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  • GroupM cos appoint new leaders in India, south and north Asia

    GroupM cos appoint new leaders in India, south and north Asia

    MUMBAI: Tim Castree, Global CEO of MEC and CEO of “NewCo”, has announced that Kartik Sharma has been named as Managing Director of the new media, content and technology agency in India and South Asia when it launches in January 2018. Kartik has been Managing Director of Maxus South Asia since 2014 and in that time, has led the agency to outstanding new business growth and success.

    Tim Castree commented: “We’re creating a brand new billion-dollar revenue media, content and technology agency, dubbed ‘NewCo’ for now. With such ambition, comes a need for brilliant talent to lead and inspire, and so today’s news is very exciting for us. Under Kartik’s leadership, I am confident that we will have the right team in place to truly make NewCo a formidable future-facing agency in India and South Asia.” Kartik will report to GroupM South Asia CEO, CVL Srinivas and Tim Castree.

    Following GroupM’s recent commitment to adding offline media capabilities, an expanded geographic footprint and an influx of talent to the agency, Christian Juhl, global CEO of Essence, a global digital-first agency, today announced that T. Gangadhar, current Managing Director of MEC South Asia, will transition into the new role of Chairman of India and Managing Director of North Asia, Essence. Gangadhar will report into Kyoko Matsushita, CEO of Essence APAC. He will continue to be based in Mumbai.

    Anand Chakravarthy, who has served as Managing Partner at Maxus India since 2015, will be transitioning into the role of Managing Director of Essence India. Chakravarthy will report into both Gangadhar and Matsushita and will work closely with the regional leadership in his new role.

    Both Gangadhar and Chakravarthy will assume their new roles by January 2018. The Essence teams will be strongly supported by the GroupM network as they look to expand their presence in market. Christian Juhl commented: “India is such an important market for so many of our clients whose business challenges we work tirelessly to solve. Essence has built its credibility on being a data-centric agency that infuses technology and measurement across all media. We’re excited to expand our geographic footprint and apply our unique approach for our global clients looking for relevance in India. Gangadhar and Anand are experienced leaders who will help expand our presence.”

  • World Media Awards: Maxus India recognised for Tata campaign, wins gold in ‘automotive’

    MUMBAI: Maxus, a part of GroupM, has bagged Grand Prix at the World Media Awards 2017 for their campaign “From Zica to Tiago” for Tata Motors. The campaign also won the Gold in Automotive category for the campaign.

    The campaign was created when Tata’s new car Zica was just 3 weeks away from the launch and the World Health Organization declared Zika, the virus as a global emergency. Consumers started associating Zica, the car with Zika, the virus and it was becoming a great threat to the brand image.

    Maxus conceptualized, created and implemented a three-stage approach to overcome the challenge and thus launched the ‘Fantastico Name Hunt’. In just three days, the campaign reached 48 million people across 22 target markets. 640,000 engaged and 37,000 names were submitted – garnering $410,000 of earned media coverage along the way. Google searches for ‘Zica’ totally dropped and ‘Tiago’ surged, showing that consumers were on board with the change.

    An elated Maxus South Asia managing director Kartik Sharma said, “This is one of the best examples where a crisis situation is turned into a great opportunity for a brand.”

    Within four months of the launch, Tiago received more than 1,20,000 test drive requests which is three times more than any Tata car launch in the last decade. The World Media Awards are designed to benchmark the best in international advertising and communication strategies.

  • Maxus retains IPL media mandate

    MUMBAI: Maxus has successfully retained the media responsibilities of the Indian Premier League for its 10th edition. Maxus has been the media agency for IPL ever since the league started in 2008. The account will be handled out of Maxus Mumbai office.

    Commenting on the retention, Maxus South Asia managing director Kartik Sharma said, “We are extremely proud and humbled to be chosen as the media agency once again byBCCI. I am grateful to BCCIfor valuing our efforts. We look forward to continue delivering even better results through our media campaigns on IPL.”

    The multi-agency pitch saw participation from other leading media agencies, following which Maxus retained the bImage result for karthik sharma maxususiness.

  • Maxus, Tata Sky shine at Big Bang Awards

    Maxus, Tata Sky shine at Big Bang Awards

    MUMBAI: The award-winning spree for the GroupM company Maxus continues as it won the Social Media Agency of the year at the Big Bang Awards 2016 (constituted by Advertising Club of Bangalore). Tata Sky was named ‘Client of the Year’ for its innovative 13-episode TVC campaign called Daily Dillagi.

    An elated Maxus South Asia managing director Kartik Sharma said, “Maxus has made strong and consisted efforts to become future ready in a digitally charged competitive ecosystem. We are committed to approach planning and investments in an integrated manner with deep emphasis on innovative media concepts that bring digital media, content and data together. These wins ratify our belief in being the pioneers in investing behind futuristic solutions such as marketing command centre (MESH) which helps us continually get great insights into consumers and help us use the same in our communication solutions.”

    “We are excited and humbled that Tata Sky has also won the award. A lot of things have gone into the relationship: Shaping brands for 10 years, launching new products, inventing new practices that are born off more challenges,” added Sharma.

  • Maxus, Tata Sky shine at Big Bang Awards

    Maxus, Tata Sky shine at Big Bang Awards

    MUMBAI: The award-winning spree for the GroupM company Maxus continues as it won the Social Media Agency of the year at the Big Bang Awards 2016 (constituted by Advertising Club of Bangalore). Tata Sky was named ‘Client of the Year’ for its innovative 13-episode TVC campaign called Daily Dillagi.

    An elated Maxus South Asia managing director Kartik Sharma said, “Maxus has made strong and consisted efforts to become future ready in a digitally charged competitive ecosystem. We are committed to approach planning and investments in an integrated manner with deep emphasis on innovative media concepts that bring digital media, content and data together. These wins ratify our belief in being the pioneers in investing behind futuristic solutions such as marketing command centre (MESH) which helps us continually get great insights into consumers and help us use the same in our communication solutions.”

    “We are excited and humbled that Tata Sky has also won the award. A lot of things have gone into the relationship: Shaping brands for 10 years, launching new products, inventing new practices that are born off more challenges,” added Sharma.

  • Maxus’ ‘Kaleidoscope’ gets the Most Admired Big Data award

    Maxus’ ‘Kaleidoscope’ gets the Most Admired Big Data award

    MUMBAI: Leading global communications solution agency Maxus has picked up another metal for its increasingly popular project – Kaleidoscope, a mood mapping tool conceptualised and built to decipher consumer moods basis trillions of conversations and activity on Twitter and Instagram. The team also recently won an award at the prestigious Asia Marketing Effectiveness for Data and Analytics.

    “We’re honored to be recognised for the intelligent data and insights capabilities we deliver. Through the data capabilities we are creating, we help our clients and team iterate fast track information and work in real-time through accurate slicing and dicing of data. Maxus Data and Insights team has been gaining increasing global recognition with a recent metal at AME (Asia Marketing Effectiveness) for Data & Analytics and now for Kaleidoscope… our endeavor to deliver Data that matters. Maxus has been winning consistently in Data & consumer insights space last 5 years. Our focus is to make Data relevant and meaningful to business and support creativity with data,” opined Maxus CSO Priti Murthy.

    “We are thrilled to win this award. Our lead into change philosophy helps us to bring out best in class solutions for our clients and Kaleidoscope is a first of its kind tool which helps clients to communicate audiences based on their moods and that too in real time.We are also happy that Kaleidoscope was developed indigenous which proves our ongoing efforts for the last several years to build a cutting edge data and analytics practice for solving their problems and constantly leading them to change,” said Maxus, South Asia MD Kartik Sharma.

  • Maxus’ ‘Kaleidoscope’ gets the Most Admired Big Data award

    Maxus’ ‘Kaleidoscope’ gets the Most Admired Big Data award

    MUMBAI: Leading global communications solution agency Maxus has picked up another metal for its increasingly popular project – Kaleidoscope, a mood mapping tool conceptualised and built to decipher consumer moods basis trillions of conversations and activity on Twitter and Instagram. The team also recently won an award at the prestigious Asia Marketing Effectiveness for Data and Analytics.

    “We’re honored to be recognised for the intelligent data and insights capabilities we deliver. Through the data capabilities we are creating, we help our clients and team iterate fast track information and work in real-time through accurate slicing and dicing of data. Maxus Data and Insights team has been gaining increasing global recognition with a recent metal at AME (Asia Marketing Effectiveness) for Data & Analytics and now for Kaleidoscope… our endeavor to deliver Data that matters. Maxus has been winning consistently in Data & consumer insights space last 5 years. Our focus is to make Data relevant and meaningful to business and support creativity with data,” opined Maxus CSO Priti Murthy.

    “We are thrilled to win this award. Our lead into change philosophy helps us to bring out best in class solutions for our clients and Kaleidoscope is a first of its kind tool which helps clients to communicate audiences based on their moods and that too in real time.We are also happy that Kaleidoscope was developed indigenous which proves our ongoing efforts for the last several years to build a cutting edge data and analytics practice for solving their problems and constantly leading them to change,” said Maxus, South Asia MD Kartik Sharma.