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Ranveer Singh drops Thums Up to become Pepsi’s new brand ambassador

Brand Pepsi has been leveraging Bollywood and sports celebrities to promote itself in the India market. In January, the beverage brand brought KGF movie series famed Kannada actor as its face. In 2019, Pepsi signed actor Salman Khan as its brand ambassador. Last year, Khan appeared in a new Pepsi campaign that encourages youngsters to try out the beverage drink which now has an elevated refreshing experience that has more fizz. (Representative image via Twitter - @blitzkreigm)

Ranveer Singh joins the likes of Salman Khan and Kannada actor Yash who are currently promoting Pepsi in India.

Reliance’s JioMart awards its integrated creative mandate to L&K Saatchi & Saatchi

Rediffusion employs nearly 400 employees and handles advertising for Parle, BMW, Tata Trusts, Dabur, Taj Hotels, Kansai Nerolac, Tata Power, L&T Realty, Orra, Brookfield, Liebherr, Zydus, among others.

The responsibilities of L&K Saatchi & Saatchi will include managing JioMart’s full range of brand-building solutions, tactical launches followed by social media and content strategy through their digital arm Saatchi & Saatchi Propagate.

OTT platforms eye ad revenue from sports streaming with increasing genre popularity

As a category, sports has never really stopped growing. Thus, innovation and upgradation by brands to extend their products and services through this genre is a logical next step. Brands and sports organizations are partnering with OTT platforms to create an immersive, on-the-go viewing experience for their audience. (Representative image by Paul Skorups via Unsplash)

Sports streaming in India takes the next leap with immersive, interactive and personalized experiences on OTT Platforms.

Art of Framing in marketing: What you know changes what you see, what you see changes what you know

Persuasion is fortified with evidence - information, referendum, validation, certification, statistics, testimonials - all enhance acceptance. Emphasizing the benefits is another technique for framing. (Representational image by paul skorupskasvia Unsplash)

Framing is about mental structures and stencils which we apply to derive meaning. To change a perspective is reframing. Reframing is a triumph of marketing.

We will likely see a killer AI app later this year, says Nothing’s Carl Pei

Carl Pei says, "Long term, I'm quite bullish on the Indian economy, because it's still a young nation, and it has a lot of future potential. It's also a big market for us. So we're manufacturing all the products we sell here in terms of smartphones locally, we're also looking at diversifying the other product ranges, whether we can manufacture them over here. So we're talking to multiple suppliers." (Image Source: Still from a Nothing CEO Reviews OnePlus 11

Carl Pei says they are already making all their phones locally and exploring whether they can make other products in the country.

Ex-Nazara CEO Manish Agarwal’s Web3 gaming firm raises $20M funding; acquires IndiGG

IndiGG raised $6 million in seed funding from investors such as Sequoia India, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Animoca Brands in January 2022. Agarwal, who was at Nazara Technologies at the time, had also participated in the funding round as an angel investor. (Image source: Moneycontrol)

The fundraise was led by Accel, with participation from investors such as Prosus Ventures, Courtside Ventures, and Nexus Venture Partners. It values the company at Rs 1,200 crore on a fully diluted basis.

Raja Rajamannar asked ChatGPT to summarize the AI chapter from his book Quantum Marketing. Here’s the result

In Raja Rajamannar's book ‘Quantum Marketing’ that's about the tsunami of disruptive technologies coming our way, there is only one technology that he thought was important enough to warrant its own chapter. (Representative Image (on the right): Jackson Sophat via Unsplash)

Author of bestselling book ‘Quantum Marketing’ and global CMO of Mastercard, Raja Rajamannar asked ChatGPT to create a synopsis of the chapter on Artificial Intelligence.