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Digital Refresh Network bags digital content mandate for Medanta Group of hospitals
Mumbai: An integrated and digital marketing solutions company, Digital Refresh Networks, wins the digital content mandate for Medanta Group of Hospitals. The account was won following a multi-agency pitch and will be looked after by the agency’s Mumbai team. The mandate includes the overall strategy, planning and creative content requirements across digital for the brand.
With an experience of a decade, Digital Refresh Networks has worked with some of the leading brands and businesses across FMCG, consumer goods, automobile, e-commerce, lifestyle, healthcare and pharma, and other sectors.
Commenting on the association, Medanta AVP – digital marketing & e-commerce Harish Aswani said, “Our association with the team at Digital Refresh Networks is sure to help us organise and scale our digital content ecosystem. For a healthcare brand, content plays a key role not only in driving salience and credibility for the brand, but also drive business growth. We look forward to creating some relevant and meaningful content at scale.”
Medanta chief marketing & growth officer Sumanta Ray stated, “The brand Medanta, is all set for expansion, across multiple sectors across healthcare and DRN coming in at this point allows us to scale marketing initiatives across all these verticals. I welcome team DRN to the Medanta ecosystem and hope to build a strong engagement by bringing out the core values to the fore.”
Digital Refresh Networks co-founder & CEO Barin Mukherjee said, “We are elated with the opportunity to partner with Medanta group in their journey. With our expertise in understanding content across channels/ formats and regions, it would be of great value to deliver on building Medanta Group as a front runner in the healthcare sector, which they truly are.”
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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.
