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Onads and Span Communications get G’Five mandate
MUMBAI: Chinese mobile handset brand G‘Five has awarded its creative duties to Onads Communications and media duties to Span Communications.
While Onads would be handling the creative conceptualisation and execution of mass media like BTL activities, Span would handle the company‘s media planning and buying.
The campaign has already been rolled out in the electronic media and will soon take off in the print, OOH and digital media as well.
Said G‘Five Mobiles managing director Arshit Pathak, “We are delighted to announce the appointment of Span Communications as our media agency and Onads Communications as our creative agency. Both the agencies have proven and established credentials and we think quite similar as well.
“G‘Five is among the fastest growing mobile brands in the world and so is the Indian mobile industry, which is the fastest growing. Connecting with the consumer is a priority as well a challenge and with right partners, we hope to be a very visible and promising brand.”
Averred Onads founder Jignesh Maniar, “There was a multi-agency pitch and it is a huge win for Onads. The account was won on the basis of strong strategic differentiation and exceptional creative work done by Onads. We are very excited to have won this account and thank G‘Five for putting their faith in us. We are looking forward to making G‘Five the most premier and respected mobile handset brand in the country. The initial communication has already begun across TV channels.”
Span Communications CEO Naresh Khetrapal stated, “It is our pleasure to work on an exciting and competitive category like this. G‘Five was impressed with our work and team and we thank G‘Five for having entrusted that faith in us. The communication mix would involve multimedia platforms, including print, digital and OOH as it is very important to reach the consumer and trade partners at relevant touch points. The teaser campaign has already started across leading channels across the country and would be rolled out in other mediums shortly.”
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How beverage brands are rethinking marketing strategies for weather-led demand
SLMG Beverages Private Limited joint managing director Paritosh Ladhani.
MUMBAI: As Sun climbs up the hemisphere, summer has clearly arrived in India. On 7th March 2026 Delhi registered a maximum temperature of 35.7 degrees Celsius which is the highest reading logged for the first week of March in the last 50 years. Climate Change has been prolonging summers by causing earlier spring warming, delayed autumn cooling, and more frequent, intense heatwaves that persist for much longer periods.
In an endeavor to stay ahead of the curve, Beverage Brands are shifting from fixed seasonal marketing tactics to weather responsive strategies backed by data-driven insights, flexible campaigns, and diversified portfolios to capitalize on unruly temperature spike. In 2025, India’s beverage market experienced a massive, heat-triggered surge with carbonated drinks and ice cream volumes spiking 20–25 per cent in the March quarter itself on the back of hottest February in 125 years.
Clearly campaign timelines are being advanced to reap the seasonal shift in line with the jumping mercury. In the Indian context where Cricket is nothing short of religion, big ticket tournaments like T20 World Cup, Indian Premier League, ICC Champions Trophy provide plethora of opportunities to calibrate marketing campaign designs and associated business strategies to associate refreshment with community viewing both outdoor and indoors. A new trend that has taken the world by storm is that of booking the theatres for bonhomie viewing. It has also opened avenues for joint marketing initiatives by the Multiplex and Beverage Brands.
Price disrupting small potions and value packs tend to drive significantly higher volumes owing to volumetric flexibility and affordability to the consumers. Ramping up of cold supply chains for transit and at point of sales (POS) are strategic business imperatives that again define success of beverage brands.
In the era of AI and Big Data it is easy to track and calibrate messaging based on daily or weekly weather changes. Geo-targeted digital advertisement campaigns are also being run during heatwaves to make the business and marketing imperative very contextual. These pre-emptive strategies fueled by real time data and technology immensely help beverage brands to adjust supplies to the areas that are likely to generate more demand.
Novelty brings premium to the FMCG Sector and Beverage Brands are no exception. Newer SKUs build up excitement in consumers besides imparting the scope of frequent revitalization of brand marketing campaigns. Ensuring continuum of supply chain across material suppliers, logistics providers, distributors/wholesalers, and retailers become a strategic business strategy imperative for beverage brands during peak season.
Carbonated drinks among other beverages including packaged mineral water sell like hotcakes in summers, a period where holiday season gives big impetus to sales volumes. Tying up with air carriers railways, amusement parks, malls, convention centers for inclusion in the onboard beverage deck also holds a big window of opportunity for brands.
Limited period diversification into special summer categories entailing juices and functional beverages to capture the broader hydration market is also a business cum marketing imperative that beverage brands eye on. This also brings to fore the responsible side of the brand placing the compass on wellness of consumers.
Seasons are cyclic, hence summers are inevitable. Further, due to anthropogenic climate change, summers surely have been staging prolonged appearance that keep bringing beverage brands on to their drawing boards frequently for strategizing business and marketing campaigns that are agile, refreshment-focused, visually dominant in retail, affordable, and optimally promoted through seasonal campaigns in above and below the line media.
