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Chtrbox launches Funbox, Influencer Gifting Service
Mumbai: Leading Indian influencer marketing company, Chtrbox announces the launch of Funbox, a creative and scalable influencer gifting solution, in time for the festive season. With the simple gesture of gifting, Funbox offers brands a smart solution to get their products in front of relevant influencers, build & strengthen meaningful relations, and most importantly get authentic reviews and earned media.
Commenting on the launch, Pranay Swarup, CoFounder and CEO, Chtrbox said, “Sharing of new products & personalized experiences with influencers is one of the most authentic and cost-effective ways to let your influencers know what’s awesome about your brand and product. Unboxings with influencers are often a missed opportunity, and we want to make it fun and easy for brand and influencers with Funbox.”
Unboxings are product reveals by influencers, and make for high impact quality videos that are most cost-effective and get above average engagement rates. “Our advantage at Chtrbox is that we’re able to analyze past unboxing performance of influencers to determine with whom and how a brand is most likely to see success. With the launch of our influencer gifting service Funbox, we aim to make marketers’ lives easier by getting the right product into the right influencer’s hands, at scale” adds Kajal Mehta, Head of Brand Partnerships at Chtrbox.
Funbox is a full suite influencer gifting and sampling solution covering strategy, data-driven influencer selection by Chtrbox’s proprietary influencer discovery platform, engaging content creation, and performance reporting. Funbox is also available for digital products who may not have considered unboxing before, with creative strategies on how to best showcase the brand and product.
Unboxing as a trend cannot be ignored, with exponential growth in usage in recent years. The best unboxings are done by category experts, who their followers look to for their knowledge and unbiased information. It’s a great, informal way to build a strong rapport with an audience to trust a product, assuming it is in fact a quality offering. Furthermore, Chtrbox recommends unboxings as great cost-effective approach for brands to validate whether popular social media influencers are true product advocates for them, prior to investing more heavily in them as formal brand influencers.
With the festive season around the corner, it's the right time of the year for brands to think about gifting & building meaningful relations with the right influencers. Interested to learn more about Funbox? Get in touch on hello@chtrbox.com
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Uidai partners with Google to help users locate Aadhaar centres
Verified Aadhaar centres to appear on Maps with services and access info
MUMBAI: Finding an Aadhaar centre may soon be as easy as finding your favourite café. In a move aimed at making public services more accessible, the Unique Identification Authority of India has partnered with Google to display authorised Aadhaar centres on Google Maps. The feature, expected to roll out in the coming months, will allow residents to locate verified centres quickly and confidently.
More than 60,000 Aadhaar centres, including state of the art Aadhaar Seva Kendras, will be mapped. When users search on Google Maps, they will be directed to authorised facilities rather than unverified listings, helping curb misinformation and confusion.
The listings will do more than drop a pin. Users will be able to see the nature of services offered at each centre, whether it is adult enrolment, child enrolment, or limited to address and mobile number updates. Details such as operating hours, parking availability and divyang friendly infrastructure will also be shown wherever applicable.
Uidai CEO Bhuvnesh Kumar, said the collaboration is part of the authority’s continued effort to improve ease of living for Aadhaar holders by making authorised centres simpler and faster to navigate.
The partnership will deepen in its next phase, with Uidai using Google Business Profile to manage information and respond directly to public feedback. Looking ahead, the two organisations are also exploring the option of enabling appointment bookings through the Google Maps interface, potentially allowing residents to plan their visits with greater efficiency.
Google India country head, strategic partnerships Roli Agarwal, said integrating verified Aadhaar centres would help millions access trusted services with confidence, bringing essential government infrastructure closer to the people who need it most.
If all goes to plan, a routine Aadhaar update may soon begin not with a queue, but with a search bar.
