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  • Mindshare India and Vidooly create video analytics tool ‘KYVE’

    Mindshare India and Vidooly create video analytics tool ‘KYVE’

    MUMBAI: Mindshare has partnered exclusively with Vidooly, India’s first video analytics startup, to cocreate and launch ‘Kyve’ in India, a platform for brands and advertisers to track online video viewership. The ‘Kyve’ tool will be part of the core Mindshare planning framework in India.

    The ‘Kyve tool created by Mindshare and Vidooly is part of ‘Content+’, an adaptable content model that leverages Mindshare’s unique place as a trusted advisor, helping our clients drive efficiency and effectiveness by not just considering the media channel/ but also the messaging and creative platforms. The ‘Content+’ division is spearheaded by Devendra Deshpande.

    ‘Kyve’ is a new age online video data science platform for advertisers and brands that will provide them with insights into the viewership habits of their target audience, understand viewers’ consumption as well as engagement. This data will help Mindshare India to source relevant partners and influencers for brands to engage with for content creation. Mindshare India will also use the data and intelligence gathered to scan, seed and strategize end to end digital video & content strategies for brands. The tool can also leverage its platform for precise brand targeting on online video, to eliminate audience spillage, and further measure the success of video campaigns.

    “Mindshare’s prime focus remains our commitment to our client brands, and to help create top of mind recall in our messaging, we are working with Vidooly, a leading player in the video analytics space. Millennials in India have transitioned from watching traditional TV to online videos, and consume content anytime, anywhere. Video platforms have been major driving forces behind the rise in original online video programming”, said Prasanth Kumar, CEO, Mindshare South Asia. He further added, “In an adaptive world it is important to track genres of content that is popular with users. The ‘Kyve’ tool is the first of its kind to track the user journey of online viewership and develop a video strategy that is weaved into the consumer conversation. We at Mindshare are hopeful that ‘Kyve’ will redefine the way brands advertise and are certain that our partnership with Vidooly will take us places in delivering quality services to consumers.”

    Vidooly co-founder and CEO Subrat Kar said, “We are thrilled to partner with Mindshare, one the most well known media agencies, to introduce Kyve to the Indian market. Kyve is a joint effort combining Vidooly’s video analytics technology along with Mindshare’s expertise of new and emerging media. With this platform, our aim is to be the go to tool for any brand or advertiser who wants to execute an online video campaign effectively and yield an optimal ROI. We believe Kyve will be a game changer in digital video marketing.”

    According to a 2015 Nielsen report approximately 78% of regular internet users in India watch or download digital content such as videos, television shows, or movies online. India’s online video viewership has doubled since 2011. With the rapid rise of smartphones and internet penetration in India, the demand for online video will only grow further. Viewership of online content on mobile devices is already on the rise, especially amongst Millennials.

  • Mindshare India and Vidooly create video analytics tool ‘KYVE’

    Mindshare India and Vidooly create video analytics tool ‘KYVE’

    MUMBAI: Mindshare has partnered exclusively with Vidooly, India’s first video analytics startup, to cocreate and launch ‘Kyve’ in India, a platform for brands and advertisers to track online video viewership. The ‘Kyve’ tool will be part of the core Mindshare planning framework in India.

    The ‘Kyve tool created by Mindshare and Vidooly is part of ‘Content+’, an adaptable content model that leverages Mindshare’s unique place as a trusted advisor, helping our clients drive efficiency and effectiveness by not just considering the media channel/ but also the messaging and creative platforms. The ‘Content+’ division is spearheaded by Devendra Deshpande.

    ‘Kyve’ is a new age online video data science platform for advertisers and brands that will provide them with insights into the viewership habits of their target audience, understand viewers’ consumption as well as engagement. This data will help Mindshare India to source relevant partners and influencers for brands to engage with for content creation. Mindshare India will also use the data and intelligence gathered to scan, seed and strategize end to end digital video & content strategies for brands. The tool can also leverage its platform for precise brand targeting on online video, to eliminate audience spillage, and further measure the success of video campaigns.

    “Mindshare’s prime focus remains our commitment to our client brands, and to help create top of mind recall in our messaging, we are working with Vidooly, a leading player in the video analytics space. Millennials in India have transitioned from watching traditional TV to online videos, and consume content anytime, anywhere. Video platforms have been major driving forces behind the rise in original online video programming”, said Prasanth Kumar, CEO, Mindshare South Asia. He further added, “In an adaptive world it is important to track genres of content that is popular with users. The ‘Kyve’ tool is the first of its kind to track the user journey of online viewership and develop a video strategy that is weaved into the consumer conversation. We at Mindshare are hopeful that ‘Kyve’ will redefine the way brands advertise and are certain that our partnership with Vidooly will take us places in delivering quality services to consumers.”

    Vidooly co-founder and CEO Subrat Kar said, “We are thrilled to partner with Mindshare, one the most well known media agencies, to introduce Kyve to the Indian market. Kyve is a joint effort combining Vidooly’s video analytics technology along with Mindshare’s expertise of new and emerging media. With this platform, our aim is to be the go to tool for any brand or advertiser who wants to execute an online video campaign effectively and yield an optimal ROI. We believe Kyve will be a game changer in digital video marketing.”

    According to a 2015 Nielsen report approximately 78% of regular internet users in India watch or download digital content such as videos, television shows, or movies online. India’s online video viewership has doubled since 2011. With the rapid rise of smartphones and internet penetration in India, the demand for online video will only grow further. Viewership of online content on mobile devices is already on the rise, especially amongst Millennials.

  • Mindshare India celebrates global ‘Mindshare Day’

    Mindshare India celebrates global ‘Mindshare Day’

    MUMBAI:  Dedicated at celebrating Mindshare’s tenets of speed, provocation & teamwork and everything that Mindshare globally stands for, Mindshare’ global community celebrates Mindshare Day today, January 13th 2016. Institutionalized three years ago, Mindshare Day was conceptualized with the intention of bringing everyone within the Mindshare team together to celebrate the diversity of their talent, skill sets and great ideas.  Mindshare Day is that one-day in the year that commemorates Mindshare holistically.

     

    Commenting on this, Mindshare – South Asia  CEO  Prasanth Kumar said, “Mindshare Day is the opportunity for all at Mindshare to connect with the entire network. It is our vision to help clients grow their business and profitability through Adaptive Marketing, provocative ideas and new areas of engagement, which we believe can only be achieved through exceptionally driven and skilled talent. We’ve had a phenomenal 2015 and we chose to leverage this special day to celebrate as well as retrospect and give back to society through our initiative with the NGOs.  We look forward to raising the bar and collectively motivating ourselves for an even better 2016.”

     

    With a focus on what Mindshare can do globally to make the world a better place through both media experience and helping social causes in every country, Mindshare India decided to open new avenues for under-privileged children. The celebrations with the children from several NGOs took place across all the India offices, where the employees took time out to engage with them through a T-shirt painting activity. These T-shirts were later auctioned off to the employees in order to raise funds for NGOs such as Kalyandeep (Mumbai), Jhanan Mandira (Bengaluru), New Hope & New Life Rest (Chennai) and Literacy India in (Gurgaon).

     

    With the belief in ‘Talent that attracts Talent’, Mindshare India makes great efforts to attract exceptional talent, which has positively impacted their business tremendously. Mindshare strongly believes that to drive change one needs to infuse fresh talent from diverse backgrounds. They also believe in rotating people across jobs to bring in a fresh perspective. The past year has seen remarkable strengthening of teams across verticals with diversified skills. Sharpening talent to create new opportunities and face new challenges is the Agency’s topmost priority, which is evident in the investments they make in the very best training and development team with world-class programmes from Mindshare Global, GroupM Worldwide, as well as a host of domain experts from India and South Asia. 

     

    The Mindshare network connects everyone together creating a platform for the free flow of ideas and path breaking work from which all can learn and leverage. 2015 was a landmark year for Mindshare India – winning an impressive array of over 175 awards, organizing the first-of-its-kind Content Day for HUL thereby paving the way for several other clients globally and talent management. 

  • Mindshare appoints MediaCom’s Sriram Sharma as leader–south

    Mindshare appoints MediaCom’s Sriram Sharma as leader–south

    MUMBAI: Mindshare has appointed Sriram Sharma as leader – south. In his new role, which iseffective from 1 August 2015, Sharma will be responsible for all the media and digital mandates for the Mindshare clients in the Southern region.

     

    He will be operating out of the Bangalore office and will report to Mindshare CEO South Asia Prasanth Kumar.

     

    Sharma comes to Mindshare with over 18 years of experience, having worked across multiple industries like advertising, mobile marketing and branding. Currently with MediaCom, Sharma looks after the business in the Bangalore and Chennai office.

     

    Kumar said, “We are glad to welcome Sriram into the Mindshare family. His motivation and wealth of experience across industries and markets makes him the right person to assist in driving the growth of the agency. For us, South is a very important market and I am confident he will be able to lead the south division to even greater heights.”

     

    Sharma added, “Mindshare represents a new journey for me – new skills to acquire, new people to meet and new challenges to deal with. Mindshare has always been a forerunner in innovation and the adaptive marketing world, and I look forward to working with the impressive Mindshare client roster and scaling new peaks in both the digital and traditional media spaces.”

  • Mindshare’s #PapaHainNa video for SBI Life goes viral

    Mindshare’s #PapaHainNa video for SBI Life goes viral

    MUMBAI: On the occasion of Father’s Day, SBI Life launched emotional ballad #PapaHainNa in the form of a music video, celebrating the father – child relationship. Mindshare, the media agency for SBI Life, initiated and executed this video campaign that has gone viral with total views crossing 14 lakh since launch.

     

    The campaign was conceptualised keeping in mind the SBI Life brand philosophy ‘Celebrate Life’ coupled with their existing campaign of ‘Are you a great dad,’ which is predominantly on television.

     

    The challenge was to extend the great dad thought and successfully leverage it digitally by intertwining it within popular culture and hence ‘Papa Hain Na’ was created. The video campaign was launched on the SBI Life YouTube channel along with the brand’s Facebook page and Twitter handle.

     

    This ballad successfully took over the Internet, trending nationally for two consecutive days and touching the hearts of many. #PapaHainNa has had over 4,200 shares on Facebook, garnered more than 6.2 million impressions and more than 3,000 conversations (and still counting) on Twitter.

     

    SBI Life MD and CEO Arijit Basu said, “At SBI Life, we have been creating communication under the broader brand philosophy of Celebrate Life. Right from the ‘Hiron ko kya pata tumhari umar’ ad to ‘Are you a Great Dad?’ ad, we eulogize the family relationship as it is for the love and security of one’s family that an individual buys Insurance. ‘Papa Hain Na’ ballad is a continuation of celebration of family relationships.”

     

    SBI Life Insurance brand and corporate communication head Braj Kishore added, “SBI Life has celebrated father – child relationship in its recent advertising campaigns as Father is the deemed protector of the Family. We have launched the beautiful #PapaHainNa ballad to give an opportunity to each child to say Thank You to their Great Dad reminiscing sweet memories of their childhood. This is probably the first time that a BFSI Company has tried articulating its messaging through a musical ballad and we are extremely delighted at the overwhelming response to PapaHainNa.”

     

    Mindshare South Asia CEO Prasanth Kumar said, “We thrive in coming up with unique media opportunities that connect a brand to its target consumers’ passion points. #PapaHainNa has garnered an exciting response on social media with over 14 lakh views. I am extremely proud of the Mindshare teams effort and the impact of this campaign. We will continue to work towards celebrating and communicating the SBI Life philosophy.”

  • Mindshare is the number 1 media agency in India: RECMA ratings

    Mindshare is the number 1 media agency in India: RECMA ratings

    MUMBAI: Mindshare has emerged as the number one media agency in India as per RECMA’s latest qualitative assessment for all leading media agencies in India.

     

    Mindshare has scored high on the parameters of client profile, momentum, competitive pitches and resources to emerge as the leading agency in India. Besides its expertise in core traditional media, Mindshare is a full- fledged media solutions agency with expertise across digital, mobile media, data and analytics, branded content and programming. Talents across these verticals are embedded in the network and work closely with core client teams.

     

    Mindshare chairman, emerging markets Ashutosh Srivastava said. “I’m pleased to see this endorsement from RECMA for the agency’s position in India. Mindshare continues to be at the leading edge there – in harnessing data to power more creativity and innovative use of media platforms for marketers, and bringing to life its proposition of adaptive marketing.”

     

    Mindshare Asia Pacific COO Gowthaman Ragothaman added, “I am particularly satisfied with the recognition on structure and vitality. We continuously re-engineer our teams in line with the changing demands from our clients as well as the media and marketing landscape. Our suite of services now reflects a full-fledged marketing communications company.”

     

    Mindshare South Asia CEO Prasanth Kumar stated, “This is a win for each and every member of the Mindshare team. Mindshare has always been the leader in innovation, and we believe it is extremely vital for us to prepare ourselves and our clients for a relevant tomorrow.”

     

    “With our adaptive marketing philosophy, we have ensured our clients have the competitive advantage, and their communication is superlative. We are grateful for their belief in us, to deliver on our common goals of brand building. We are proud of the fact that our clients continue to work with us on initiatives that are continuously pushing the boundaries of media investment and communication, as we successfully redefine the media industry in India,” added Kumar.

     

    The RECMA country qualitative evaluations offer an extensive and up-to-date assessment of the media agencies based on a set of 18 key performance indicators segmented into two main categories: 

    ·       Compitches and Momentum = Vitality

    ·       Structure and Client Profile = Structure

  • Mindshare restructures South Asia leadership

    Mindshare restructures South Asia leadership

    MUMBAI: As part of its ongoing commitment to delivering adaptive planning and thinking, for clients and dynamic markets, Mindshare APAC has realigned its senior leadership in South Asia.

     

    Mindshare APAC chief client officer MA Parthasarathy has been named chief product officer for South Asia. In his new role, Parthasarathy will lead a community of communications strategy and analytics across ten Mindshare offices in South Asia.

     

    Ruchir Mathur, currently principal partner on the PepsiCo business has been appointed as leader for client leadership. Mathur will spearhead a range of ground-breaking activity with an experience of over ten years with Mindshare.

     

    Saket Sinha returns to the Mindshare family as principal partner leading rodeos and the east zone. In his previous role, Sinha was championing business in new geographies for GroupM, creating expansions for the network in several new markets.

     

    Sinha will report to Mathur and Mindshare South Asia CEO Prasanth Kumar for the east zone. Parthasarathy and Mathur will report into Kumar directly.

     

    Commenting on the re-alignment, Kumar said, “As pioneers in adaptive marketing, we are focused on creating a team that continues to open up more possibilities and set ourselves apart, with the capability to merge strategy with market intelligence. As we advise our clients to change mindsets that reflect in the communication they partake in, so does our commitment strengthen to ensure our best talent to service the brands we work with. Parthasarathy, Ruchi and Saket have always been an integral part of the Mindshare family. Each one of them brings their expertise to the table and I am confident that they will continue to take Mindshare to greater heights.”