Tag: Yateesh Srivastava

  • iProspect Communicate 2 wins AEGON Religare’s social media account

    iProspect Communicate 2 wins AEGON Religare’s social media account

    MUMBAI: iProspect Communicate 2, the global digital performance agency from the Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN), has won the additional mandate to optimise social media platforms (SMO) for AEGON Religare.

     

    The agency already handles the SEM (search engine marketing) and SEO (search engine optimisation) domains for the life insurance company joint venture between AEGON, Religare and Bennett, Coleman & company. 

     

    Speaking on the win, AEGON Religare chief operating officer Yateesh Srivastava said, “As an organisation we truly understand the impact that social media has on our brand and on our reputation. It is a very powerful way to engage our customers and prospects in an authentic and useful manner. In iProspect we believe we have found the right match since the agency has been doing very well on our performance campaigns and we are sure they will do the same with Social Media, as well. The holistic approach will ensure uniformity in messaging across the digital space and will engage customers in a manner that creates maximum impact.”

     

    iProspect Communicate 2 CEO Vivek Bhargava added, “We are glad to deliver our expertise to AEGON Religare in the social media domain, after a successful stint in both SEO and SEM. We have some extremely ambitious plans for the SMO activities of the account and look forward to strengthening our business bond by executing these plans and exceeding all expectations.”

     

    iProspect Communicate 2 specialises in result-driven campaigns and comprises an established team of certified digital and social media marketers. With a purely content driven strategy, iProspect Communicate 2 aims to engage and connect with users across various social media platforms. The account will be handled from the Mumbai office, thus ensuring complete integration of AEGON Religare campaigns across the digital space.

  • Aegon Religare Life ups ad spends by 150% to Rs 250 mn this fiscal

    Aegon Religare Life ups ad spends by 150% to Rs 250 mn this fiscal

    BANGALORE: Aegon Religare Life Insurance (Religare LI) has increased its ad spends to around Rs 250 million for this fiscal as compared to the Rs 100 million that it spent last year.

    “We will be maintaining the same levels of spends for the next fiscal too”, revealed Religare LI Chief Marketing Officer Yateesh Srivastava.

    Srivastava was speaking with www.indiantelevision.com on the sidelines of a press conference in Bangalore held for the launch of a new online life insurance plan – iTerm by Religare LI.

    Since iTerm is a product that we will sell only online, the thrust will be on online and mobile SMS promotions. We will be on portals such as yahoo and insurance products aggregator portals such as policybazaar and myinsurance,” said Srivastava.

    Religare LI claims to be the first mover in the online term insurance place and has a 20 per cent of the online term insurance market share at about 1000 policies per month. There are other seven or eight private life insurance players that have launched online term insurance plans and Srivastava estimates the overall online term insurance size currently at 5000 policies per month, a figure that is growing rapidly.

    Religare LI has a twin pronged ad spend strategy – its spends money to promote individual product plans or themes, and another one to build the Aegon Religare Life Insurance mother brand. It had Bollywood actor Irfan Khan on TVCs’ in the Bennett Coleman & Co (Times) Group channels exhorting people to ensure that they are not under-insured or have deficit insurance cover for pension.

    Ogilvy & Mather handle the creative work for Religare LI, while MediaCom is handling media buying.