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  • Digital Marketing Integration: foreseegame.com backs brands in consumer engagement

    Digital Marketing Integration: foreseegame.com backs brands in consumer engagement

    MUMBAI: Digital marketing is a foundation stone of any marketing strategy nowadays and with the plethora of devices taking over television and print media world, there is now an even bigger need to come up with a successful digital marketing strategy to make brands known to the public at large.

     

    Real time data analysis helps in optimising campaign effectiveness wherein requisite changes can be made in a relatively lesser time span as compared to traditional marketing thereby providing a holistic approach to effective campaign management.

    Kolkata-headquartered digital media company foreseegame.com, which has tied up with more than 105 brands including Emami, Jabong.com, Spencer’s, Khadim’s, Myntra.com, adda52.com and LimeRoad to name a few among others, acts as a bridge between brands and their customers to build strong bonding, which further leads the customers to become brand loyal consumers

     

    foreseegame.com is a medium where people can register and play games for free and get rewarded directly by the brands themselves. Through such engagement programmes, the brands can see these people converting into customers soon. The constant engagement with brands excites consumers to test the products and services.

     

    The consumer engagement platform, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsec Enterprises, is eyeing to associate with approximately 500 brands by the end of current fiscal year 2015-16. It is a value innovation in digital brand promotion and marketing media. This new age platform provides a two way engagement and a win-win partnership through direct interactions between brands and consumers.

     

    foreseegame.com CEO Supriya Nair said, “Through our platform and engagement games, brands can engage with people from any age group who are internet savvy. Brands can place themselves in the mind of our game buddies (foreseegame.com users) and build more consumers.”

     

    foreseegame.com is a platform for branding, close interaction with the mass and also helps in communicating latest offers & offering by the associating brands.

     

    “It is a medium, which covers the full cycle of engagement by providing solution of rich engagement, and establishing an emotional connect between the brands and foreseegame.com users. Our platform provides a focused consumer engagement campaign/ solution. Brands stand to gain undiluted consumer attention towards its products and services by the way of fun-filled interaction,” the CEO said, explaining what foreseegame.com has to offer to clients.

     

    Businesses are trying hard to win the marketing battle by implementing all sorts of digital and traditional campaigns. Some work, some don’t, some go terribly bad. The toughest part of digital marketing is that there are thousands of places where marketing campaigns are placed; websites, social media, TV, radio, blogs, video streams etc. Arriving at the ROI (Return on Investment) from all these different campaigns is a difficult task, and hard to get accurate reports out of them, Nair further explained.

     

    “By using foreseegame.com, brands can engage with people and register the brands in the minds of people. Going forward, brands stand to gain undiluted consumer attention towards its products and offerings. The constant engagement with brands excites consumers to test the product and ultimately become the customer of the brand,” she said.

     

    In order for brands to win on the digital battlefield, understanding what digital channels and what types of digital content perform is the vital first step in “planning.” Digital advertising is set to become the fastest-growing global advertising segment over the next five years according to McKinsey, with projected compound annual increases of 15.1 per cent by 2018, compared to five per cent for TV (including advertising, out-of-home advertising, and cinema).

     

    Smart digital marketers are now investing and building integrated digital campaigns around high-impact channels while understanding how content insights, production and measurement fuel their performance.

     

    “Consumer engagement is required, but that should not just be limited to an interaction with customers. It should be more like a long-term affair, wherein key consumer insights should also be taken into account,” opined Nair.

     

    When asked if the company takes consumer insights into account, she said, “Brand ideas are often the culmination of consumer insight and the brand offer.”

     

    Speaking on how brands benefit by integrating with foreseegame.com, Nair said, “New brands can make foreseegame.com users to get to know about them and their products and service whereas, existing known brands can maintain their grip in a stronger way to its existing consumers and also can build new consumers base.”

     

    foreseegame.com with its various campaign models helps brands to reach their target group directly. “Brands with campaign model like ‘Opinion Square’ can take a public opinion on their existing and upcoming products and services which would help them to modify as per the market requirement. Similarly, ‘Treasure Hunt’, another campaign model helps to get more traffic to the website/social media pages of the brand, which popularise their website/social media pages,” she said.

     

    “Dedicated campaign around the associated brand build strong connect between the brand and game buddies where they get a chance to win offers and offerings directly from the brands. foreseegame.com instils a pride of winning, as game buddies (foreseegame.com users) participate in the brand dedicated games and win the offer,” Nair concluded.

  • Spencer’s to finalise e-commerce plan next fiscal, aims to increase private labels

    Spencer’s to finalise e-commerce plan next fiscal, aims to increase private labels

    KOLKATA: RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group’s Spencer’s Retail aims to finalise its e-commerce plan by April next fiscal (2015-16). Spencer’s Retail sector head Shashwat Goenka confirmed that prices at the brick and mortar stores and the e-commerce would be the same once the company offers the product online in April.

     
    Additionally, Spencer’s Retail, a CESC subsidiary, also said that it has decided to augment and increase its private labels, mostly in food and apparels.

     
    “We would freeze the e-commerce business model within next couple of months and implement it over a time period. We are likely to begin with a few categories of products for our on-line store,” Goenka said in Kolkata on Friday.

     
    To make a differentiation and to cut down logistics cost, the company would depend on local sourcing more than pan-India collection. “In West Bengal, we are focusing on local food items including varieties of fish and rice,” he said.

     
    It should be noted that within a short span of its operation, Spencer’s has become a family store since it offers regional flavours in the product vertical. “Spencer’s has decided to stress more on local sourcing and bring in regional flavours in the product baskets,” Goenka said.

     
    Talking about the plans for apparel section, he said, “In the apparel segment, we are looking for a new sourcing point in Kerala. We have developed seven apparel brands including men’s, women’s, kids and sports wear.”

    The retail chain is also looking to expand its chain but mainly through large-format in the range of above 25,000 square feet, said Goenka, explaining that all these efforts were geared to make Spencer’s profitable.

     
    Speaking about the company’s expansion strategy, Goenka said that Spencer’s would focus on expanding in the eastern and southern markets of the country. “We would also be present in the north, particularly in Uttar Pradesh and the National Capital Region,” he said.

     
    However, western region will continue to see a token presence in Gujarat.

    In the next fiscal 2015-16, Spencer’s is looking at commanding a presence in 12 – 15 large format hyper stores, with a majority of stores being in the eastern and southern regions.

     
    Currently, Spencer’s has around 125 stores in 36 cities including 33 hyper stores. The total store area now stands at over one million square-feet.

     
    For expansion, Spencer’s would spend approximately Rs 3 -5 crore for each hyper store. When asked about the funding for expansion, Goenka said, “CESC, our parent company, would fund the projects.”

  • Foreseegame targets 500 brand tie-ups by FY16 end

    Foreseegame targets 500 brand tie-ups by FY16 end

    KOLKATA:Kolkata-headquartered Foreseegame.com, a digital media company for consumer engagement, which has tie ups with more than 70 brands like Emami, Rupa, Spencer’s, Airtel, and Citibank among others, is aiming to partner approximately with 500 brands by the end of next fiscal (2015-16).

     

    The engagement media company, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsec Enterprises, allows brands to integrate with advertisements on TV, radio, newspapers, on-ground promotional activities, direct communication and most importantly, social media and mobile platforms.

     

    Foreseegame.com chairman BL Mittal said, “Through our platform and engagement games like opinions and surveys question and answer sessions, the brand can engage with people in the age group of 18 – 45 years. By registering the brands in the minds of people, companies can see tremendous growth in online sales. Some of the major brands have already partnered with us and we are eyeing 500 brands by the end of next fiscal.”

     

    “It is the media, which covers the full cycle of engagement by providing solution of rich engagement, testing the product and ultimately making the consumers emotionally connected persons with the brand. Our platform provides a focused consumer engagement. Brands stand to gain undiluted consumer attention towards its products and offerings by the way of fun-filled interaction,” Mittal added.

     

    At Foreseegame.com people can play games of prediction and get rewarded. Through such engagement programmes, the brands can see these people converting into customers sooner. “The constant engagement with brands excites consumers to test the product and ultimately become the customer of the brand,” Mittal said.
     
    “Brand engagement is required, but that shouldn’t just be interacting with the customers. It should be more like a long-term affair with the consumers, wherein key consumer insights should also be taken into account,” opines Abhishek Sengupta, a city-based advertising expert.
     
    When asked if the company takes consumer insights into account, Mittal said, “Brand ideas are often the culmination of consumer insight and the brand offer.”

  • GroupM ESP to explore opportunities in Eastern India

    GroupM ESP to explore opportunities in Eastern India

    National: 2nd August 2013: GroupM ESP (Entertainment & Sports Partnerships), a specialist business unit of GroupM operating inthe field of Entertainment, Sports & Live, Celebrities and Content withexpertise in building clients businesses through strategic consulting and creative ideation, conducted a summit in Kolkata. Top brands like Emami, Manyavar, Linc Pens, Spencer’s Retail and Century Plyboards were amongst the attendees who were taken through the non-traditional media approaches and offerings by GroupM ESP

    With the recent impact of 10+2 luring on traditional TV advertising, GroupM ESP presented strategic insights on leveraging brands and their positioning through integration across entertainment, sports & live events, celebrity associations etc. The ideas shared in the summit were to introduce THE POWER OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA OVER INTERRUPTIVE MEDIA. With a paradigm shift in the way media is consumed, the summit focused on content’s movement from AIRING TO SHARING!

    The summit received an overwhelming response. While GroupM clients like Century Plyboards, Spencer’s Retail, Berger Paints, Microsec Capital and Dey’s Medical attended the summit; non-GroupM clients like Emami, Linc Pen & Plastics, Manyavar, Concast ISPAT, Eveready Industries, Khadim’s, Shree Cements and SRMB Steel also graced the occasion. The summit focused on the key areas of interest like activations and experiential marketing, celebrity procurement, in-film branding and brand integrations within live events like IIFA, SIIMA, GIMA etc. The industry experts from GroupM like GroupM ESP, Dialogue Factory, and GroupM Interaction presented their credentials in the summit.

    “With media landscape in a state of constant flux, we at GroupM ESP truly believe in the adage ‘Where Advertising Can’t, Content Can’. The underlying thought of this summit was to interact and present the opportunities available beyond the realms of traditional advertising to clients outside a ‘Mumbai’ or a ‘Delhi’. The icing on the cake was the overwhelming response that we received from the clients which reinstates our belief in the strength of non-traditional media” said Vinit Karnik-National Director- Sports and Live GroupM ESP

  • Vladimir Kulich to be a part of The Equalizer

    Vladimir Kulich to be a part of The Equalizer

    MUMBAI: The next addition to the cast of The Equalizer is Vikings actor Vladimir Kulich. The film is led by Denzel Washington as well as Martin Csokas, Melissa Leo and Chloe Moretz,

    Kuilch will play a Russian oligarch funding international black market enterprise. Produced by Sony Pictures Entertainment, Washington will be playinghttp://www.indiantelevision.com/sites/drupal7.indiantelevision.co.in/files/styles/large/public/v.jpg?itok=pOm3w0KY Robert McCall who is a former agent helping out people in need.

    In addition to Vikings, Kulich was also seen in movies such as Ironclad, The 13th Warrior and TV‘s Angel. Kuilch is represented by Kazarian, Spencer, Ruskin and Associates and Open Entertainment.

    The movie directed by Antoine Fuqua is slateImage Propertiesd to be released sometime next year. Based on a TV series of the same name, filming has already started last month.