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Mobile Premier League partners with Prime Focus Technologies for content creation
MUMBAI: Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) announced that its brands division, PFT Brands, has partnered with Mobile Premier League (MPL), India’s leading mobile e-sports platform, to create multiple ad films and videos for the brand. PFT has created an extensive content inventory for MPL, in sync with the organization’s long-term, strategic communication goals. As a one-stop video agency, PFT Brands is handling all aspects of content creation for MPL – from conceptualization and scripting to production to postproduction.
As part of the collaboration, PFT has designed a series of ad films showcasing the wide variety of fun games available on MPL, including Rummy, Fantasy Cricket, Fantasy Kabaddi, Carrom, Fruit Chop and Pool. These films have been further localized in Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Marathi, Kannada and Gujarati. Leveraging humorous narratives, the films pique viewers’ interest and inspire them to install the MPL app and start playing specific games. The ads are being showcased on both TV and digital platforms.
In addition, PFT has also created several testimonial videos for MPL which showcase positive real-life stories and experiences of MPL users who have won major cash prizes. The videos aim at inspiring consumers to download the MPL app and start playing to win. The PFT team shot videos of MPL winners from different parts of the country, highlighting their winnings and emphasizing how MPL has made their lives easier and better.
MPL vice president – growth Abhishek Madhavan said, “Our users are our ambassadors and thanks to them, we have grown to become India’s biggest mobile gaming and skill monetisation platform. We want to reach out to our users and involve them to reiterate the trust they have placed in us. The PFT team completely understood the user sentiments at play, and executed both the ads and the customer testimonials superbly. We are confident the campaign will be extremely successful, and we look forward to producing more such stellar work with PFT as our partner!”
PFT vice president – brand services Umesh Bopche added, “We are immensely excited to be partnering with an innovative market leader like MPL, and are grateful to their team for giving us this incredible opportunity. The content we have created for MPL is based on two key objectives – building brand awareness and significantly strengthening their user base. We look forward to creating a host of world-class videos for MPL in the coming months.”
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Backslash 2026 report: Why human presence now matters more
Six cultural shifts reveal why human presence is the new badge of value
NEW YORK: In a year when artificial intelligence has churned out oceans of content, cultural intelligence unit Backslash argues that what people now crave is something far less automated. Its 2026 Edges report lands with a clear thesis: culture is searching for proof of human.
Backslash, which serves the agencies of Omnicom Advertising, publishes the Edges report annually to spotlight global cultural shifts with enough staying power to shape brand futures. This year’s six new Edges suggest the pendulum is swinging away from frictionless perfection and back towards craft, provenance and visible effort.
After a flood of AI generated output, audiences have developed a sharper instinct for what feels synthetic and what feels real. The telltale signs of care, quirks and even flaws are becoming signals of value.
“We’re entering a moment where output is cheap, but meaning is not,” said Backslash director of cultural strategy and co author of the report Cecelia Girr. “Technology can do more than ever before. The harder question is whether we want it to. In this next chapter, humanity itself becomes the differentiator.”
The six edges for 2026
- Dark mode: As algorithms flatten taste and feed everyone the same stream, people are retreating into private corners and cultivating one of a kind identities. Meaning, it seems, lives in what does not scale.
- Digital friction: After decades spent polishing away every obstacle, culture is warming to technology that slows us down on purpose. Boundaries and built in limits are being reframed not as bugs, but as safeguards for being human.
- Discomfort zone: In a world engineered for ease, struggle and risk are staging a comeback. Discomfort is becoming aspirational because it signals growth and a more vivid sense of being alive.
- Awakened world: Exhausted by auto pilot living, people are seeking experiences that sharpen awareness and re enchant everyday life. Attention is the new luxury.
- Modern civility: After years of rule breaking and norm shredding, total freedom is starting to feel tiring. Shared codes of conduct are re emerging as a pathway to mutual respect and calmer discourse.
- Archive authority: As digital footprints stretch indefinitely, questions about ownership and memory are intensifying. Who controls what is preserved, what is deleted and who gets access to our collective history may be the next cultural battleground.
If 2025 was the year of machine made abundance, Backslash suggests 2026 will reward what feels unmistakably human. Not louder, not faster, but more intentional. In an age of infinite output, proof of presence could be the most powerful brand asset of all.
