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Icubeswire lands Central Park digital mandate in style
MUMBAI: When luxury meets logic, clicks follow. In a significant account win, digital marketing agency Icubeswire has been named the digital transformation partner for Central Park, a marquee name in ultra-luxury real estate. The decision follows a keenly contested multi-agency pitch, sealing Icubeswire’s growing reputation as the go-to for high-stakes digital mandates.
The partnership gives Icubeswire the keys to Central Park’s entire digital kingdom spanning everything from social media and search to web experience, performance marketing, media planning, creative strategy, and online reputation management. And in the world of luxury real estate, the stakes aren’t just high, they’re sky-rise.
“Central Park stands for elevated living, and we’re excited to be chosen as their digital transformation partner,” said Icubeswire founder & CEO Sahil Chopra. “It’s a brilliant opportunity to fuse our digital innovation with their luxury ethos to build immersive, future-ready experiences.”
On the other side of the table, Central Park was clear about what it wanted. “We needed a partner who gets luxury branding in a digital-first world,” said Central Park president of sales, marketing & CRM Ankush Kaul. “Icubeswire brought a vision that matched ours and the execution to back it up.”
With this collaboration, Central Park aims to enhance the digital storytelling around its ‘concept living’ offerings in the NCR region, transforming the way affluent audiences engage with real estate. For Icubeswire, this win is another jewel in a fast-filling crown and proof that luxury doesn’t just need polish, it needs pixels.
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Kansai Nerolac tests paint in stratosphere for durability proof
Excel Everlast sent to 86,000 ft, survives -64°C and extreme UV exposure
MUMBAI: If walls could talk, this one would say it’s been to space and back. Kansai Nerolac has taken product testing to dizzying new heights quite literally by sending its exterior paint into the stratosphere in a bid to prove durability beyond the lab. In what the company calls a first for the Indian paint industry, a stratospheric balloon carried a payload coated with its Excel Everlast paint to an altitude of 86,000 feet above Earth. Up there, conditions are less “extreme weather” and more “near space”: temperatures drop below -64°C, ultraviolet radiation hits unfiltered, and atmospheric pressure is only a fraction of what it is at sea level.
Most materials struggle to survive such a hostile environment. This one didn’t. According to the campaign, the painted surface returned intact no visible damage, no compromise effectively turning a marketing claim into a high-altitude experiment.
The initiative, conceptualised by ULKA, moves away from simulated lab tests to something far more theatrical and verifiable. The campaign film documents the entire journey, positioning the exercise as proof rather than promise.
The test also doubles as a showcase for the Excel Everlast range, which includes features such as nano-silica-based protection, 30 per cent higher toughness and crack-bridging capability, along with a 20-year warranty claims now dramatised under conditions few buildings will ever face.
For Kansai Nerolac, the stunt is less about spectacle and more about signalling intent: in a category often dominated by functional messaging, it’s an attempt to turn durability into something tangible and memorable.
Because when your paint survives near-space, the neighbourhood monsoon suddenly feels like a very small test.
