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Boomlet Group announces key appointments to leadership team
Mumbai: Boomlet Group, an influencer marketing and crisis communication agency, has announced the appointment of two accomplished leaders to its executive team. Anish Saha joins as the national sales head and Ayushi Rai takes on the role of lead brand solutions and talent. These pivotal appointments mark a significant step forward in Boomlet Group’s mission to enhance its market presence and explore untapped opportunities in the influencer marketing segment.
Saha is a seasoned professional with an impressive track record of working with brands, including Zee Entertainment and GroupM, in senior roles. Saha will be working towards building and shaping the verticals of Boomlet Group, creating a strong foundation for Boomlet in the Influencer marketing and Crisis communication industry. Speaking on his appointment, Saha said, “I am truly excited to be joining the Boomlet Group. In my new role, I look forward to collaborating closely with the team to revamp our business strategy, particularly focusing on expanding Boomlet’s influence in the fields of Influencer Marketing and Crisis Communication. Our primary goal is to strengthen and capture our market presence through well-thought-out expansion efforts.”
Rai brings a unique viewpoint and a comprehensive grasp of the ever-changing marketing environment. Prior to joining Boomlet Group, she worked with brands such as Zomato and Times Internet. She is tasked with identifying and capitalising on undiscovered opportunities in the world of Influencers and content creators. Speaking on her appointment, Rai said, “I was deeply inspired by the vision that Danish and Preety have for Boomlet, and their unwavering dedication to their mission is what drew me to this incredible team. I am excited to add value and contribute my perspective in alignment with the founders’ vision. This synergy is what truly empowers me in this role, and I look forward to tapping into the undiscovered pool of talent among influencers and content creators.”
Boomlet Group co-founder & CEO Danish Malik on the appointment of Saha and Rai said, “Our vision is to establish Boomlet as the leading agency in the field of influencer marketing and crisis communication. Anish and Ayushi are perfect fits for Boomlet, as they completely align with our vision of expanding operations and exploring new opportunities that will bring us closer to our goal. Their roles are critical to our growth strategy, and we are confident that together we will lead Boomlet towards greater success.”
On the appointments, Boomlet Group co-founder & managing director Preety Singh said, “We are excited to welcome Anish and Ayushi to our leadership team. Their extensive expertise and strategic vision align perfectly with our goals for expansion and innovation. We look forward to their contributions in driving Boomlet to new heights.”
Boomlet Group is poised to broaden its horizons by introducing additional business verticals. Through diversifying its portfolio and forming partnerships with prominent influencers, Boomlet aims to solidify its standing within the dynamic influencer marketing sector.
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The creative cull: how AI is coming for the marketers, ad men and researchers
Robots aren’t taking over yet, but the writing may already be on the wall for some of the US’ most glamorous white-collar jobs.
CALIFORNIA: The robots are not, it turns out, storming the factory floor. They are sitting quietly at a MacBook in a Soho agency, rewriting your copy, summarising your focus groups and generating your mood boards, and nobody has been sacked. Yet.
A new report from Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, offers the most rigorous look to date at what artificial intelligence is actually doing to jobs, as opposed to what doomsayers and boosters claim it might. The verdict from economists Maxim Massenkoff and Peter McCrory is nuanced but pointed: there is no mass unemployment so far, but some sectors have good reason to be nervous. Marketing, market research and the arts are squarely in the crosshairs.
The researchers introduce a new measure called “observed exposure.” It goes beyond theoretical speculation about what AI could do and instead tracks what it is already doing, drawing on real Claude usage data. The approach is clever. They weight automated uses, where the machine performs the job entirely, more heavily than augmentative ones, where it merely assists. They then map this onto roughly 800 occupations, weighted by how much time workers actually spend on each task. For now the target user base has been the US market, but the findings offer a glimpse of what may be happening in other countries as well.
The results are sobering for the creative and analytical classes. Market research analysts and marketing specialists clock in at 64.8 per cent observed exposure, meaning nearly two-thirds of their daily tasks are already being performed, at least in part, by AI in professional settings. The leading automated task is preparing reports, illustrating data graphically and translating complex findings into written text. In other words, this is the kind of work junior analysts spend most of their days doing.
Arts and media fare little better. The sector shows meaningful theoretical exposure, as large language models can in principle handle the lion’s share of tasks, though observed usage still lags behind capability. The gap is narrowing, however, and the direction of travel is unambiguous.
Here is the sting in the tail. The workers most exposed to AI disruption are not, as popular mythology suggests, low-paid drudges. They are older, better educated, more likely to be women and considerably better paid, earning 47 per cent more per hour on average than their least-exposed counterparts. Graduate degree holders are nearly four times as prevalent in the high-exposure group. The creative professional, the senior analyst and the market researcher with an MBA are precisely the people who should be paying attention.
“We’re not talking about the checkout operator,” the paper implies. “We’re talking about the account planner.”
The most alarming signal in the data concerns not those already in jobs, but those trying to enter them. Among workers aged 22 to 25, hiring into highly exposed occupations has slowed measurably since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022. There has been a 14 per cent drop in the job-finding rate, a figure the authors describe as “just barely statistically significant.” Young people are, in effect, finding the door to exposed professions quietly closing. Whether they are staying in education, taking different jobs or simply giving up is not yet clear.
For a bright graduate eyeing a career in market research or media production, this is not merely an academic data point. It is a flashing amber light.
The paper is careful about what it does not find. Unemployment among highly exposed workers has not risen in any statistically meaningful way since the ChatGPT era began. The apocalypse has not arrived. Even in the Computer and Math category, the most theoretically exposed of all, Claude currently covers just 33 per cent of tasks in practice. The gap between what AI can do and what it actually does at scale in professional workflows remains vast.
Think of it less like a tsunami, the authors suggest, and more like a slowly rising tide. The internet did not destroy journalism overnight. It took 20 years and the collapse of a generation of classified advertising revenue. The China trade shock also took decades to fully register in unemployment statistics, and economists are still debating the numbers.
What does this mean for the luvvies, the admen and the pollsters? The honest answer is: not much yet, but watch this space. AI is already doing the grunt work, including data summaries, draft press releases and boilerplate creative briefs. The question is whether it stops there or continues climbing the value chain.
The authors are building a framework to track exactly that and promise to update it as new data arrives. If the tide does come in, they want to see it coming before the sandcastles are already gone.
For now, the creative industries can breathe, but perhaps not too deeply. The machine is not at the door. It is already at the desk.
