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  • ASCI upholds a record 99 complaints in January

    MUMBAI: Kicking off the new year, The Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) upheld the highest ever number of complaints against misleading advertisements in January.

    Ninety-nine out of 108 complaints received have been upheld by the CCC. ASCI’s National Advertising Monitoring Service (NAMS) also contributed in tracking down the misleading claims made in ads in various sectors.

    ASCI said in a statement, “The NAMS initiative has helped in strengthening the self-regulation and redressal process manifold. The proactive monitoring has helped in tracking a wider numbers of misleading ads month on month. This is a positive development as it is helping to protect consumer’s interest in India.”

    The highest number of advertisements was pulled back in the healthcare segment with 28 complaints being upheld. The second highest number of complaints was upheld in the education sector with the CCC finding 22 advertisements misleading or making claims that are not substantiated by sufficient data. Sixteen advertisements in the personal care category, 10 in consumer durables segment, nine in the miscellaneous category, three each in the food and beverages and real estate segments and two advertisements in the media category were pulled up by the CCC as they were found to have contravened Chapter I.4 of the Code.

    The advertisers that were asked to pull out or modify their ads for the month of January included Star India, Whirpool, Natraj Electricals, Radikal Foods, Bennett Coleman Co Ltd, Tata Housing Frankfin Institute of Air Hostesses, Marico, Hindustan Unilever, Gillette and Rupa.

    Star India Ltd’s Star Cricket TVC shows “a boy with cricket bat jumping over a creek and his face changing to Chestshwar Pujara‘s”. The advertisement is trying to communicate that children who take risks turn into top cricketers. The element of risk is clearly visible when other children are shown astonished to see the feat of the boy jumping the creek. This scene clearly violates the ASCI Code. Also the shown jump seems morphed which accentuates the risk as normal child cannot jump such a broad creek.

    The CCC concluded that the boy jumping over small creek shows a dangerous practice and manifests a disregard for safety without justifiable reason. The TVC contravened Chapter III.3 of the ASCI Code and the complaint was UPHELD.

    BCCL’s ET NOW has a print advertisement that shows a comparison of viewership of some English business news channels in a stated target audience group and market. The primary objection is that the source of the data is not mentioned. Assuming that the source is TAM, the market share numbers stated in the graph are incorrect. The visual has pictures of people who are Engineers, Doctors, Entrepreneurs & Corporates whereas the TG stated for the graph is males, 25-44, Sec A which would include these professionals, students and non-working individuals as well. The CCC concluded that the source of the data substantiating the claim was not mentioned in the advertisement and the manner in which the comparative data was presented was misleading as the base level was not mentioned. The advertisement was found misleading and contravened Chapter I.4 of the Code. The complaint was, thus, upheld.

  • Tata Housing hands social media mandate to Social Wavelength

    MUMBAI: Real estate company Tata Housing Development Company has roped in digital marketing agency Social Wavelength to handle it social media mandate. The agency‘s approach and suggestion came very close to the brand‘s need and vision for its social media initiatives and that is what won Social Wavelength the mandate.

    Tata Housing is a developer of premium and luxury projects in the country. The company now aims to leverage the digital medium in an attempt to be more accessible to Indian consumers. By going the social media way, Tata Housing hopes to increase conversations with its consumers and engage them more effectively with the brand.

    The brand plans to undertake a 360-degree digital communication route that includes fan pages on social networks, mobile apps and other social utilities.

    Social Wavelength joint chief executive officer Hareesh Tibrewala said, “We are delighted to be working with Tata Housing, which has built a strong brand reputation both in India as well as abroad. We believe Tata Housing‘s social media presence will help set the nation‘s real estate agenda of promoting premium lifestyle.”

  • Santa goes white for Tata Housing’s Amantra

    Santa goes white for Tata Housing’s Amantra

    MUMBAI: Red Santa Claus, who is known to be happy always, is sad this year and is going white for Tata Housing‘s Amantra as white represents a spirit of hope and happiness.

    White Santa as a concept has been coined and developed by strategic brand activation agency Candid Marketing.

    The White Santa activity for Tata Housing‘s property Amantra is currently being executed across malls in Thane, Ghatkpoar and Mulund. The activity will witness a White Santa who is calling out to the kids in Mumbai to send gifts to him, so that he can then change his attire to red for the festive season and distribute the gifts among the needy children. The gifts can be of any kind and size and with each donation; the White Santa will receive some part of the red colour back on his suit.

    Candid Marketing managing partner Amrita Kumar said, “White Santa is a lot cooler, a lot more fun and he takes gifting very seriously. Especially for those who need it like the underprivileged children. White represents a spirit of hope and happiness for all and that‘s the spirit of our White Santa.”

    “This is the first time such a concept has been introduced and we all at Candid are very delighted about it. We are extremely thankful to Tata Housing‘s marketing team to have understood the spirit of this concept and given it life. The property will be owned by us and we wish to see the White Santa grow happier each year,” he added.

    Tata Housing head – marketing services Rajeeb Dash said, “This is a unique initiative by Tata Housing to cultivate the feeling of loving and sharing amongst our younger generation and help the needy children through the innovative concept.This innovative concept theme is “Kids 2 Kids” where the gifts that gets collected by Santa goes back to the underprivileged kids of our construction workers. Through white Santa which is Santa of hopes we would like to have new beginning for these kids. Through this activation we would like to engage our customers and prospects of our project Amantra so as to be part of the celebration. So this Christmas take some time-out with your children and spread the cheer of festivities and teach them about the joys of giving, along with the Santa of Hope.”

    In order to amplify the activation, digital platform has been used by means of creating a micro site and links on social networking site Facebook. Tata Housing‘s page on Facebook has a red highlighted ‘Play Now‘ button, on clicking the link users are directed to this micro site.

    The micro site allows the users to drag and drop gifts in the empty sack of the White Santa and turn his attire to red informing the users about the idea of donating the gift for the needy children and mention the locations where the activity is taking place.