Reliance Consumer Products inks joint venture with Sosyo Hajoori Beverages

Sosyo, boasts a loyal customer base in Gujarat, is a heritage Indian brand with around 100 years of legacy in carbonated soft drinks (CSD) and juices. Currently, the operations are looked after by Abbas Hajoori and his son Aliasgar Hajoori. The brands in the company’s portfolio include Sosyo, Kashmira, Lemee, Ginlim, Runner, Opener, Hajoori Soda and S’eau. (Still from the ad)

Recently, Reliance Consumer Products also added beverage brand Campa and packaged consumer products brand Independence to its product portfolio.

Godrej CMO Ashwin Moorthy on Cinthol’s new ad, changing portrayals of women and more

While the portrayal of women has evolved in Cinthol advertising, the stress on the skin protection, health benefits and doctor recommendations continue to remain the same. (Stills from the ad)

Ashwin Moorthy, chief marketing officer – India, Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (GCPL), admits that consumers have changed in the Tamil Nadu market and they don’t relate to the old beauty propositions alone.

A Zomato and Blinkit collaboration on billboards: ‘Doodh mangoge…’

While Zomato is one of the major food delivery apps in India, Blinkit, its grocery business, operates in 27 cities and is planning to expand into others. Between the two apps, customers can order everything from kheer to milk (which, incidentally, was the most-ordered item this year on Blinkit’s rival Dunzo)

Blinkit and its parent company Zomato have tied up for an ad collaboration that takes a popular Bollywood dialogue and turns it on its head.

CRED Viral Ad: Meet Youngun – the meme marketing agency behind CRED’s viral ad campaign

Youngun is also the agency behind recent meme marketing campaign hits like Myntra’s Vanshika and the Subway campaign where a woman asked users to edit out a man photobombing her image. The agency has also done work for Netflix and Spotify. (From left - Saksham Jadon, Aman Hussain, Deepak Kumar and Ashish Kanojia)

Saksham Jadon, founder of Youngun, talks about the brief behind the classified ads campaign, planned virality and why creating hype works for brands in the digital age.

BYJU’s Divya Gokulnath shares the story behind the edtech major’s brand colours

The not-for-profit, social impact division of Byju’s currently serves 5.5 million children all over the country. The long-term engagement saw Messi feature in campaigns promoting Byju’s Education For All and began as Messi embarked on his final campaign to win the football World Cup 2022 as captain of Argentina’s national football team. This came after Byju’s bagged the elite and high stake sponsorship deal FIFA World Cup 2022 which was held in Qatar.(Representatuve Image: ryan-quintal via Unsplash)

Co-founder of BYJU’s, Divya Gokulnath shared an image of her at the FIFA World Cup along with the story of BYJU’s purble brand colour.

India is the world’s top mobile games’ consumer and home to over 900 gaming companies: Game Changer 2023

Immersive ads rely solely on contextual targeting and not on individual data. This aligns well with evolving privacy regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which emphasizes minimizing the collection and use of personal data for advertising purposes. (Representational image: Jezael Melgoza via Unsplash)

How social gaming, AR, VR, 5G and Web3 opportunities are transforming the gaming landscape in India.

Weekly Shorts: How Indian micro and nano-influencers shined in 2022

Various metrics suggest that influencer marketing potential for raising brand awareness and producing an ROI is still untapped. Even though the various influencer categories are developing at a strong engagement rate, the number of influencer posts have mostly stayed the same in 2021 and 2022. (Image source: @meh_chali, @akshxtx_pagar, @yash_chokshi, @surbhirohra, @venurasuri)

What’s buzzing in influencer marketing and the creator ecosystem? What’s the next big thing coming down the line? Catch the big trends and hot topics in our weekly shorts.

FIFA World Cup 2022: All the brand action from the ground

Traditionally billions of viewers watch the World Cup, and as they concentrate on what is happening on the pitch, the names of some of the world’s biggest companies flash behind the players on a rolling, technicolored loop – Budweiser, Visa, Coca-Cola, Qatar Airways, Adidas, McDonalds, Wanda, Vivo, Hyundai Kia, BYJU’s and Vivo.

Storyboard18 was in Qatar covering all the brand action and gathering views and reactions from fans and marketers.