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OYOs Weddingz.in launches its first digital and OOH campaign “Venue Sahi Toh Stress Nahi”
MUMBAI: OYO acquired Weddingz.in, India’s largest wedding company has rolled out its first digital and OOH campaign. Driven by the real-life hassles that families and young couples face during a wedding, the three-week-long campaign, “Venue Sahi Toh Stress Nahi”, aims to highlight the upside of booking the right venue for a memorable wedding experience.
Designed to strike a chord with Indian couples and their families, who are inherently involved in the wedding planning and execution process, the campaign highlights Weddingz.in’s commitment to organise great events and offer guaranteed delivery on services, with 100% transparency. The digital ad campaign is live across several online platforms through in-stream videos, including YouTube, Hotstar, Voot, Sony Liv, Facebook and Instagram. The multi-city OOH campaign is currently live across 20 cities, including Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Pune, Chandigarh, Udaipur among others.
Commenting on the campaign launch, Sandeep Lodha, CEO, Weddingz.in said, “Millennials prefer convenience in this era of technology, the internet and smartphones. As India's largest wedding solutions company, we are focused on offering these millennials and their families services at the tap of a button. We understand the many challenges faced by an Indian couple and their families while organising a wedding in today’s time-crunched world. Hence, this campaign is designed to highlight Weddingz.in’s comprehensive and convenient solutions to put together a hassle-free wedding experience. With a digital and OOH approach, we are aiming at capturing the attention of online as well as offline consumers.”
Ruchita Choudhary, Head of Brand & Content, Weddingz.in said, “We’re very happy to roll out Weddingz.in’s first digital and OOH ad campaign. Within ten days of its launch, the campaign reached over 10 million-plus views. The campaign has been designed to beautifully capture the sentiments of a young Indian couple and their families and highlights how important it is to make the right choice for the special day. Hence, through this campaign, we aim to reach out to our audience across the country and bring into light Weddingz.in’s venue and non-venue services that will enable them to enjoy a hassle-free day. Given the wide access to the internet and an increase in social media and OTT consumption by millennials, we’ve launched our campaign across social media and digital platforms including YouTube, Hotstar, Instagram among others. Weddings in India are an emotional affair and we believe that our campaign will connect with consumers across regions.”
The concept is a humorous take on chaotic weddings and evokes emotions surrounding the many challenges that arise, owing to uninformed/bad decisions based on venue selection and other services including catering, DJ, etc. Renowned Indian film, television and stage actor Darshan Jariwala plays the bride’s father, hilariously drawing attention to the many things that can go wrong at a traditional wedding – from issues with air conditioning to malfunctioning musical instruments, unsatisfactory catering services and more. The campaign was conceptualised by Sociowash and the ad film was produced by Dil Se Films in collaboration with Weddingz.in's in-house marketing team.
With more than 800+ beautiful and spacious venues across 30+ cities in India, Weddingz.in offers an array of services for its consumers.
Brands
Creative Intelligence: Using AI to Predict Which Ads Will Actually Convert
Priyanka Aeron, Director & Co-founder of Thrive Global AI
MUMBAI: In a heavily populated digital landscape, simply being creative with your advertising will not guarantee that your ad will be successful. In fact, brands today are producing more content than ever. However, very little of that results in actual engagement or sales. However, Creative Intelligence, powered by AI, is fundamentally transforming the advertising industry.
Creative Intelligence utilizes data, machine learning, and statistical behavioral insights to analyze and predict how well a creative asset will perform prior to it being published. Therefore, marketers no longer have to rely on either their gut instincts or post-campaign analytics for making informed decisions before production. That said, AI-powered creative intelligence greatly improves results and decreases wasted dollars spent.
Moving Beyond Guesswork
In the past, making ads was a mix of gut feeling, experience, and A/B testing. These methods were useful, but reactive by nature. People have already spent their budgets by the time the results are looked at. AI models can find patterns that are linked to higher engagement and conversion rates by looking at huge datasets. These datasets can include things like past campaign performance, audience behavior, and visual elements like color, composition, and facial expressions. This helps marketers guess which ads will do well even before they go live.
Decoding What Truly Drives Conversions
AI-powered creative intelligence allows for an evaluation of advertisements that is not limited to the basic data but also explores the elements of an effective advertisement through subtle reactions; clarity and directness of the ad message and how well the ad captures audience’s attention in the first three seconds. AI can also provide insights into the successful use of advertisements directed to human faces, which connect through eye contact based on media channels, and how advertisements that utilize shorter but clear calls to action may produce more clicks from certain populations. The insights, provided through AI, provide marketers with the ability to think beyond creating more advertising material and additionally create more effective ad campaigns that actually convert.
Personalization at Scale
Consumers expect relevance more than ever. Irrelevant mass messaging is not going to work in a society inundated with information. Hyper-personalization, using AI, allows companies to create content that suits individual segments within their target markets based on their demographics, interests, and behaviors. Rather than having one single message that aims to reach everyone, brands can have many versions of their messages tailored to each segment within the market. Such flexibility is what makes campaigns successful nowadays.
Faster Iteration, Better Results
Another advantage to using AI in creative decision-making is speed. Companies must improvise because their campaign cycles are shorter than ever before, and having the ability to iterate rapidly is more important than it has ever been. There is no greater way to do this work than through AI, as new technologies give brands the ability to test multiple creative avenues and figure out which ones are working well. This reduces a lot of the testing that companies would otherwise have to do and makes the process faster.
With AI, brands can also make creative changes in real-time during a campaign, allowing the, to make vital decisions and adjust their creatives, rather than waiting out. This allows for faster adaptability, well-tested campaigns and reduced lost ad spend.
The Human-AI Collaboration
Even though AI is capable of performing certain tasks, its purpose is not to eliminate human creativity. Successful campaigns require human collaboration with computer intellect since both complement each other. While computers are capable of dealing with massive amounts of information, discovering patterns, and providing predictions, humans are the one to inject stories and emotions into campaigns.
The Future of Advertising
As the complexity of advertising becomes harder with the passage of time, Creative Intelligence will play a significant role in helping marketers formulate a strategic approach. The yardstick that will set standards for determining whether a marketing firm has fulfilled its responsibilities will be the forecasting of future outcomes, as well as personalized content and optimization of creative elements in real-time. In contrast to the existing scenario where the campaigns remain fixed, these campaigns will be capable of adjusting themselves according to the customer interacting with the brand, as well as other trends on social media channels. This will enable brands to offer customers an engaging experience that will exceed expectations. The biggest hurdle marketers will face will be finding ways to utilize these capabilities without compromising branding and enhancing the creativity of the team involved.
