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BankBazaar shows fans it cares
MUMBAI: Financial marketplace, BankBazaar.com has decided to bid goodbye to the year with a special musical tribute to some of its biggest fans, thanking them for all the love and support. The BankBazaar’s Biggest Fans digital campaign celebrates some of the brand’s biggest fans on social media with personalised musical messages. The week-long activity is being executed on Facebook and Instagram.
The whole stunt was planned out to make BankBazaar fans feel special and show them that it is listening. They contacted two of their biggest fans on social media and requested one of them to meet at The Teal Door Cafe, Indira Nagar, and the other at Blossoms Bookstore, Church Street, under the ruse of a gift to thank them for being with the brand all year.
https://www.facebook.com/bankbazaar/videos/10156018071619468/
In the meantime, BankBazaar had a band of singers and beat boxers, including Vineeth Vincent, Hannah Mathews, Joshua Selvaraj, and Sheridan Brass, to write a song for each fan. The songs were to be sung as a surprise for each fan at these two locations in a guerrilla fashion. With cameras, an ensemble of musicians and a film crew hiding in the respective locations, the fun began.
https://www.facebook.com/bankbazaar/videos/10156018047199468/
The campaign was conceptualised and executed in collaboration with Bluebot Digital.
BankBazaar.com head of brand marketing Prince Thomas says, “As an organisation, we believe in keeping our customers at the centre of everything we do, and our social media campaigns are no different. Our fans expect us to be unique and interesting in the way we tell our stories. That’s the reason we experiment with themes and delivery to put our message across. 2017 has been an extremely successful year for BankBazaar, with several well-received campaigns that made a mark on social media as well as in our fans’ hearts. So we wanted to celebrate our successes with some of our biggest social media fans who made our successes possible, and what could be better than musical tributes to such special fans!”
BlueBot Digital CEO and CCO Carl Savio adds, “Social media fans and followers are often taken for granted and treated like a statistic by some brands. For the latest BankBazaar campaign, we decided to show our fans how far we are from treating them the same way. So, we dug through social media data to find individuals who have genuinely given the brand love and support on multiple occasions and decided to surprise them using the gift of song! What followed was a crazy shoot, awestruck fans and much more! Happy to have a client as forward thinking as BankBazaar.”
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Publicis Groupe names Rahul Titus global influencer lead
Ogilvy’s former global head of influence to unify creator operations worldwide
UK: Publicis Groupe has tapped Rahul Titus to lead its influencer capability globally, tightening its grip on the fast-maturing creator economy.
Titus, one of the industry’s early architects, joins from Ogilvy, where he built what was billed as the world’s largest and most awarded influencer marketing operation. In his new role, based in London, he will align Publicis Groupe’s influencer agencies under a single global proposition, tasked with delivering consistent solutions that drive growth across its connected media ecosystem.
The move signals Publicis’ intent to professionalise and scale influencer marketing beyond fragmented campaigns and regional silos. Titus will shape the influencer narrative across the Groupe, integrating talent, data and commerce as brands demand sharper returns from creator partnerships.
At Ogilvy, Titus led specialist teams spanning more than 40 markets and over 650 influencer experts. The agency claimed seven consecutive years, from 2019 to 2025, as the most awarded influencer marketing network globally. His teams secured the Grand Prix for Social & Creator at Cannes Lions for three successive years and clinched the Titanium in 2025 for Vaseline Verified.
Titus also steered WPP Onefluence for L’Oréal and served as global influence lead for WPP Open X, overseeing influencer strategy for more than 200 brands across 195 countries for The Coca-Cola Company. Earlier roles included managing partner and head of influence for the UK and EMEA at Ogilvy, as well as senior positions at MediaCom, Dentsu Aegis Network and YMU.
A founding board member of the Influencer Marketing Trade Body, Titus has long argued that the creator economy must move from hype to discipline. Publicis appears to agree.
As influencer budgets swell and scrutiny sharpens, the brief is clear: scale fast, integrate smarter and prove the returns. The creator economy has grown up. Now it must deliver.
