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  • WPP’s Data Alliance expands with India launch

    WPP’s Data Alliance expands with India launch

    MUMBAI: WPP has launched Data Alliance in India with an aim to enhance data-driven solutions and activate e-commerce, mobile, and social data strategies. The Mumbai based operation will draw upon expertise from WPP’s global network to India to harness unique data sets. The focus is to accelerate development and enhancement of data-driven solutions while activating e-commerce, mobile and social data strategies in India. India is the first market to launch Data Alliance in the Asia-Pacific region.

     

    WPP’s Data Alliance in India is supported by GroupM (Mindshare, Maxus, MEC, Mediacom, Motivator, Xaxis and Madhouse), Kantar (IMRB, Millward Brown, TNS and Worldpanel), Wunderman and Ogilvy. Collectively, these companies will partner on projects to enhance the use of data across WPP solutions increasing speed, cross-fertilization and decreasing costs in this strategic market.

     

    This launch is part of a campaign in WPP for “data horizontality” – the ability to better leverage WPP’s people, data and technology across the globe and replicates models in United States, United Kingdom and Sub-Saharan Africa. 

     

    “Data Alliance has successfully implemented ‘data horizontality’ by helping WPP companies access and leverage data creatively and optimally across multiple verticals and geographies, Growing in India is an exciting opportunity for WPP to scale enterprise data assets and partnerships for e-commerce, mobile and social data-driven marketing,” said Data Alliance director of global partnerships Anas Ghazi.

     

    “We are thrilled to help bring Data Alliance to India. Data is forming the foundation layer of smarter decision making and with strong emergence of digital channels data is becoming an increasingly critical part of the conversation with our clients. Data Alliance is a powerful way to help us shape the market and provide competitive advantage to all our clients across a very broad range of data requirements,” said GroupM South Asia chief strategy officer Tushar Vyas.

     

    “There is a tremendous opportunity for Wunderman in India to work with Data Alliance to bring a much richer set of data into everything we do for clients, from generating insights to targeting our work, to measuring results,” said Wunderman Global CEO Mark Read.

     

    “In today’s complex environment we need to deliver consumer understanding from multiple lenses to our clients, Data Alliance offers the ability to leverage diverse datasets for rich insights across multiple data sources to better understand motivations behind consumer behavior to help clients transform consumer insight into business impact,” added Kantar Group’s IMRB International senior vice president Hemant Mehta.

     

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  • Martin Sorrell unveils WPP’s big ticket plans in India

    Martin Sorrell unveils WPP’s big ticket plans in India

    MUMBAI: After recently having met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York at the CEOs’ Roundtable Conference, WPP CEO Martin Sorrell is in India and has unveiled some major plans.

    DATA ALLIANCE INDIA LAUNCH

    In the first of four separate announcements, WPP has launched Data Alliance in India with an aim to enhance data-driven solutions and activate e-commerce, mobile, and social data strategies. The Mumbai based operation will draw upon expertise from WPP’s global network to India to harness unique data sets. The focus is to accelerate development and enhancement of data-driven solutions while activating e-commerce, mobile and social data strategies in India. India is the first market to launch Data Alliance in the Asia-Pacific region.

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    GEOMETRY GLOBAL | ENCOMPASS NETWORK

    Additionally, WPP has also formed India’s largest experiential marketing network – Geometry Global | Encompass Network (GGEN), which is a result of the collaboration between the two experiential marketing companies – India’s Encompass headed by Roshan Abbas and experiential marketing company Geometry Global. With over 400 employees in Mumbai and Delhi, the Geometry Global | Encompass Network specializes in shopper marketing, rural marketing, large-scale events and exhibitions, urban consumer marketing, digital activation and field marketing.

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    RS 33 CRORE CSR INITIATIVE

    Sorrell also launched WPP India Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Foundation and has partnered with Genesis Foundation, Hope for Children and Magic Bus for the same. The WPP India CSR Foundation will be launching a Rs 33 crore ($ 5 million) education, life skills and vocational training programme targeted to reach 20,000 children aged from 11 to 18 years over the next three years.

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    ISDI | WPP SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION LAUNCHED

    As was previously reported by Indiantelevision.com, WPP has partnered with the Indian School of Design and Innovation (ISDI) for its foray into the Indian education sector. Under this alliance, the two have launched the ISDI WPP School of Communication, which was inaugurated by Sorrell in Mumbai.

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  • GroupM collaborates with China’s digital giants to build competitive edge

    GroupM collaborates with China’s digital giants to build competitive edge

    MUMBAI: GroupM’s programmatic media and technology platform Xaxis has inked a partnership with China’s digital and data giants like Youku Tudou, Tencent, iQiyi, Sina Weibo, UnionPay Smart and Xiaomi, at the 2015 GroupM Digital Momentum Forging Your Competitive Edge Conference.

     

    This partnership will enable access to a higher amount of premium inventory via programmatic buying and unlocks access to data across these platforms via Turbine, Xaxis’ evolutionary data management platform (DMP) managed by GroupM. Through this partnership, these parties endeavour to bring more accurate targeting and greater reach for advertisers, while building up industry standards in the market.

     

    The GroupM China conference attracted and inspired representatives from China’s top brands, media owners, and agencies with keynote speeches and panel discussions covering major digital marketing topics. Programmatic buying was the key focus of this event, providing actionable takeaways for attendees to plan smarter and more effective digital campaigns.

     

    Internet advertising runs on data, making the DMP a core component in the value chain. The more anonymous data one possesses about users, the more efficient one can be at buying advertising to reach them. In recent years, GroupM has been investing in its data, and data driven products and services, to remain at the forefront of digital marketing trends. Particularly, in the megatrend of data-driven programmatic buying – the market is forecasted to reach RMB 18.76 billion in 2016 (Eguan Analysis), and to provide advertisers with better products and technology. 

     

    GroupM China CEO Patrick Xu said, “The huge opportunities lie in predicting your target audiences’ next moves based on similar users’ past history, and which content consumption pattern will trigger action from your consumer. The partnership will help us better understand users and reach out to them better. More importantly, these parties will come together to develop an industry standard to ensure its rapid and healthy development. We are eager to further develop our partnerships with more media and data sources within China.”

     

    Xaxis is the world’s largest programmatic media and technology platform. Turbine, a milestone in the evolution of data management platforms, is designed to provide advanced real-time audience segmentation capabilities and look-alike modeling, to complement Xaxis’ product offerings. Turbine enables Xaxis to create more accurate and unique audience portraits to better connect advertisers with their target audiences across its roster of premium publishers. By creating better connections for advertisers with their audiences on these publishers, Xaxis creates and sustains demand for the inventory.

     

    Xaxis China managing director Mickey Zhang added, “Xaxis is proud to partner with these big digital companies in China. Programmatic buying provides sought-after premium inventory, especially premium online video inventory, in a more efficient way through greater audience intelligence. This partnership strengthens that intelligence, enabling us to provide enhanced campaign performance and efficiency. With that, we can empower our advertisers to make increasingly well-informed data-driven programmatic buying decisions in real time.”

     

    Xaxis is eager to further develop its partnerships with more media and data sources within China.

     

    GroupM Asia-Pacific CEO Mark Patterson said, “Our next phase is about partnerships, both outside and inside of WPP’s network. For example, GroupM is working increasingly closely with WPP’s research, data and insights companies in Kantar in a number of areas to amplify each other’s strengths and create new opportunities, products and services for our clients in China (and around the region and world) around our common DNA of data, insights and the consumer.”

  • GroupM to only work with partners using TAG anti-piracy services to stop ad fraud

    GroupM to only work with partners using TAG anti-piracy services to stop ad fraud

    MUMBAI: WPP’s GroupM will only work ad network partners who use the Trustworthy Accountability Group’s (TAG) anti-piracy guidelines. The agency has mandated that its media partners either become or use TAG-certified providers of anti-piracy services to participate in GroupM’s Trusted Marketplaces.

     

    GroupM’s media investments on behalf of clients are approximately $106 billion (RECMA 2014); the company’s action will make a significant impact on pirated content trafficking worldwide.

     

    “We’re in the business of giving the world’s most valuable brands marketing advantage with smart media strategies. This inherently means we’re vigilant for clients’ brand safety. Our work with TAG in the development and now full adoption of anti-piracy guidelines is a major leap forward. With IAB, 4As, and ANA, we’ve worked years to make the digital ecosystem more trustworthy. Fighting pirates of copyrighted content required every ounce of our tenacity and ingenuity, but with the advent of TAG’s Brand Integrity Program Against Piracy, we have powerful new tools and safeguards,” said GroupM Connect, North America chairman and TAG Anti-Piracy Working Group co-chair John Montgomery.

     

    Announced in February 2015, TAG’s anti-piracy program helps prevent ad placement on websites that facilitate distribution of pirated content and/or the illegal dissemination of counterfeit goods. Through the program, providers of anti-piracy tools and services will be validated as Digital Advertising Assurance Providers (DAAPs) by independent third-parties including Stroz Friedberg and Ernst & Young, working with TAG. To be validated, DAAP companies must show how they identify risky sites, prevent ad placement, disrupt site transactions, monitor and assess the safety of ad placements, and/or prevent payment to sites that are deemed likely to offer pirated content or counterfeit goods. The first validated DAAPs are expected to be named in Q3 2015, and GroupM will require that all of its partners receive such validation by Q1 2016.

     

    “It’s very gratifying to have the world’s largest media buyer commit to the TAG program for itself and its partners. Major marketers want to protect their brands from being placed on sites that are associated with criminal activity. TAG is building the trusted marketplace for buying and selling inventory in the digital supply chain,” said TAG CEO Mike Zaneis.

     

    A report from the Digital Citizens’ Alliance estimated that pirate content sites made more than $200 million in 2014 from advertising placed inadvertently on those sites, damaging copyright holders across music, movies, TV, books, games and more. Advertisers whose brands inadvertently appear on such sites suffer reputational harm. In addition, consumers that visit these sites are made to believe the content is legitimate due to the presence of brands they recognise and are often damaged by malware or other malicious code that infects their computers.

     

    The Brand Integrity Against Piracy Program has also been endorsed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA), CreativeFuture, and Copyright Alliance, among a number of other advertising industry groups and companies.

     

    “We applaud GroupM’s leadership and commitment to enhancing trust and transparency in the digital marketplace. As a premium content provider and a digital advertiser, NBCUniversal is committed to protecting its brand from appearing on illegitimate sites and stemming the flow of ad dollars to pirate site operators. We encourage the entire market to follow GroupM’s lead,” said NBCUniversal EVP of business operations and strategies and TAG board member Krishan Bhatia.

  • Mobile Marketing Association reveals speaker list for 4th MMA Forum India

    Mobile Marketing Association reveals speaker list for 4th MMA Forum India

    MUMBAI: The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has revealed the full speaker line-up and agenda for the upcoming MMA Forum India to be held on 16 September, 2015. Themed: Acquiring, Reaching and Engaging the Right Consumers with Mobile, this one-day conference will see prominent experts and thought leaders from across the mobile marketing ecosystem dissect the different components of mobile marketing from programmatic, mobile video, and location, to creativity and innovation. In-depth discussions will reveal new ways in which marketers can harness the power of mobile to keep up with the ever changing needs of today’s discerning consumer.

     

    Rahul Welde, Regional Vice President – Media of Unilever, will kick-start this year’s Forum, providing insight into Unilever’s innovative approach to marketing, discussing the opportunities presented by the consumer in his session ‘Leveraging Mobile To Drive Innovation and Enhance Brand Experiences.’

     

    CVL Srinivas, CEO GroupM will moderate a key panel discussion on key principles to becoming mobile capable with Vipul Prakash, Vice President – Beverages Category, Pepsico India, Ajit Mohan, Executive Vice President & Head, Digital for Star India and Novi Digital Entertainment Limited, Amrit Thomas, CMO, United Spirits Limited and Amarjit Singh Batra, CEO, OLX India. They will share examples from their client’s perspective and will give insight into how media owners can best work with agencies to build mobile insight and capability so companies can reach a level of maturity quickly and more effectively.

     

    The Forum will also see Fergus O’Hare, Head of APAC at Facebook Creative Shop, talk about the creative renaissance in mobile marketing. His session will explore creativity in today’s connected world, the explosion of mobile video and the implication and opportunities for marketers.

     

    In addition, Dippak Kurrana, Co-Founder & CEO Vserv will host a Fireside chat with Media Specialist and writer Vanita Kohli-Khandekar on the discovery to transaction in the mobile internet world. The smartphone explosion and ever-evolving technology has brought us closer than ever in achieving the marketer’s ultimate goal of shrinking the intent-purchase gap. This session will see the industry leaders discuss how marketers can get ahead of the curve, to maximize their opportunities and future-proof their strategy.

     

    Other key speakers include

     

    ·         Rohit Dadwal, Managing Director, Mobile Marketing Association Asia Pacific Limited

    ·         Nitin Bawankule, Industry Director, Ecommerce, Local Classifieds & Technology, Google India

    ·         Shireesh Joshi, Head Strategic Marketing, Godrej Group

    ·         Joshua Maa, Founder & CEO MADhouse Inc

    ·         Scott Zalaznik, Head of Global, Strategy, Xad

    ·         Joe Nguyen, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific comScore, Inc

    ·         Nitin Mathur , Senior Director Marketing, Yahoo Asia Pacific

    ·         Vikas Gulati, Managing Director, Asia Opera Mediaworks

    ·         Avinash Jhangiani, Managing Director –Digital & Mobility OmnicomMediaGroup

    ·         Chris Steedman, Managing Director APAC, M&C Saatchi Mobile

    ·         Anita Nayyar, CEO India & South Asia, Havas Media Group

    ·         Milind Pathak, COO Madhouse – South Asia

    ·         Manav Sethi, Group CMO, ASKME India & Findit Malaysia

    ·         Jayesh Easwaramony, VP & GM, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa, InMobi

    ·         Rohit Sharma, CEO & Founder Pokkt

    ·         Joby Babu, COO, Nimbuzz Internet Media Pvt Limited

     

    “I am extremely excited about the diverse mix of speakers at this year’s Forum, who will be sharing their insights into how marketers can adapt and reinvent their approaches to mobile marketing to acquire, reach and engage the consumer in line with continuously changing technologies and consumer behaviours,” said Rohit Dadwal, Managing Director, MMA APAC.

     

    The MMA Forum India 2015 will conclude with the awards ceremony of the SMARTIES™ INDIA 2015, recognizing the best mobile marketing works in the region.

     

    The MMA Forum India 2015 is partnered by Vserv.com, MADhouse, InMobi, Nimbuzz, Opera Mediaworks, Pokkt, Hotstar, Yahoo!, Unites Spirits Limited and Pocket Math. 

  • Maxus APAC names Rose Huskey as client leadership head

    Maxus APAC names Rose Huskey as client leadership head

    MUMBAI: Rose Huskey has joined the Maxus regional team as Maxus APAC client leadership head.

     

    Prior to this, Huskey spent four years as the Maxus Vietnam managing director.

     

    Based out of Singapore, Huskey will be responsible for ensuring that the client’s experience is world class, integrated product and thinking into brand marketing as its leans into change in the ever evolving world.

     

    Huskey is an advertising executive with 18 years of experience across agencies, specializing in developing solutions to client’s challenges and bringing them to life in the online and offline world. Before joining Maxus, GroupM Huskey held positions at OMD in Vancouver, Canada and Future Shop where she was responsible for conceiving, managing and developing advertising and communication solutions.

     

    Huskey said, “The media industry has never been more exciting and interesting. The convergence of online and offline experiences means that people now have more choice than ever before on how, when and where they access the media they want. Maxus helps our clients leverage a wide spectrum of media opportunities to seize opportunities and fight off competitive threats.”

     

    Maxus Asia-Pacific regional CEO Ajit Varghese added, “We are very excited to have Rose join our regional leadership team. Given all her extensive experience in managing clients, building high performance teams and leading growth in one of our highest performing countries, she’s absolutely the right person to drive central leadership for our network clients and lead our teams to flawlessly execute across multi markets. At Maxus, we always aim to provide successful career options within the group for star performers and Rose certainly meets that criteria.”

  • Buzzfeed and GroupM ink global advertising deal

    Buzzfeed and GroupM ink global advertising deal

    MUMBAI: Technology driven media company BuzzFeed and WPP’s GroupM have inked a global partnership to provide GroupM’s and WPP’s agencies and clients with unprecedented access to BuzzFeed’s creative and data assets.

     

    Led by GroupM, WPP agencies will benefit from: 

     

    • The first beta partnership with Pound, BuzzFeed’s proprietary data technology that offers insights and analytics around how content shares across the social web;

    • A dedicated creative group at BuzzFeed Motion Pictures to produce branded video content for WPP clients;

    • A creative residency allowing WPP creative teams access to BuzzFeed’s expertise producing social content for all platforms; and

    • Preferential media pricing for clients of GroupM agencies.

     

    GroupM chief digital officer Rob Norman said, “The future of advertising lies at the intersection of creativity, data, media and technology; that’s where BuzzFeed has built its business and proved its value to brands. This is a terrific opportunity for our clients to move swiftly and succeed in the fastest growing media platforms. We have appointed partnership leaders from each GroupM agency, and other WPP agencies will do the same.”

     

    GroupM president Dominic Proctor added, “WPP’s investments in content demonstrate its commitment to creating socially and culturally resonant content for millennials. GroupM’s partnership with BuzzFeed adds a new dimension to this capability and amplifies our other partnerships.”

     

    BuzzFeed president Greg Coleman said, “This is an exciting time for our company. Our audience is growing on and off platform. Our Motion Pictures studio is booming and now reaches 1.5 billion video views a month – from shorter than short form on Snapchat, to original scripted series. We’re excited to take our unique approach and voice in branded content, data and iterative learning in a big way with GroupM and their clients.”

     

    The arrangement involves no investment or equity exchange between the companies.

  • 9X Jalwa looks to hook media agencies with Dubsmash challenge

    9X Jalwa looks to hook media agencies with Dubsmash challenge

    MUMBAI: Not only has the Dubsmash craze hooked stars and the common man alike, but television channels are also now making good use of the in-vogue platform. Hindi music channel 9X Jalwa, which launched a filler show 9X Jalwa Ki Dailoguebaazi in July, is now looking at engaging media agencies by throwing the 9X Jalwa Ki Dailoguebaazi Dubsmash Challenge on them.

     

    What started with getting 9X Jalwa fans and viewers engaged with the competition via social media has now reached media agencies across Mumbai and Delhi.

     

    According to 9X Jalwa vice president marketing Kapil Sharma, around 80 – 120 people from every agency will participate in the competition. “The reason why 9X Jalwa keeps doing these activities is to be on top of the mind of not only our viewers but media agencies as well. The idea is to reach out and connect with the media agencies,” Sharma said.

     

    Besides promoting the challenge across television, digital and social media, the channel has taken this contest on-ground through trade activations across Mumbai and Delhi. “To promote this property and generally to have fun with media agencies, we have rolled out the Dubsmash challenge across several media agencies,” informed Sharma.

     

    Three weeks back the channel opened entries for consumers and after gaining traction on social media, it approached media agencies.

     

    Those participating in the competition include: Starcom, Group M, Lintas, Lodestar, Mediacom, MPG, Madison and ZO. The on-ground activation starts between 1 – 2 pm in the media agencies’ cafeteria, where people come and choose a song or any dialogue of their choice and make the Dubsmash video. Participants can perform individually or in a group and upload their entry. Winners get a chance to win a Bluetooth headphone or other general merchandise and every media agency will have one winner. 

     

    “We have done the activations with these media agencies in the past and have received a good response,” he added.

     

    Since 9X Jalwa Ki Dailoguebaazi Dubsmash Challenges are being held only in media agencies, the channel is carrying the promotional activities in the same sector.

  • Mindshare APAC launches adaptive solution suite for brands

    Mindshare APAC launches adaptive solution suite for brands

    MUMBAI: Mindshare APAC has launched FAST (Future Adaptive Specialist Team), a unique solution suite, which aims to provide data led adaptive marketing services to brands looking to make sense of the deluge of data that is engulfing marketing communications. 

     

    One of the key headwinds that brands are facing due to this data deluge is the dynamism and uncertainty in the customer journey and the primary purpose of FAST is to help clients take control of the same.

     

    Mindshare’s FAST is the first of its kind in Asia Pacific from any marketing communications company.

     

    FAST comprises six services that clients can choose from or use as an integrated solution. As part of Data Management, powered by The Data Alliance from WPP, FAST provides data advisory services to help clients prepare their data management strategy, and to help them on how they can use technology to make sense of the data.

     

    Performance Marketing is an insights-driven outcome-based service that helps clients harness the power of search, e-commerce and mobile marketing in an integrated manner. With Programmatic Strategy, Mindshare has developed a proprietary architecture that leverages GroupM’s global scale with advanced behavioral targeting that delivers dynamic advertising to the most valued target at the most opportune time. 

     

    Real-Time Marketing, hallmarked by The Loop, is an adaptive decision making engine that influences the dynamic consumer journey, using real time insights to drive real time actions. 

     

    Finally, FAST provides capabilities in Digital Analytics with tools to better understand the digital trail, attributed right down to the last mile action. And for clients who have rich Enterprise data, Mindshare will integrate its own proprietary data with 3rd party data to provide Big Data services in partnership with Crayon Data by developing brand specific affinity graphs.

     

    Designed specifically for clients with centralized needs, Mindshare has gathered digital specialists from across the network to create five FAST hubs, located in Singapore, London, New York, Shanghai and Mexico City. FAST is particularly open sourced in building strategic partnerships in each of the Hubs to leverage local knowledge and expertise and they are fully integrated within the existing agency teams in the region.

     

    Mindshare Asia Pacific COO Gowthaman Ragothaman said, “In the last 15 days, FAST has built up significant traction, demonstrating its value to our clients and their businesses. It is more than just a concept, it is a step in the right direction – one that is built on a sound understanding of our client’s business needs and their expectations of what the future of media should be. By adding new and evolved capabilities and leveraging off of our global scale, FAST showcases Mindshare’s ability to constantly and quickly adapt to the need of the day, and is poised to be our key differentiator as it begins to deliver results for our clients.”