Brands
Interactive Avenues’ digital mandate for Too Yumm! cements a strong agency-brand partnership
MUMBAI: Interactive Avenues – a Reprise Network Company has been appointed as the digital agency of India’s fastest growing snack brand, Too Yumm! earlier this year.
IA’s mandate includes driving brand awareness, facilitating trials, and creating brand loyalists and advocates who will help evangelise Too Yumm! over other fried snacks. A 2-year old brand, Too Yumm! has already been a disruptor in product offering and brand-led campaigns in a highly competitive snack category.
The journey began in October-November 2018 with a completely revamped website experience for the brand. 2019 kicked off with a big bang, immediately after winning the account. Too Yumm! soon moved on to a highly successful campaign during this year’s Ardh Kumbh Mela. With a seamless transition from activities on-ground to the experience online, the campaign’s tremendous response has set new benchmarks for the activities lined up for the year which started off with creating a Guinness World Record.
The brand has also won awards for having the Best Corporate / Brand Website, Screenxx Awards, Best use of Technology, and Best use of Social Media for Brand Awareness this year, from various advertising councils.
Talking about the association, Guiltfree Industries Ltd CMO Anupam Bokey said, “In this short span, we’ve already achieved the set benchmarks in our partnership with Interactive Avenues. With the ongoing campaigns, we’re sure that this will only grow exponentially. Both the brand and agency teams recognise the potential of the brand and our vision for it. That’s what will work in developing a very healthy and fruitful relationship in the long run.”
Next came the Indian Premier League (IPL), our biggest sports and marketing event of the season, along with the Too Yumm! – IA partnership. Taking over all social media conversations, the agency established a strong brand-sport association while establishing a stronghold over the category. Karare Strikers, the online game, was also been developed by IA to give cricket fans a new way to engage with the brand during ongoing matches. Not just this, Indian social media witnessed a complete takeover of pre-baked snacks conversations and game-time snack partnership.
“IA has always been a disruptor and we standout for our path-breaking, strategic innovative work that we do for our clients. With Too Yumm! We are excited and confident about taking this journey forward in delivering path-breaking results”, said Interactive Avenues – a Reprise Network Company. Reprise is the digital arm of media agency network IPG Mediabrands CEO Amardeep Singh.
The media and OOH mandate of Too Yumm! are managed by Initiative and Rapport respectively, which are also part of IPG Mediabrands.
Founded in 2017, Guiltfree Industries Limited (GIL), is a part of the RP Sanjiv Goenka group’s foray into the FMCG business. RP-SG FMCG’s strategic intent is to innovate disruptively and create brands and products that are genuine and desirable to the consumers. That’s how the brand Too Yumm! Came into being. Since its inception, GIL has been growing at a break-neck pace, beating industry records. Within just two years, ‘Too Yumm!’ achieved an annual Sales Rate of INR 200 Cr – one of the fastest in the country to do so.
Brands
Creative Intelligence: Using AI to Predict Which Ads Will Actually Convert
Priyanka Aeron, Director & Co-founder of Thrive Global AI
MUMBAI: In a heavily populated digital landscape, simply being creative with your advertising will not guarantee that your ad will be successful. In fact, brands today are producing more content than ever. However, very little of that results in actual engagement or sales. However, Creative Intelligence, powered by AI, is fundamentally transforming the advertising industry.
Creative Intelligence utilizes data, machine learning, and statistical behavioral insights to analyze and predict how well a creative asset will perform prior to it being published. Therefore, marketers no longer have to rely on either their gut instincts or post-campaign analytics for making informed decisions before production. That said, AI-powered creative intelligence greatly improves results and decreases wasted dollars spent.
Moving Beyond Guesswork
In the past, making ads was a mix of gut feeling, experience, and A/B testing. These methods were useful, but reactive by nature. People have already spent their budgets by the time the results are looked at. AI models can find patterns that are linked to higher engagement and conversion rates by looking at huge datasets. These datasets can include things like past campaign performance, audience behavior, and visual elements like color, composition, and facial expressions. This helps marketers guess which ads will do well even before they go live.
Decoding What Truly Drives Conversions
AI-powered creative intelligence allows for an evaluation of advertisements that is not limited to the basic data but also explores the elements of an effective advertisement through subtle reactions; clarity and directness of the ad message and how well the ad captures audience’s attention in the first three seconds. AI can also provide insights into the successful use of advertisements directed to human faces, which connect through eye contact based on media channels, and how advertisements that utilize shorter but clear calls to action may produce more clicks from certain populations. The insights, provided through AI, provide marketers with the ability to think beyond creating more advertising material and additionally create more effective ad campaigns that actually convert.
Personalization at Scale
Consumers expect relevance more than ever. Irrelevant mass messaging is not going to work in a society inundated with information. Hyper-personalization, using AI, allows companies to create content that suits individual segments within their target markets based on their demographics, interests, and behaviors. Rather than having one single message that aims to reach everyone, brands can have many versions of their messages tailored to each segment within the market. Such flexibility is what makes campaigns successful nowadays.
Faster Iteration, Better Results
Another advantage to using AI in creative decision-making is speed. Companies must improvise because their campaign cycles are shorter than ever before, and having the ability to iterate rapidly is more important than it has ever been. There is no greater way to do this work than through AI, as new technologies give brands the ability to test multiple creative avenues and figure out which ones are working well. This reduces a lot of the testing that companies would otherwise have to do and makes the process faster.
With AI, brands can also make creative changes in real-time during a campaign, allowing the, to make vital decisions and adjust their creatives, rather than waiting out. This allows for faster adaptability, well-tested campaigns and reduced lost ad spend.
The Human-AI Collaboration
Even though AI is capable of performing certain tasks, its purpose is not to eliminate human creativity. Successful campaigns require human collaboration with computer intellect since both complement each other. While computers are capable of dealing with massive amounts of information, discovering patterns, and providing predictions, humans are the one to inject stories and emotions into campaigns.
The Future of Advertising
As the complexity of advertising becomes harder with the passage of time, Creative Intelligence will play a significant role in helping marketers formulate a strategic approach. The yardstick that will set standards for determining whether a marketing firm has fulfilled its responsibilities will be the forecasting of future outcomes, as well as personalized content and optimization of creative elements in real-time. In contrast to the existing scenario where the campaigns remain fixed, these campaigns will be capable of adjusting themselves according to the customer interacting with the brand, as well as other trends on social media channels. This will enable brands to offer customers an engaging experience that will exceed expectations. The biggest hurdle marketers will face will be finding ways to utilize these capabilities without compromising branding and enhancing the creativity of the team involved.
