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  • Launches a full-fledged video-on-demand service for TV and mobile screens

    ShortsTV expands with Airtel Xstream

    By our Staff

     

    ShortsTV has ventured into its first partnership with Airtel. Leveraging Airtel’s core strengths of Network, Data & Distribution, ShortsTV has launched its first video-on-demand service on Airtel Xstream that can be enjoyed on both the mobile app as well as television screens. ShortsTV is now available at a subscription fee of INR 99 per month and INR 499 for a year.

    Said Carter Pilcher, Chief Executive, ShortsTV: “TV and mobile phones are both integral to the Indian viewing experience—a perfect combination for ShortsTV and our ground-breaking short movie entertainment.  ShortsTV is present in over 60 million TV households in India already, and our partnership with Airtel Xstream will bring us to Airtel’s 340 million subscribers — who are always on the lookout for unique content. From Oscar Nominated movies to Travel Documentaries to exciting new films from India’s hottest new directors – ShortsTV is amazing entertainment.  Binge on, dude!”

    Added Tarun Sawhney President – Asia, ShortsTV: “Short films are slowly making their presence felt among mainstream cinema, thus adding momentum to the growth of shorts on the Indian movie map. At ShortsTV, we always believed in providing a global platform for filmmakers to showcase their work since the audience’s affinity towards the short format is growing. Understanding the rise in content consumption on the small screen, our partnership with Airtel Xstream will not only help us extend our reach into the Indian heartland but also provide an opportunity for Indian filmmakers to expand in India and beyond.”

     

     

  • The campaign has conceptualised by Arun Iyer’s Spring Marketing Capital and directed by Nitin Parmar, Equinox Films

    Airtel Xstream’s campaign by Equinox

    By A Correspondent

     

    Advertising production house Equinox Films has created a new campaign for Airtel Xstream titled ‘Jo Dekho, Bada Dekho’.

     

    The campaign has conceptualised by Arun Iyer’s Spring Marketing Capital and directed by Nitin Parmar, Equinox Films.

     

    Talking about the campaign, Shashwat Sharma, Chief Marketing & Brand Officer at Bharti Airtel said: “With Airtel Xstream, we aim to transform entertainment at home, in India. The content consumption habits have changed dramatically with users viewing content both across linear TV and App based new age content on mobile. We felt why should the best content out there be confined to viewing on small screen? Airtel Xstream enables a seamless viewing experience across both genres, on your large TV screen. Our partners Spring and Equinox have done a great job in bringing alive the larger-than-life viewing experience of Xstream, in this campaign. So from today –  ‘Jo Dekho Bada Dekho’.

     

    Heading the creative team, Arun Iyer, Founding Partner at Spring Marketing Capital said, “Airtel Xstream is a viewing experience like never before. Most people end up consuming content on their small screens and that is far from optimum. Which led us to the thought of Jo Dekho Bada Dekho. The execution was complex but Nitin and the team from Equinox were a delight to collaborate with in bringing this vision to life.”

     

    Added Nitin Parmar, Director at Equinox Films: “It’s always a pleasure collaborating with Airtel and the team at Spring. Making a commercial is a collaborative, team effort at the best of times and during the pandemic we really got a sense of how true that statement really is. The challenge with this commercial in particular was to visually explain the features of the product in a way that felt immersive and fun – Like a roller coaster ride. Tonnes of conference calls with creatives, client and technicians; hundreds of hours of zoom calls (sometimes across time zones) later- we are really happy with the end result. Airtel allows us to keep pushing our boundaries whilst keeping the creativity intact, and that’s what we love most about working with them”.

     

     

  • Happy mcgarrybowen designed the brand identity and visual language for the brand

    Happy mcgarrybowen designs identity for Airtel Xstream

    By A Correspondent

     

    Bharti Airtel has partnered with Happy mcgarrybowen to design the brand identity for Airtel Xstream, the digital entertainment platform by Airtel. As part of the exercise, Happy mcgarrybowen designed the brand identity and visual language for the brand.

     

    Speaking on the engagement, Shashwat Sharma, CMO, Airtel said: “The vision for the Airtel Xstream brand was to carve a voice that speaks to today’s young, technology ready consumer. We were building an India-first platform of digital entertainment services and this needed a disruptive and market-defining visual identity. Happy mcgarrybowen became our partner in bringing that vision to life. They helped create an identity that is current, aspirational and future-ready. It’s a great visual ethos of what Airtel Xstream promises to bring to the Indian consumer going forward.”

     

    Added Samarjit Choudhry, President, Happy mcgarrybowen: “Airtel is one of the most recognised brands in India. It has ushered in major changes in the way we use communication tools. With the launch of Xstream, they are once again on the cusp of changing our entertainment consumption habits. We have tried to capture the dynamic nature of the digital entertainment world, its confluence across platforms; obviously with the consumer at the centre of it.”