Philips India launches the OneBlade Cup: a tournament to find India’s next top BGMI team

The OneBlade Cup will feature teams of four players engaging in qualifiers to make it to the top 16. (Representative Image: Onur Binay via Unsplash)

ecognizing the potential in students across the nation who turn to gaming and esports, Philips aims to bridge the gap by offering a platform for those who aspire to excel in the professional gaming world.

IKEA celebrates the LGBTQIA+ community with ‘The Closet’

The film is set in a busy IKEA store with a closet in the centre and leads with a thoughtful question to the ones who chose to enter the closet- "Many have lived here, can you?"

Conceptualised by Leo Burnett, the campaign revolves around the message ‘Closets are for clothes and not identities’.

Uber rewards riders with high ratings in latest campaign

As part of the campaign, riders with high ratings on Uber will be rewarded, and those with scope to improve will also be incentivised to make a difference.

Riding on the recent trend where Indians shared their rider rating as a “flex” on social media platforms and dating apps, Uber launched the contest with an aim to stress on the need for riders to be courteous towards their drivers, and to promote better behaviour among people.

Livspace launches premium interior design brand Vinciago

Showcased at Livspace Experience Centres, Vinciago will be available in major metro cities, including Delhi/NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Ahmedabad and additionally in key non-metro cities including Surat, Vadodara, Jaipur, Lucknow, Goa, Kochi, Nashik, Coimbatore, Nagpur, Bhopal and Indore.

As per recent real estate trends, while overall sales of residential homes have grown by 31% in 2023 over 2022, luxury homes have grown by 96% during the same period thereby increasing the share of luxury homes from 6% to 9% of overall units

Top 5 most valuable brands in India – Tata Group, Infosys, HDFC, LIC and Reliance: Brand Finance Report

Tata Motors announces 2nd price hike in 2025   (Picture: Moneycontrol)

According to the brand valuation consultancy’s report, the brand value of Tata Group stands at USD28.6 billion. It is the first time an Indian brand is close to the USD 30 billion brand value mark, reflecting the prevailing optimism in the Indian economy. 

We don’t go crazy with the idea of buying highly-expensive World Cup inventory: WakefitCo’s co-founder

While marquee properties remain relevant, they're too expensive, and there's a cramped share of voice fight in that period; it's hard to capture the attention and the mindshare of the consumer, says Ramalingegowda.

The Co-founder, Chaitanya Ramalingegowda, shares how the home solution D2C player, that became profitable last fiscal, is looking at 30% revenue growth in the current fiscal (FY25) while taking its offline stores count to 100 and expanding to over 30 cities.

Brand Breakthroughs: Why sports must be key to your brand strategy

As Sumit Virmani, global chief marketing officer, Infosys, puts it, brands that align their sports marketing to their purpose know that their efforts tie back to the core of the very reason their business exists, with the deepest engagement from their top team, clients, and broader stakeholders. (Image via Unsplash)

In an exclusive column for Storyboard18, Sumit Virmani, global chief marketing officer, Infosys, writes that one should zero in on the sport that naturally appeals to their stakeholder groups – from potential employees to purchase decision-makers.

Adobe announces growth in number of K-12 and higher education students and teachers worldwide

Together with IBM, HCLTech aims to train 10,000 of its engineers and architects in IBM's innovative AI technologies, specifically watsonx. (Representative image by Possessed Photography via Unsplash)

Adobe is empowering student expression and critical thinking skills with responsible generative AI designed to be safe for the classroom.

Gupshup introduces Conversational Buyer App on ONDC

Gupshup will also offer this product capability to its enterprise customers that want to integrate conversational commerce into their chatbots.

It enables buyers to use a Whatsapp-based conversational UI to discover, browse, and buy products from sellers across the ONDC network, without needing to download any other mobile app.