G enabled smartphones. Today consumers are opting for brands and models that could not just offer them the features, but were smart on the pocket as well.”

    Yadav further added, “More of our customers are choosing Flipkart as their preferred platform of choice when it comes to shopping for mobiles. Industry-first innovations such as No Cost EMI and Easy Product Exchange, along with exclusive brand partnerships and flash sales, have helped us to maintain the market leadership in this segment.”

    The IOT category of smart bands and smart watches saw tremendous growth of over 500 per cent from 2015 reveals the report. Top sellers in this category were Apple, Motorola, and Samsung.

    Attributing more than 50 per cent of its sales to mobile phones because of affordable 4G smartphones from national and international brands, the report says that the smartphones category in India continues to be one of the most hotly contested arenas in online shopping. Redmi 3S Prime, Redmi Note 3, Moto E 3 Power, and Lenovo K5 and Samsung J5 were the top 5 bestselling mobile phones of the year says the seven point annual report. Lenovo, MI, Samsung, Motorola, and LeEco remained the most favourite brands.

    Analysing online shopping of over 10 crore or 100 million customers across India, #FlipTrends2016 recorded data collected from online shoppers over 2016 across all Flipkart-owned platforms.