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82°E launches 82°E Man; unveils new campaign
Mumbai: 82°E, a self-care brand co-founded by Deepika Padukone and Jigar Shah, has launched a range of men’s skincare products under 82°E Man – an extension of brand 82°E. The latest offering includes an innovative 2-in-1 Moisturiser with SPF 40 PA +++ with Gotu Kola and Ceramides, and a three-in-one face, Beard and Body Cleanser with Arjuna and Betaine in two fragrance variants: Fresh Citrus and Woody Oud.
With self-care remaining central to the brand’s ethos, the launch campaign of 82°E Man has been conceived and executed by Tilt Brand Solutions, a part of Quotient Ventures – in association with design studio Sharpener. The campaign highlights an approach to self-care, which is specifically relevant to the contemporary man.
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Launched in November 2022, 82°E is on a mission to make the practice of self-care a simple, joyful and effective part of one’s everyday life. Over the past year, 82°E has built a strong foothold in the skincare category by focusing on simple yet high-performance routines, while driving the message of overall self-care which is an extension of the co-founders’ commitment to well-being.
Speaking about the campaign, 82°E chief marketing officer Keerthana Ramakrishnan said, “Our expansion into 82°E Man – new products for a new audience – is another pivotal moment in our business. This means two things for us: first, it’s an opportunity for us to evolve and add new dimensions to our own understanding of self-care, given the nuances within men’s personal care. Second, it’s an opportunity to bring new self-care experiences to men’s routines, drawing from the best of what we’ve offered so far as well as what we know about this demographic. Here’s hoping that we connect with our newer audiences as effectively as we have done previously, and that we can layer and nuance self-care for everyone over time.”
Adding further context, Quotient Ventures group chief creative officer Shriram Iyer said, “For a few months now, our eye has firmly been on building brand 82°E around its singular but dynamic self-care narrative, across all product categories. With the milestone launch of 82°E Man, we approached communication based on existing realities of our new audience – the fact that men are already immersed in regular acts of self-care, even if they don’t brand them as that. From taking a run to turning to music for a break, self-care is an inherent, organic and carefree practice in all our lives; and 82°E Man is just the right personal care addition to that – with its simple, effective and joyful offerings.”
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The Merit of Madness: How AI is Changing the Game in Advertising
By Ritz Malik, founder, Ritz Media World.
MUMBAI: When it comes to growth in a competitive landscape, a businessman always has to be a firm believer in Darwinism. You either need to bring a better product, or a better price, or both to the table to get customers and scale. Without this value proposition, you remain unnoticed, and staying unnoticed is not something that a brand wants to do.
You have to do all this and also make sure that you stay cashflow positive at the same time. Otherwise, you’re at a real risk of becoming a large hollow balloon that your competitors are just waiting for to explode or implode under its own weight.
As we’ve entered the era of AI, the notion of a product’s efficacy, cost efficiency, marketability, workflow management, and logistics reliability has become increasingly relevant and prevalently impactful. None of this is background noise anymore. It is the difference between bleeding money on traditional media and actually engineering a profitable campaign.
For example, META’s AI Algorithm has finally given us the ability to measure the ‘CREATIVE’ for a business’s promotions. The best part is that we can do so organically. Content that is actually relevant to the target audience gets more views through reach. This tells us exactly how the audience is reacting before we even scale the budget. This is how we have been gifted the ability to provide merit to the madness of the creative process.
So, our process is as follows:
A set of creatives is built for social media
Their performance is closely monitored for reach and engagement.
Based on the best organic performance, we choose the creative.
Make micro adjustments to add a sales proposition and CTA (but keep it subtle)
Publish the modified creative as an ad.
There’s a lot that goes on in between, but this is the basic method for getting it right. And this is just the AI that’s being used by platforms across the world.
AI utilisation is something that has greatly made the creative process a lot easier. As an agency that thrives on coming up with ideas that are out of this world, we have made the most of leveraging AI to bring ideas to life without spending a fortune.
So, this way, the ability to create high-impact brand stories is no longer under the tyrannical gatekeeping of large budget organisations. It is now that merit solely falls on the storyteller.
Now, AI-powered content production and the AI algorithm on Social Media platforms are asking the question: Is your content compelling?. If yes, the audience will watch your content, share it, and engage with it.
And when it comes to keeping budgets down, we can surely say that it holds the capability to execute million-dollar shoots at a fraction of the cost.
For example, we recently came across a creative challenge by a major Real Estate Developer from Gurugram. They had signed a celebrity couple for their brand ambassadorship a few months ago. They were now about to launch their new project, but for some reason, they could not get their shoot done.
What we came up with was to use the likeness of this celebrity couple and place them throughout the project’s feature video. With the help of AI generation, we were able to rebuild a completely new feature video with their brand ambassadors in 2 days, and no additional physical shots were required.
Imagine being able to save 50-60 lakhs in production costs, 15-20 days in production time, and comfortably be ahead of schedule to launch the project.
This has changed the game entirely. With AI, you can now just acquire the likeness rights of celebrities, and you can just build environments and scenarios with them. The balance between creative and artificial intelligence isn’t a battle for control; it is simply the ultimate tool for survival and scale in a landscape that rewards the fastest and the smartest.
