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  • Kiran Mani to chair IAMAI’s digital entertainment committee

    Kiran Mani to chair IAMAI’s digital entertainment committee

    MUMBAI: The digital entertainment world just got a new ringmaster. The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has announced that Kiran Mani, the CEO – digital, JioStar, will now chair its Digital Entertainment Committee. This is a rather significant appointment, as the committee is tasked with shaping the future of India’s rapidly evolving digital content ecosystem – no small feat, given the nation’s insatiable appetite for streaming.

    Mani, who also happens to be an elected Governing Council member of IAMAI and the former co-chair of the Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) committee, brings a hefty two decades of experience to the table. He’s been living and breathing at the crossroads of technology, content, and consumer behaviour for quite some time. In his current gig, he’s at the helm of JioHotstar, one of India’s largest digital entertainment platforms, which is, rather impressively, redefining how millions experience their stories.

    Joining him as co-chair is Deepit Purkayastha, co-founder & CEO, Inshorts. This pairing promises a potent blend of product, platform, and editorial expertise, which should certainly keep things interesting.

  • Inshorts co-founder & CEO Azhar Iqubal joins Shark Tank India 3

    Inshorts co-founder & CEO Azhar Iqubal joins Shark Tank India 3

    Mumbai: Building on the tremendous success of the past two seasons, Sony LIV is thrilled to announce the return of India’s beloved entrepreneurial reality show, Shark Tank India, for its highly anticipated third season. Adding to the roster of esteemed Sharks, after entrepreneurs like OYO Rooms founder and CEO Ritesh Agarwal and Zomato founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal is the remarkable Azhar Iqubal, co-founder and CEO of the groundbreaking news app, Inshorts.

    In addition to these new sharks, the panel will feature sharks from the previous seasons – Aman Gupta (co-founder and CMO of boAt), Amit Jain (CEO and co-founder of CarDekho Group, InsuranceDekho.com), Anupam Mittal (founder and CEO of Shaadi.com – People Group), Namita Thapar (executive director of Emcure Pharmaceuticals), Vineeta Singh (co-founder and CEO of SUGAR Cosmetics) and Peyush Bansal (founder and CEO of Lenskart.com).

    With the unparalleled expertise of these Sharks and the charismatic host Rahul Dua guiding the way, Shark Tank India 3 is poised to reach new heights. As budding entrepreneurs from across India prepare to dive into the Tank of dreams, once again, brace yourselves to witness the power of innovation, entrepreneurship, and unparalleled determination like never before.

    Stay tuned for more updates on Shark Tank India 3, streaming soon exclusively on Sony LIV.

  • Cadbury brightens up solar eclipse with ‘cookie-clipse’ ad on Inshorts

    Cadbury brightens up solar eclipse with ‘cookie-clipse’ ad on Inshorts

    Mumbai: Homegrown English news app Inshorts came up with a creative on the app as a part of Cadbury’s ‘Cookie-Clipse’ campaign for its chocolate centre filled cookie- Chocobakes.

    The app knitted an innovative ad format to commemorate the solar eclipse day that could not be observed in India. With the day (4 December) also being World Cookie Day, Cadbury in association with Inshorts helped users to witness this astronomical marvel through the help of a cookie on Snapchat’s AR filter.

    The one-day campaign helped the brand to further create noise about their latest campaign and engage the tech-savvy millennials on the app. The ad opened up with a bright sun with the Cadbury Chocobakes box below it. The advertisement urged viewers to slide along the Cadbury logo to reveal the ‘cookie-clipse.’

    As the users get intrigued they slide along the bar, which leads to a cookie emerging from the box and covering the sun that creates a perfect cookie eclipse. The click here button further pushes the user to know what it’s like to ‘cookie-clipse’ the sun for real. Upon tapping the button, users are diverted to snapchat’s AR filter on their smartphone, which when pointed towards the sun, hides it with a cookie to give them an eclipse-like experience in the sky.

    Speaking about the partnered campaign with Inshorts, Mondelez India category head for biscuits and bakes Sunainika Singh said, “Cadbury Chocobakes loves celebrating the joy of discovery. The world Cookie Day, coinciding with the Solar Eclipse was a great opportunity for Cadbury Chocobakes center-filled cookies to give a nice surprise to delight our consumers. The Cookie-Clipse AR filter is an innovative interaction with our brand that will definitely find a sweet spot with consumers.”

    The campaign generated a great response with 26 lakh impressions and reached over 16.6 lakh viewers with an impressive engagement rate of 17.08 per cent, the company said.

    Speaking about innovation in the ad tech space, Inshorts national sales head Piyush Thakur said, “With the primary focus on creativity and innovation, the campaign was non-intrusive, interactive, and clutter-free – enabling Cadbury to reach out to its target audience unconventionally and exclusively while instilling excitement for its product.”

  • Inshorts curates interactive campaign for ‘Bard of Blood’

    Inshorts curates interactive campaign for ‘Bard of Blood’

    MUMBAI: Advocating that creative content in today’s time cannot be restricted to only text, English news app Inshorts has created a first-of-its-kind interactive campaign for the recently launched Netflix original ‘Bard of Blood’.  

    The interactive campaign is designed to intrigue the audience to engage with the content and further hook the users to the brand story. The innovative ad is designed to tell the users a story in an interactive format in short snippets activated on user actions. Starring popular actors including Emraan Hashmi, Shobhita Dhulipala, and Vineet Kumar Singh in the lead roles, the innovation is appropriately able to capitalise on aspects of the series and create intrigue which would have been hard for any other media or format. 

    Inshorts national sales head Piyush Thakur asaid, “The six-inch screen today allows for ample experimentation to create ad formats and innovations that are non-intrusive, interactive, and easy to follow for the user. We have seen high engagement on such formats, which makes us believe in utilising the combined power of vertical, video, and interactive to create a new paradigm in advertising on the small screen.” 

    With a large pool of content available on the internet, consumers today are spoilt for choice and it takes a flicker of a second to lose the interest of the audience. Thus, it has become crucial for marketers to choose the right ad format to engage the users and get the most value out of their advertising spend. Inshorts being the leader in the short form content space has effectively catered to the changing online behaviours by consistently investing in Ad-tech and thus offering novel and customised ad solutions to brands. 

    With the primary focus on creativity and innovation, Inshorts has marked a dent in the advertising space with its engaging ad formats like – motion story, digital magazine, and vertical videos.

  • Inshorts attempts to create awareness about app through first TVC

    Inshorts attempts to create awareness about app through first TVC

    NEW DELHI: Inshorts, the news app which attempts to give news briefly, has for the first time launched a video commercial to boost awareness about its short form content value proposition.

    The brand campaign on YouTube has been executed by Cheil India and the ad targets urban news consumers in the age group of 18 to 35 who value brevity and time.

    Carrying the tagline – ‘Short mein jaano’, the campaign captures real life situations where the protagonists get frustrated from people around them who waste time in beating around the bush instead of communicating to the point.

    The video commercial revolves around a bomb squad commando stuck in a situation of urgency, awaiting instructions from his senior, to take necessary action. It is only after a series of unimportant information that the commando is guided about the course of action he was looking for all along.

    Inshorts, through its 60-word shorts, provides users a unique content discovery experience that allows them to read a lot of news items in short, in very little time. With just a few swipes, at a time and place of their convenience, consumers can keep abreast with all the important news of the day.

    Inshorts CEO and co-founder Azhar Iqubal said, “Being an internet company, we are launching our campaign online first and intend to go all out with ATL and BTL campaigns later. Through this TVC, we hope to highlight the Inshorts value proposition of keeping its users updated with simple, factual and to-the-point content which can be consumed in minimum time.”

    The commercial has been directed by Gajraj Rao, produced by Code Red Films and conceptualized by Cheil India. The four-week long campaign will go live on digital and social platforms like Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, etc.

    Cheil India executive creative director Aneesh Jaisinghani said: “When you have a great product like the Inshorts app, a veteran director like Gajaraj Rao, super talented actors like Rajesh Sharma, Nikhil Ratnaparkhi and Sumit Gulati, a few things are guaranteed, a ball of a shoot and a couple of awesome TV commercials. Hope the viewers enjoy watching them as much as we enjoyed making them”

  • Inshorts attempts to create awareness about app through first TVC

    Inshorts attempts to create awareness about app through first TVC

    NEW DELHI: Inshorts, the news app which attempts to give news briefly, has for the first time launched a video commercial to boost awareness about its short form content value proposition.

    The brand campaign on YouTube has been executed by Cheil India and the ad targets urban news consumers in the age group of 18 to 35 who value brevity and time.

    Carrying the tagline – ‘Short mein jaano’, the campaign captures real life situations where the protagonists get frustrated from people around them who waste time in beating around the bush instead of communicating to the point.

    The video commercial revolves around a bomb squad commando stuck in a situation of urgency, awaiting instructions from his senior, to take necessary action. It is only after a series of unimportant information that the commando is guided about the course of action he was looking for all along.

    Inshorts, through its 60-word shorts, provides users a unique content discovery experience that allows them to read a lot of news items in short, in very little time. With just a few swipes, at a time and place of their convenience, consumers can keep abreast with all the important news of the day.

    Inshorts CEO and co-founder Azhar Iqubal said, “Being an internet company, we are launching our campaign online first and intend to go all out with ATL and BTL campaigns later. Through this TVC, we hope to highlight the Inshorts value proposition of keeping its users updated with simple, factual and to-the-point content which can be consumed in minimum time.”

    The commercial has been directed by Gajraj Rao, produced by Code Red Films and conceptualized by Cheil India. The four-week long campaign will go live on digital and social platforms like Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, etc.

    Cheil India executive creative director Aneesh Jaisinghani said: “When you have a great product like the Inshorts app, a veteran director like Gajaraj Rao, super talented actors like Rajesh Sharma, Nikhil Ratnaparkhi and Sumit Gulati, a few things are guaranteed, a ball of a shoot and a couple of awesome TV commercials. Hope the viewers enjoy watching them as much as we enjoyed making them”