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  • To lead the newly opened Mumbai office

    Cheil X hires Anurag Tandon as CGO

    Anurag Tandon
    Anurag Tandon

    Cheil X hires Anurag Tandon as Chief Growth Officer (CGO). He will lead the newly opened Mumbai office in addition to the growth charter.

    Tandon has worked in the past with DDB Mudra West, and WT, Mumbai where he was responsible for managing the P&L, key Client relationships and topline growth. His other stints include Ogilvy and Leo Burnett.  Cheil X is an independent full-service agency under the Cheil SWA group to manage the fast growing new client mandates in India.

    Added Sanjeev Jasani, COO, Cheil SWA: “We are thrilled to welcome Anurag as he takes over the reins of our Mumbai office. Anurag is a well-known name in the industry with a reputation for delivering benchmark worthy work for clients across a wide range of industries. He is a valuable asset to the organization and we look forward to working with him.”

  • Tyre giant MRF has collaborated with Experience Commerce to forge a partnership with Hotstar

    Cheil’s Experience Commerce bags MRF mandate

    By Our Staff

     

    Experience Commerce, the digital marketing arm of the Cheil Digital Network, has announced winning the World Cup 2023 Media mandate for MRF Tyres on Hotstar. As part of the deal, Experience Commerce (EC) will provide its creative and media services to MRF.

     

    Notes a statement attributed to Team MRF: “This partnership signifies a significant milestone in our journey to engage with a new generation of consumers and highlight the outstanding features of MRF Tyres. Experience Commerce’s innovative approach and digital marketing expertise are perfectly aligned with our objectives. Together, we aspire to create a lasting impact and elevate the MRF brand to new heights during this World Cup.”

     

    Added Umesh Bopche, CEO of Experience Commerce: “I have a profound love for cricket, and this being the biggest cricketing tournament (the World Cup), makes this deal exceptionally significant to me. We are ecstatic to announce our resounding triumph in securing prime advertising real estate on Hotstar for MRF Tyres during the highly anticipated World Cup 2023. Our vision is to achieve unparalleled brand recall and reach new heights with our strategically placed ads. Watching MRF ads during the matches will undoubtedly evoke that familiar feeling of trust, legacy, and dependability. MRF has entrusted us with their vision, and we are committed to elevating the MRF brand to iconic status, leaving an indelible mark in the hearts and minds of millions of viewers worldwide.”

     

  • …. with the theme of 'It's a Human Thing'

    Cheil launches campaign for MG Hector

    By Our Staff

     

    Cheil India has a new campaign for MG Motor India.

     

    Said Udit Malhotra, Head of Marketing, MG Motor India: “At MG, we always believe in driving ahead of the curve by bringing exciting experiences to our customers every time. When we first launched the Hector, we aimed to transform the relationship between the driver and the vehicle by introducing India’s First Internet Car. Now, the Next-Gen Hector takes another leap in this direction. Raising the game with a bold new look, infotainment experiences, technological advances that includes ADAS Level 2 capabilities that make driving even more pleasurable and indulgent, thereby more ‘pampering’.”

     

    Added Sean Joseph Colaco, Executive Creative Director at Cheil India: “The Next-Gen MG Hector is now more ‘Human’ than ever! With a new look and brand new technology that indulges, pampers and spoils you. Through the playful antics of our two characters, a butler and his young employer, we demonstrate exactly how much the Next-Gen Hector caters to your every whim and fancy. Shot in and around London, this slice of British aristocratic life, seemed like the perfect setting to demonstrate the ‘royal treatment’ the Next-Gen Hector gives you.”

     

  • Sniper – The 120 Media Collective's multi-platform commercials & content brand – has already executed the first project for Cheil

    Cheil enters strategic partnership with Sniper and Sooperfly

    By A Correspondent

     

    The 120 Media Collective and Cheil Worldwide have entered into a strategic partnership for multi-platform video content starting July 2015. Its brands Sniper and Sooperfly will produce and distribute a wide range of Digital Content for Cheil’s clients.

     

    Speaking about the development, Roopak Saluja, Founder & Chief Executive, The 120 Media Collective, said, “Producing content in various formats over the past nine years has armed us with a deep understanding of the audience and what strikes a chord with them. Our brands, Sniper and Sooperfly come together to seamlessly provide what is needed to engage at scale with digital-first audiences in 2015. Cheil’s trust in us is testimony to our expertise.”

     

    Shiv Sethuraman, Group President – South West Asia, Cheil Worldwide, added, “Video content is the fastest growing area within the Digital play. Not just the creation but, equally importantly, the distribution of content. Clients are tired of agencies offering them TVCs disguised as Video content and this is because many of them haven’t yet understood that the business model requires significantly different capabilities, resources and platforms. The partnership with The 120 Media Collective is designed to bring speed, economies of scale and quality – yes, all three – to Video Content. We believe they are the right partners and that the market is ripe for such an offering.”

     

  • Cheil India's latest television commercial for Samsung's Galaxy Grand Neo in partnership with Enormous Brands sets in a refreshing trend on creative collaborations

    Cheil, Enormous Brands co-create TVC for Galaxy Grand Neo

    By a correspondent

     

    The era of creative collaborations may well have made a landfall on the Indian advertising industry. Cheil India’s latest television commercial for Samsung’s Galaxy Grand Neo in partnership with Enormous Brands sets in a refreshing trend on creative collaborations.

     

    The seamless co-creation both at a strategic and creative level is seen in the Galaxy Grand Neo TVC where it takes the thought ‘Make everyday Grand’ to yet another level. This is ably demonstrated through the surreal space that showcases the remarkable features of the phone through special effects, the experiences of a young couple whether at a restaurant or enjoying an almost live music performance, all to tell the story of how one can be ready for a life less ordinary to ‘Make everyday Grand!’

     

    Nima DT Namchu

    Nima DT Namchu, Chief Creative Officer, Cheil Worldwide SW Asia said of the collaborative creative campaign, “While the news of this collaboration might raise some eyebrows, collaborating with the best talent available at a given point in time is one of the ways to deliver the best possible product for our clients. And as agencies, we have all been doing it for decades – with directors, painters, musicians, sculptors… Of course, working with another creative agency is relatively a new thing.”

     

    Ashish Khazanchi

    Ashish Khazanchi, Managing Partner, Enormous Brands shared, “Advertising is always co-created. Be it client – agency, agency – filmmaker or even a creative and media agency collaboration. However, today, with the surge in numbers of non-network pedigreed creative agencies, alliances like this have not just become possible but also desirable. They simply bring a larger talent pool to the table.”

     

    Kundan Joshee

    According to Kundan Joshee, Sr. Vice President, Cheil Worldwide SW Asia, “Samsung’s Galaxy Grand is all about making the everyday grand. With the Galaxy Grand Neo we decided to take on a new way to look at this opportunity; we do believe we’ve succeeded.”

     

  • Former Cheil VP to help make Yuvraj Agarwal-headed Realm Media into a full-service agency

    Realm Media appoints Ankur Bose as President

    By A Correspondent

     

    Ankur Bose

    Realm Media is moving towards becoming a full service agency by 2013. To accelerate this change for the agency, Realm has got on board Ankur Bose, who will spearhead Realm Media’s transition to a full-service media, communication and entertainment content company. He will also bring to use years of experience of mentoring and working with large teams to help Realm in setting up and training the existing team to deliver on his core expertise areas of consumer activation, shopper marketing, events & promotions, rural marketing etc.

     

     

    Yuvraj Agarwal

    Said Yuvraj Agarwal, Founder & Group CEO, Indraksh Media, the holding company of Realm Media: “We believe in chasing excellence, not success. Ankur brings with him, the same ideology and mindset. We are certain, with his varied skill-set and experience of leading large agency operations, our goals will be met sooner.”

     

    With over 15 years of experience, Mr Bose’s last stint was at Cheil Worldwide as Vice President – Southwest Asia where he was responsible for activation, retail, OOH, digital, advertising for non-Samsung accounts and new business acquisition. On his appointment, he said: “Realm’s progressive thinking, aggressive approach and Yuvraj’s clarity in vision towards creating a media conglomerate is what convinced me to be part of this group. I will focus in growing Realm Media as a 360-degree media agency and with time convert it into a full-service advertising agency”

     

  • McCann's campaign for Western Union bagged India's first Gold as Leo Burnett and Cheil win Silvers and BBDO a Bronze

    1 Gold, 2 Silvers,1 Bronze on Day 3

     

    By A Correspondent

     

    “Of course, it feels awesome to win a Gold for something which we had put in a lot of hard work.” That’s Rahul Mathew, Executive Creative Director, McCann Worldgroup India, Mumbai. Mr Mathew and co-exec CD Akshay Kapnadak worked on the Outdoor Lions-winning campaign for Western Union Money Transfer. “It also reinforces the client’s trust on us and our work,” he said. McCann had produced a three-part campaign for Western Union

     

    McCann bagged India’s first Gold in Outdoor Lions for Western Union Money Transfer

     

    Indian entries won four metals on Day 3 of the Cannes Lions 2012. While McCann bagged India’s first Gold for Western Union Money Transfer in the Outdoor Lions, there were two silvers and one bronze in Media Lions. The sole shortlist from India in Creative Effectiveness did not win any metal and in the Mobile Category, there was no Indian shortlist.

     

    Leo Burnett snatched a Silver for Doorstep School in the Best Localised Campaign category
    Cheil won Silver for Samsung Printers in the Best Use of Integrated Media category
    BBDO won a Bronze Lion for its work on Gillette

    The Silver for Leo Burnett came in for Doorstep School for use of media in the Best Localised Campaign category.  Lead credits for the ad: K V Sridhar, National Creative Director, Nitesh Tiwari, Executive Creative Director, Vikram Pandey, Creative Director and Amit Thakur, Art Director.

     

    The other Silver for Cheil was for Samsung Printers for Best Use of Integrated Media. Lead credits for this: Varun Arora, Executive Creative Director,  Shiva Kumar and Dinkar Porwal, Creative Directors and Kamlesh Jangid and Shubhasis Bhatacharjee, Art Directors.

     

    Speaking on the win, Alok Agrawal, COO at Cheil Worldwide India, said, “The Minus One project for Samsung Printer has been winning awards and accolades at various international and Indian festival. So in a way, we knew that the work was a strong contender to be a winner. This is a fine example of a simple yet a powerful idea. One has seen various environment related communication but this is something which each one can practice by just reducing one point size when taking a printout thus reducing the usage of paper. Also the way the entire idea was approached and communicated was unique and caught up on the viral thus helping in winning the Media Lions.”

     

    The Bronze Lion has been won by BBDO for Gillette. The agency’s campaign titled ‘You Shave, I Shave’ . Lead Credits: Josy Paul, Chairman/Chief Creative Officer, Rajdeepak Das, Executive Creative Director, Sandeep Sawant/Josy Paul/Rajdeepak Das. Creative Director, Josy Paul/Yohan Daver/Riti Hamlai/Prakhar Deogirikar/Rajdeepak Das/Sandeep Sawan, Copywriters,  Rajdeepak Das/Sandeep Sawant/Ravi Shanker/Sagar Jadhav/Yohan Daver/Prakhar Deogi, Art Directors.

     

  • India managed to line up an unprecedented 130 entries in Media Lions 2012 compared to 103 entries that it had sent last year

    India@Cannes: Leo Burnett, Cheil lead race for Media Lions

     

    By A Correspondent

     

    The biggest year by far in terms of the number of entries sent,Indiamanaged to line up an unprecedented 130 entries in Media Lions 2012 compared to 103 entries that it had sent last year. But this number is distant from what the other countries have nominated from their shores:USA- 411,Germany- 272,Brazil- 252 andAustralia- 138. A total of 3,247 entries have been sent from 74 countries compared to 2,895 entries last year – an increase of 12 per cent.

     

    Having widened its scope with the sheer number of entries,Indiashould look at gaining more than 2 wins in this category, a figure which it achieved last year. But whether it will cross 8 metals, which it did in 2009, will be something to be seen at the awards function which will be held on Tuesday evening.

     

    Instituted in 1999 to honour excellence in media strategy, planning and execution and give key players in the media industry an annual meeting point, the jury will be looking not just for brilliant ideas, but moreover, ideas that work. RepresentingIndiaat the Media Lions Jury is Premjeet Sodhi, Chief Operating Officer, Lintas Media Group.

     

    Leo Burnett Mumbai leads the tally with two shortlists including ‘Ink Pad’ forDoorStepSchoolunder the Best Localised Campaign and ‘Happy Sparrows’ for McDonald’s under Best Consumer Engagement. Also having two shortlists is Cheil Worldwide for ‘Minus One Project’ for Samsung under the Best Use of Integrated Media. The entry is also nominated under the Charities, Public Health & Safety, Public Awareness Messages category. The other entries include DDB Mudra’s ‘Smokers Balloon’ for CPAA in the Best Use of Ambient Media and OMD India’s ‘Honeymoon Down Under Works Wonders’ for TourismAustraliain the Best Use of Branded Content & Sponsorship.

     

     

  • Elvis Sequeira, the NCD of Cheil Worldwide Southwest Asia, has left.

    Elvis Sequeira quits Cheil

    By A Correspondent

     

    It is learnt that Elvis Sequeira, the National Creative Director at Cheil Worldwide Southwest Asia has quit the agency. Mr Sequeira had joined the agency just few months ago in March this year. The agency is learnt to be currently hunting for a replacement.

    Mr Sequeira is an advertising veteran and had moved to Cheil from Good Morning Films. He has worked with JWT Delhi as well as Lowe Lintas besides working at Clea, Mudra and Interact Vision.

    Though he could not be reached, a call to the Cheil office confirmed that he has moved out of the agency.

  • Communication can include local flavouring but the core idea remains and finds cohesion when it comes to execution.

    The Anchor: 5 reasons it’s good to be part of an international agency network

    By Alok Agrawal

    #1 Global exposure: There is an opportunity to interact and learn from the various offices of the network spread across the world. Especially in the times we are operating in, it is imperative that we have knowledge of how markets are operating in different parts of the world, and a global network makes this possible.

    #2 One network one brand: With many international brands finding a foothold in India and and Indian brands going International, a network handling the brand helps in creating seamless communication across the world. While communication can include local flavouring, the core idea remains and finds cohesion when it comes to execution.

    #3 People experience: One gets to interact with people from various geographies and learn from them. There is an opportunity to exchange ideas which helps in coming out with better communication solutions.

    #4 New practices: As the business of advertising is undergoing transformation with changing times, being part of the network helps in anticipating those changes, learning from markets that have undergone such changes earlier or anticipate changes and be better equipped to meet those challenges.

    #5 New experience: Besides, it helps in giving an opportunity to travel across the various offices across the world and be part of new experiences.

     

    Alok Agrawal is the Chief Operating Officer of Cheil India/Southwest Asia Regional HQ.