Work at setting your brand apart in your customers’ minds through product and brand specific activities that are tailored to your target market.
Work at stimulating buying by ensuring that we put forward information that is relevant to the target market
Create engaging, powerful and fun marketing experiences
Deliver brand messages effectively by engaging media, specific to the target market.
Ignite passion for our client’s brand, product and event

Ideas generation and execution
We book and secure acts, venues and vendors that speak positively and accurately to the character of your brand, be it, fun, artistic, athletic, sophisticated
Influence a movement towards your goals via creatively themed events that target your customers
Engineer experiences that have been said to attract life-long loyalty to a client’s brand

Want to know what we think about stuff? Well, pull up a chair and pour yourself a skinny latte (or whatever your poison is). Here are a few thoughts on things that are important to us from people who are important to what makes us tick.
Want to know more? Just pick up the phone, suggest a date in the diary and any one of us would be only too happy to have a chat over a cuppa…
We’ve brought together an eclectic group of people under one roof. The magic comes in creating a team who don’t just work effectively together but push, challenge and direct each other – collectively taking our thinking to new and exciting places, with each adding a different flavour or perspective to our creative output.
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Unless you are an Al Qaeda operative in hiding or you are not a regular Aurora reader, and so don’t know what has been happening, it is no secret that the world of the advertising agency has changed dramatically (and not to the agency’s liking) in the last decade. This process will further accelerate as we enter a new decade.

Although I don’t have a crystal ball, based on hundreds of conversations with entrepreneurs, multinational brands, fellow agency practitioners, and having critically looked at the tidal waves taking place abroad within the profession, here are nine predictions for 2011 that are more like a 9/11 warning for people in the agency business:

The emergence of the do it yourself client
The balance of power will shift in favour of the client; be it to save time or costs. Many companies, big or small, can now handle in-house more and more of the work that they formerly expected their agency to do. Although there will always be a market for clients who need help, the point is that they might not need help from a bloated agency that employs old-school tactics; rather they might prefer to go to smaller agencies and so retain greater control. Clients today are much more educated about advertising, activation, PR, media planning, social media, blogging and creating online content and thus can, and are, calling the shots to have things done faster.

The emergence of the jack of one trade agency
The future will be about partnerships between specialised expert agencies rather than the one big box model of the full service agency. The days of Mad Men are gone and big agencies are on the decline. Why? For one thing: massive salaries, overheads and extravagant lifestyles. The full service model ends up driving up expenses and instead of a well oiled machine, creates an environment that often is not cutting edge, but rather too slow-moving for today’s urgency.

The fall from grace of the big agency
According to a recent international study, 52% of CMO’s believe that traditional, large advertising and media agencies are ill-suited to meet future marketing needs. As a result, brands are relying on small set-ups for big ideas. These set-ups are more creative, less siloed and therefore more nimble when it comes to exploring new media and experimentation.

Perhaps the biggest hindrance for the traditional, big advertising and media planning and buying agencies are their senior and mid-level managers who are too pigeon-holed due to the fact that they were born on the wrong side of the new marketing world order. Their media and account management expertise does not necessarily translate well when faced with providing the technology-based marketing solutions demanded by the new consumer.

Two new species of agencies
As advertising agencies continue to subsist on a diminishing set of resources, what will be left of these organisations will fall into two categories: the idea generators (makers) and the idea executors (technicians). This change will apply to all agencies, be they advertising, activation, media, PR, content, etc.

Advertising practices will change
Clients will increasingly question the same old marketing and media plans for every new brand challenge. Although ad spend will slow down due to the recession, political instability and the security situation, activation and digital will gain considerable share at the expense of TV, radio and print. Mobile phones and retail will become increasingly powerful mediums. My guess is that spending on creating websites, online communities, digital marketing and developing HR competence to drive digital and social media is growing, but we don’t know by how much as it is not reported.

Brands’ relationships with TV and media agencies will undergo a structural change
TV will no longer be looked at stereotypically as a medium to merely air commercials. Clients will directly negotiate cross-platform relationships aimed at deeply integrating the brand into the programme content (so viewers cannot fast forward past the message). This will bring the media planning and buying agencies under greater scrutiny, especially from clients who may believe that their media agencies remain old fashioned in their approach by restricting themselves to asking for more media investment every year, rather than keeping tune with the demands of changing times.

Clients will call for a structural change in their media agency in the same way they did a decade ago, by dividing the big agency into separate creative and media agencies. I envision the media agency business will require further client surgery as they continue to take the bulk of the client’s money and yet fail to deliver cutting edge, creative new media thinking to address brand challenges. A new breed of media agencies will emerge; hot shops maybe – I call them ‘creative media agencies’ – that will create TV ideas, content and integration, while the traditional media agency will probably continue to buy as per the creative plan; bringing in buying value not planning value for the client, as they have done for a decade.

Brands will need less advertising and more content
There was a time when brands could hand over their marketing, advertising or PR to their agency and then sit back and approve the so-called magic. The problem is that smarter, faster, cheaper promotion and advertising requires greater participation from the client. Agencies of the future are going to have to hop onto the content train for all kinds of media and solutions.

Agencies will no longer outsource relationships
Agencies have become too accustomed to being the middle man; outsourcing relationships and taking a commission. But when the going gets tough, the middle man gets kicked out. Building relationships and trust cannot be outsourced. Agencies will have to go back to the basics and immerse themselves with the brands they handle and build in-house capabilities to deliver world class executions. The future will also be about evolving from the commission agent role to taking control
of the work.

The shorter term client – agency relationships becomes the norm
The time of the decade old client-agency relationship has gone. Today the relationship lasts on average about three to four years and I see it declining to as low as three to four months and it will be based on key project or campaign contracts. This will be primarily driven by short term pressures on the client (i.e. marketing directors and brand managers) who will want to see an even quicker turnaround in the fortunes of their brands and therefore prefer to keep their options open rather than being stuck in a stale long term relationship with their agency. In their view, this strategy will increase the chances of more creative thinking and therefore a business breakthrough.

Final thought
There is no fun in making predictions about the future without a debate (and honestly, this article took quite some time to write). So if you have made it this far, please do feel free to share your opinion and views on the above.

Shoaib Qureshy is Chief Strategy Officer, Bulls Eye Communications.

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Work at setting your brand apart in your customers’ minds through product and brand specific activities that are tailored to your target market.
Work at stimulating buying by ensuring that we put forward information that is relevant to the target market
Create engaging, powerful and fun marketing experiences
Deliver brand messages effectively by engaging media, specific to the target market.
Ignite passion for our client’s brand, product and event

Ideas generation and execution
We book and secure acts, venues and vendors that speak positively and accurately to the character of your brand, be it, fun, artistic, athletic, sophisticated
Influence a movement towards your goals via creatively themed events that target your customers
Engineer experiences that have been said to attract life-long loyalty to a client’s brand

Want to know what we think about stuff? Well, pull up a chair and pour yourself a skinny latte (or whatever your poison is). Here are a few thoughts on things that are important to us from people who are important to what makes us tick.
Want to know more? Just pick up the phone, suggest a date in the diary and any one of us would be only too happy to have a chat over a cuppa…
We’ve brought together an eclectic group of people under one roof. The magic comes in creating a team who don’t just work effectively together but push, challenge and direct each other – collectively taking our thinking to new and exciting places, with each adding a different flavour or perspective to our creative output.
AGENCY LEADERSHIP TEAM

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Digital Campaign Implementation: How To Execute Campaigns Smoothly?

Posted in Digital Media Planning & Strategy

Ok, you have used all the extensive analysis, you have used all planning tools to target your audience and you are set for implementation. That’s just half the battle won. If the planned campaign does not result into a proper execution, it will lead you down the misleading analysis and hence, suboptimal or wrong action points.  Here are the few things which can help you with an effective campaign.

1. Minimize the time in setting up a campaign:
1. Creative: If you are not a client, you will agree with me that creative remain the most painful part of making a campaign live. Make sure creative are ready as soon as possible. Most of the times, banners are made once the media plan is finalized. You can minimize this delay by having the static frames of the banners ready along with traditional creative.  Next important step is to know who is going to do the creative.  Most of the traditional ad agencies may not be fully equipped with expertise to create flash banners. If creative concepts (static frames) are being provided by the ad agency and the banner is being done by the specialist agency, make sure to have at least one meeting with all of them together to have a workable deadline, if not ideal. If you want to use multiple creative throughout the campaign, convening a meeting is all the more important.
2. Creative Testing: Once the creative are ready, they go to publishers for a ‘Quality Check’ or ‘QC’. QC time may vary from international vendors to domestic vendors. If creative fail QC, there would be time involved in rectifying the banners. So, keep a buffer of maximum a day for testing (assuming creative vendor has a good turnaround time). If you are doing an Innovation, keep maximum 2 days for testing & revisions. Losing a slot for your innovation may mean choosing the next available date which may or may not be feasible from campaign point of view.
3. If you are using third party ad serving, keep an additional day for the campaign setup.

Above things will ensure that you will be live on all the websites as per your schedule. This in turn will ensure a desired campaign life.

1. Optimizing the campaign:

Once your campaign goes live, it’s time to optimize the campaign.  But before you start optimizing, make sure you have given enough time for campaign to pick up. Don’t rush into it. The same applies to post optimization steps. There are two kinds of optimizations:

Creative Optimization: You can choose between sequential showing of banners and rotating the creative evenly. Stick to whatever works best for you.
Media Optimization: This requires changing/shifting media properties if they fail to pick up after applying all the optimization steps. This would be as per your defined benchmarks. Most commonly used optimization steps are:
Changing the Frequency of the campaign.
Changing (adding/replacing) the position of the media unit with a new one.
Fixing the creative for certain duration.
Shift monies from a poor performing website to a better performing site.
Changing the ad copies & keywords
Website Optimizations: Changing the landing pages ( high bandwidth to low bandwidth, reducing the number of steps to the desired action, from flash to non-flash)

1. Evaluating the campaign:

Once the campaign is over, make sure you not only get a final report but a concrete analysis as well. Remember, reporting is different from analysis.

For performance campaigns, check to see if the goals have been met, where the campaign lacked, which site over performed/underperformed, where you left the users if they dint covert, what the ideal path to purchase was, what was the exposure to conversion frequency, cost per lead etc.

For a brand campaign, you can measure the following:

Most common metrics: Click Through Rate, eCPM, Unique Users, Cost Per Unique Users, Banners Expansion rates, Dwell time etc
Most common metrics: Click Through Rate, eCPM, Unique Users, Cost Per Unique Users, Banners Expansion rates, Dwell time etc
Additional metrics:
Bounce rate: Check how the paid media traffic compares with the site average. This ensures you to see if traffic driven was quality traffic.
Time spent: You can compare to see time spent by paid media traffic vis a vis other traffic sources.
New Users: This metric allows you to see whether paid media campaign drove more new users or returning users.

This guide may not be exhaustive but can help you gives a head up on the most common issued faced while executing a campaign.

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As a business, marketing is more complicated than just throwing any advertisement into the public sphere. Corporate competition is fierce in the digital age, and consumers are quick to lose interest among all the noise. At Pune, we offer our creative expertise to help companies plan and deliver strategic brand campaigns that create a real, positive connection with potential customers. Whether this be through an interactive display, experiential marketing, social media strategies, an exhibition at the mall or anything in between, Pune is a boutique agency pune companies rely on to make an impact with activation and get ahead of the competition.

Work with a Team That Understands Your Needs

One of the key elements of our services as one of the leading pune agencies for companies throughout pune is our combination of marketing knowledge and artistic flair. First, we identify what your business stands for and what needs to be achieved as a result of your campaign; from there, we start developing concepts, plan an approach and move on to create eye-catching designs which draw genuine consumer interest to your brand.

Why Choose Us Over Other Agencies?

Unlike other pune agencies in pune, we put the time and energy into your project to achieve a truly compelling result regardless of size or spend. Our team comes to work each and every day with a will to succeed in a diverse, open and collaborative environment, applying creative skills with passion on any project.

Whether you are ready to get started or would just like some more information, we would love to hear from you! Get in touch and one of our friendly, experienced team members will be more than happy to discuss what we can do to meet your needs.

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But what does the term actually mean in a world that is experiencing media convergence at a rate of knots and with many brands struggling to execute truly integrated campaigns, based upon a singular, insightful, organising thought?

We’ve found ourselves in a world cluttered with meaningless content. Tactical experiential activity that lacks any strategic consideration and endless social media campaigns that are still finding their way, picking up the occasional ‘like’ or ‘re-tweet’.

Where is the commercial return and what is this contributing towards the equity of the brands they represent?

As advocates of multi-channel marketing, we must get back to the basic values of understanding data (which is critical in the ideation process), insight, timeliness, relevance and creativity to ensure any activation activity is effective and memorable.
It can be done.

It’s also essential to understand the importance of a seamless, joined-up approach to activation; rather than a series of disconnected, tactical executions. Either one agency needs to manage all elements of activation or agencies need to work collaboratively and stop protecting their ownership of the client for the benefit of the wider brand activity. The answer ultimately lies in the ambition of the brand combined with the insight, expertise and planning unearthed by agencies from a strategic, data and creative point of view. Only these components coupled with collaboration will deliver engaging activity that captures consumers’ hearts and minds.

Brand Activation rallies around activity that brings brands to life and encourages positive participation – physically or digitally. Regardless of how we deploy this activity, let’s get the basics right. This will in turn deliver tangible and mutually beneficial value to clients, brands and customers alike.

Russell Perry is a managing partner at MWorks, McCann London

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“Looking for your partner in events – start a discussion today. Lets connect the dots……”

At brand activation E&E, we go about building Strategic Events, Roadshows, In-mall events, Sponsorship Marketing, Destination Marketing, Trade Shows, Mega Retail Promotions (DSMG, ADSS), Industry Conferences ( World Pearl Forum, Fragrance Foundation, City of Gold Conference, Sports Summit) and Sports Events ( WSC, Shekha Hind Tournament)

We provide an end-to-end service. From a client brief, we flush out ideas and bring them to life. We are trusted by Mumbai Events and Promotions Establishment to roll out mega city wide promotions such as Dine and Win campaign, Mumbai Food Festival and similar activations for Shopping centers to promote Shopping in Mumbai. As the leader in such Mega concepts we are retained by Qatar Tourism Authority to partner with their Summer Mall Promotion called Shopping Fun and were recently contracted by Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority to conceptualize and execute the Abu Dhabi Summer Season Shopping Mall Promotions.

We partnered with some of the biggest global banners like Emaar to roll out events such as The Vogue Fashion Show at Mumbai Mall, The World Pearl Forum, Sport Accord, The City of Gold Conference, Mumbai Shopping Festival International Roadshows and Product launches for several brands including Police, Escada, Givenchy and Chopard.

We are unchallenged in In-mall events. We customize to suit the mall requirement in bringing world class events.

How to work with us

Working with our team is simple. Just get in touch with them or schedule a meeting to discuss your event needs and they can take it from there. They will make sure that you are an integral part of the decision process and you will know that your event with us will be of the highest quality.

Our team also works on a turnkey system, where you can send them a brief of the event and they can get back to you with a proposal and an estimate.

Mall Events
We at brand activation have years of experience in bringing high class events to Malls including Stage Shows, Roaming Acts, Fashion Shows. We also manage the Mall promotions with activations to promote footfall. As a company we manage The Mumbai Shopping Malls Group and run activations throughout the year. We have also successfully executed events for the Abu Dhabi and Qatar Government sectors of Tourism and Culture.

Stage Shows

Roaming Acts

Kids Activity Stations

International Shows
Product Launches

As with any product, the launch creates a big impact in the market. We here at brand activation ensure that your product is launched in the right market, to the right Target Audience and with the extra impact and oomph.

Store Launches
Fashion Brand Launch
Product Launches

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