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  • Dentsu’s iProspect bolsters leadership with role elevations

    Dentsu’s iProspect bolsters leadership with role elevations

    MUMBAI: iProspect India, the digital agency from Dentsu Aegis Network, has strengthened its leadership band through different role advancements. The digital landscape is evolving, a dynamic industry coupled with seasoned client demands are re-defining the way it works. In keeping with this change, iProspect India has made key meritorious promotions.

    Ankita Pande, previously AVP – Operations, is now Head of Strategy at a pan India level, based in Delhi. She comes with a keen strategic bent of mind and great potential to add value to the business. She will also work on growing the branding business amongst other basket of objectives.

    Based in Mumbai, Venkat Gavaskar Dontha has been assigned the responsibility of Branch Head – West. He was AVP – SEO prior to this. The new role involves heading the Mumbai region and surrounding cities with respect to client servicing, business development and operations.

    Ankita and Venkat will both report into iProspect India CEO Rubeena Singh.

    Shipra Tandon, Strategist – Content Marketing, will head the agency’s new content marketing division Intelligent Content at a national level. This business line will primarily facilitate the use of content in digital performance, providing an end-to-end solution on content strategy, creation, promotion and impact. She will report into Srikar Nagubandi, Senior Vice President – Operations and is based in Mumbai. Shipra was earlier Strategist – SEO.

    Rubeena Singh, CEO, iProspect India said, “Various factors such as changing industry dynamics, enhancing the client experience, ensuring best interests of the business and doing justice to the skillsets of some of our leaders, demand that we always have a passionate and result-oriented leadership team at the helm.”

    She added: “The strategy and content marketing pieces take top priority at iProspect India as we move forward and are crucial elements of our growth, which will feed into business development and client servicing.”

  • Intelligent Content vital for branding: iProspect CEO about new solution

    Intelligent Content vital for branding: iProspect CEO about new solution

    MUMBAI: iProspect, Dentsu Aegis Network’s global digital performance agency, has launched Intelligent Content – an offering that links production and performance – in India.

    A holistic messaging strategy spanning across all digital channels to ensure relevance, visibility and performance, Intelligent Content is already available across iProspect’s other key markets globally. For the record, Intelligent Content is an end-to-end solution that uses intelligent data and insights to design strategies around content creation, amplification and measurement.

    Meanwhile, as part of the launch, iProspect India has partnered with Aegon Life Insurance to pilot this solution.

    iProspect India CEO Rubeena Singh says, “In the performance space, content has been an untapped area. Brands are increasingly more aware of the pivotal role content plays in brand communication and engaging with the target audience. With Intelligent Content, we will not only drive business outcomes for clients but also expand our holistic performance offering. Shipra Tandon from iProspect Mumbai, who comes with an impressive work profile, will lead this service offering for us.”

    Aegon Life Insurance CDO Martijn De Jong says, “We focus extensively on digital within our overall media spends and are open to exploring and experimenting. Digital is at an inflection point in India today and content forms the crux of it, proving to be a game-changer. Content will play the lead role to achieve our business objectives.”

  • iProspect bags 4 DMA awards, ICICI ad wins gold

    iProspect bags 4 DMA awards, ICICI ad wins gold

    MUMBAI: iProspect India, the global digital agency from Dentsu Aegis Network, has won four awards at the DMA India Awards 2017 in Mumbai.

    It won gold for ICICI Bank (Business for iCalculate), silver for Max Life Insurance in sector insurance (The Smart Display Banner), bronze for leveraging video ad formats to build interest for ICICI Bank home loans and a Leader Certificate for trouser exchange scheme, Raymond in retail and direct sales.

    The DMA India awards honour the creative par excellence in marketing and advertising campaigns that have raised the bar of originality, response strategy, interactivity and marketing impact.

    The objective of the ICICI campaign was to increase sales for personal and home loans. The challenge was when most customers used the loan calculator on the website to get details on eligibility, interest rates, loan amount, etc. did not click on the ‘Apply Now’ button. It was counted as a conversion only if a user applied for a loan by clicking.

    The idea was to use iCalculate which passes real-time data to the Google Analytics Cloud on a Windows unload event as a solution to this problem.

    iProspect India CEO Rubeena Singh said, “I congratulate all the teams that have put in a lot of hard work to strategise and execute these innovative campaigns,”

  • Pepperfry campaign: iProspect recognised at Google Awards

    Pepperfry campaign: iProspect recognised at Google Awards

    MUMBAI: iProspect India, the global digital agency from Dentsu Aegis Network, has won the Mobile Innovation Award for its campaign for Pepperfry.com at the Google Premier Partner Awards in India.

    The campaign will now compete at the APAC level and the winning campaigns at APAC will further be shortlisted for the global awards to take place in New York on 28 September, 2017. The first ever Google Premier Partner Awards recognizes and celebrates the top-performing Google Premier Partners for their contributions to digital marketing, product innovation and client growth.

    iProspect’s proprietary tool iSync was used for the Pepperfry.com campaign. iSync delivers online ads synchronised with television, radio advertising, weather, sporting events, and 3rd party in real time. The objective of the campaign was to leverage the online opportunity created by the offline (TV) campaigns of Pepperfry.com and its competitor. The strategy was pegged on the insight that the online brand searches of the competitor’s brand would increase during the time period that its television ads were aired. It focused on dynamically bidding up on the competitor’s brand keywords, during their TVC slot, which ensured that users saw Pepperfry.com ads on searching for the competitor’s brand. Similarly, bidding up Pepperfry.com’s brand keywords 20 per cent on mobile during their TVC slots, amplifying the reach of its ads online.

    iSync synced Pepperfry.com’s digital media buys to Pepperfry.com’s and its competitor’s TV ad slots. Messaging to capture the consumer’s content such as compelling offers in the ad copies, in sync with the messaging on TV were highlighted. This increased relevancy from the customers’ point of view and therein increased clicks on the ad. Results comprised 42 per cent of the mobile impression share on competitor keywords, 146 per cent increase in impression share, 82,000 brand impressions achieved in just 21 days against the competitor, 63 per cent increase in CTR (Click through Rate), 1 per cent conversion rate on competitor traffic, 301 per cent increase in number of clicks and 235 per cent increase in sales.

    iProspect India CEO Rubeena Singh said, “The e-commerce category is the top digital spender. It spends the majority of its digital ad spends on search (42 per cent ), followed by social media (20 per cent). Ad spending on mobile is estimated to grow at a rate of 59 per cent CAGR to reach Rs 133.25 billion in 2020. These figures are testimony to the fact that mobile will continue to grow at a rapid pace in the future and companies will accordingly increase investments in this digital platform.”

    “It’s been exciting to see the submissions from digital marketing leaders from India. We’re delighted to celebrate the Premier Google Partners who have made it to the winner list for Awards,” said Google India director – India agencies Sam Singh.

    “To sync our existing digital marketing campaigns to offline marketing inputs was a creative solution to an age-old omnichannel ambition. We congratulate the iProspect team for winning the coveted award – it is well deserved! The award winning campaign has been instrumental in improving business metrics for us. We look forward to more of such interesting innovations going ahead,” said Pepperfry.com senior manager – digital marketing Abhishek Dasgupta.

  • iProspect appoints digital expert Srikar Nagubandi as SVP – Ops

    MUMBAI: iProspect India, the global, leading, multi-award winning digital agency from Dentsu Aegis Network, has hired Srikar Nagubandi as Senior Vice President – Operations. He comes with more than 15 years of experience in the digital space with a focus on Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, Social Media and Web Analytics. Nagubandi’s core responsibilities at iProspect India will comprise leading the SEO and Analytics verticals and overseeing the Paid Media mandates.

    Nagubandi will report into Rubeena Singh, CEO, iProspect India and will be based out of Mumbai.

    Prior to iProspect India, he was Director, Media Engagement & Technology at W20 Group, New York. Some of his stints before this include those at Razorfish & Razorfish Health which is a part of the Publicis Group, AppliancesOnline.com. He has worked in international markets like New York and Australia throughout his career.

    Given his digital marketing and analytics background, Nagubandi is adept at both the planning and technical implementation side of the business having been a developer earlier in his career. He is also an industry thought leader who has spoken at numerous conferences and written articles focused on search innovation and best practices related to eCommerce, social media and blogging, particularly in healthcare.

    iProspect India CEO Rubeena Singh said, “We are elated to welcome Srikar on board the iProspect team. He brings immense value to the company’s capabilities with his extensive experience in global markets. We want to increasingly bring on board senior talent who can carry forward the learnings of developed and evolved markets to our clients, providing them with innovative and effective business solutions and helping them stay ahead of the curve. I’m positive Srikar will drive higher RoI and propose effective digital solutions to our existing and potential set of clients.”

    Srikar Nagubandi, Senior Vice President – Operations, iProspect India said, “In my experience in working with some of the best brands in the world, I have come to believe that it’s crucial to make the complex simple and the simple understandable and actionable for the client. Digital is only growing in complexity and the agency of the future needs to harness deep learning to innovate relentlessly and delight our clients. I am thrilled to be starting a new chapter with my role at iProspect India, and be a part of this ongoing evaluation in not only the fastest growing economy in the world, but an economy where digital advertising spend is experiencing double digit growth.”

  • iProspect India bags three awards at ad:tech DIGIXX

    MUMBAI: iProspect India, the digital agency from Dentsu Aegis Network, has won three awards at the DIGIXX Awards 2017 conducted by ad:tech – one gold and two bronze. The event celebrated excellence in digital marketing and advertising by recognizing the top digital campaigns created by the industry in the past year.

     iProspect India won in the following categories.

    ·  Healthcare / Pharma for Abbott Healthcare (Gold)

    · Mobile & Apps Marketing for HDFC Bank Payzapp (Bronze)

    · Insight and research for Max Life Insurance (Bronze)

    The winning campaigns were innovative, creative and effective – they made intelligent use of digital technology along with key consumer insights, bearing successful results. The campaign for the launch of HDFC’s mobile wallet Payzapp saw five million app installs at half the cost per download as per industry standards. With the help of iProspect India’s iPump tool, the Abbott Healthcare campaign combined the best of offline and online advertising to create an effective marketing strategy. The smart display banner campaign for Max Life Insurance helped achieve a remarkable conversion rate of 85%.  

    iProspect India CEO Rubeena Singh said, “Our first objective is always to make campaigns which resonate with the brand message, connect with today’s digital audiences in an engaging manner and of course solve a problem.”

  • iProspect wins IAMAI’s ‘digital’ silver

    MUMBAI: iProspect India, the digital agency from Dentsu Aegis Network has been bestowed with the prestigious title of ‘Digital Agency of the Year’ (Silver) at the Internet & Mobile Association of India’s (IAMAI) 7th Digital India Awards.

    iProspect India won a total of 3 trophies – 1 Gold and 2 Silver. Apart from the coveted award of Digital Agency of the Year (Silver), iProspect India bagged 2 more awards, cementing its position as one of the leading digital agencies in the country – Gold for its innovative technology that integrates offline and online, iPump for Abbott Healthcare in the Omni-channel Campaign Management & Marketing Automation category and Silver for its Apollo eDoc Getting Discovered campaign for Apollo Hospitals in the Search Marketing Campaign category.

    Moreover, the company saw 3 more nominations in the following categories for its successful campaigns.

    Display campaign:

    1. The Smart Display Banner – Max life Insurance

    2. Simple Makes Sense – Aegon Life Insurance

    Search Marketing Campaign:

    1. Winning the SEO Game – Myntra

    Marking the achievement, DAN Performance Group CEO Vivek Bhargava said, “We live in a digital age today and if brands want to remain relevant, they have to embrace digital. With path-breaking digital campaigns being delivered by our team, the last year has been a good one for us. We are thrilled by the victory and this pushes us to raise the benchmark in the coming years as well. This is a result of over 300 professionals at iProspect who come to work every day and give it all they have – I congratulate each one of them on this feat. What makes this accomplishment all the more special is that it comes from a respected industry body like IAMAI and a stellar jury panel with some of the most eminent names in the trade.”

    Expressing her delight, iProspect India Rubeena Singh CEO said, “We are a 20 year old digital agency, but have consistently evolved, transformed and innovated with changing times, a dynamic industry and progressive client demands. Macro trends indicate that access and availability of technology is shifting media spends from traditional media to digital media. The last year especially has seen some great creative campaigns from iProspect, seeking to solve business problems for our clients through digital. IAMAI is the last word in the ad and marketing sector and this validation from them is extremely encouraging.”

  • Bhargava new DAN Performance Group CEO; Rubeena to lead iProspect

    Bhargava new DAN Performance Group CEO; Rubeena to lead iProspect

    MUMBAI: iProspect India, the digital agency from Dentsu Aegis Network, has appointed Rubeena Singh as its CEO effective this December, as its former CEO Vivek Bhargava is being elevated to a larger role of CEO of DAN Performance Group.

    Bhargava will head all the Digital Performance Agencies of Dentsu Aegis Media. In this new arrangement, Rubeena Singh will report into Vivek Bhargava.

    Prior to iProspect India, Rubeena was COO, Moneycontrol.com for over three years, wherein she spearheaded business strategy, marketing, sales, operations and P&L. In her earlier 12-year stint with Network18, she has held various senior positions across its print and TV properties including Forbes India, CNBC TV18, CNBC Awaaz, CNN News 18 and News18 India. Before joining Network 18, Rubeena spent four years at Star TV India, where she helped build recognition for Star News in the highly cluttered Hindi news space.

    Bhargava said, “Rubeena’s vast experience in all three media formats – broadcast, print and digital will give iProspect India a competitive advantage as the performance industry makes this transition. Moreover, having Rubeena lead iProspect India will allow me to launch the other performance brands of Dentsu Aegis Media into India.”

    Singh said, “To me, the macro and micro trends of India becoming a truly digitally interconnected nation of over a billion people are now converging. This will have huge ramifications for businesses and how they connect with their customers. Having spent time in both print as well as TV media, I think the shift in allocation of media spends from traditional to digital will happen faster than thought before.”

    “iProspect India will be in pole position to emerge as a trusted advisor to its clients, helping them navigate these tumultuous times and guide them on maximizing returns on their marketing and media spends,” she added