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Category: OOH

  • Though rural markets have seen a drastic increase in the standard of living and purchasing power, it is very fragmented with little or no transparency

    Rural market is the new siren call for OOH

    By Robin Thomas

     

    According to industry estimates, ruralIndiais growing at a faster pace than its urban counterparts, atleast in certain product categories. The overall Indian rural market size is believed to be Rs800 crore, with a total advertising pie of Rs12,000 Crore in rural markets. FMCG products, consumer durables, agro manufacturers, banking and insurance, telecom companies are some of the big spenders in rural markets.

     

    A survey reveals that FMCG products account for nearly 53 per cent of the market share in ruralIndiawhereas consumer durables account for the rest.

     

    The last few years have seen a drastic increase in the standard of living and purchasing power in ruralIndiaand many marketers heading for the lucrative rural markets. Also people in rural areas tend to spend a lot of time outdoors, which makes the rural market an ideal target for OOH media. As a result, almost every OOH industry player believes that the next phase of growth for the out-of-home media will come from rural markets.

     

    In interactions with MxMIndia, Mr Nabendu Bhattacharyya, Managing Director, Milestone Brandcom – who had shared his plans to launch Milestone Rural – and Mr Rohit Samarth, Business Head – Rural, Percept- Out of Home, were of the opinion that out-of-home media is seeing a tremendous growth in rural markets as consumption power in smaller towns and villages is increasing.

     

    Mr Anirban Ghosh, Senior Vice President, Adz Edge opined that an increase in purchasing power of rural masses in recent past has fuelled lot of interest amongst clients across all categories in ruralIndia. “Once considered a market only for low end products, today companies are seeing rural market as the new growth avenue. Comprising more than 70 per cent of the total consumers in India and annual market potential in excess of Rs12,30,00 crore, rural India is being charmed in novel ways. Naturally, out-of-home has also taken an upswing in rural market. More and more clients have shown interest in tapping this market which has got tremendous potential and increasing buying power” he said.

     

    The main revenue stream in rural market will come through a media integration and activation approach such as van activations, road shows, wall paintings, melas or village fairs.

     

    Mr. Ashish Pherwani, Associate Director, Advisory Services, Ernst & Young is very optimistic about rural out-of-home media. He believes that it can reach 25-30 per cent of the OOH advertising share in 5 years and that as consumptions shifts from metros to the 35 to 100 of the largest towns, OOH spends will also follow.

     

    Although OOH in rural areas is on the growth curve, it still has a long way to go and in order to continue growing in the long run; industry players believe that there are certain challenges and concerns that need to be overcome.

     

    One of the biggest concerns is the fact that the rural market is very fragmented and there is neither a credible measurement system nor a clear census data that can provide a clear definition of ruralIndiaand the socio-economic classification, among other relevant details.

     

    Mr Samarth observed: “While advertising in ruralIndiais growing, fragmentation of the market is a big challenge; there is no distribution network and there is no credible measurement system either. Another set of challenge is about living up to the promise of delivery in the rural markets. However, on the positive side, the biggest change in the rural is the fact that there is much less central control because today a lot of large companies are decentralizing their budgets.”

     

    Mr Pherwani said: “The rural market is extremely fragmented and there is little or no transparency to provide confidence to advertisers. Therefore, transparency needs to improve with better demonstration of proof of delivery. There are also few national players who can support large campaigns.”

     

    But Mr Ghosh believes that the biggest challenge for OOH is the lack of quality properties in rural market and also the fact that it is even more unorganized as compared to its urban counterpart. As a result, execution and proper monitoring is another core challenge. “To overcome these problems, we need to understand the rural market in a better way. Major players from OOH media owning houses should take initiative to open up their operations close to these locations for better control. They should collaborate with the local authorities to implement uniform regulations and open up more quality properties in rural market” he suggested.

     

    Innovations are the need of the hour to attract the rural masses and the OOH approach needs to be more interactive and integrated with brand activation for high recall value. As product consumptions increase, OOH media spends will also increase.

     

  • Introduces first-of-its-kind marketing innovation designed by graduates from NID, IIT Powai and Disney's creative team

    Disney XD thrills kids with its attention-grabbing consumer outreach

    By A Correspondent

     

    Disney XD has introduced a first-of-its-kind, 3D-remote controlled model of Disney XD’s lead character Kick Buttowski – Suburban Daredevil as part of its consumer outreach programme in select markets.

     

    A team comprising the best future minds in design and robotics – graduates from National Institute of Design (NID) and robotics students from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Powai – have created this unique model under the supervision of Disney’s creative team. Their unique creation – a remote controlled life size model of Kick Buttowski on a skateboard will be making appearances at malls across 10 cities in the next few weeks.

     

    “Interactive experiences that connect with kids and families at multiple-levels have always been the centerpiece of our marketing activities. This first-of-its-kind innovation complements our recently launched language feeds in Marathi and Bengali, first for a kid’s channel,” said Bikram Duggal, Director, Marketing, Walt Disney Television International India.

     

    “Our consumer campaign with Kick Buttowski and Spiderman riding on the back of a strong content push is already showing an upswing in the reach and GRPs of Disney XD in Hindi Speaking Markets (HSM),” he added.

     

    This life-like model skates unaided by itself, catching kids by surprise and giving them a true Disney XD ‘moment’ of action, comedy and adventure. The 3D model grooves to the music from the series soundtrack.

     

    The marketing team at Disney wanted to create a unique and world class Disney XD experience for kids. The NID and IIT graduates were tasked with bringing alive Kick Buttowski in the form of a life-sized action figure, keeping in mind his persona and physical traits, and add some fun and surprise element for kids and their families. This element of surprise gave birth to the idea of making him move around in the mall atrium and follow kids. This was made possible through the inputs of robotics students from IIT Powai, who worked to attach a special motor with a remote control allowing Kick to tail kids on his skateboard.

     

    Meanwhile Disney XD continues its prolific run as a leader in the South markets and has shown increasing traction in the Hindi Speaking Markets (HSM). The first channel to launch a six language feed, Disney XD recently announced the launch of Bengali and Marathi feeds to consolidate its presence in the north markets.

     

    Disney XD India is a multi-platform brand showcasing a compelling mix of live-action and animated programming for kids aged 6-14, hyper-targeting boys and their quest for discovery, accomplishment, sports, adventure and humor.

     

  • To communicate the message of 'TV Off, Mumbai On', Mudra Max-OOH planned and executed an effective OOH media campaign for No TV Day, beginning January 13.

    Mudra Max OOH drives home HT’s No TV Day message

     

    By A Correspondent

     

    Hindustan Times returned with its popular and inclusive initiative on January 28 this year, following its success on January 29, 2011.

     

    What started as an HT initiative became a people’s movement in Mumbai, making it the only city in the world to have its own special day. Hindustan Times called upon Mumbai to switch off TV and be open to the immense possibilities that their relationships and the city had to offer.

     

    To drive home the message – TV Off, Mumbai On, Mudra Max-OOH planned and executed an effective OOH media campaign for No TV Day, beginning January 13.

     

    The agency deployed a wide mix of OOH media, namely billboards, gantries, BQS, DBQS, pole kiosks, in-train branding, bus back/side panels, station branding & domestic airport branding.

     

    Considering the growing population which prefers air travel these days, a few interesting media vehicles such as cutouts on conveyer belts & standees were deployed at strategic locations inside domestic terminals.

     

    To break through the clutter, Mudra Max-OOH executed a couple of innovations at marquee sites in Mumbai (Juhu Koliwada & Mahim Causeway).

     

    Innovation 1: At Mahim Causeway (one of the important congregation points for vehicular traffic in Mumbai), the idea was to create the NTD Facebook homepage on a billboard. There was a daily change in the status, just the way one updates their statuses and the number of growing Facebook fans on the billboard. The status updated continued was for 5 days as a build up towards No TV Day.

     

    Innovation 2: This was executed at Juhu Koliwada / Juhu Tara Road (one of main arterial roads of Mumbai), since the core essence of NTD is TV Off, Mumbai On, this execution tried to bring that alive on a billboard by showing a father-son having fun on the swings in a park and the copy read ‘TV Off, Fun On’. The swinging movement on the billboard caught a lot of attention and was really talked about.

     

    Like last year, Hindustan Times organized a plethora of activities on January 28, encouraging Mumbaiites to step out of their homes and explore the city with their family and friends.

     

    The activities ranged from school painting competition attended by around 34,000 children with their parents, helicopter rides, and exclusive discount deals at more than 400 outlets in the city, heritage rides, dance workshops and many others.

     

    Across the city, around 250 housing societies registered for the No TV Day Best Society contest. A city specific treasure hunt was organized across three zones in Mumbai (western suburbs, Navi Mumbai andSouth Mumbai). While 1,300 participants raced against time to reach the finishing point, 3 winners were selected in each zone.

     

    The engagement with Mumbai was sustained in the social media space as well with the HT Mumbai No TV Day Facebook page and a special microsite. In just 3 weeks, 1.5 lakh new fans were added to the No TV Day Facebook community, taking the total strength to 2.5 lakh fans. The Facebook page also generated 6.5 million unique impressions and was the among the top branded Facebook pages inIndiain terms of engagement. On January 28, the strong buzz about the initiative resulted in No TV Day featuring among the top trending topics nationally on Twitter.

     

    There were various partners, such as Railways, Prince of Wales museum and MTDC, and brands like Surf Excel,Toyota, Lays, Micro Technologies and Scrabble who joined in this initiative.

     

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    Mandeep Malhotra, President, Mudra Max (OOH, Retail, Experiential) said: “NO TV DAY is an annual property built by HT and we were required to create a history connecting the brand with Mumbaikars. Our aim was to establish a property better and louder than the last year’s campaign. In a city dominated by competitors, it was an indispensable task to keep Mumbai ‘On’ for a quality life. We, along with HT, delivered the message effectively and took OOH from the position of a reminder medium to a call for action platform.”

     

    Ajay Dang, Marketing Head (West and South),HindustanTimes said: “Very few times does an initiative by a brand/ newspaper becomes a people’s movement. Hindustan Times has added an important day in the calendar of Mumbai when the city takes time to reconnect to important relationships be it family and friends or the city that we call home.”

     

  • Mudra Max has exclusively implemented a high decibel campaign in Mumbai and Delhi through a mix of digital, experiential, on ground and OOH execution

    Volkswagen & Mudra Max go 360 on OOH for Think Blue

    By A Correspondent

     

    Volkswagen is not just a brand but a proud bearer of automotive heritage. ‘Think Blue’ is a philosophy of the brand’s ecological and sustainable activities that has been designed to promote it’s key corporate objective of sustainability and environmental protection.

     

    The current initiative aims at strengthening the brand’s ‘Think blue’ philosophy using the opportunity provided by the Delhi Auto expo.

     

    Mudra Max has exclusively implemented a high decibel campaign in Mumbai and Delhithrough a mix of digital, experiential, on ground and OOH execution. The campaign is based on the international template which tells the story of the Volkswagen brand’s evolution as a responsible brand leveraging the ‘Think Blue’ philosophy.

     

    Mudra Max and Volkswagen installed an exceptional art-piece of the iconic Beetle created wholly out of scrap collected from various Think Blue clean-up drives undertaken by Volkswagen at different locations.

     

    The concept has given life to lifeless objects that have been discarded. The team took 15 days to put together a real-sized Beetle, made entirely of scrap ranging from discarded mother boards, keyboards, disposed machinery parts, mobile phones, cans, plastic bottles, cassettes, wires and other such scrap.

     

    To maximize impact and reach, the Delhi T3 terminal served as the venue to exhibit the Beetle art-piece along with a holistic mix of media elements, ranging from a constant running AV on the Think Blue philosophy and the making of the Beetle, a digital set up which connected the location live to Volkswagen’s micro-site and pages on Facebook, cameramen to capture pictures of passersby and giving them away in custom made ‘Think Blue’ photo jackets as mementos, with promoters engaging people to a classic steel-plated information kiosk on the heritage of Volkswagen and Think blue.

     

    At the same time garbage collection drives were initiated where the trash collected were mounted in cases and put on billboards to spread awareness and to have a more responsible behaviour towards the environment.

     

    Taking the display of the art-piece forward, the Beetle was brought back to Mumbai and is now exhibited at Mahim causeway, one of the most significant junctions in the city catering to high decibel traffic and footfalls all day long.

     

    This would further heighten the impact and buzz created by the art-piece and would create talking points around the brand’s philosophy of Think blue and achieving sustainability while creating something beautiful.

     

    A concept of ‘Fence branding’ preceded the entire ‘Think blue’ activity. A global template campaign of Volkswagen was rolled out worldwide on December 15, 2011. The primary requisite was continuous running space which would complement the ‘story telling’ creative of Volkswagen.

     

    Huge fences at Inorbit mall, Travelators at Delhi T3 airport, Fence branding at the T1 Delhi Airport were taken up. The size of the media was enormous running up to 700 square feet at one go.

     

    In addition, an entire Delhi Metro train was wrapped with the ‘Think Blue’ story to create higher impact and interest. This was coupled with a block-out media presence across significant stations of theDelhi metro & DAME.

     

    Speaking on the execution, Vikas Nowal, Vice President, Mudra Max-OOH on behalf of the Mudra Max team said: “We wanted to ensure that the Volkswagen campaign receives equal prominence in the communication across media. Therefore, the need of the hour was to create disruptive opportunities for the message to hit home. The Earth Hour activity was probably the simplest yet most relevant introduction to the brand’s commitment to taking care of the environment. The Beetle installation is something we are all extremely proud of achieving, and is the best embodiment of the iconic brand, and the worthy cause it champions. We continue to look at how we can help spread the brand’s message to a wider audience.”

     

    Bishwajeet Samal, Head of Marketing Communication at Volkswagen India said: “Our aim was to create buzz and drive home the message of ‘Think Blue. Drive Blue.’ With Out of Home activations like the Beetle art piece constructed purely out of scrap, branding of a Delhi Metro with the ‘Think Blue.’ message, creating the ugliest billboard in New Delhi from garbage collected from cleanliness drives in New Delhi; our outdoor agency effectively positioned Brand Volkswagen as a responsible automobile manufacturer.”

     

     

  • OAP targeted 23 types of media that comprised of 440 media units covering an outdoor space of approx 1,52,000 sq ft across 22 markets

    Outdoor Advertising Professionals’ innovative outdoor arena for SA Tourism

    By A Correspondent

     

    The landscapes and abundant wildlife of South Africa is the canvas for Outdoor Advertising Professionals, who are using innovative outdoor ideas to promote South Africa Tourism.

     

    South Africahas truly been a ground-breaking destination for adventure, sport, nature and wildlife travel and is a pioneer and global leader in responsible tourism.

     

    A creative and out-of the-box idea by Outdoor Advertising Professionals was of putting up a tri-vision billboard for this campaign, the first of its kind in Mumbai. The mandate to Outdoor Advertising Professionals was to offer high impact and high quality exposure thereby ensuring top-of-the-mind recall, which in turn required them to look for all formats of media that could be a clutter-breaker.

     

    OAP targeted 23 types of media that comprised of 440 media units covering an outdoor space of approx 1,52,000 sq ft across 22 markets. The various media chosen are billboards, backlit walls, bus shelters, cantilevers, glass façades, flagpoles, gantries, glow cubes, king-long buses, metro signages, pole kiosks, subway panels, skywalks, standalones, malls, airport displays and so on.

     

    Commenting about this OOH campaign James Varghese, Vice president OAP said: “Being a leader in technology, OAP implemented various tools and technology to ensure that an optimum campaign was planned. Every single detail of the campaign was backed by a technical explanation. We implemented iLAP – a research tool to zero-in on those locations where the target audience is more densely skewed. Each site was chosen based on its Panel Value. OAP has also been able to customize the outdoor plan with the help of Gallop Math Model which helped us foresee the reach and frequency that a particular plan can generate. Based on the results, we re-worked the plan so as to attain desirable reach and frequency of 52 per cent and 4 respectively.”

     

    OAP’s commitment and understanding of the brand propositions in the previous campaign for South Africa Tourism in the 2011 helped in retaining the client for second year in a row for latest 2012 campaign.

     

    OAP is the AOR (Agency on Record) for outdoor media planning and buying for many leading corporate advertisers inIndia. They are one of the top 5 companies in the industry. As a premiere outdoor specialist company they are at the forefront of bringing in new and scientific approach towards media planning.

     

  • With the core thought of amplifying 'Always Hoyenga' on ground and build a high recall, Greenply has come up with a 10×10 Graffiti wall

    Greenply aims to make entry to Limca Book of Records

    By A Correspondent

     

    Greenply, the interior infrastructure company, has come up with an innovative marketing – “Greenply Always Hoyenga- largest graffiti wall in India”. The new marketing is in sync with its new campaign, Always Hoyenga, Greenply has come up with a consumer activation program to create a graffiti wall in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore and invite everybody to come and express their wishes for the future by either painting or writing on the wall.

     

    With the core thought of amplifying ‘Always Hoyenga’ on ground and build a high recall, Greenply has come up with a 10×10 Graffiti wall. This graffiti wall from each city will add on to creating the mega Graffiti wall measuring 27,000 sq ft in Kolkata creating the largest graffiti inIndiaand will bid to enter the Limca Book of Records.

     

    The Always Hoyenga campaign by Greenply is aimed at making durability more relevant and fresh for the audiences.

     

    The graffiti will be created on January 21 in Delhi at Ambience Mall, Vasant Kunj and in Mumbai at Phoenix Mills, Lower Parel, respectively; on January 22 in Bangalore at Garuda Mall, Ashok Nagar and in Hyderabadat City Centre, Banjara Hill respectively. The event will be from 11 am to 8 pm.

     

  • Clear Channel Mudra launches an innovative outdoor campaign for Tata Housing Development Company with the theme of Uttarayan

    Clear Channel Mudra & Tata Housing celebrate Uttarayan

    By A Correspondent

     

    Tata Housing Development Company Limited, recently announced their foray into the Ahmedabad real estate market with a mega township in partnership with Arvind Mills. As is the norm inGujarat, with respect to new developments and acquisitions, the timing of the launch was in sync with Uttarayan, which is a major highlight in the cultural calendar of Ahmedabad.

     

    The objective for Clear Channel Mudra was to launch an innovative outdoor campaign to announce the brand’s entry into the Ahmedabad market, and create opportunities for the Uttarayan spirit to be brought out in the creative renditions.

    Fittingly, the creative message was kept simple and succinct – Now Uttarayan will be Grander!!

     

    An innovative outdoor campaign with the theme of Uttarayan, was carried out at key locations acrossAhmadabad. The campaign was executed using hoardings that were creatively fabricated in key locations to give 3D effect. Cut outs of Kites and a Kid Flying the kite were installed on Hoardings to give a 3D effect. A life-size kite string holder was fabricated and installed on a mobile van to make a connect with the festival and join in the celebration.

     

    The launch concept was meant to highlight the excitement of millions of kite enthusiasts’ who pitch themselves on their rooftops, sending up waves of flying kites which overwhelm an otherwise deep blue sky. Through this campaign, Tata Housing joined in the celebrations, adding to the excitement and build-up to the festival.

     

    Rajeeb Kumar Dash, Marketing Head, Tata Housing, said: “The timing of the unveiling of the campaign has been the most important factor, given the Amdavadi’s love for kites. The colourful layout of the hoarding captures its vibrancy and energy, symbolizing the spirit of people during this festive season. Clear Channel Mudra did a good job in coming up with these innovative ideas and executing the same to provide us the desired results.”

     

    Arun Rogha, Group Account Director – Clear Channel Mudra, said: “Tata Housing as a brand has many diverse offerings for various customer segments. Therefore, we consider each project as individual challenge, and the planning and strategy required is tackled on a case to case basis. The challenge was to use the OOH space to maximize the scope of pure branding which stands out from the clutter in the market and hence cut-outs of kites were installed on hoardings to gain high impact and generate buzz for the upcoming launch of theMegaTownshipand celebration of Uttarayan.”

     

  • The plane is branded entirely with the Nokia Lumia colours, and also features the names of Nokia employees responsible for the marketing initiative.

    Jet Airways unveils innovative airplane wrap for Nokia Lumia

    By A Correspondent

     

    Jet Airways and Nokia unveiled their ‘The Amazing Everyday’ campaign for Nokia Lumia on January 10. The Jet Airways Boeing 737-800 will carry the Nokia Lumia brand name on the aircraft. The jet will be branded entirely with the Nokia Lumia colours. The aircraft will also features the names of Nokia employees responsible for this marketing initiative.

     

    The campaign will continue till January 31, 2012. At present, the branding has been done only on one Jet Airways aeroplane. But plans are on to have this innovative wrap on other planes too as more and more brands may want to be advertised on airplanes.

     

    It is hoped that the ad will grab more eyeballs for Jet Airways as well as Nokia Lumia. This marketing initiative is also likely to open up new revenue streams for the airline.

     

    Besides the airplane wrap, Nokia has also announced a consumer competition, ‘Spot the Lumia’ where lucky winners will get an opportunity to make it to the ‘Sky Party’ on the aircraft on January 20.

     

    In a prepared statement Manish Dureja, Vice President, Marketing, Jet Airways said, “The aircraft wrap is a virtual advertising billboard that allows you to take your brand to the skies quite literally. We are certain that Nokia will reach out to its target customers through this unique branding opportunity. We are confident that this unique media vehicle will leverage the power of innovative brand communication to a focused group of prospects and will deliver value for money to brand managers acrossIndiathat opt to take their brands to the skies in the months ahead.”

     

    Prashanth Mani, General Manager, Nokia West India said, “We have created some amazing moments for our consumers since the launch of the Nokia Lumia range through the Lumia Taxi, flashmobs, flash cricket and luxury helicopter. Now the Lumia aircraft will take the ‘amazing quotient’ of this campaign a little higher.”

     

  • Reliance Broadcast Network’s BIG Street retains OOH mandate for the premium Line II of Delhi Metro till 2016.

    Delhi Metro Line II is BIG Street’s till 2016

    By A Correspondent

    Reliance Broadcast Network’s OOH arm, BIG Street, has retained the mandate for Line II of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC). This 10.46-km stretch covers prestigious commercial, office, shopping and government office areas of central Delhi through its nine high-footfall stations.

    The stations are Vishwavidyalaya (Catering to North Campus of Delhi University and Residential Areas in North Delhi), Vidhan Sabha, Civil Lines, Kashmiri Gate (interchange between Lines 2 and 1, as well as connecting to the Kashmiri Gate ISBT (Interstate bus terminus), Chandni Chowk & Chawari Bazaar (Commercial Hub of Delhi), New Delhi (Connecting to the Reliance Metro – Airport Line as well as to the New Delhi Station of Indian Railways),Rajiv Chowk (Connaught Place – Office hub and shopping hub the central business district of Delhi), Patel Chowk and Central Secretariat (Interchange station with Line 6). DMRC has already been one of the most successful mandates for BIG Street, and especially Line II. BIG Street has successfully hosted a host of innovations for its clients that boast of marquee brands across sectors – BFSI, FMCG, consumer goods, automobile, fashion etc.

    With this retention of Line II and other DMRC mandates i.e. Line III (21 stations between Barakhamba and Dwarka)  as well as Delhi Metro Airport Express, BIG Street has access to 40 Metro stations and nearly 75 percent of the commuters, making it the largest OOH player in Delhi Metro. The lines on DMRC, when combined with its digital pods – across malls and DMRC stations, street furniture, large format hoardings, Reliance Metro – Airport Line (between IGIA and New Delhi Stations) and BIG Cinemas, provides BIG Street a reach to almost 25 lakh Delhi-ites each day.

    Commenting on the development, Rabe T Iyer, Business Head, BIG Street said, “We feel proud to have bagged this OOH mandate of DMRC for the second time in a row. The DMRC metro service is probably the most widely used public transport in Delhi whose passengers are mostly professionals across relevant SECs. Within a short time of being in the business we have firmly established ourselves as innovators for a wide variety of our clients who found value for money in campaigns initiated on their behalf by BIG Street. We will continue to provide innovative platforms connecting marketers to relevant audiences.”

     

  • Apollo Munich Health Insurance launched 'Optima Restore', an 'Unbelievable' health insurance product in this unique way

    Apollo makes it ‘snow’ in Chennai

    By A Correspondent

     

    Apollo Munich Health Insurance launched ‘Optima Restore’, an ‘Unbelievable’ health insurance product in a unique way. To bring this offering closer to the people of Chennai, Apollo Munich conceptualized an unbelievable event where the people of Chennai experienced “snowfall in Chennai” at the Express Avenue Mall on February 19.

     

    Mudramax, the agency partnering Apollo Munich in their ‘Unbelievable’ concepts, came up with an execution whereby it snowed in Chennai, a city which has never seen snowfall! An innovative pre-event hype promotion saw promoters distributing Apollo Munich branded balloons with ‘Snowfall in Chennai’ written on it, as invites. Radio also acted as an invite medium to drive people in hordes to the event!

     

    On the day of the event, the team created a maze-like structure through which people could explore their way to the main event, to experience snowfall – for most of them, this was the first time in their lives that they experienced something like this. A snow machine threw imitation snow around an igloo throughout the day, attracting crowds who not just experienced it, but took home the experience, through their mobiles and cameras, to share with others.

     

    To round off the snowfall effect, the team also got them to play a game of skiing on the large screen, using a motion sensing game. Speaking on the event, Mandeep Malhotra, President and Head Mudra Max (OOH, Experiential, Retail) said: “That the event was a huge success can be seen by the number of people who participated. For a mall event to reach out to more than 100,000 people over the weekend is rare. Needless to say, the brand delivered on its promise of offering the ‘Impossible’ to the people of Chennai and I am indeed happy that I was present here personally to experience the same”

     

    Speaking about Optima Restore and unbelievable ‘Snow in Chennai’, Antony Jacob, CEO, Apollo Munich Health Insurance, said: “For the past four years, Apollo Munich has brought to the marketplace, unique and innovative products. Optima Restore is the latest and most exciting with the presence of two unbelievable benefits.”

     

  • The duration of the campaign, from January 2012 to February 2012, was selected to coincide with the various exhibitions held at Pragati Maidan in these months.

    OOH brand awareness for Om Logistics by JCDecaux

    By a Correspondent

     

    The client brief to JCDecaux was to create awareness about brand Om Logistics and its services. Om Logistics is the flagship company of Om Group, an Indian multi-modal logistics company. The outdoor campaign has been executed by JCDecaux in the city of Delhi.

     

    The idea behind the campaign was to give Om Group a higher visibility and appeal. The duration of the campaign, from January 2012 to February 2012, was selected to coincide with the various exhibitions held at Pragati Maidan in these months. JCDecaux displayed the creatives of the different business verticals of Om Group. The creatives were displayed on seniors and pole-mounted MUPIs in some of the prime locations in Delhi to draw attention of the commuters. The area around Pragati Maidan was used for the campaign to gain mileage during the exhibition season.

     

    The TG for Om Logistics are individuals or companies involved in the logistics of supply chain management. The objective of the campaign was to create a lasting impact and to increase brand awareness through outdoor campaigns.

     

    Lalit Kumar, Assistant Manager, Marketing, Om Logistics said, “This campaign has created impact on the arterial routes and vantage locations with its large formats and creatives. The campaign gripped people’s attention and succeeded in attracting our TGs.”

     

    Alok Duggal, General Manager, Sales, JCDecaux India said, “We are glad that we have been able to build brand awareness for Om Logistics. We always look forward to partner with niche brands and support them in reaching their objectives.”

     

  • The primary objective of the campaign was to create consciousness about the launch of the services of Muthoot FinCorp in Bhopal and Indore.

    Percept OOH executes state launch for Muthoot FinCorp in MP

    By a Correspondent

     

    Percept Out-of-Home (OOH) is executing OOH state launch for Muthoot FinCorp in select cities in Madhya Pradesh. The execution period of the activity commenced from January 26 for a duration of 20 days. The activity was emphasised in tier 2 cities, namely in Bhopal and Indore.

     

    The primary objective of the campaign was to create consciousness about the launch of the services of Muthoot FinCorp in Bhopal and Indore. Besides increasing awareness for the brand, there was a requirement to attract a wider base of eye balls at local markets, bus stand, railway stations, airports, commercial and high traffic zones. Another target was to gain a foothold in the new markets and consolidate the brand’s presence.

     

    The launch campaign was executed for a better geographical coverage, garnering brand visibility with finesse. Rajneesh Bahl, Head -Outdoor, Percept Out of Home said, “This is a classic case for outdoor launch. Bhopal and Indore have not seen such a high impact launch since a long time. The operation was well-crafted, on lines of any telecom brand, but at a nominal spend. Creatives was specially adapted for each city and in accordance with every media.

     

    A spokesperson from Muthoot FinCorp said, “The message in the out-of-home advertising has effectively echoed our state launch in Madhya Pradesh. The strategic locations were specifically selected in accordance with the target audience.”

     

    Muthoot FinCorp Limited, the flagship company of the Muthoot Pappachan Group, has 1400+ branches and offers products and services like Gold Loans, Money Transfer, Forex Services and other Investment Solutions.