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Livspace launches digital campaign – #LivspaceYourSpace
MUMBAI: Livspace, India’s most admired home interiors brand, has launched its maiden brand campaign #LivspaceYourSpace. The all-digital campaign went live in key metros – Delhi NCR, Pune, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai – which house large catchments of working professionals looking to make homes for themselves.
Conceived and created by Tilt Brand Solutions, this campaign by Livspace captures its USP of bringing transparency, predictability and delight into the once-in-a-lifetime home interiors process by organizing the fragmented interiors ecosystem through technology. It depicts the behind-the-scenes reality of creating beautiful homes – from crumbling materials to unexpected finishes, disappearing contractors to creeping costs, through slice-of-life moments in the daily life of a young couple. These moments are relatable and capture the broad experience of a young professional making a home in India, and showcase the difference that Livspace – with proprietary technology and a three-sided marketplace of the best professionals in India – can bring to the home experience. The TVC will run on multiple platforms including SonyLiv, VOOT, TVF, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, InShorts, and Hotstar. Livspace will also serve as the associate sponsor on Hotstar for the upcoming India-Australia cricket series.
Livspace chief marketing officer Kartikeya Bhandari commented “With growing exposure, Indians are investing money and effort in expressing their identities through their homes, which is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Unfortunately, the absence of standardization and process makes home interiors a grueling, at best forgettable experience. With the home being a family’s most important environment, Indians deserve better, and that’s what Livspace offers. For our first campaign we wanted to showcase the pain points in a relatable manner, and show consumers that they can bring their desires to life in a delightful manner.”
Tilt Brand Solution chief creative and content officer Shriram Iyer commented “The more we interacted with the Livspace team, the more we were certain that we were going to be part of a journey that was going to fundamentally change India’s behavior when it came to doing up homes. Speaking to home-owners, the one thing that resonated right through is that doing up one’s dream home is easier said than done. There are many things that could go wrong and most usually do! Hence we chose to build our entire creative narrative around a young couple discovering the settling-in pains of their newly designed home. We used humor to enlighten audiences about the perils of getting their interiors designed by themselves instead of an expert. And then introduced Livspace as the expert which will deliver their dream home flawlessly and effortlessly – from start to finish!”
A fast-growing online interior design platform, Livspace offers a three-sided marketplace, connecting interior designers, vendors, and homeowners. Through a combination of data science, algorithms, and design, it creates a unique experience for homeowners, and scale the job of interior designers. Currently, Livspace serves nine metro areas in India, with a community of over 20,000 customers and over 3,500 interior designers.
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Apple bites back: the $599 MacBook Neo is the cheapest Mac ever made
The tech giant unveils a budget laptop that packs a punch — and a lot of cheek
CALIFORNIA: Apple has never been shy about charging a premium. So when Cupertino rolls out a MacBook at $599 (approx. Rs 55,000) , it’s worth sitting up straight.
The MacBook Neo, unveiled Tuesday, is Apple’s most affordable laptop to date — undercutting its own MacBook Air and taking a sharp swipe at the budget PC market in one fell swoop. It starts at $499 for students, which, for a machine with Apple silicon inside, is frankly a steal.
At the heart of the Neo is the A18 Pro chip — the same muscle that powers the latest iPhones. Apple claims it is up to 50 per cent faster for everyday tasks than a rival PC running Intel’s Core Ultra 5, and three times quicker on on-device AI workloads. Fanless and featherweight at 2.7 pounds, it runs silently and promises up to 16 hours of battery life. Try doing that on a Chromebook.
The 13-inch liquid retina display clocks in at 2408-by-1506 resolution with 500 nits of brightness and support for billion colours — sharper and brighter, Apple says, than most rivals in this price band. It comes dressed in four colours: blush, indigo, silver, and a zesty new citrus, with matching keyboard shades to boot.
Connectivity is modest — two USB-C ports, a headphone jack, Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 6 — but this is a budget machine, not a pro workstation. The 1080p FaceTime camera, dual mics with directional beamforming, and Spatial Audio speakers round out a package that punches well above its weight class.
Apple senior vice-president of hardware engineering John Ternus alled it “a laptop only Apple could create.” That’s the kind of line that makes rivals wince — because, annoyingly, he might be right.
The Neo runs macOS Tahoe, with Apple Intelligence baked in for AI writing tools, live translation, and the sort of on-device smarts that keep user data away from the cloud. It also boasts 60 per cent recycled content — the highest of any Apple product — for those who like their bargains with a side of conscience.
For $599, Apple isn’t just selling a laptop. It’s selling an argument — that good design and real performance needn’t cost the earth. The PC industry had better have a decent comeback ready.
