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Optiminastic Media launches digital influencer marketing platform Click2Collab
Mumbai: Digital marketing agency Optiminastic Media has announced the launch of Click2Collab, a tech-based influencer marketing platform. Click2Collab is built upon a seamless interface that helps influencers, brands, and agencies to connect with each other on a single platform.
By introducing an end-to-end solution, Click2Collab aims to help brands and agencies design, curate, and customise campaigns as per their needs and requirements with the platform’s network of verified influencers from across India, said the statement.
Speaking on launching a first-of-its-kind platform in India, Optiminastic Media co-founder Akshae Golekar said, “Click2Collab is a platform that is built to ease, simplify and bring efficiency to this evolving business. The platform is multifaceted wherein it allows influencers to on-board themselves and become more easily available and accessible, brands with easy discoverability of the right influencer for their campaign as well as agencies to streamline their business.”
He further added, “Click2Collab reduces the complexities associated with the influencer marketing business. We are sure that it will also help the influencer marketing and creator’s ecosystem grow to greater heights. We will continue to invest in enhancing the platform and are certain of becoming a platform of choice for influencer marketing campaigns.”
The platform, designed to cater to all three stakeholders – brands, influencers and agencies, will ease the business of influencer marketing, improve efficiency and help all stakeholders plan better, said the company.
By providing brands with a state-of-the-art tech interface, Click2Collab aims to help them easily identify, estimate, execute campaigns in a short span of time by doing away with pseudo-science and manual intervention. It also provides the creator community an e-commerce platform thus giving them the opportunity to sell merchandise directly to their followers along with an exhaustive dashboard to track their earnings, it added.
Brands
Jubilant FoodWorks faces Rs 47.5 crore GST demand, plans appeal
Tax authorities flag alleged misclassification of restaurant services
MUMBAI: Jubilant FoodWorks Limited has landed in a tax tussle after receiving a GST demand of Rs 47.5 crore from the office of the additional commissioner of CGST and central excise in Thane, Maharashtra.
The order, issued under the provisions of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, relates to an alleged incorrect classification of certain services under the category of restaurant services. According to the tax authorities, this classification resulted in a short payment of goods and services tax for the period between the financial years 2019-20 and 2021-22.
The demand includes Rs 47.5 crore in GST along with an equal amount as penalty, in addition to applicable interest. The order was received by the company on March 13, 2026.
In a regulatory filing to the BSE Limited and the National Stock Exchange of India Limited, the company said it disagrees with the order and believes its arguments were not adequately considered.
The company is preparing to challenge the decision and plans to file an appeal. It added that once the redressal process is complete, the demand is likely to be dropped.
Despite the sizeable figure attached to the notice, the company said it does not expect any material impact on its financials, operations or other activities.
The disclosure was signed by Suman Hegde, EVP and chief financial officer, who confirmed that the company received the order at 19:06 IST on March 13 and has already initiated steps to contest it.
The development places the quick service restaurant major in the middle of a tax debate that could hinge on how certain restaurant-linked services are classified under GST rules. For now, the company appears ready to take the matter from the tax office to the appeals desk.
