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  • Mindshare awarded Global Mobile Agency of the Year by MMA

    Mindshare awarded Global Mobile Agency of the Year by MMA

    MUMBAI: Mindshare has won the most desired ‘Global Mobile Agency of the Year’ title during the Annual Global Smarties Awards 2015 organised by the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA).

     

    The 2015 MMA Global Smarties Gala held at Pier Sixty in New York City celebrates and awards best-in-class mobile work across the globe.

     

    Mindshare Asia Pacific won five awards across multiple categories and clients in the global competition namely:

     

    . The Ghost is Calling, Silver, Brand Awareness, Mindshare Malaysia

    . Bond of Love on the Mother’s Day, Bronze, Relationship Building / CRM, Mindshare Pakistan

    . How Zespri Got Kids Across China to Slice 18 Billion Kiwis, Gold, Marketing Within A Mobile Gaming Environment, Mindshare China

    . The Language of Hair, Gold, Mobile Social, Mindshare Vietnam

    . Lifebuoy Flood, Bronze, Location Based, Mindshare Indonesia

     

    Mindshare global CEO Nick Emery said, “We are delighted to be the global mobile agency of the year, especially with such outstanding competition. A mobile first approach is central to our adaptive strategy and the geographical breadth of our awards across many clients is testimony to our success.”

     

    MMA CEO Greg Stuart added, “Most marketers tell me they really want and need their agencies to keep up and lead in mobile – the best we heard was Mindshare.”

     

    Mindshare Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Russia & Emerging Markets chairman & CEO Ashutosh Srivastava said, “We are proud of the work that is emanating from our region. The APAC market is unique, diverse and innovative. Most of the countries are ahead of the game in the mobile arena. The combination of our understanding of the ecosystem coupled with our capability to solve real world challenges results in such award-winning work.”

     

    Mindshare has already been named Mobile Agency of the Year 2015 in both, China (1 Gold, 3 Silver, 1 Bronze) and India (7 Gold, 5 Silver and 4 Bronze) at The Smarties.

  • Mindshare launches marketing intelligence platform Core

    MUMBAI: Mindshare has launched Core, a user-centric and open source data-driven marketing intelligence platform.

    Claiming to move data out of the hands of IT and analytics teams and into the hands of marketers, Core delivers a single, always-on, open-source data stream. It offers same scalability, flexibility and security as data systems in the finance sector.

    Mindshare has invested heavily in developing Core. The global media network said Core empowers both analysts and non-technical users to make informed marketing spend, audience targeting and creative optimisation decisions across all touch points in real-time.

    Mindshare has partnered with 24/7 Media, Ab Initio, Acxiom, Adobe, MySupermarket, Exponential (Tribal Fusion), Nielsen and Visible Measures to provide this technology and data.

    Core enables marketers to mix their business intelligence (CRM, sales and supply chain) data with an integrated single source of marketing intelligence. This contains media channel spend and performance data, social data, paid and owned media audience data, in-stream data, third party (household expenditure/demographic/online behaviours) data and real-time trading data.

    When mixed with the business intelligence, this reveals consumer actions and insight at a granular level, eradicating the guesswork, latency and siloed nature of marketing-spend decision making.

    Mindshare Worldwide CEO Nick Emery said, “We have invested heavily in developing Core because we believe it is the future of marketing. We are bringing together state of the art technology providers to truly deliver real time business and media data. Everyone claims this with some empty dashboard, we are doing it. It’s a step change for our industry and I’m proud that we are leading the charge.”

    Mindshare Worldwide CTO and Core project leader Steve Plimsoll said, “By leveraging insight and requirements from across Mindshare’s global network and client base in the design and the cherry picking the global best in class technology and data providers for the development we’ve been able to create an enviable solution that delivers institutional marketing intelligence across all aspects of the marketing ecosystem, be they above or below the line, product or consumer centric. Gone are the traditional data silos / black boxes and the need for complicated coding or middle men (IT) historically needed for marketing professionals to access or ask questions of the data. Data now truly is at their fingertips.”

    The single source data stream is created by bringing together all the media data and consumer insight capabilities of Mindshare and the leading global third party data enhancement services to create an always-on data resource, which when mixed with brand held data, delivers actionable insights to marketers in real-time.

    Mindshare India consulting, analytics and intelligence principal partner Sandeep Pandey said, “Data analytics have assumed the status of a strategic tool over the last few years and a meaningful analytics exercise involves the generation of insights through data modeling. To me half the battle is won if you have robust consumer knowledge from disparate sources of data and Core is built to facilitate exactly that for our clients. Indian businesses are increasingly adopting analytics in their processes to improve efficiency and profits and we believe Core would help us achieve that.”

  • Mindshare integrates Socialmedia8 to expand global social media footprint

    MUMBAI: Global media network Mindshare has integrated Amsterdam based Socialmedia8 into its network as a step towards expanding its footprint globally. Furthermore, Socialmedia8 founder Igor Beuker has been appointed as Mindshare‘s first global chief social officer and social agency M80‘s managing director Mark Evans is now Mindshare North America social lead.

    SocialMedia8 specialises in acquiring, managing, and extracting value from social fans and followers will bring social commerce, social TV, social gaming, social search and social CRM capabilities to Mindshare‘s portfolio of social media services.
    Beuker will report to Mindshare Worldwide global digital leader Norm Johnson and will be joining the agency with immediate effect. Beuker has earlier served as chief marketing officer at Scoot, TeliaSonera and Telefonica O2. He also founded community agency LaComunidad and social video metrics firm ViralTracker before setting up SocialMedia8.

    Evans will take up the post of managing director, social team at Mindshare North America and will head up social media campaigns for the agency‘s North American-based clients. Evans has extensive digital and social media experience and has served as vice president, digital, at Catapult Marketing and digital brand director at Euro RSCG prior to joining M80.

    Mindshare Worldwide CEO Nick Emery said, “There is a lot of talk in this space and few experts, even fewer who can translate what they do into integrated business plans for progressive clients. We are putting our money where our mouth is when it comes to social media. Both Igor and his team and Mark bring with them a wealth of experience in actioning both effective and creative solutions.”

    Beuker said, “In this new role as c-level officer I look forward to helping drive the broad social agenda for Mindshare clients. I am very excited to oversee Mindshare‘s social media marketing strategy and services at both global and local levels.”

    Evans said, “”Incorporating social expertise within our scope of services allows us to deliver smarter, digital communication solutions. From insights to strategies, activation and analysis, this approach will allow us to deliver greater value for our clients. And, this will lead to better user experiences for their audiences.”

  • Mindshare APAC ups Srivastava & Gowthaman

    MUMBAI: Mindshare Asia Pacific said Wednesday its new ‘global to local‘ structure will be under a leadership team helmed by Ashutosh Srivastava.

    APAC CEO Srivastava will now take up the position of chairman and CEO for global emerging markets. He will also be new global leader for products/services and talent development. Under his shadow will also fall Greater China which he will directly oversee.

    Under the new restructuring, R Gowthaman will take up the charge of CEO for South and South East Asia. He was earlier chief client officer.

    Both Srivastava and Gowthaman will be based in Singapore.

    Agency‘s Australia CEO James Greet will add Japan, Korea and New Zealand to his responsibilities, and also be the APAC regional leader for talent. He will continue to be based in Sydney.

    Srivastava will focus on emerging markets such as Russia, in addition to APAC. He will also work closely with global and regional leaders in London and Asia to drive new products and services – and with the agency‘s talent development community, work to strengthen the agency‘s talent pool and leadership globally.

    Mindshare Worldwide CEO Nick Emery said, “I‘m delighted that Ashutosh is taking on the global role to drive Mindshare’s development. Ashutosh is the epitome of a new world leader and our product, people and growth markets are in safe hands.”

    Srivastava’s promotion is accompanied by a change in the structure of Mindshare in the region, re-organising it around three clusters.

    “In Ashu, James and G’man there is no better leadership trio and I am privileged to work with them,” Emery added.

    Talking about his new role Srivastava said, “James has in a very short time turned our Australia office into a powerhouse of great work and talent. G‘Man has crafted our success in India, which is a world class office – and in the past few months built up our product for regional clients. Alongwith China, they have been the driving force behind the momentum we have across Asia Pacific. They are both outstanding leaders, and I look forward to working with them in their new roles.”

    Prior to joining Mindshare in 2010, Greet founded and ran talent recruitment firm The Ladder. Since 2010 he has turned around Mindshare‘s business in Australia.

    The new structure of Mindshare in Asia Pacific brings it into line with Mindshare‘s operation in Europe, which is also organised around a cluster approach, and provides a global to local approach for the agency around the four core areas of trading, emerging markets, new products/services and talent development.