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Chatterbox launches marketing platform with influencers
MUMBAI: Today, brands are shooting in the dark when it comes to knowing which influencers to tap. Influencer marketing is the fastest growing marketing approach being favoured by brands, but a majority of brand budgets for it is not spent efficiently. There is a rising class of new influencers, from which there is very little past performance-data.
Indian influencer marketing company, Chatterbox, has launched a technology-backed solution with Chtrbox.com. With advanced ML (machine learning), smart-data driven influencer-search, proprietary matching algorithms, gamified mission modules, real-time performance tracking and more, chtrbox.com offers complete end-to-end solutions that make influencer marketing more automated, intelligent and cost effective for brands and agencies.
While the Chatterbox team helps brands craft their influencer strategy, the Chtrbox.com platform offers brands over 150K mega to micro influencers with deep data to make the right selection, enables push-campaigns and missions to relevant influencers to get their word out and get the biggest bang for their buck.
Chatterbox co-founder and CEO Pranay Swarup says, “While brands leverage the human intelligence and authentic chatter of social media influencers, Chtrbox.com leverages artificial intelligence at its very best to ensure brands find the right influencers first. With the rise of social media content consumption in India, Chtrbox.com’s access to 150,000+ influencers with a cumulative followers of 3.5 billion is all set to further elevate the emerging industry.”
Influencer marketing is nothing but word of mouth 2.0 in our digitally advanced and ever-so-connected world. Today it’s not just a celebrity, but a social media star, your college mates, colleagues and family members that you listen to the most. Chtrbox.com helps brands and agencies construct and optimise this very piece, and lets data validate gut-calls.
Chatterbox CTO Akhil Mordia notes that Chtrbox.com’s engine has analysed more than 24 million content pieces by top and emerging influencers, across categories and geographies. “For each content piece, our proprietary technology allocates a unique score basis its context and performance, generating every influencer’s social media value. This helps identify the relevant influencers with the best ROI,” he adds.
Chatterbox has been set up by Roshan Abbas (MD Encompass), Gaurav Kapur (media personality), Rohit Raj and Varun Duggirala (founders of the Glitch, now part of WPP) and Pranay Swarup (previously, cofounder of Letsintern.com), with this aim to combine the power of people and technology to build a data-led storytelling solution for brands. Chatterbox has already managed successful campaigns for 52 of India’s top brands, such as P&G, Flipkart, Hike, Nokia, Godrej, OnePlus, Puma, and Reliance.
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WPP appoints Estée Lauder’s Anne-Isabelle Choueiri as chief transformation officer
Former Estée Lauder executive to lead operations, technology and culture overhaul under WPP’s three-year growth plan
LONDON: WPP has appointed Anne-Isabelle Choueiri as chief transformation officer in a newly created role tasked with delivering the group’s Elevate28 strategy.
Choueiri joins from The Estée Lauder Companies, where she led enterprise-wide strategic initiatives, including the “One ELC” operating model and major upgrades to enterprise marketing, data and analytics capabilities. She also led the redesign of enterprise technology teams and served on the company’s AI taskforce, driving AI strategy, adoption and value realisation across the business.
At WPP, she will be responsible for designing, implementing and embedding the operating model behind Elevate28, the company’s three-year growth plan unveiled in February 2026. She will lead efforts to improve innovation, efficiency and integration across WPP’s client offerings, with a focus on delivering agile, outcome-driven solutions and measurable growth.
Choueiri will oversee organisational transformation across the group, working closely with product and enterprise technology teams to deploy AI, data and technology to build new capabilities and improve operational performance. She will also work with the people function to embed cultural change, strengthen an agile performance mindset and support talent development across the organisation.
Before joining Estée Lauder, she held senior roles across consulting and digital agencies, including at Accenture, Masaï (a Bain & Company spin-off), and Kearney, with experience spanning strategy, data and digital marketing transformation.
Cindy Rose, chief executive officer of WPP, said Choueiri brings a strong track record of leading large-scale transformation across operations, technology and culture, adding that her appointment will help accelerate the group’s next phase of growth under Elevate28.
Choueiri said WPP’s strategy represents an ambitious opportunity to reshape how the company operates and delivers for clients, adding that she looks forward to building integrated solutions and fostering a culture of innovation and change.
She will be based in New York and will join WPP’s executive committee.
