HP India has launched its latest range of HP Pavilion laptops with a multi-film campaign. Conceptualised by Lowe Lintas Delhi, the campaign aims to appeal to the younger segment who are returning to their schools and colleges post the pandemic.
Talking about the campaign, Prashant Jain, CMO, HP India said: “GenZ today, are digital natives and technology is a part of everything that they do. To enable their use cases of creation, academics and long hours of entertainment, HP has always been at the forefront of bringing superior and cutting-edge technology to these young PC users. This campaign presents the same through the lens of two quirky and fun GenZ, Alisha and Garima, whom we hope our audience will love, just as much as we have grown to.”
Commenting on the campaign, Vasudha Misra, Regional Creative Officer, Lowe Lintas added: “Some films, through their scripting, casting and direction almost feel like small trailers of a feature film that we can imagine in our heads. This campaign falls into that category. Where we don’t just see the features of HP Pavilion come alive, but also this quirky, funny relationship between these two girls. Kudos to Siddhant (Mago) and his team. I for one, really love this campaign.”
OLX Autos has appointed Lowe Lintas Delhi as its agency. The agency’s scope primarily includes delivering offline and digital communication for the brand, amongst other responsibilities.
Sapna Arora
Commenting on its association with Lowe Lintas, Sapna Arora, Regional Head for OLX Autos Brand, CMO (India), Head Public Relations (India) said: “We are delighted to welcome Lowe Lintas on board OLX, especially as we expand our retail presence and online autos marketplace business across India to solidify OLX Autos as India’s leading omnichannel pre-owned automobile marketplace. The consumer-centric approach of Lowe Lintas will enable us to extend our connection with the existing consumer base while also tapping into a newer consumer base of first-time car owners. We look forward to delighting our consumers, dealer partners and automobile ecosystem with memorable brand campaigns that have made OLX a household brand across India.”
Naveen Gaur
Added Naveen Gaur, Deputy CEO, Lowe Lintas said: “OLX and Lowe Lintas have had a great relationship, and the work we did in past still resonates with people today. It is great to be on board with them again for their Autos business. They appreciate our skill set when it comes to understanding the Indian consumer, insights, strategy and expertise in a digital consumption world. We look forward to creating powerful work on OLX Autos in the coming year.”
Cars24 has launched a new campaign that highlights a unique way of selling cars directly to its customers. Offerings like ‘instant payment’ and ‘free RC transfer’ are part of the new Customer-to-Customer model. Lowe Lintas Delhi has conceived an integrated campaign to promote this new offering.
Commenting on the development, Nida Naushad, Brand Head, Cars24 said: “We are super-excited since this is our second campaign with MS Dhoni and after the success of Dhoni Review System we have even higher hopes for the new one. This campaign highlights that customers no longer have to go through the hassles of looking for the right buyer for their car and also focuses on benefits of selling directly to the end customer; hence it gives our customers the best of both worlds.”
Added Janmenjoy Mohanty, Regional Creative Officer, Lowe Lintas: “In our first initiative for Cars 24, we spotted a unique problem – that sellers often don’t realise buyers are right around where they are, closer to them than they think. And we got Dhoni to play on the front foot, showing second-hand car sellers that Cars 24 was indeed the best place to meet those buyers, directly.”
India Gate Basmati Rice unveiled a new campaign conceived by Lowe Lintas Delhi titled ‘India Ki Puraani Aadat’.
Said Ayush Gupta, Business Head, KRBL: “India Gate has been a part of Indian households since many years. Our baseline, ‘India ki Puraani Aadat’ says that beautifully. This is a unique angle on lockdown which belongs to the brand. The film is an ode to old habits from another old habit of India. We hope it makes you smile and gives you strength, to see this through.”.
Commenting on the campaign thought, Janmenjoy Mohanty, Regional Creative Officer, Lowe Lintas added: “India Gate is a brand that has always stood for all that is good about India. As families spend time indoors during the lockdown, they are rediscovering things they once used to do together, old habits they had always loved. The brand celebrates these ‘purani aadats’, habits that unite us and make us quintessentially Indian.”
Lowe Lintas has announced the appointment of Joy Mohanty as Regional President – North & East. Mohanty will lead the creative function for the Delhi and Kolkata offices of Lowe Lintas reporting to Chief Creative Officer, Arun Iyer.
In a career spanning 23 years, Mohanty has worked with leading agencies in India. His last assignment was as National Creative Director, Publicis Capital, from where he moves after over 11 years. His portfolio includes work for leading clients like Maruti Suzuki Corporate, Makemytrip, Maggi, Nescafe Sunrise, Nestle Every Day, Milkmaid, Intex, Subway, Spicejet, Swift, Apollo Tyres, Suzuki Motorcycles, LG Home Appliances and others.
Welcoming Mohanty to the agency, Arun Iyer said, “Lowe Lintas Delhi has been buzzing with some spectacular work in the recent past. Having someone like Joy Mohanty lead and drive the creative function, will further consolidate our reputation as being the most creative agency in Delhi, as also to push forward the creative agenda in Kolkata. We welcome him wholeheartedly and look forward to working closely with him to usher in an even stronger creative culture in these 2 offices of Lowe Lintas.â€
Speaking about his new role at Lowe Lintas, Mohanty added: “It’s a great feeling to be part of an institution like Lowe Lintas. I have admired their work over the years. It will be an honour for me to add energy and momentum to a body of work already making waves. I can’t wait to get started.â€
TravelTriangle, a leading online holiday marketplace has appointed Lowe Lintas Delhi to handle its creative duties. A host of agencies competed for the account but Lowe Lintas Delhi was shortlisted for its clear understanding of the brief and suggesting a plan that resonated with what the brand had in mind for the Indian market.
​Commenting on the appointment, Sankalp Agarwal, CEO & Co-founder, TravelTriangle said, “TravelTriangle is built on a unique business model and communications is strategic to our category. With Lowe Lintas as our creative partner, we hope to make definite strides towards improving our brand offering in the market.”
Naveen Gaur
​On the new business win, Naveen Gaur, President, Lowe Lintas Delhi said, “Indians are now holidaying and traveling more often both domestic and internationally as well. Amidst the presence of local travel agents and variety of online travel portals catering to travelers, we saw the uniqueness of TravelTriangle – a product which makes for a seamless and pleasurable holiday planning and booking experience which Indians will really value. We are excited to leverage this innovative product and build a strong consumer brand which challenges the status quo in the category.â€
​TravelTriangle is an online travel planning portal with a network of more than 600 travel agents located in India and abroad. Based out of Noida with a team of 300 people, the company is the brainchild of three IIT alumni – Sankalp Agarwal, Sanchit Garg and Prabhat Gupta. ​As the name suggests, it’s an eco-system play of three constituents: travelers, travel agents, and an efficient marketplace. The USP of the platform is in its personalized approach, customer oriented product and reliable fulfillment. Operating in 60+ destinations, TravelTriangle has served over half a million travelers till date.
​This win marks another one for Lowe Lintas Delhi that has been seeing steady business growth over past few months. A few brands that Lowe Lintas Delhi handles include Vivo, Google, HouseFull, Youtube, Olx, Pepmelt, Revital, Zopper etc.
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MullenLowe Lintas Group is one of the largest country operations of the MullenLowe Group (part of the Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE: IPG). It has operating divisions in advertising (Lowe Lintas, Mullen Lintas), design (dCell), PR (GolinOpinion), brand consulting (LinConsult), experiential marketing & activation (LinEngage), video content (LinProductions) and digital marketing (LinTeractive) that manage 300+ clients. With a talent pool of over 900 people across 7 cities in India, MullenLowe Lintas Group currently manages more brands amongst the Top 10, Top 20, Top 50 and Top 100 of AC Nielsen-Brand Equity’s India’s Most Trusted Brands (2013 and 2014), than any other agency in India. In February 2015, MullenLowe Lintas Group was ranked the No. 1 creative agency in the world in effectiveness by the World Advertising and Research Council’s report, WARC 100. Recently, the group was declared the Effie Agency of the Year for 2015 in India.
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Having won the rights to partner the Indian Premier League (IPL) for 2016 & 2017 as Title Sponsor, Vivo Mobiles, the third largest mobile handset manufacturer in China, has appointed Lowe Lintas Delhi as its creative partner. The agency is tasked with the communication mandate for the smartphone major during the IPL season this year.
Vivo Mobile India would be using the opportunity to launch a host of new smartphones around the IPL. This would be in addition to a range of models under the X, V and Y Series that have already been launched in India and have met with an overwhelming customer response. The 45-day grand cricketing spectacle will help brand Vivo gain scale as millions of viewers would be tuning in to watch the most celebrated cricket league in the world.
Alex Feng
On appointing Lowe Lintas Delhi, Alex Feng, CEO, Vivo Mobile India said: “Lowe brings two important things to the table: their vast experience in mobile category and their strong credentials in building powerful brands. We are confident that this partnership on IPL will be fulfilling. We met a few agencies, and the Lowe Lintas Delhi team, led by Rajiv Chatterjee, stood out. We have high expectations with the IPL association and are confident that we’ve found the right agency partner.â€
Naveen Gaur
Commenting on the new business win, Naveen Gaur, President, Lowe Lintas Delhi said, “We are very excited to work with Vivo. They have declared their ambition in India by taking up the IPL Title Sponsorship. With our prior experience in handling mobile players, we are confident that we will be able to create cut-through work to firmly entrench this brand in an incredibly competitive landscape of mobile handsets.â€
Since its foray in India over a year ago, Vivo Mobile India has built a sizeable presence in the country. Operating in the smartphone category, Vivo is known to offer the best Hi-Fi music experience in the market along with a few other prominent features. The company currently has more than 10,000 employees across India with over 100 Indian employees at its Gurgaon headquarters and is working with 10,000 retailers in 400 cities across 22 states. The brand has about 30 service centres across India and hopes to cross the 200 figure mark by the end of 2016.
Pernod Ricard India has appointed Lowe Lintas Delhi as its brand communication partner. The agency was shortlisted after a multi-agency pitch. Lowe Lintas Delhi will be the second agency which will work on the wide portfolio of brands in a dual agency format.
As the creative partner, the agency would be handling the mandate of some of the leading brands marketed by Pernod Ricard India including Absolut, Blenders Pride, Nine Hills among others.
Sharing his views on appointing the agency, Sumeet Lamba, Executive Director Business Development, Pernod Ricard India, said, “We are delighted to be associated with Lowe Lintas Delhi who will partner us in our journey ahead for some of our core brands. The team showcased their ability to think in a very non-linear way and that’s what made the selection decision easy for us, we look forward to harnessing Lowe Lintas’ expertise to make sure the team delivers some amazing work.â€
Naveen Gaur
Commenting on the win, Naveen Gaur, President, Lowe Lintas Delhi said, “It’s a very exciting and challenging category but the more thrilling part is working with Pernod Ricard India. They have a bouquet of some iconic brands like Absolut and Blenders Pride and our task will be to take the brands further in a very unique and a disruptive way. We are really looking forward to our association with Pernod Ricard India to create some outstanding and out-of-the-box work.â€
As a brand, Havells Wires has always stood out in the way it communicates its core message to its audience. Taking its credo of ‘Wires that don’t catch fire’ further, Havells Wires has unveiled a new campaign that depicts an emotional bond between a father and daughter. As it has done with its past campaigns, the brand has leaned on an emotional tale to lend across its message to the general populace. The strategy being that a functional benefit such as a fire-proof wire when shown through an emotional angle makes the communication seem more relatable and believable.
The campaign is live on digital platforms and will be on-air across major television channels soon.
Explaining the rationale behind the new film, Vijay Narayanan, VP-Marketing, Havells India Limited said: “The objective was to reinforce the product proposition of ‘flame-retardant wires’ by means of a powerful emotional story which connects with the consumers.â€
Conceptualized by Lowe Lintas Delhi, the commercial has been shot in the picturesque state of Kashmir. The story is set on a cold, winter morning at Dal Lake, Kashmir. A daughter, who must have risen early to prepare lunch for her hardworking father rows a boat across the lake to deliver food in a tiffin box. By the time she reaches, the food is almost cold. Fearing that the food will become inedible once it’s cold, she urges her father to eat immediately. But her father bogged down by work, shirks her away. Undeterred the girl continues urging her father, but then she eventually gives up and leaves. But before leaving she uses Havells wires as an apparatus to heat the food.
Amer Jaleel
Sharing his thoughts on the creative approach behind the film, Amer Jaleel, National Creative Director, Lowe Lintas + Partners said, “We consider each category piece on Havells as a mother brand piece. Although this is about a specific benefit of wires it feeds into the Havells brand. These days some brands are also channels. What will emerge from Havells is something that people are looking forward to. In that light we wanted the wires work to add to the emotional equity on Havells. We try to be simple and real and somewhere we wanted the brand to be viewed as being a part of lives in every part of the country. Set in Kashmir, the little story echoes every girl’s feelings for her Dad.â€
Said Ayush Gupta, Business Head, KRBL: “India Gate has been a part of Indian households since many years. Our baseline, ‘India ki Puraani Aadat’ says that beautifully. This is a unique angle on lockdown which belongs to the brand. The film is an ode to old habits from another old habit of India. We hope it makes you smile and gives you strength, to see this through.”.
Commenting on the campaign thought, Janmenjoy Mohanty, Regional Creative Officer, Lowe Lintas added: “India Gate is a brand that has always stood for all that is good about India. As families spend time indoors during the lockdown, they are rediscovering things they once used to do together, old habits they had always loved. The brand celebrates these ‘purani aadats’, habits that unite us and make us quintessentially Indian.”
