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O&M creates new Parle-G TVC
MUMBAI: In an attempt to cement its market leadership and strengthen its bond with the consumers particularly the newer generation of parents and children, Parle-G has launched its new ad campaign.
Titled ‘Kal Ka Genius‘, the campaign has been created by Ogilvy & Mather. It is targeted at children of 5 to 15 years and their mothers.
The creative idea of the campaign is ‘There is no bigger school than childhood; and there is no better teacher than curiosity‘.
Parle-G believes all kids are exceptional and creative but when they grow up, they often lose their creative ability as they journey towards conformity. It wants parents to realise that their kids could develop their potential for genius if they let them be, if they nurtured their natural curiosity, encouraged the desire to try new things, experiment, learn from their failures and mistakes. They should realised that kids can learn everywhere and from everything and that school is beyond just books and classrooms, the agency said.
The campaign was launched on the digital medium in two phases, Teaser and Launch Phase. In the first phase there was a teaser which was released across YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
This was followed by releasing the TVC online. The idea behind the new communication is to make the communication more progressive and not regressive. The core philosophy behind this campaign is to let kids explore and learn their own rather them stopping them.
Produced by Chrome Pictures, the film has been directed by Amit Sharma while Gulzaar is credited for the lyrics of the campaign.
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Smytten appoints Shishir Varma as CEO of Pulseai Research
Rebranded AI platform scales with 150 plus clients and 30 million users.
MUMBAI: In a world obsessed with what consumers say, Smytten is betting on what they actually do. The company has appointed Shishir Varma as chief executive officer of Pulseai Research, signalling a sharper push into AI-led, behaviour-driven consumer insights. The move comes as Smytten rebrands its insights vertical from Smytten PulseAI to Pulseai Research, marking a shift away from traditional, project-based research towards a more continuous, intelligence-led model.
Varma brings over 30 years of global experience across APAC markets, including India, China and Japan. Most recently managing director, Insights at Kantar Japan, he has built and scaled consumer insight businesses across geographies, including playing a key role in establishing Millward Brown in India. His mandate now: turn Pulseai into a category-defining platform in a space still dominated by surveys and static reports.
The pitch is straightforward but ambitious. Instead of relying on claimed responses, Pulseai Research taps into observed behaviour leveraging Smytten’s ecosystem of 30 million users built over a decade of product discovery, trials and purchases. The idea is to close the long-standing gap between what consumers claim and how they actually behave.
The numbers suggest early traction. In under 18 months, the platform has onboarded over 150 enterprise clients across sectors, pointing to growing demand for faster, more reliable alternatives to legacy research models.
Under the hood, the platform blends behavioural data with AI and large language model-led analysis to deliver real-time sentiment tracking, scalable qualitative insights, faster quantitative studies and always-on brand intelligence. In practical terms, that means compressing research timelines from weeks to days without sacrificing depth.
The ambition extends beyond FMCG. Pulseai Research is positioning itself as a cross-category intelligence layer, spanning auto, education, gadgets and emerging consumer segments anywhere behaviour-rich data can sharpen decision-making.
For Smytten, the leadership hire is less about optics and more about direction. With Varma at the helm, the company is leaning into a simple but powerful premise: in the age of AI, insight isn’t just about asking better questions, it’s about watching more closely.
