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57 cities, 65k unique viewers, 40 hours of live streaming.
MUMBAI: Ogle, India’s largest premium on-demand streaming platform growing, successfully partner with the Lakme Fashion Week/Winter Festive 2015 as the official ‘Live Streaming Partners’. With more than 65k viewers across 57 cities and 24 countries glued onto their connected devices, this was a definite success story for the platform and establishes their leadership in the premium space.
Here are the 5 fascinating factors that made Ogle- LFW Live Streaming a successful collaboration:
1. ‘Front Row Experience at your Convenience’ :Providing millions of people with direct and live access to the exclusive contents of the Lakme Fashion Week,Ogle thrivingly delivered ‘The Front Row’ kind of an experience through the user’s connected devices. The live streaming gave viewers the access to watch exclusive on-stage and back stage happenings, watching their favourite bollywood celebrities walking the ramp or walking down the red carpet, and also to watch the interviews of their favorite designers and models. The Ogle-LFW ‘Live Streaming Partnership’, redefined fashion altogether.
2. Not in your city, yet in your city: For all the fashion enthusiasts all over India who missed out on physically attending the Mumbai Lakme Fashion Week, Ogle made sure you are not disappointed! Exclusive live streaming of the entire event and other behind the scenes footage and interviews, anyone from any part of the country could witness the Lakme Fashion Week Winter Festive 2015 happening in Mumbai live through any connected device.
3. Increase in viewership: The live streaming attracted people from more than 50+ cities in India, who otherwise would not have access to the Fashion Week. It was the best platform offered for people across the nation and led to a drastic increase in the viewership of the prime event. The approximated number of viewers through the Ogle link was more than 60k.
4. A buffer free experience: Ogle streams almost buffer free at bandwidths as low as 0.5mbps making streaming in India a realistic and stressfree experience. Expanding this experience beyond just movies and shows, Ogle tied up with Lakme Fashion Week and live streamed the entire event and other activities at high visual quality and without any disturbances for anybody in the country and not just their subscribers.
5. Traction for the prime event through social media: Ogle’s social media efforts toward Lakme Fashion Week across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have reached out, in total, to almost two million users. Over the course of a week, the dedicated hashtag #OgleLFW was circulated to over one million unique users online, in conjuction with Ogle’s meticulous live coverage of Lakme Fashion Week that served to further enhance their social inlfuence. Narendra Kumar, SapnaBhavnani, Ritu Kumar and other prominent designers and Lakme Fashion Week attendees were engaged, significantly expanding Ogle’s digital presence to include new audiences.
Sharing his views, Chairperson, Ogle Technologies Group Pritish Nandy says,“Ogle’s association with Lakme Fashion Week has been a great initiative both from a brand and messaging standpoint.Standing for providing curated cult content, Ogle was able to provide real time packaging of content that was accessed across the nation. We are committed to this partnership and will only growfrom strength to strength in the coming months.”
IMG Reliance Head Fashion Saket Dhankar said, “Lakmé Fashion Week has always been at the forefront of innovation and we continued the trend this season with our live streaming partners Ogle. LFW Winter/Festive 2015 was streamed live through 6 different cameras, capturing exciting on-ramp and behind the scenes action from the Main Show Area, Jabong Stage, Red Carpet, Model Line-up area, the Celebrity room and other areas across the venue. We are delighted to have Ogle on board as our long term partners and hope to continue creating exciting content for fashion fans across the world.”
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Lululemon picks former Nike executive to be its next chief
Heidi O’Neill, who helped grow Nike into a $45 billion giant, will take the top job in September
CANADA: Lululemon has found its next chief executive, and she comes with serious credentials. The athleisure giant named Heidi O’Neill as its new CEO on Wednesday, ending a search that has left the company running on interim leadership since earlier this year. O’Neill will take charge on September 8, 2026, based out of Vancouver, and will join the board on the same day.
O’Neill brings more than three decades of experience across performance apparel, footwear and sport. The bulk of that time was spent at Nike, where she was a central figure in one of corporate sport’s great growth stories, helping take the company from a $9 billion business to a $45 billion global powerhouse. She oversaw product pipelines, brand strategy and consumer connections, and played a significant role in shaping how Nike spoke to athletes around the world. Earlier in her career, she worked in marketing for the Dockers brand at Levi Strauss. She also brings boardroom experience from Spotify Technology, Hyatt Hotels and Lithia and Driveway.
The board was unequivocal in its enthusiasm. “We selected Heidi because of the breadth of her experience, her demonstrated success delivering breakthrough ideas and initiatives at scale, and her ability to be a knowledgeable change and growth agent,” said Marti Morfitt, executive chair of Lululemon’s board.
O’Neill, for her part, was bullish. “Lululemon is an iconic brand with something rare: genuine guest love, a product ethos rooted in innovation, and a global platform still in the early stages of its potential,” she said. “My job will be to accelerate product breakthroughs, deepen the brand’s cultural relevance, and unlock growth in markets around the world.”
Until she arrives, Meghan Frank and André Maestrini will continue as interim co-CEOs, before returning to their previous senior leadership roles once O’Neill steps in.
Lululemon is betting that a Nike veteran who helped build one of the world’s most powerful sports brands can do something similar for an athleisure label that has genuine love from its customers but is still chasing its full global potential. O’Neill has done it before at scale. The question now is whether she can do it again.
