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MindShift new wing’s stylized visuals to amplify user engagement
MUMBAI: Seeing is believing. MindShift Interactive will be launching its new wing, MindShift Studios, to assist brands develop original and stylized content. The content will help deliver strong visual campaigns that increase awareness and amplify brand-user engagement.
Research suggests that 93 per cent of all human communication is non-verbal, and it becomes clear that a visual online presence is critical. When it comes to marketing your business, imagery speaks volumes. Not only do pictures and videos make a bigger impact, they do it in short time. The growth of visual content in the form of photos and videos is increasing with millennials pursuing an ever-growing need for fresher content, each time.
MindShift Studios satiates this need by providing personalised content through a network of skilled photographers and videographers, who then help curate content with in-house visualizers, story creators and influencer relationship managers. The journey towards bespoke visual content production gets unraveled in their unique model which entails handpicking the right videographer or photographer as per client requirements, and partnering them with digital influencers to create a personalised, amplified story that can be leveraged across social media.
With over five years of creating such visual stories for brands like Kiehl’s, Lancôme, JW Marriott, Splash Fashions and many more within the beauty, lifestyle and hospitality sector, MindShift Studios has launched a focused arm towards growing across the country and building a MindShift on promising partnerships. The company will primarily cater to the lifestyle, hospitality, fashion and beauty industry.
Their services will include:
• Visual Campaign Management: This will include holistic management which involves selecting the right influencers, photographers, videographers and execution of the campaign, powered by analytics on the parameters assigned to understand the viability of visual content.
• Personalised Visual Production: Every project will create concepts with a mood board, develop and execute the ideas.
• Live Events: Capturing Live events using a storytelling approach with the help of engaging rich media and blended in well with user generated content to continue the momentum.
• Instagram Influencer meet ups: Involving influencers through an offline approach to generate buzz and propel evangelism. A base of over key opinion leaders, celebrities and social media influencers team up to provide the right experience.
• Influencer Takeovers: Content curators will take over the brand’s social media accounts and bring in a uniqueness that will help increase consumer engagement and the overall brand reach.
Speaking on the occasion, MindShift Interactive CEO Zafar Rais, states, “With over five years of creating personalised visual content within the lifestyle, hospitality, beauty and fashion space, we recognize the impact of curated stories. Witnessing the growing demand for visual content, we wanted a focused and progressive business unit that partnered with skilled photographers and videographers to tell these stories. The need will be satiated through the impeccable team we have put together at MindShift Studios towards creating a shift in the way stories must be articulated on digital.”
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IAS launches Total TV suite to boost transparency in CTV ads
New solution offers programme-level insights across platforms and publishers.
MUMBAI: In the world of streaming, what you see is not always what advertisers get and that’s exactly the problem IAS is looking to fix. Integral Ad Science (IAS) has unveiled ‘IAS Total TV’, a new suite of Connected TV (CTV) solutions aimed at bringing what it calls “linear-like” transparency to the fast-growing streaming ecosystem. In simple terms, it is an attempt to make digital TV advertising a lot less of a black box.
The offering aggregates programme-level data covering genre, ratings, language, shows and specific content from major platforms including Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount and Prime Video, along with opted-in publishers via Publica. All of this is housed within the IAS Signal interface, giving advertisers a unified view of where their ads actually appear.
The timing is hardly accidental. According to Nielsen, as of Q4 2025, 74.2 per cent of all TV viewing in the United States is ad-supported. Of that, streaming alone accounts for 45.6 per cent outpacing traditional television and cementing its position as the largest ad-supported medium. Advertisers have followed suit, funnelling premium budgets into CTV, but often without a clear, standardised view of performance or placement.
That gap is precisely what IAS is targeting. By combining content insights with media quality, supply path data and campaign outcomes, the platform aims to give marketers more control over when, where and alongside what content their ads run. The goal is not just visibility, but accountability ensuring ads land in brand-suitable environments rather than disappearing into opaque inventory pools.
The suite also promises practical gains. Marketers can access real-time, aggregated transparency across shows and platforms, streamline campaign controls across digital video channels, and leverage third-party verification to improve efficiency and pre-bid decision-making. Measurement tools extend to quality reach and incremental conversions, offering a clearer link between spend and outcomes.
At a time when high CPMs and fragmented data make CTV both attractive and complex, the push for transparency is becoming less of a luxury and more of a necessity. IAS’s move reflects a broader industry shift, where the race is no longer just for eyeballs, but for clarity on what those eyeballs are actually watching.
Because in streaming’s premium playground, knowing the content may just matter as much as owning the audience.
