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Aegis Media to launch second OOH agency Brandscope on 1 December
MUMBAI: After the successful launch of Posterscope in India, Aegis Media Group will launch its second OOH agency, Brandscope, on 1 December.
The agency, which will function from Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore, will start operations with five clients – Indiabulls, Fin Air, Arcil, JK Paper and Kewal Kiran – under its belt.
Said Aegis Media and Posterscope Director – APAC chairman India and CEO South East Asia Ashish Bhasin, “Brandscope will be in a unique proposition that puts the brand at the heart of an OOH solution, using the world‘s latest tools and a global knowledge bank. Haresh Nayak, MD Posterscope, will be the domain expert on OOH for both our OOH businesses in India. This is an advanced and a new concept in the field of OOH and I am sure Brandscope will revolutionise the role of OOH in brand communications in India.”
Brandscope will use the expertise of the group‘s offerings such as Hyperspace and the groups proprietary PRISM suite of tools that have been developed over time in order to provide cutting edge solutions to the clients.
Avers Nayak, “Brandscope will look into the brands personality and its promise through its creative use of OOH. It will not necessarily look at using an existing medium, but will be more about innovation and creativity in the ambient space, keeping in mind the brand‘s aspirations and the communication premise.
“We believe that the future of OOH depends on how well we can use the environment and ambience to engage the audience with the brand. We are also pleased to announce that Fabian Cowan will be the Business Head of Brandscope in India.”
Brandscope, part of Posterscope Worldwide that has its presence in 26 countries across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and South Africa, intends to expand its team of seven brand specialists in India to 18 by 2011.
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Fevicol releases its last ad campaign by the late Piyush Pandey
The adhesive brand’s last campaign by the late advertising legend Piyush Pandey turns an everyday Indian obsession into a quietly powerful metaphor
MUMBAI: Fevicol has never needed much of a plot. A sticky bond, a wry observation, a truth that every Indian instantly recognises — that has always been enough. “Kursi Pe Nazar,” the brand’s latest television commercial, is no different. And yet it carries a weight that no previous Fevicol film has had to bear: it is the last one its creator, the advertising legend Piyush Pandey, will ever make.
The film, released on Tuesday by Pidilite Industries, fixes its gaze on the kursi — the chair — and what it means in Indian life. Not just as a piece of furniture, but as a currency of ambition, a vessel of authority, and a source of quiet social drama that plays out in every home, office and institution across the country. Who sits in the chair, who waits for it, and who eyes it hungrily from across the room: the film transforms this sharply observed cultural truth into a narrative that is, in the best Fevicol tradition, funny, warm and instantly familiar.
The campaign was Pandey’s idea. He discussed it in detail with the team before his death, but did not live to see it shot. Prasoon Pandey, director at Corcoise Films who helmed the commercial, said the team needed five months to find its footing before they felt ready to shoot. “This was the toughest film ever for all of us,” he said. “It was Piyush’s idea, magical as always.”
The emotional weight of that responsibility was not lost on the team at Ogilvy India, which created the campaign. Kainaz Karmakar and Harshad Rajadhyaksha, group chief creative officers at Ogilvy India, described the process as “a pilgrimage of sorts, on the path that Piyush created not just for Ogilvy, but for our entire profession.”
Sudhanshu Vats, managing director of Pidilite Industries, said the film was rooted in a distinctly Indian insight. “The ‘kursi’ symbolises aspiration, transition, and ambition,” he said. “Piyush Pandey had an extraordinary ability to elevate such everyday observations into iconic storytelling for Fevicol. This film carries that legacy forward.”
That legacy is considerable. Over several decades, Pandey’s partnership with Fevicol produced some of the most beloved advertising in Indian history, building the brand into something rare: a household name that people actively enjoy watching sell to them.
“Kursi Pe Nazar” does not try to be a tribute. It simply tries to be a great Fevicol film. By most measures, it succeeds — which is, in the end, the most fitting send-off of all.
