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  • The campaign has been introduced with two films – ‘The Bond’ and ‘The Memory’

    Glenlivet celebrates with two films in new campaign

    By  A Correspondent

     

    The Glenlivet launched its new campaign celebrating the proposition of definitive moments in life.

     

    Said Kartik Mohindra, Chief Marketing Officer, Pernod Ricard India: “The Glenlivet campaign has been designed to celebrate moments, which allow us to lead richer and more fulfilling lives. Given how the young achievers are graduating to finer things in life, it was time, we welcomed them to the world of The Glenlivet. Our latest campaign reiterates that in a world with an oversupply of everything- glut, plenitude and noise, what we need is those definitive moments and the three letter word “The”, an iconic & distinctive symbol, reinforces the same.”

     

    Added Miriam Eceolaza, Marketing Director, The Glenlivet: “The Glenlivet campaign is our most ambitious to date. It’s a modern and contemporary campaign that stays true to our heritage. India is a key market for The Glenlivet, and we have created this specific campaign to celebrate some of life’s definitive moments of the Indian consumer.”

     

    Said Janmenjoy Mohanty, Regional President-North & East, Lowe Lintas India: “Sometimes the most impactful way to put across the brand message is through good old story telling. We chose the most endearing stories that celebrate definitive emotions in an individual’s life. Each one has been painstakingly crafted with a fine mix of stunning visuals, underplayed emotions and music that talks to the soul. We hope each of these stories manage to touch a chord with our target audience.”

     

     

  • Day 2 of 3 of our Effies interviews: Subramanyeswar S, Arun Iyer and Amer Jaleel

    Winning, the MullenLowe Lintas way

     

    Continuing with our interviews with Effies interviews, on Day 2 (of three), we bring you interviews with Subramanyeswar S, Arun Iyer and Amer Jaleel

     

    Subramanyeswar S, National Planning Director – Lowe Lintas India:

    Winning effectiveness and strategy awards:

    Yes, and we are very happy to be there. It’s not just one grand moment for us, it’s the culmination of year-long efforts at various award shows and where we had done consistently well, fantastically well everywhere and something which I would  like to say is that it’s like a game of pole vault. In Olympics when you see the game of pole vault, the idea is not about how fast I run or how deep I have dug into. The question is how high have I jumped and once you do that keep raising the bar and keep jumping again and again and we hate coming second best.

     

    Planning for the awards:

    Planning in the sense of culture, it’s a culture that we have consciously built over many years and at MullenLowe you see that it’s a collective fund of intelligence between creative, planning, account management and the client where everybody comes together and this culture we have consciously built. A culture which actually breeds damn good ideas, ideas that actually win in the marketplace and become effective.

     

    What’s most important for you: planning, creative or strategy?

    It’s not about which is more important. Collectively together. Everything needs to come together into the play. You can’t say if batting is more important or bowling is more important or fielding more important? Everything has to come together. Of course there are times when one plays lot more than other but in the end it’s the collective fund of intelligence of all of us together and we thoroughly enjoy it amongst us and because I am a part of the system I know it, you always feel that energy and that momentum keeps us making it do again and again and we don’t get tired.

     

    Arun Iyer, CCO, Lowe Lintas

    If you have to list the takeouts from this years Effies in terms of winning, what would it be?

    My biggest takeout is the fact that there are a lot more agencies which are actually in the game now and that is a very positive thing for our business. It’s a good thing that other agencies are really doing well in terms of campaigns. That’s my biggest takeout.

     

    Any regrets of not bagging the Grand Effie?

    No real regret but yes it’s actually motivating to make sure that next year we also need to get the Grand Effie and make sure we have a campaign that does that well.

     

    We have noticed in various awards that most of clients are traditional clients of the agencies. There are very few new clients. Does that mean the newer, younger clients are not experimenting enough?

    Not true because even if you see our list of winners, we have won big on Unilever but we have won enough on new e-commerce clients. We won on Byju’s, we won on Hike, we won on Freecharge. so there is a bunch of new e-commerce clients that we have won on as well. One of the things that we have managed well is the balance between old,  seasoned marketers and fairly new marketers. I don’t think it’s about the marketers and the muscle that they have. It’s just about what you do for them.

     

    Any fresh thinking on participating in the creative award?

    Not really unless it dramatically changes because for us it’s really important that what it did in the market place not because we have an opinion on the creative awards, it’s only because that’s the approach we take to our work. While we are thinking about creative, we are trying to push creative boundaries but it’s not pushing creative boundaries for ourselves. It’s pushing creative boundaries for the clients.

     

    So the standpoint doesn’t change after Balki’s moved on?

    This is a question I am asked very often. It’s just that Balki planned this very well. He has not been there on day-to-day basis for sometime now and it’s a culture we all believe in otherwise we wouldn’t be spending this kind of time in the agency if we didn’t believe in the culture. It was a culture that was introduced in the agency by Balki but it’s a culture we all believed in and I’ve lived it and we breathe that culture.

     

    Plans for next year:

    I am taking away a lot of learning. I am taking away learning like conventional media is not enough, we have got to do more stuff. So those are interesting learnings that I am taking back from a lot of the work that I saw. Some of the work that has won is the work that I personally liked very much. So I think there are a lot of learnings at an individual level which I am going to take back and hopefully translate it to the agency.

     

    Amer Jaleel, Chairman & CCO – Mullen Lintas

     

    Winning has become a habit for Lowe Lintas group at the Effies. Third time in four years…

    For me personally the journey that we have started a new agency and we did a little bit of contribution this time to the MullenLowe group but I am very very excited that the work that we did on Bajaj Avenger sort of stood out and won some points for us. Next year, please watch out for us.

     

    Is there some healthy competition between you and your older sibling?

    Healthy, yes but we are not at this moment really competing but I’d like to say that we want to be a parallel agency. We have come with this objective of being a competitor not just to MullenLowe group but to the big networks, Ogilvy, JWT, to McCann of this world and we want to be that agency that makes a difference at the Effies hopefully in time to come as an agency on its own.

     

    Agencies like Pickle which were merged to form Mullen Lintas did participate in creative awards…

    I have a view on this and I want to say that whether it’s the Abby or any other awards I have always said that I would like the criteria to have a bit of contemporary input from the agencies and the thinking of today. As far as Abby considers the input from the people of today, the people who make the advertising today, if they are willing to consider the inputs of today then I don’t mind being a part of Abby

     

    What about your clients? How have they contributed to the success at Effies?

    Let’s take a case in point. Let’s take Bajaj brotherhood, such a huge and differentiated piece of work. We cannot pull it off without having our clients believe in the piece of work. So big big contribution.

     

    A word on Bajaj Auto. Other than Avenger, its Bajaj V campaign has also won great accolades. We’ve heard it from the folks at Leo but what is it that makes Bajaj a dramatically different client than others?

    I’ve been doing work with Bajaj for the last twelve or thirteen years and I think how they look at their brand, for example Avenger, you could say it’s a narrowly focused brand but in that narrow focus they work with the agency to make such a strong and incisive to the kind of audience they are talking about. If you look at the work for V, if you look at the work for Avenger, the work is so different and so incisive and so pointed towards the kind of audience that makes them of the leading clients today.

     

  • The crowning moment for the group came when WARC 100, an annual report from World Advertising and Research Council ranked Lowe Lintas India as the No. 1 Creative Agency in the world

    Mullen Lowe Lintas Group, India wins its 75th award for the year

    By A Correspondent

     

    In a huge achievement for the agency, Mullen Lowe Lintas Group, India picked up its 75th award for the year last night. Ironically for an agency that does not enter creative awards, it has emerged as the “most awarded agency” in India in 2015. All 75 awards were won either for market/campaign effectiveness or on overall agency performance.

     

    Beginning from the Effie India 2014, to the recently concluded Campaign South Asia Agency of the Year awards, Mullen Lowe Lintas Group has won a total of 75 honours this year. It began with the agency winning 7 Golds at Effie India announced in Jan 2015. It was the most by any agency for the year and beat the Gold tally of all other agencies put together. It went on to win another 6 Silver & 8 Bronze metals at the event. It followed this performance by winning the ‘Agency of the Year’ title and Carmencita Esteban Platinum Award at UA&P Asia Pacific Tambuli Awards. In all, the agency won 2 Grand Prix, 14 Golds, 3 Silvers, and 1 Bronze at the Tambuli awards this year.

     

    The crowning moment for the group came when WARC 100, an annual report from World Advertising and Research Council ranked Lowe Lintas India as the No. 1 Creative Agency in the world while Kan Khajura Tesan (KKT) was adjudged the Best Marketing Campaign in the world. Further, at the Asian Marketing Effectiveness Awards, the agency was declared Effectiveness Agency of the Year and went on to win 10 awards, including four Silver and six Bronze awards.

     

    On the Effie Index front, Mullen Lowe Lintas Group went on to win the title of the Most Effective Agency in India and Asia Pacific. It was also adjudged the third most Effective agency globally. At the Cannes Lions 2015, KKT won a Bronze award for Creative Effectiveness while at Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity, it won the Grand Prix for Creative Effectiveness – the only such accolade for India.

     

    At the Warc Prize for Asian Strategy, the group won a Grand Prix, a Gold, a Silver & a Bronze. The year culminated for the agency with a fine performance at the Campaign Asia Agency of the Year awards show where it was declared the ‘Best Creative Agency of the Year’ and also won the Best New Business Development Team of the Year, Best Strategic/Brand Planner of the Year and Best Account Person of the Year.

     

    Awards Scorecard 2015 of MLLG:

     

    Joseph George

    Commenting on the agency’s strong performance on the awards front, Joseph George, Regional President|South & Southeast Asia & Group CEO|India said, “It’s been a milestone year for us in India. We are glad to have ended the year on the same high that we started it. All this recognition is a result of all our key people putting up their hands, wanting to be counted and bringing value to the table. And this happened only because everyone thought of themselves as key stakeholders of the company. ”

     

    What made the honours this year even more special were a few special awards that were firsts for India. Noteworthy mentions include: The Local Hero Special Award for Havells at the Warc Prize for Asian Strategy; being declared Runners-up AdAge International Agency of the Year – again a first for an agency from India; and at the 4A’s Jay Chiat Awards – the award for strategic excellence where the best of Madison Avenue competes with the world – the agency did an unprecedented feat of consecutive double wins, two years in a row.

     

    Arun Iyer

    Adding his views on the agency’s achievement, Arun Iyer, Chief Creative Officer, Lowe Lintas India said, “I’m proud of the consistency with which each of our offices has churned out some great work across a large and diverse client set. Our work has excelled on a portfolio that’s a combination of classical and progressive brands, from young upstarts to large market leaders. 2015 serves as a reminder of how setting the bar high, is an everyday pursuit, and how successful teams are greater than the individuals.”

     

    Amer Jaleel

    Amer Jaleel, Chairman & CCO, Mullen Lintas India said, “The best barometer of our work being appreciated is when it manages to bring about a shift in perception and thought among the people. That’s what we achieved with few of our brands that went on to redefine the way a campaign should be approached and which ended up winning awards that were unique in nature. Special accolades for Indian brands such as Havells, Tata Tea and the others were something that no agency had ever received before and we are proud to have set a trend by being the first.”

     

  • Lowe Lintas's sequel campaign for Hit Anti Roach Gel urges consumers to 'Just count to 20'

    This Diwali, Godrej crafts a plan to hit cockroaches

    By A Correspondent

     

    With the initial campaign delivering good results for the brand, Lowe Lintas India has unveiled a sequel to Hit Anti Roach Gel that informs consumers to not kill cockroaches, but just count to 20.

     

    While the elements and packaging of the launch campaign in 2012 were clear on how to use the product, , a post-launch evaluation brought to light a fact that some users were not singing praises of the brand as desired. After analysing consumer attitude towards the brand, the team at Lowe Lintas were able to conclude that the unhappiness and doubt on product efficacy stemmed from incorrect product usage.

     

    Sharing his thoughts on the new campaign, Ajay Dang, VP – Marketing, Godrej Consumer Products Limited said, “We have a great product in Hit Anti Roach Gel. We need to ensure that our consumers get best results by using it in the right way. The first film concentrated on creating awareness about a disruptive innovation in the category. This second film is sure to get the message clear, on how to use the product and get a roach-free house in just 20 dots. The film is successful in communicating this message in the typical Hit style.”

     

    Arun Iyer

    Elaborating on the creative approach that was followed for the campaign, Arun Iyer, National Creative Director – Lowe Lintas + Partners said, “While the brief was very functional and product focused; it was important to ensure two key things, we maintained the kind of Hit humour that audiences have come to expect from us and also that every person who saw the film even once was left with the clear message of – minimum 20 dots in each room for best results.”

     

    The campaign will be played across all major television channels and will also take the traditional media routes including outdoor, digital, etc.

     

  • LinOpinion will partner with Polaris to develop the best communications route to assist the brand's foray into the Indian market

    Polaris India appoints LinOpinion as PR partner

    By A Correspondent

     

    LinOpinion, the PR division of Lowe LintasIndia, has added yet another powerhouse brand to its portfolio with Polaris India Pvt. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Polaris Industries INC.

     

    Polaris Industries is the Minnesota-based off-road vehicles company. It is a recognized leader in the production of innovative, high quality off-road vehicles. These include all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) for recreational and utility use, snowmobiles, military and government vehicles, motorcycles and on-road electric powered vehicles.

     

    LinOpinion will partner with Polaris to develop the best communications route to assist the brand’s foray into the Indian market. Although off-roading as a concept is still in a nascent stage inIndia, Polaris, with their sector expertise and world-class products, are all set to take the Indian market by storm.

     

    “We are very confident that through our association with LinOpinion and their expertise we will be able to create a distinctive identity for the brand. Our aim is to build awareness not only for the brand but the entire category. We are confident of LinOpinion’s strategy and we look forward to a strong and long-term relationship with them,” said Mr. Pankaj Dubey, Managing Director, Polaris India Pvt. Ltd.

     

    “We are extremely proud and eagerly look forward to work with a prestigious brand like Polaris India. This feeds into our objective to represent the world’s best brands. We hope to partner the brand by supporting them with their business and communication objectives,” said Mr. Ameer Ismail, Executive Director, Lowe Lintas.

     

    LinOpinion, the public relations division of Lowe Lintas, was established in 1994. It is the exclusive Indian affiliate of Golin Harris, the leading international PR firm of the Interpublic Group. It provides brand image consultancy to leading MNC and Indian companies.