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  • The campaign will run across TV, outdoor and social media with a focus on the metros and key regional markets

    Tata Capital campaign highlights retail loans

    By A Correspondent

     

    Tata Capital has launched a new mass media brand campaign with the message ‘Taal-matol ko choddo, Tata Capital se rishta jodo’. The campaign consists of three TVCs that focus on Tata Capital’s key retail loan offerings – personal, home and business loans.

     

    Commenting on the brand campaign, Abonty Banerjee, Chief Marketing and Digital Officer, Tata Capital said: “Our objective is become a brand of choice amongst retail loan audiences and the campaign is a step in that direction. The messages of the campaign ‘Taal-matol ko choddo’ are all drawn from everyday life with a humorous take and we are confident that consumers will relate strongly with these messages. We believe that the campaign will significantly increase brand awareness and trigger purchase for our key retail loan products – home, personal and small business loans from Tata Capital, the most trusted brand in the country.”

     

    The advertisements were conceptualised by Cartwheel, Tata Capital’s Creative agency. Added D Ramakrishna, Founder and Creative Head, Cartwheel:”It’s human nature to put things off. Till something happens that tips the balance. Whether it’s buying a home, taking a much needed vacation, or expanding one’s business. This campaign is built around this insight. It urges people to stop putting things off and to do that thing they’ve been wanting to, by showcasing quick loans from Tata Capital.”

     

     

  • Tata Capital is looking to create an ideal learning environment for the children

    Tata Capital supports the cause of Right to Education

    By A Correspondent

     

    Addressing the serious issue of illiteracy faced by small towns, Tata Capital’s ‘Do Right’ campaign reached out to Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh and identified a true Do Righter Ajeet Singh, founder of the unique Varanasi boat school.

     

    With an objective of engaging with the children of a community near River Ganga, Ajeet started a novel and innovative boat school for these children who otherwise would sit idle or pick rags. The boat school provides basic schooling here.

     

    In support of his noble initiative, Tata Capital is looking to create an ideal learning environment for the children of this boat school through a magical transformation. Starting with the makeover of the interiors, which includes renovations and repairs; to providing them with necessary facilities like a library, educational toys, stationery, a computer and a painting kit. For this a sum of INR 90,000/- is required to transform the boat.

     

    To support this cause, Digital L&K Saatchi & Saatchi through the social media properties will help highlight the initiative undertaken by Ajeet Singh and will aim at gaining support from the community at large in raising funds to enlighten the future of these children who are deprived of the basic right to education.

     

    Commenting on the Do Right campaign, Anil K Nair, CEO & Managing Director, Digital L&K Saatchi & Saatchi, said “How can we get ordinary consumers to participate in a brands philosophy and campaign? How do we convert the social media into a force for the good? ‘The Journey of Doing Right’ is a powerful campaign that is ‘live creativity’ as it’s best. A campaign that engages, inspires and involves people at the same time to participate in the philosophy of doing right. Let’s give the children of this unique boat school the ideal learning environment that they truly deserve. One can visit www.doright.in and contribute to this cause.”

     

    Recently, Digital L&K Saatchi & Saatchi successfully completed the story of Shikshangram Shelter on this Journey of Doing Right. Shikshangram Shelter, a Pune based NGO was going through financial crisis and was unable to bear overhead expenses, including their electricity bills. Digital L&K Saatchi & Saatchi reached out to various communities and managed to collect a sum of INR 1,26,500/- in just five days. With these funds Shikshangram Shelter is now a self-sustaining institute with solar panels installed across the premises.

     

  • In AdStrat, how Tata Capital wanted to connect with the digital audience in an engaging manner, getting them to participate in its brand philosophy…

    AdStrat: Do it Rght, urges Tata Capital

    Campaign:The Journey of Doing Right

     

    Brief:

    Tata Capital wanted to connect with the digital audience in an engaging manner, getting them to participate in its brand philosophy: “We only do what’s right for you”. Through the ‘Do Right’ initiative, they aimed at inspiring people to ‘Do Right’ & wanted to provide them with a platform to do so. The same was achieved with a successful first season of the ‘Half Stories’ initiative and are now in the midst of the next season with a larger objective.

     

    The TG:

    TG is people between the age group of 25-45, who believe in doing whatever they can for society and love helping those in need. They are either associated with an NGO or doing some on-ground work towards a social cause. There are many who often don’t know where to begin and Tata Capital wanted to give these individuals a platform to do so.

     

    The Insight:

    India is a land of a million challenges. Challenges like illiteracy, pollution and women empowerment that need greater attention. But while our country may face a million challenges, in us, it has 1.2 billion solutions.

     

    About the campaign:

    At every turn in this country, there is an issue staring at us. In fact, there are millions of micro stories in India that stem from macro challenges that are facing the nation. So an issue faced by one family could actually be a challenge faced by the entire nation. How can these issues be highlighted? A movement to get the support of the people of India towards these issues was needed – via a contribution or providing physical support.

     

    This season, Tata Capital started by asking India to identify the biggest challenges that face the country. We are now highlighting these challenges on a journey where we will discover real stories of obstacles, sacrifices and challenges that will take us across this vast nation. We will not only complete these stories, but also highlight the macro issues behind them facing India.

     

    It has successfully completed the first story in its Journey of Doing Right in the Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat where, through an ingenious solution called a Wicking Bed, where we would be providing a permanent solution to the challenge of food scarcity.

     

    Anil Nair

    Anil S. Nair, CEO & Managing Partner, Digital L&K Saatchi & Saatchi said: “How can we get ordinary consumers to participate in a brands philosophy and campaign? How do we convert the social media into a force for the good? ‘The Journey of Doing Right’ is a powerful campaign that is ‘live creativity’ as its best. A campaign that engages, inspires and involves people at the same time to participate in the philosophy of doing right.”

     

    Veetik Deoras – Head – Brand Marketing, Corporate Communication and Digital Vertical at Tata Capital commented: “The Do Right initiative reflects the proposition of the Tata Capital brand – “We Only Do What’s Right for You”. The initiative aims to help spread the philosophy of Doing Right and provide platforms to ‘Do Right’. The Journey of Doing Right is one such key platform. As the first phase of this Journey, we identified the five biggest challenges that India today faces via an online survey (Tata Capital India4India Survey). Having identified these five challenges, we began the Journey of highlighting each of these using the powerful medium of story-telling. Our first story emanated in the Kharaghoda district of Little Rann of Kutch where the harsh terrain doesn’t allow food to grow. We and other ‘do righters’ came forward together to help alleviate Food Scarcity by providing an ingenious solution (‘wicking bed’) which reduces water requirement for growing vegetables by over 90%. The Do Right initiative, based on the insight that – doing right is inherent to all of us – has connected with thousands of individuals, using the power of digital medium, and helped them Do what is Right.”

     

  • The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program recognizing big ideas in marketing and communications

    Tata Capital wins big at The Communicator Awards 2014

    By a correspondent

     

    Tata Capital’s Half Stories initiative, part of the ‘Do Right’ initiative, won the Award of Excellence (Gold) in the Integrated Campaign category at The Communicator Awards 2014. The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program recognizing big ideas in marketing and communications. Founded two decades ago, The Communicator Awards receives over 6,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world.

     

    The ‘Do Right’ initiative emanates from the brand philosophy of Tata Capital – ‘We only do what’s right for you’ and aims to spread the spirit of ‘doing right’ in society at large. ‘Half Stories’ – the journey of doing right – is a 2000km bike journey that aims to discover simple stories of unfulfilled needs of everyday people from some of the remotest parts of India. Through digital media, specifically social media, the initiative helped showcase these stories, and then by letting ordinary citizens step in and support their needs and dreams, effectively script a happy end to these ‘half stories’.

     

    Speaking about the achievement, Veetika Deoras, Head of Brand Marketing and Corporate Communication, Tata Capital said, “The ‘Do Right’ initiative is a key initiative for Tata Capital and our aim through the initiative is to help propagate the philosophy of ‘doing right’ by inspiring people to do right, provide platforms to doing right and doing right ourselves. Half Stories is a platform that allows us as ordinary people, to get connected with simple stories of simple needs of other people and together script a happier end. It is about two halves, which ordinarily would have never met, meeting. We are deeply encouraged by this recognition and want to thank the Communicator Awards panel for their vote of confidence in the campaign and supporting us.”

     

    The Communicator Awards is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of Visual Arts, an invitation-only group consisting of top-tier professionals from acclaimed media, communications, advertising, creative and marketing firms. IAVA members include executives from organizations such as Conde Nast, Disney, Estee Lauder, Lockheed Martin, MTV Networks, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Time, Wired and Yahoo!

     

    The Communicator Awards honors work that transcends innovation and craft – work that made a lasting impact, providing an equal chance of winning to all entrants regardless of company or agency size and project budget.

     

  • The finance firm launches the Do Right Initiative at www.doright.in

    Tata Capital invites Indians to share their ‘Do Right’ story

    By A Correspondent

     

    Financial services firm Tata Capital has launched the ‘Do Right’ initiative with the aim of “inspiring and inculcating the ‘right’ values in children from a young age, so that an overall positive impact is made in society at large”.

     

    The initiative, reflective of Tata Capital’s brand promise – ‘We only do what’s right for you’, is an attempt to get parents and other adults to spread the spirit of ‘doing right’,inspiring children through their actions, informs a communique. As a key step in the Do Right initiative, Tata Capital has launched the ‘Do Right’ Stories, a compilation of warm, heart-warming stories of children exhibiting the spirit of ‘do right’ in their daily lives. Individuals are encouraged to share their childhood stories or stories of their children exhibiting values such as trust, respect and honesty on the Do Right Stories platform on the website www.doright.in.

     

    A highlight of the exercise is also the Tata Capital Signature song, the lyrics of which have been written by lyricist Gulzar and whose music has been composed and performed by Shankar Ehsaan Loy.

     

  • Behind every great commercial is super strategy. Every week, MxMIndia brings for you the brief and the strat as given by the client and whatever else that went into creating a winning ad. AdStrat is compiled by Shubhangi Mehta

    Ad Strat: Max Weekends – chillout time

    Priya Pardiwalla, Vice president and senior creative director and Steven Mathais, Associate vice-president and senior creative director, JWT.

     

    Name of the Campaign/Ad: Max Weekends

     

    The Brief: Showcase that Set Max has the best collection of Bollywood blockbusters and the best way to spend weekends is, at home watching Max

     

    Research insights:

    A sizeable chunk of the Indian public is so tired after work that by the time the weekend arrives, they would rather stay at home and enjoy the weekends with family than venture out to crowded malls and other public spaces.

     

    [youtube width=”400″ height=”250″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiP5h7-awpE[/youtube]

    Thought process behind the creative:

    Tap into popular perceptions that certain people like policemen, cricketers and models have a very cushy life and their jobs are rather ‘easy’ or ‘glamorous’ to perform. And then demonstrate how things are not as they appear. And the way to recharge and bounce back is by chilling over the weekend and watching Max Weekends.

     

    Media vehicles chosen:

    TV and limited outdoor in upcountry markets.

     

    Key issues kept in mind while executing the ad:

    While the situations are based on real insights and experiences, the treatment is humorous and over the top.

     

    Does the treatment do justice to the brief:

    Max is an entertainment channel for the whole family so the commercials too need to be as engaging and entertaining as the movies showcased and should appeal to all concerned.

     

    What is the differentiating factor about the ad:

    The fresh factor is that ads show professions generally perceived to be very easy, glamorous and cushy and the irony and truth behind them. The spin on this insight is what creates the differentiation!

     

  • Behind every great commercial is super strategy. Every week, MxMIndia will bring you the brief and the strat as given by the client and whatever else that went into creating a winning ad. AdStrat is compiled by Shubhangi Mehta.

    AdStrat: Happy beginnings with Shubh Aarambh

    Abhijit Avasthi, NCD, Ogilvy & Mather

     

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    Name of the Campaign/Ad:

    Cadbury Dairy Milk – Shubh Aarambh

     

    The Brief:

    Get consumers to eat more chocolate by creating new occasions for consumption.

     

    Research insights

    Our strategy was to grow chocolate consumption by making it part of Indian meetha (sweet) consumption behaviour. By positioning ourselves as meetha and an accompaniment to celebrations, the most obvious meetha consumption moment in India the brand saw tremendous growths. The challenge for the brand was how could we go beyond this?
    How do we integrate with the Indian meetha behaviour even more strongly beyond celebratory occasions?

     

    Analysis of culture codes of chocolate and meetha helped to uncover a new opportunity and a new occasion for chocolate consumption.

     

    The western culture code for chocolate is: Sin. Chocolate came to India from the west but the culture code for chocolate in India is different. In India chocolate had become ‘meetha‘ and to Indians, the significance of sweet or meetha runs beyond its physical and functional attributes.

     

    In India sweet (meetha) performs a spiritual role. Meetha is offered to the gods, it allows us to connect with optimism. Meetha is associated with festivity, purity, and all things good and happy. The Indian culture code for sweet (meetha) hence chocolate is: Auspicious.

     

    This led us to the cultural insight: “Having something sweet before starting or doing anything new is considered auspicious and suggests that the outcome would be good”. More like “Things that are begun on a sweet note have sweet endings”.

     

    The thought process behind the creative:

    Having something sweet before starting something new is an old Indian tradition and is deeply entrenched in our behaviour. Changing such behaviour is the most difficult task, but Cadbury Dairy Milk was determined to achieve it. So how did we do it? How did we make chocolate a part of auspicious occasions? We realized that the way to get into the traditional auspicious occasion zone was by transforming it.

     

    So we redefined the auspicious occasions – made it more contemporary, gave it a fresh perspective. These were not the conventional auspicious moments that India was generally used to. These were more modern and reflected the progressive young India. These real but non-obvious ‘Shubh aarambh‘ moments would expand the footprint beyond traditional occasions like beginning a journey, buying something new during Diwali or Navratri, house warming (moving into a new home), before exams etc…

     

    And the idea of starting anything new on an auspicious note with CDM was conceived –
    ‘Make a Shubh Aarambh with Cadbury Dairy Milk’.

     

    While most of the past CDM campaigns like “Pappu pass ho gaya” focussed on meetha after something good had happened – celebrations (post event), this uncovered a new meetha occasion, meetha before a new start (pre event). Shubh aarambh was an even bigger opportunity as inevitably the number of number of people anticipating success tends to be much higher than those who actually succeed.

     

    Media vehicles chosen:

    TV was the main medium to launch the ‘big brand idea’ but the campaign was also supported with a robust 360 programme (Radio, OOH Print, Mobile and Internet) creating a multiplier effect for the campaign.

     

    Key issues kept in mind while executing the ad:

    Creating contemporary ‘Shubh aarambh‘ moments.
    Real but non-obvious ‘Shubh aarambh‘ moments like a boy asking a girl out for the first time or a middle-aged sari-wearing lady stepping out in jeans for the first time, or a girl eloping with her boyfriend; all situations that one is likely to encounter these days anywhere in India. These allowed us to squeeze our way into tradition by transforming – making it contemporary.

     

    Does the treatment do justice to the brief?

    The executions turned contemporary new beginnings into memorable ‘Shubh aarambh‘ moments on television. Deliberately shorn of glam and celebrity endorsements, the executions helped the idea shine brightly. The results speak for themselves. It got over 7,50,000 views on YouTube and its popularity even crossed Indian shores. It was easily the most recalled and liked campaign in 2010.

     

    What according to you is the differentiating factor about the ad/campaign?

    It came from a real insight into India and Indians and the creative helped it shine through in a way that connected with consumers from all walks of life and across age groups.

     

    Market and client feedback:

    Forty-two per cent value growth and a 33 per cent volume over the previous year for a brand of its size is nothing short of spectacular. To put it in perspective, just the additional volumes from the campaign accounted for enough CDM bars to cover more than 2.5 times the Great Wall of China!

     

    The campaign was awarded the ‘Global Marketing Excellence award’ for best IMC within Kraft Foods and has also won accolades at all leading creative and effectiveness awards including Grand Prix at ABBYs, Gold at AME and APPIES.

     

  • Behind every great commercial is super strategy. Every week, MxMIndia will bring you the brief and the strat as given by the client and whatever else that went into creating a winning ad. AdStrat is compiled by Shubhangi Mehta.

    AdStrat: Humming Girl

    Amod Dani, ECD, Leo Burnett

     

    The campaign:

    Humming Girl

     

    The client:

    Tata Capital

     

    The agency:

    Leo Burnett

     

    The brief:

    To create a campaign (led by television) to launch their Home Loan vertical. This is the brand’s first foray into the Home Loan category.

     

    Any specific advisory from the client:

    Tata Capital is a brand synonymous with the values of the parent group Tata Sons. The brand stands on the platform of doing what’s right, and we have worked hard to bring this philosophy alive through our previous two campaigns (Old Coin & Sardar Twins).

     

    Going forward we had to keep the core values of trust, sincerity, consumer empathy and integrity alive in the new home loan campaign as well.

     

    [youtube width=”400″ height=”250″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8qvFzkGnOE[/youtube]

    Research insights:

    Through focus groups and through Burnett’s hot button research we were able to unearth several insights which concerned rented homes. However, one truly stood out and struck a chord with everyone.

     

    If there is one place in the world where an individual can be herself, express herself freely and do what she likes, it’s her own home. It’s the place where she feels liberated from the external pressures. She is devoid of any scrutiny or judgment of the society. Where there is absolutely nothing to fear and where she feels most secure.

     

    Media vehicles:

    We led the campaign through Television supplemented with Outdoor &Print.

     

    Key issues kept in mind while executing the ad:

    The home loan market is quite intense and competitive. With the growing need to find a suitable home advertisers have constantly tried to push the envelope. But this has often resulted in complex communication that is more informative than emotive. We believe that buying a home is not just a rational decision.

     

    We planned to ride on the emotional equity associated with owning one’s own home. The truth that only in your own home can you truly express yourself is a liberating insight. The creative lens of viewing the complex financial world through a child’s eyes gave us the platform to bring this insight to life.

     

    The brand prides itself on human truths and consumer understanding. Therefore, we were very careful and worked to keep the execution real, honest and simple. The tone as you can see in the commercial is thus empathetic and genuine, true to the Tata values.

     

    The differentiating factor about the ad:

    The one thing that truly sets this ad apart from the rest is the fact that it is deeply rooted in a human insight. The ad is something that people residing in rented homes can truly connect with.

     

    The execution is a very sincere and honest attempt at connecting with these very people. Therefore the performance of the talented young actors is also very real. Her humming is memorable and sweet and once you see the ad, it’s hard not to hum along. Overall Amit has delivered a very charming film.

     

    Market and client feedback and follow-ups:

    We are currently awaiting actual numbers since the TVC went on air. However, the initial response both from the market and the industry seems very positive. The charming execution has been well appreciated by the client, industry peers and most importantly the common man.

     

    Credits:

    National Creative Director: KV Sridhar

    Creative team: Rajesh Mani, Amod Dani, Anirban Sanyal, Sachin Kamath, Nilesh Ajarlekar

    Client Servicing: Suvadip Ghosh, Manish Somani, Nandita Das, Yash Bhawsar

     

    Head | Brand Marketing & Corporate Communication: Veetika Deoras

    Production House: Chrome Pictures

    Director: Amit Sharma