Tag: Varun Shah

  • Publicis opens AI-powered content studio in India

    Publicis opens AI-powered content studio in India

    MMUMBAI:  The age of one-size-fits-all advertising is over. Brands now need content that speaks to specific audiences, on specific platforms, at specific moments—and they need it fast.

    Publicis Groupe India has launched a content studio designed to meet precisely that demand, combining artificial intelligence with traditional creative talent to produce personalised, localised marketing material at speed.

    The facility, the group’s fifty second globally, integrates AI-powered tools with editing suites and CGI workstations to help brands respond quickly to cultural moments and platform changes. Unlike standard production houses, the studio focuses on creating what the company calls “intelligent content”—assets tailored to specific audiences, platforms and contexts rather than generic material produced at volume.

    “Marketers today aren’t short on data or ideas. What they need is the ability to turn those insights into powerful, relevant content—faster than ever before,” said  Publicis Groupe south Asia chief executive Anupriya Acharya. “This studio does exactly that.”

    The Mumbai operation joins Publicis Production’s network of studios in creative hubs including New York, London, Paris and Shanghai. It is equipped to handle both high-end production and agile content creation, offering post-production services to complement prodigious India’s existing capabilities.

    The studio integrates with Publicis’s international production ecosystem through LucidLink and data asset management systems, enabling real-time collaboration across markets. It has already produced content for brands across beauty, automotive, fast-moving consumer goods and technology sectors, creating thousands of assets for markets from southeast Asia to Australia and America.

    “Production is no longer the final step; it’s the creative engine that connects strategy, media, technology and commerce,” said Publicis Production managing partner C. “Today, it’s not just about producing more content, it’s about producing intelligent content, made for the right audience, tailored to the right platform, and delivered at the perfect moment.”

    Publicis Groupe South Asia  chief creative officer Rajdeepak Das  said the studio brings “creative, production and technology under one roof,” enabling the company to match the pace of cultural change.

     

  • Publicis names Varun Shah EVP & head of Prodigious India, Content Factory India

    Publicis names Varun Shah EVP & head of Prodigious India, Content Factory India

    Mumbai: Publicis Groupe has consolidated the content production arm under Varun Shah and appointed him as executive vice president and head of Prodigious India and Content Factory India. Further strengthening the team, the organisation has elevated Akshay Multani to executive producer (EP), Prodigious and appointed Deepak Bulchandani as head of brand partnerships at Content Factory.

    Designed to serve a content-driven media landscape, Prodigious & Content Factory brings together specialist production expertise in video, digital and print to design, produce and deliver branded content across all channels, using the best talent, workflow processes, and tools. “This consolidation furthers the Groupe’s agenda to be future-ready and bring in the needed efficiencies and agility to the production process and capabilities while delivering quality content for brand partners,” said the statement.

    Speaking about the new appointments, Publicis Groupe, South Asia CEO, Anupriya Acharya said, “Varun has been instrumental in growing the Prodigious India capabilities and under his leadership we have witnessed phenomenal growth over the past few years. He is a new age production leader with strong appreciation of international and local creativity and demonstrated experience in quality, reliability and business acumen. I am confident that Varun will take Prodigious and Content factory to newer heights.”

    On his new assignment, Varun Shah said, “Currently we are one of the country’s leading production houses and our ambition is to bring cutting edge technology and expertise to the market, setting new benchmarks for the industry. The new structure provides a platform to create volume content solutions for our clients across all content types and will help fuel our growth in the platform world. This consolidation will help us streamline our efforts by creating a production model which drives efficiency while delivering world-class branded content across media to our partners.”