Wednesday, 30 January 2013

The marketers- Group B4- Source - All about ads


Matru ki Bijlee ka Mandola tabcab ride
19/01/2013
Omkar Rane
·         Matru ki Bijlee ka Mandola- a film by Vishal Bhardwaj is ready for release on 11th Jan.
·         They have come up with different promotion strategy altogether. They have put their posters on cabs. Around 250 cabs from the TABcab- totally in the cab industry have put posters and one liners from the film Matru ki Bijlee ki Mandola. This is a totally new promotional strategy applied by this film.
·         The CMO of TABcab Prasenjeet Bagchi said around 7000-8000 Rs. is spent for the printing and other expenses for each cab.
·         Filmmakers are hoping this hatke strategy will yield good results at the box-office.

Most admired personalities of 2012
13/01/2013
Omkar Rane
Recent polls tells us much of a controversial figures like Narendra Modi, Vijay Mallya, Salman Khan as the most admired personalities of 2012 among youth.
·         Brand equity tries to study why such figures have been selected by youngsters as their youth icon.
·         These are the results: Most admired personality in Bollywood 1. Shah Rukh Khan 2. Salman Khan. Though these figures are more famous for their real life tussles, accidents and hunting expenditures. Most admired Personality in Politics 1. Narendra Modi 2. Rahul Gandhi. Among one is famous for controversial speech and other is considered sometimes as prospective Prime-Minister of India or sometimes as a spoon-fed baby. Most admired personality in business 1. Ratan Tata 2. Vijay Mallya. Among these one has done almost nothing to save his planes from crashing. Why youth have selected these figures.
·         Ignorance, top of the mind recall, more liberal-moral standards or just the pulse of the youth, controversies that tickle, quick to judge and hard to please could be few reasons for this.
·         The demographic was 15-24 years of age which most marketers don't understand. People of this age group go for coverage in the media, less information-centric, enjoy controversies, go for name and recognition.
·         Vijay Mallya's airlines crashed, went into debts, staff unpaid and finally DGCA cancelled its license. But Vijay Mallya was indifferent to it as he didn't appear in front of media for answers but at the same time stayed in the limelight for his lavish parties and Kingfisher calendars. Shailendra Singh, JMD, Percept says his flamboyant, arrogant nature is a living, talking advertisement which has worked for this King of Good times. "JO DIKHTA HE WO BIKTA HE".
·         2012 was the year when 117 people were convicted for Naroda Patiya judgement including ministers from Modi's cabinet and his colleages. 2012 is also a year of Narendra Modi's path-breaking victory again in Guajrat. He is known for his divisive politics, speech during Godhra in 2002 but he is also known for tremendous industrial development in Gujarat and job creation.
·         Venugopal Dhoot, CMD, Videocon says Narendra Modi is known for his profound vision, intellectual power and dyanamic personality across the globe
·         Prasoon Joshi says Narendra Modi is not a confused brand, well articulated brand. He has taken state from power to power, created jobs among the youth.
·         Salman Khan known for harassing co-star Aishwarya Rai, rash driving and killing endangered species has now re-directed his image with the establishment of his own NGO Being Human and recent block-busters like Dabang and Ek Tha Tiger.
·         Salman's appeals today is disarming and almost instantaneous honesty which in itself is difficult to handle says Dilip Cherian, Image Guru.
·         At the end Brand Equity analyses a common trait between all of them is their controversial nature. It thinks these brands are unpretentious and arrogant and this is what has clicked among the youth generation today.

How portrayal of women in advertising has changed over a year
17th Jan 2013

Source: All About Ads TV Show – NDTV Profit
The show starts with a fruitful insight from Kim Das, Global Business Director – J&J wherein he states that India has a pool of talent and rich cultural heritage in cinema which can be exported. Thus we must concentrate more on these factors.
Airtel has introduced a mobile app for smart phones called as the ‘Shazan Interactivity Integration’. When the Airtel TVC appears on the screen, the app can be activated and this will help the consumer to explore more services with respect to the ad. It is also an interactive app. Airtel is pioneer to use such an app connecting the Television to Smart phones.
·         This episode speaks about stereotyping of women in advertising industry. It states that companies create ads without realizing that the impacts can be awful and permanent.
·         Moving to the theme of the show regarding portrayal of women the show speaks about how women are always shown weak in the Indian Society.  Ads, lack of sex education and the study pattern in schools are major contributors for the mindset of people.
·         Most of the ads portray women as homemakers or superficial individuals. This gives a picture that women are supposed to only take care of home. Often ambitious women are disliked.
·         Nokia Lumia Ad shows a guy prefers to take directions from a mobile app rather than a woman thus hampering her image.
·         Most fairness cream ads state that there is no place for darker women in the society.
·         Through various mass protest there have been implemented certain laws that will keep a tab on this issue. Also this gives out a message that the brands need to be good corporate citizen.
·         The show also gives a sneak peek into some international ads such as Coco Cola, I- Phone etc.

Storyboard CNBC
19th January, 2013
Rajvi Dedhia

Snickers: Hungry for market share.
Snickers - the three point USD six billion candy bar owned by American confectioner Mars International..

Although Snickers is the largest candy brand in the world, in India it has been a slow starter. Mars India has been importing Snickers along with other brands like Galaxy, Bounty, Mars and Twix, since 2004, relying primarily on their global equity to attract Indians. Advertising has been sparse and distribution, narrow. But all that is set to change.

The chocolate making company mars international is wrapping up its plans for a three and a half thousand crore rupee chocolate market.
The new campaign created by R K Swami positions the candy bar as an affordable snack between the meals. Though snickers was advertised in 2008 and earlier in 2012 as well, the latest ads spent is looking to shake things up for the brand.
From Indian point of view the challenge is to understand what the needs are and how their global positioning resonates with the Indian consumers. The company is looking for various occasions to embark so that the Indian consumers can identify with their global positioning of Hunger Satisfying Product.
Also it has reduced its prices by 40%. The 32 gm bar which was for rs 25 is now available at rs 15 and the 57 gm bar which was for rs 40 is now available at rs 30. This puts snickers in direct competition with the Cadbury’s 5star and Dairymilk and Nestlé’s Barone and Kitkat.
The real big chocolate market is at a rs 10 price point and in order to make a dent, snickers has to get into the price segment of rs 10-20.

Rebranding M&M


The USD 16 billion Mahindra and Mahindra Group will reveal its new logo, colours and visual identity next week. The group that is spread across diverse industries from auto manufacturing to IT to timeshare holidays to name just a few - began a phased rebranding and repositioning campaign for the brand in 2011. It started in January 2011 the adoption of word “RISE” to communicate its new state of mind.
Originally when the brand was envisaged and the logo was created, it was a manufacturing company. But today it leads an identity which cuts across rural, urban, manufacturing, services and last but not the least, it is a global corporation.
                                                           
Hence they need an identity that can appeal to all segments, customers and stake holders. An identity which is modern, global, technology savvy, optimistic and progressive at the same time retaining all its traditional values like reliability, trustworthy, solid and warm.


The power of "rural": A special on rural marketing
25th Jan 2013
Prashant Stavi
Source: All About Ads TV Show – NDTV Profit

Total population of India 121 crore .
Population of Rural India 83 Crore
Population of Urban India  38 Crore
Rural Market : $ 1 Trillion
Indian Rural Market = Economy of Canada
Hence Rural India is a potential market.

Rural India is divided into below parts
1.      Developed Rural India
Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Gujrat
2.      Least developed states
Bihar, MP, Orisa, Rajasthan, UP,

3.      Rest states in middle of  Developed Rural India & Least developed states

Successful Rural India Campaigns :
1.      Pehla Ek Ghanta
20 % of Worlds new born deaths occur in India.
2700 new born die in India every day.
Started with campaign “ Pehla Ek Ghanta ” and created awareness in Madya Pradesh, Rajasthan & UP are the area where this problem is more severe.
2.      Western Union Brand awareness
Brand Awareness by Western Union by using Telescope on occasion of EID.





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