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‘Jab Harry’ & ‘Lipstick’ agency WWO forays into in-film branding
MUMBAI: World Wide Open, Reliance Entertainment’s 360-degree digital solutions to build business and brands, has expanded their entertainment division in multi folds in the last one year. The digital and new media advertising agency has added one more feather in their cap as they announced extending their services into in-film branding.
The company has successfully planned and executed many film campaigns in recent times that include ‘Commando 2’, ‘Phillauri’, ‘Raabta’, ‘Half Girlfriend’ and ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ and their ongoing campaigns also includes Red Chillies Entertainment’s ‘Jab Harry Met Sejal’.
The agency has already cracked multiple deals for the upcoming sequel of Golmaal and has twenty five more films in the pipeline. With the growing importance of digital marketing, filmmakers have started involving the digital marketers right from the pre-production. Grabbing this opportunity, World Wide Open has offered to extend their support in to in-film branding and placements.
Talking about diversifying and extending their array of services, WWO head of the entertainment vertical Saahil Krishnani said, ”The importance to product placements and co-promotional deals is growing and constantly evolving. Producers and brands are gradually understanding the power of this medium and starting to benefit from them commercially and creatively. Being a digital marketing agency, we have access to more than 300 brands across the country. We are glad to have forayed in to in-film branding and to have identified the opportunity to provide our expertise and we look forward to cracking more mutually beneficially associations for both the films and the brands starting with the sequel of Golmaal.”
Set up in 2014, WWO is a digital and new media advertising agency based in India, and is a part of Reliance Digital and Entertainment. It offers services in data, direct, media, search, social, wireless, mobile, content, syndication and activation.
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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.
