Tag: brand marketing

Bite-sized gaming content goes big in India: Brands take notice of growing trend

Brands such as H&M, Pepsi and HP India are recognizing the potential of collaborating with gaming influencers to tap into the booming market and reach their target audiences. (Images via Instagram - @scoutop, @ig_mortal, @soul_regaltos, @payalgamingg)

India’s gaming industry has seen a massive surge in popularity, leading to a growth in bite-sized content.

Nothing’s Carl Pei: India is an important market for Nothing

India is the largest smartphone market in the world. Speaking on his assessment of it, Nothing's founder and chief executive officer Carl Pei is quick to add that he is very bullish on India and its economy. He says, “This year, it is going to grow by six percent. Large parts of the world are going to fall into recession. India’s population is very young. So, they can contribute to building the country and the economy.”

Nothing’s founder and chief executive officer, Carl Pei discussed the challenges of coming up with two brands in a rapidly evolving market, what it takes to build them, and how important is India as a market for Nothing.

#ShareTheSpotlight: Ghazal Alagh puts the spotlight on three women entrepreneurs

“Young female founders who are building great businesses - Ahana Gautam of Open Secret, Ayushi Gudwani of FS Life (prev. Fable Street) and Disha Singh from Zouk. I think the work they are doing is phenomenal and their efforts towards building the business is exemplary. They deserve to be recognised and appreciated.” (Top to bottom: Ahana Gautam, chief executive officer and co-founder, Open Secret; Ayushi Gudwani, founder and CEO, FS Life; and Disha Singh, founder, Zouk)

A snapshot of business woman and “Mama Shark” Ghazal Alagh’s journey and the women she wants to share her light with.

Kinnect wins digital mandate for Blue Star

Sandip Chintawar and Prakash Kolhe who founded Cymetrix will continue to lead the company into its next phase of growth and expansion across geographies. (Representative Image: Vardan Papikyan via Unsplash)

The account was won following a multi-agency pitch and will be managed out of the Mumbai office. As part of the mandate, Kinnect will handle the brand’s digital strategy globally, along with managing its social media presence in the country.

82 percent of Indian brands still rely heavily on third-party cookies: Adobe

“Our intent is to encourage it; that is giving more opportunities to express, share and create new intellectual property,” the minister said.

Adobe’s research shows that one in every two respondents (53 percent) agree that the ambiguity over cookie deprecation is causing an overall acceleration in the prioritization for readiness for a cookieless world. Storyboard18 gets the highlights of the report.

Digital shops, media agencies, influencer marketing platforms bet big on D2C services

The results are based on responses from 45 companies, with an estimated annual global ad spend of $60 billion. Seven percent of respondents are spending more than $50m annually on their in-house agencies, the same percentage spend $25-50m, 33 percent spend $5-$25m, 13 percent budget $1m-$5m and 27 percent spend less than $1m. (Representative Image: Tim Mossholder via Unsplash)

From Zoo Media to Wavemaker India to Qoruz, agencies are seeing the need for varied specialised direct-to-consumer services for both legacy and startup brands.