Tag: MSN India

  • Tonic Media takes digital experience to a new level with ‘Skyfall’ on Sony Pix

    Tonic Media takes digital experience to a new level with ‘Skyfall’ on Sony Pix

    MUMBAI: The landscape of digital marketing in India is changing at a rapid pace. Smart marketers are on top of this dynamic trend, as they mirror their strategies to consumer behavior.

    Sony Pix is one such example, creating a unique, engaging digital experience for their audience every time. Its latest campaign for the Skyfall’s television premiere on 27 October used innovative technologies to glue their audience.

    Devised by Tonic Media, its digital agency, the campaign aimed to bring about the biggest Skyfall Bond experience ever! Through this campaign, the user was given a taste of Bond’s secret missions. It was an opportunity for them to become a special agent under MI6, and win a trip to Bond in Motion London. Similar to the plot of Skyfall, the crux of these missions were to save people the users were close to (from their Facebook accounts).

    Using integrated communication not just limited to social media, the users were led to the Skyfall game on the Sony Pix Facebook tab, where they were tested through a series of skill drills required to be a secret agent.

    Apart from testing their focus and control skill in the first level of the bomb diffusion game, the most unique proposition was that, the users could convert their mobile phones into a remote control gun and directly play interacting with their desktops/PC’s.

    The gaming experience was extended to innovative rich media banners on leading platforms like Yahoo India, MSN India and Times of India’s digital platform. Users coming to these platforms were given an experience of converting their mobile phone into a remote control gun and directly shooting in the Banner eliminating the villians.

    And, the last phase of the secret mission was to enter secret codes flashed during the television premiere/telecast of Skyfall on Pix. This ensured sustained interest till the day of the premiere driving viewership on the grand finale day. Appointment viewing on television was taken to the next level.

    On the digital campaign Tonic Media CEO Chetan Asher said: “The objective was to use digital experiential marketing and create excitement and buzz for Skyfall on Pix leading to viewership. Using innovative properties, we successfully used digital to bring alive the experience across all digital platforms.”

  • MSN India streams ‘Showgirl’ Kylie’s Homecoming Tour

    MSN India streams ‘Showgirl’ Kylie’s Homecoming Tour

    MUMBAI: MSN India will stream Kylie Minogue’s Showgirl Homecoming Tour on 24 January at 11 am. The tour will streamlive from Melbourne where Minogue is performing and can be viewed on its website.

    Showgirl- The Homecoming Tour is the comeback tour of the Australian-pop singer who cancelled the orginal Showgirl- The Greatest Hits Tour on 17 May after her diagnosis of breast cancer. The concert features “Got to be certain”, Minogue’s second top five hit at the single charts.

     
    “MSN India has always aimed at bringing the best of international entertainment to Indian users. Through MSN Control Room we have already featured leading international artists like Beyonce Knowles, Snoop Dogg, John Mayer, John Legend, Rod Stewart and Pink. Kylie Minogue is an artist who continues to make waves worldwide for her exciting music and her Homecoming Tour will simply take your breath away.” said, MSN India executive producer Krishna Prasad. 

    MSN has in the past brought to users international artists like Beyonce Knowles, Snoop Dogg, John Mayer, John Legend, Rod Stewart and the latest Pink’s “I’m not dead’ Concert.
     

    MSN India had announced its association with Control Room in October last year. The partnership will see MSN as the exclusive online worldwide destination for Control Room’s live music programming via live and on-demand video streaming.

  • MSN India appoints Samir Saraiya as head of business development

    MSN India appoints Samir Saraiya as head of business development

    MUMBAI: MSN India, the leading online destination for Indians across the globe, today announced the appointment of Samir Saraiya as head of business development.

    Saraiya will be reporting to MSN India & Windows Live country head Jaspreet Bindra.
    According to Bindra in an official statement, “The Indian Internet market is flourishing and the growth that MSN India is experiencing reflects that. The appointment of Samir is part of our commitment to strengthen our pool of experience and expertise that MSN customers have come to expect.”

    In this newly created role, Saraiya will be responsible for leveraging the strengths of MSN India and Windows Live to create new opportunities and relationships with businesses in the Indian market.

    He has been with the internet industry for the past several years. The early dotcom wave saw him shifting to Mid-Day where he headed the group’s business development portfolio across its digital assets. He then joined the Indian media conglomerate, The Times of India Group, where he worked with the vice chairman’s office overseeing business strategy across the Group’s media properties, including Indiatimes, The Economic Times and Bombay Times.

    In 2003, he moved to Yahoo! India where he was responsible for creating new revenue streams across both the internet and mobile divisions including launching Yahoo! India’s E-commerce initiative and its mobile adverting products, states the release.

  • MSN India launches Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam portals

    MSN India launches Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam portals

    MUMBAI: With the sixth anniversary celebrations of MSN India under way, MSN India has announced the launch of five new portals, MSN Hindi, MSN Tamil, MSN Telugu, MSN Kannada and MSN Malayalam apart from unveiling Windows Live Messenger in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.

    MSN India also unveiled the new MSN India Homepage and Windows Live Domains. Prominent amongst these announcements is the launch of its new language portal homepage on http://in.msn.com along with launching Windows Live Messenger in the Hindi and the other regional languages (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam).

    This new introduction enables MSN users to now chat in their regional language with their friends and family on MSN Messenger. The MSN Hindi and regional language portals was launched by renowned singer Shubha Mudgal in an event organized recently in the capital.

    The new MSN Hindi other regional languages (MSN Tamil, MSN Telugu, MSN Kannada and MSN Malayalam) feature of Windows Live Messenger is also integrated with the MSN portal and has plenty of content which is of desi flavor such as Movies featuring film previews and interviews with the stars. The MSN Language portals (MSN Hindi, MSN Tamil, MSN Telugu, MSN Kannada and MSN Malayalam) also has the latest news with a special focus on local news, Infotech, Astrology, Sports, Recipes and Humour, informs an official release.

  • NDTV Media to manage Nick ad sales, marketing

    NDTV Media to manage Nick ad sales, marketing

    MUMBAI: Viacom has appointed NTDV Media as its exclusive sales and marketing partner for Nick, the kids’ channel from MTV Networks stable.

    This is the second such deal that NDTV Media has signed in recent times, following an agreement with MSN India.

    Keep tuned in for more details.