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Daki Brands assigns creative duties to Percept/H
MUMBAI: Daiki Brands has assigned its creative duties to Percept/H.
Confirming the same to indiantelevision.com, Daiki Brands assistant manager Shilpa Rathi said,” Though we had offers from agencies like Cornerstone Advertising and Six Inches Communications among others, our CEO opted for the latter because he had earlier worked with them and knew their capability amply well.‘
Percept/H has won the creative duties of the newly-set up innerwear company. The agency won the business on the basis of its understanding of the strategy required to advertise and popularise Daiki Brands.
Rathi, however, refused to divulge on the size of the business, adding, ” I can only say that Percept would handle creative duties like designing, strategising, conceptualising and positioning among others of three of our new innerwear brands like Peri Peri, Daiki and Biara.”
Also, Daiki Brands is believed to be in consultation with Allied
Media, Percept‘s sister agency, for its media duties.
Daiki is the men‘s innerwear range catering to the premium segment and competing with the likes of Hanes and Jockey.
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Sameer Nair shares heartfelt note as he exits Applause Entertainment
After nine years building the streamer’s content engine, one of India’s best-known TV men is moving on
MUMBAI: Sameer Nair is out. The chief executive of Applause Entertainment, the content studio backed by Kumar Mangalam Birla’s media empire, has announced his departure after nearly nine years at the helm, closing the chapter on one of Indian entertainment’s more quietly consequential careers.
Nair, who built Applause from the ground up in its current avatar, oversaw a slate that spanned Indian originals and international adaptations, threading together a hub-and-spoke business model that partnered with streaming platforms, broadcasters and production houses alike. The results were uneven, as they always are in content, but the ambition was not.
In a post on LinkedIn, Nair was generous to his outgoing patron. He thanked Birla for being an “inspirational boss and a great patron of the arts,” and signed off with a cheerful “Au Revoir” and a promise to remain Applause’s biggest cheerleader. Whether that sentiment survives the next chapter remains to be seen.
No successor has been named. Applause Entertainment did not immediately comment.
Nair built the machine. Now someone else has to run it — and in a streaming market that is simultaneously consolidating and convulsing, that is no small ask.
