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  • Linc Pens to woo consumers with innovative campaign for new product

    Linc Pens to woo consumers with innovative campaign for new product

    KOLKATA: Linc Pens is all set to woo consumers with its unique animated TVC for one-of-its kind product: Linc Twinn. The campaign is likely to bring the vibrancy of Indian folk music to Indian television.

     

    Linc Twinn combines the power of a pen and a pencil in a single body. The communication reflects on the utility of Linc Twinn through an animated series which is sure to make a mark in the cluttered advertisement world, the company said.

     

    The advertisement shows the prince of ‘Pen Nagar’ getting married to the princess of ‘Pencil Land’ and as a result of the marriage between the pen and pencil; Linc Twinn (The Pen with Pencil) is born. There are separate versions for Linc Twinn Ball & Gel category.

     

    “Linc Twinn is a revolutionary product mainly targeted at students but useful for all. Cricket World Cup cuts across all age groups & income levels; hence; we thought it’s the best platform to launch a new TVC campaign,” said Linc Pens MD Deepak Jalan.

     

    Linc Pens brand manager Harshvardhen Daga said that Linc Twinn is an all new category of writing instruments. “Till date people have used Pens or Pencils; we have combined both the utilities in one instrument,” he said.

     

    The best part about the product is the pricing, which is just Rs 10 and hence affordable for the masses. For the same reason; the ad also has a very mass appeal with context to kingdoms; marriage; mythology and the folk score. All three ads we have kept a synergy in the form of Baul music. 

     

    “The ektara used throughout makes these TVCs stand apart along with the colourful animations. This entire journey of two months has been very exciting and our agency partners have been able to execute exactly what we required,” Daga explained.

     

    Pressman executive creative director Raj Banerjee added, “Animation is increasingly becoming important as a tool for the advertising world and I can only see it increasing leaps and bounds in the near future for more engaging communication for the target group. Word-of-mouth feedback from various SECs; age groups; varied demography and psychographics seem to have talking only good things about Linc Twinn.”

  • Blue Star earmarks Rs 35 crore for summer ad campaign

    Blue Star earmarks Rs 35 crore for summer ad campaign

    KOLKATA: Air conditioning and commercial refrigeration company, Blue Star, aims to spend Rs 35 crore during this summer on advertising and brand communication. The company has earmarked an investment of around Rs 41 crore as marketing spend for the entire next fiscal (2015-16).

    The company also intends to continue investing in its digital marketing efforts in social media as well as the internet, considering that most Blue Star buyers belong to the highest socio-economic category (SEC A), who are active on the internet.

    “Blue Star achieves around 40 per cent of its sale during summer season, so for our summer campaign, we aim to spend around Rs 35 crore,” said Blue Star executive director and president – AC&R Products Business B Thiagarajan.

    The company unveiled a new range of contemporary, stylish and energy-efficient room air conditioners on Wednesday in Kolkata.

    “Our company has identified a new value proposition of ‘Nobody Cools Better’ and soon this will be used widely with a set of TV commercials supported by advertisements in mainline dailies, cinema and hoardings. Since we are now well entrenched in the residential segment, we plan to aggressively promote this new proposition in TV, print ad hoarding,” informed Thiagarajan.

    It should be noted that last year for the summer campaign, the company had earmarked Rs 25 crore in marketing spends. This summer, the company is looking at vibrant TVCs like its previous campaign ‘Daddy Cool.’ The company’s ad agency Interface has already been roped in to assist Blue Star for the TVC.

    The company also plans to enhance investments on new product development and research and design initiatives in order to develop modern and sophisticated products.

    Talking about the business and growth, Thiagarajan said that Blue Star is eyeing to triple the share of inverter ACs in its room air conditioner sales by 2015 as the company is underpinning its hopes on increasing preference for energy efficiency products among the buyers and falling prices of inverter ACs.

    Thiagarajan also said that the room AC business was a strong focus area for the company and it would be the primary growth driver of its revenues in the coming years. “We have been encouraged by the growth in market share in this business despite the strong presence of global brands. So we have decided to invest in R&D, manufacturing and marketing to boost room AC business,” he added.

    Thiagarajan further said that countries like Japan and China are moving towards inverter ACs to help save power consumption. The company plans to sell 3.4 lakh units of ACs by 2015-16 of which seven per cent would be inverter.

    Last year the room air-conditioners industry grew by 10 per cent in volume terms and in value terms it was 19 per cent.

    Thiagarajan also said that the company is likely to finalize a manufacturing location by July or September next fiscal as it is looking to expand its manufacturing base. “We have a capacity to manufacture four lakh AC units at present,” he concluded.

     

  • Shah Rukh Khan likely to feature in West Bengal tourism’s new TVC

    Shah Rukh Khan likely to feature in West Bengal tourism’s new TVC

    KOLKATA: Bollywood superstar and Indian Premiere League’s (IPL) Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) franchise owner Shah Rukh Khan is likely to feature in the forthcoming new tourism television campaign for West Bengal. It is learnt that the new TVC will be ready in three months.

     

    The state government has given the brand-building exercise to Ogilvy & Mather. Additionally, a global consultant – HVS – has also been hired to help prepare a ‘Vision Document’ for the state.

     

    Fairly large contingents from the UK, Australia, Thailand and Sri Lanka will gather at the CII-organised Destination East, the largest buyer-seller tourism meet billed for 6-7 February at Town Hall, Kolkata’s heritage showpiece. More than 25 countries are likely to participate in Destination East.

     

    These four countries are among a total of 25, including the US, China, France Germany, Singapore, Switzerland, Sweden, Japan and Bangladesh from which tourism stakeholders will interact with their counterparts in the eastern region.

     

    “This is a forum where we wish to share with the global delegates our incentive schemes for any investor keen to put money in tourism projects in the State,” said state’s Principal Secretary of the tourism department AR Bardhan.

     

    “We will offer cash-based incentives on projects,” said Bardhan.

     

    “We are going on a major brand-building exercise. O&M, has been hired to do the job. Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is likely to feature in the forthcoming new tourism television campaign for West Bengal,” he said, adding that the new TVC will be ready in three months.

     

    He also disclosed that the state government will build motel-cum-wayside facilities every 30 km along the routes to major tourism destinations, including the Sunderbans and Digha. “This will be a reality in six months’ time. A global consultant called HVS has been hired to help prepare a comprehensive Vision Document for West Bengal,” he said.

     

    HVS has provided consulting services and solutions to more than 60 countries for hotels, shared ownership and leisure assets.

     

    “The 10-year Vision Document seeks to double the growth of five per cent in inward tourist flow from both domestic market and international countries,” he added.

     

    “Efforts are on to showcase Kolkata as the ‘Cultural Capital’ and MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conference and Exhibition) destination. One of our objectives is also to enable one to drive to Sunderbans within two hours from Kolkata at a speed of 80 kmph,” he added.

     

    Apeejay Surendra Park Hotels Ltd managing director Vijay Dewan added, “Considerable money and energy is being devoted to improving roads.”

     

    Dewan also narrated how Destination East has evolved into a powerful platform in the past five years for domestic tourism stakeholders to promote West Bengal to the international travel fraternity. This initiative has been generating a fair amount of business over the past few years.

  • More than just an ad…

    More than just an ad…

    MUMBAI: To tell a brand’s philosophy in just 30 seconds isn’t an easy task. But everyday creative minds oil their machines to do just the same. While some click with the viewers, others are muted by them or flipped through without a second glance.

    While the year began with the political parties going all out to woo the voters – there were television commercials, digital films as well as hoardings pasted all across the country, Airtel’s Boss film led the charge with the Twitterati going crazy over it. 

    With the e-commerce sector war heating up, the companies too launched TVCs throughout the year to cash in the most, especially during the big sales offered by them. Digital as a medium to connect with the correct audience was optimised well. For instance, Honda for Mobilio released a 2.5-minute ad on YouTube featuring stand-up comedian Kapil Sharma as a salesman.  

    Promos of Indian Premium League (IPL), Pro Kabbadi League, Indian Super League (ISL) as well as Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) were able to catch people’s fantasy and created enough buzz before the game started. The right mix of sentiments and music made the films popular especially on the social media.

    2014 saw many ads which were more than being just a promotional feature and as the year comes to an end, Indiantelevision.com lists down some of the best ads of 2014.

    BJP election campaign

    Creative agency: Soho Square

    Purpose of the ad: After the Delhi gang rape case and many more that followed it, the campaign highlights the fact that the government has failed to provide safety to the women of the country and worse, hasn’t been able to punish the culprits.

    Storyboard: The black and white advert highlights how even though the country has progressed and people have sent there girls for higher education and work in other cities, they are not at ease. The woman/mother in the ad, stresses on the fact that the country isn’t safe in current government’s hands as women aren’t safe.

    Airtel Boss film

    Creative agency: Taproot

    Purpose of the ad: To strengthen Airtel’s legacy of identifying fresh and relevant insights around relationships.

    Storyboard: Relationships often get strained due to professional demands. At such times, smartphones transcend their role of being a mere communicating device, and play cupid.

    The TVC shows a woman boss ordering her subordinates to finish an assigned job no matter what. It turns out that the woman boss is the wife who goes back home to cook for her husband who happens to be the junior she had ordered.

    Fortune oil, ‘Ghar Ka Khana’

    Creative agency: Ogilvy & Mather

    Purpose of the ad: Adani Wilmar’s campaign for its Fortune Oil brand, shifting from ‘The joy of eating’ to a more personal ‘Ghar ka khana, ghar ka khana hota hai’ (Home cooked food is home cooked food after all).

    Storyboard: When you are away from the comfort of your space, braving the rigours of everyday life, all you need is two morsels of tasty home food cooked with a lot of love and affection. The gush of emotion that you feel when you have the first bite, only makes you thank your good ‘Fortune’!

    Idea, ‘No Ullu Banaoing’

     

    Creative agency: Lowe Lintas and Partners

    Purpose of the ad: To educate the masses about how some people cash on the other’s unawareness.

    Storyboard: A common phenomenon in almost every part of India, is how some people in order to make money or gain benefits, tend to take advantage of the ill-informed by coloring the truth or concealing the facts.

    In the TVC, a guide lies to tourists who then search on the web and the truth is exposed.

    Nescafe stammering standup comedian

    Creative agency: McCann Erickson

    Purpose of the ad: While perfection is what people chase these days, this ad feeds on a different meaning.

    Storyboard: The TVC shows a stammering stand-up comedian who faces rejection, but doesn’t give up and turns the same weakness into his strength.

    Fevicol Crazy chairs

    Creative agency: Ogilvy & Mather

    Purpose of the ad: Takes a humorous take on the current election scenario.

    Storyboard: A chai-wallah enters the shop of a carpenter who is making the next Prime Minister’s chair. He points out to three variations – one with BJP’s lotus, another with Congress’s hand, and a group of chairs joined unevenly symbolic of the Third Front.

    OLX Kapil

    Creative agency: Lowe Lintas and Partners

    Purpose of the ad: To promote selling off ‘unused or under-used’ products.

    Stoaryboard: Kapil Sharma stars in the film and plays a ‘juicer’. In the kitchen, he addresses the lady of the house urging her to use him (the juicer), or sell him. The lady notes that no one would buy him, telling him he’s useless. He corrects her, saying he has been ‘used less’. He proceeds to tell her how things are sold on Olx.in, and finds buyers in no time.

    Imperial Blue Men will be men

    Creative agency: Ogilvy & Mather

    Purpose of the ad: To carry forward the 17-year-old catchy tagline and philosophy.

    Storyboard: The campaign opens with a ghazal, “Pyar ki raah mein”, playing in the background as a beautiful young woman is seen talking on a phone in a lift. The camera reveals the torso of two men standing with her. The minute the woman exits both the men heave a sigh of relief and exhale, letting their stomachs hang out again. The film ends with both of them sharing a friendly high-five.

    Tata Docomo Bhalai ki Supply

    Creative agency: Contract Advertising

    Purpose of the ad: To encourage its subscribers to ‘Open Up’ and share happiness using their customised data offers.

    Storyboard: The advertisement features a ‘social media queen’ who appears to have lost her loyal online following. She pouts and preens in order to post the perfect profile picture that could restore her lost glory, but is continually disappointed, till one virtual ‘Like’ makes her day.

    Cadbury Snow Fight

    Creative agency: Ogilvy & Mather

    Purpose of the ad: To make the consumer aware of the fact that life lies in the ‘now’; that joy resides in the act of letting go, and that one should live like no one’s watching.

    Storyboard: The TVC shows a couple walking on a snowy mountain. While the man is busy oh his phone, the woman decides to change the situation by throwing a snowball on the man. The man too throws a snowball at her. The fight continues as they enjoy it.

    Titan Raga #HerLifeHerChoices

    Creative agency: Ogilvy & Mather

    Purpose of the ad: To tell that Raga is an evolved watch for the evolved woman of today – a woman who’s self-respecting and confident. 

    Storyboard: The film begins with Nimrat Kaur sitting at an airport reading a book. She is interrupted by an ex-lover who asks her if he could join her. When Kaur asks him how he has been, he makes a reference to Kaur leaving him. As they talk and catch up, it is revealed that Kaur is still single. On being asked why it is so, Kaur tells the man that she never gets time from work. This being something he knew all too well, he makes a passing comment about how their relationship would have worked had Kaur stopped working. Kaur retorts by saying that he could have also quit. Offended, he tells her that he could not have quit, seeing how he is a man.

  • I am looking at large strategic partnerships, says Jaideep Singh

    I am looking at large strategic partnerships, says Jaideep Singh

    MUMBAI: A new mobile handset brand, Vivo, is set to enter the Indian market. And helping it have a presence in the already cluttered mobile market space in the country is the two year old Viacom18 Integrated Network Solutions (INS).

     

    Both Vivo and INS have forged a strategic marketing and communications partnership. “Through this partnership we are giving them all the services required to launch their brand in India. This includes advising them in the first phase about the youth insight, the media market of the country and the overall brand space,” informs Viacom18 Media INS senior vice president Jaideep Singh.

     

    Since the audience the handset is catering to is the same as that of Viacom18, INS will also select the right broadcasts and the right digital social media platform which Vivo can choose from the Viacom18 portfolio. “We have some of the best brands and properties to target them,” adds Singh.

     

    So how did INS bag the partnership? Answers Singh, “Well, in a phased manner, we did an exercise with Vivo, which involved making them understand the insights about youth, then profiling all the assets we have, from broadcast to live to digital and social media and then creating a package for them, telling what it will take to launch a brand in India.”

     

    As for the marketing strategy of the new brand, INS has created a package, which is a mix of broadcast, live, digital, social media, PR communication, media planning services and a big brand launch event.

     

    This apart, all the creative ideas to be used and executed through the launch is what INS is working on. Singh informs that the deal with Vivo is a long term one and this is just the first phase. “The first phase is till June-July and we are working on it. The discussion of the phase post July is ongoing and we will come up with a plan for that,” he says.

     

    As part of the first phase, INS will be promoting the brand through properties like ‘Roadies’, ‘Comedy Nights With Kapil’, ‘MTV Bollyland’ etc. It is also exploring other fun ideas on the digital front. “We will also be creating the TVC for the brand,” informs Singh adding that currently it will use the global TVC of Vivo, since there is not too much time before the big launch. “But as we move forward, the TVC will also be created by Viacom18,” he says.  

     

    INS has got a dedicated team to service Vivo. This comprises digital experts, marketing experts, creative experts and operations experts for ground activations. “It is a sizable team, which has been taken both internally as well as externally from the partners we work with,” he adds.

     

    According to Singh, the deal with Vivo helps the company leverage its consultancy services and in-house strong marketing capabilities for launching a brand in India. “A deal like this also opens up a new avenue for us in terms of having long term strategic partner, rather than trying to find many small partners on regular basis,” he says.  

     

    “I am looking at large strategic partnerships which will be of sizable ticket size and covers the sizable assets we have on the network and create more assets,” Singh further adds.

     

    So what’s the marketing budget for the handset? Says Singh, “Vivo is a major brand in China with 8 per cent market share. Presently the size of the marketing activities is substantial, but as we go in the second phase, it will be equal to the scale of any major handset in the country.”  

     

    Singh also informs that while as a digital strategy for Viacom18’s large content library, it will be looking at being present on multiple handsets, but currently there is no such arrangement on exclusive content sharing with Vivo. “They could have access to content on the properties they are partnering with us. The content partnership can happen in the later stage. It is the core to our heart and can be explored,” he further adds.  

     

    Talking about the integrations, Singh says that as part of the soft play, while integration with ‘Roadies’ has already started, the TVC will break in end of December and ‘Comedy Nights With Kapil’ will begin  from January.

     

    INS is positive about the feedback the new entrant will get from the consumers in India. “The brand film is looking good and so is the product. From the Chinese market perspective it would be the best product to enter the market. Once the film comes out and the product is integrated and the features are shown, the brand will have an appeal,” he opines.

  • Hungama.com unveils ‘Zindagi ka Sound Track’ brand campaign

    Hungama.com unveils ‘Zindagi ka Sound Track’ brand campaign

    MUMBAI: The on-demand digital entertainment storefront Hungama.com has unveiled a new brand campaign ‘Zindagi ka Sound Track’.

    Commenting on the idea behind the launch of the ‘Zindagi ka Sound Track’ campaign, Hungama.com CEO Siddhartha Roy said, “Our aim is to encapsulate what music means to people in different situations. The campaign captures the essence of music and its role in everyone’s life. Being a pioneer in the entertainment space, Hungama reaches out to millions of people across the globe, presenting to them multiple touch points for consuming music and entertainment.”

    “We realised that music is not just entertainment, but a companion, in a way, music completes life. Whenever people indulge in any activity, there is a real or imaginary source of music that gives it a rhythm. Music is omnipresent in our lives, especially in today’s digital age and Hungama plays a vital role in ensuring that. With this campaign, we have captured the meaning of music in an endearing manner we believe the emotional thematic of this campaign helps reinforce just that,” he further added.

    The 360 degree brand campaign has kick-started with a TVC featuring the voiceover of actor Hrithik Roshan along with a social media contest with the hashtag #HungamaMusic , twitteratis had to tweet completing the sentence, ‘Music ZindagiKa…’. The campaign has been amplified by OOH, digital and radio advertising.

    Conceptualised and executed by Scarecrow Communications, the TVC will be aired across national and regional channels and will also be showcased in cinemas.

    Scarecrow Communications founder and director Raghu Bhat said, “To bring the entire idea to life, we turned to crowd-sourcing. We asked 40 people what music means to them. Their responses helped us complete the ‘musical kaleidoscope’, a vast, throbbing, real canvas comprising the myriad ways in which music impacts lives. We compiled and crafted their responses into a 2 minute audio track.”

     “Since Hungama has presence across the globe, the challenge here was to find a voice that was not over-used and paradoxically, something the whole country could recognize. To fit this brief, there were 3 places we could possibly look for – politics, cricket or Bollywood. The quest ended at the door of one of India’s biggest superstars, who is also a discerning perfectionist – Hrithik Roshan. He loved the lyrical voiceover and agreed to be part of Hungama’s brand campaign,” he added.

     

  • 9 baj gaye kya? – ICICI Bank gets Big B to endorse it all through the hour-long KBC

    9 baj gaye kya? – ICICI Bank gets Big B to endorse it all through the hour-long KBC

    Big ideas seen on television in the recent and not so recent past have been the positioning of ICICI Bank in Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC).

    There were cheques to be signed by one bank or the other and ICICI, perhaps, found the right opportunity at the right time. End result: you have a never before one of its kind leverage that draws the maximum attention subtly without being in your face. That’s a big idea and as bright as it gets.

    The bank enjoyed a never before leverage every time Bachchan fished out a cheque to sign it and then hand it over to the eager KBC participant. Your brand name and logo on clear display all through while you get none other than Amitabh Bachchan to put his graphologically perfect signature in the viewers’ full and unhindered view!

    Perhaps, Bachchan signing the same cheque in a regular TVC would not have carried the same subconscious effect that it did in KBC.

  • Tata Sky targets south India during festive season

    Tata Sky targets south India during festive season

    MUMBAI: Last year, DTH operator Tata Sky ventured into the Malayalam market by getting Mohanlal on board as its brand ambassador. Now, it has targeted all the remaining three states in one go in its bid to expand in the south of India.

     

    The DTH operator has signed on Tollywood star Mahesh Babu to represent the brand in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and Sudeep for Karnataka. It has refrained from signing one for Tamil Nadu but has refreshed its push with a new TVC campaign.

     

    ‘Better kante best’ is the tagline being used in Telugu to proclaim its 23 Telugu channels along with knowledge, English and Hindi news channels in the base pack. Babu will propagate this tag line through his TVCs.

     

    The ad campaign featuring Sudeep is built on the premise that people have gotten used to adjusting to things in life but with Tata Sky’s offerings, there is no need to compromise while choosing its STB. Sudeep will enhance this ‘no compromise’ theme in his TVCs.

     

    Kannada viewers will have 14 local channels along with knowledge and English news channels in the base pack.

     

    For Tamil Nadu customers, an advertising campaign will be activated across TV, print, outdoor and online media by conveying the message to Tamil customers who make purchases after careful evaluation that Tata Sky will be their preferred choice due to its quality. With packs starting at Rs 180, new connections will get the Tamil language pack free along with the base pack.

     

    The TVC campaign states ‘Ovvoru vishaiyathaiyum alasi aranju mudivu panravunga, set top box-inu varumbodhu kandippa Tata Sky-dhan choose pannuvanga!” (Those who decide everything after careful evaluation, choose a Tata Sky set top box).

     

    Customers of the southern states can avail an offer of an additional regional pack free for one whole year.

     

    The customer case service has been strengthened with additional call centre support, on-ground manpower and trained personnel to deal with increasing enquiries during the upcoming festive season.

     

  • RB appoints McCann World Group for Dettol in India

    RB appoints McCann World Group for Dettol in India

    MUMBAI: RB (formerly called Reckitt Benckiser), a consumer health, hygiene and home company has appointed McCann World Group India as the creative agency for Dettol.

     

    The account is on a project basis. Havas WW will continue to be the Agency of Record on Dettol in India and globally.

     

    Dettol has been consistently voted by Indian consumers as one of the most trusted brands for over a decade. With a legacy of more than 80 years, it has become the trusted champion of health. The development is in line with the ambition of Dettol to further strengthen communication across its portfolio in India.

     

    RB advertises in almost 60 markets around the globe. Dettol, is its iconic brand, which promises to ‘Be 100 per cent sure’, its tagline in the TV ads.

     

    Available as bar soap, liquid hand wash, hand sanitiser and of course, as an antiseptic liquid, Dettol, recently forayed into the dishwasher detergent segment with the launch of its Healthy Kitchen Gel.