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SBI Life Insurance, WATConsult launch India’s first-ever programmatic digital OOH campaign
MUMBAI: SBI Life Insurance, for its ‘Main Se Hum Campaign’, has launched the first-ever programmatic digital out-of-home (OOH) campaign in India. Planned by WATConsult, the digital and social media agency from Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN) along with DAN’s Programmatic Arm – Amnet, this innovation aims to help the brand in reaching out to newer audiences & build a programmatic connect thereafter.
Exploring New Year as a topic, the campaign is being executed across major establishments in Maharashtra and Delhi-NCR. Google’s marketing platform in partnership with Lemma Technologies, has helped the brand serve this digital inventory across OOH touch points and also plans to re-target audiences on mobile through the beacons installed at each location.
WATConsult founder and CEO Rajiv Dingra said, “With this activity, SBI Life adds another innovation with us with the key objective of testing Digital OOH, extend further reach for their "Main Se Hum" campaign exploring New Year as a topic to leverage and programmatically retarget with relevant brand messages. Well, this is the first-of-its-kind initiative in India and will surely open more dynamic avenues for the brand in the coming future.”
SBI Life Insurance chief of brand and corporate communications Ravindra Sharma said, “For a long time marketers have been trying to bridge the gap between offline and online audience, to holistically target consumers. Using the existing advertising ecosystem, the programmatic digital out of home campaign (DOOH) successfully bridges the offline to online audience gap, by simple yet intelligent application of technology.” He further added, “At SBI Life we take great pride in being the early adopters of upcoming technologies and are extremely thrilled to start 2019 on an innovative note. We believe this will mark a transformation in the evolution of digital marketing.”
AMNET in association with Lemma Technologies ran this DOOH campaign as a RTB (Real-Time Bidding) campaign on Lemma’s platform which had Google DV360 participating as demand partner. “It’s an innovation in the outdoor industry to connect outdoor media to a centralised platform based on advertisement standard & protocols. Such standardisation gives DOOH inventory more visibility to direct and programmatic demand,” says Lemma Technologies founder and CEO Gulab Patil.
AMNET vice president Salil Shanker said, “This is a revolution in outdoor industry to connect DOOH screens to a digital advertisement ecosystem. At AMNET, we believe in driving innovations to our partners and with success of launching programmatic radio in India, now we are thriving to launch DOOH inventory through programmatic. The new platform offers advertisers with innovative solutions to connect with the right audience with right messages at the right time along the consumer journey. While the lines are slowly blurring between digital and offline, in the short term this step will surely help SBI Life in getting that extended reach through offline impressions and a possibility to re-connect audiences in digital world to help close the loop. The standardisation gives more simplicity to manage all media channels through a single lens.”
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Uniqlo features Jasprit Bumrah in new AIRism campaign
Cricketing superstar showcases comfort and calm in authentic ad film.
MUMBAI: When Jasprit Bumrah runs in to bowl, the stadium erupts with “Boom Boom Bumbrah” but off the field, the Indian pacer is all about quiet confidence and effortless style. Uniqlo has captured exactly that in its latest ad film. Entourage Films, conceptualised and created by Creativeland Asia, presents Bumrah in a refreshingly candid light for Uniqlo’s AIRism Oversized t-shirts. Moving away from typical polished celebrity ads, the film embraces simplicity and authenticity, mirroring Bumrah’s calm and consistent on-field persona.
Instead of dramatic cricket moments, the ad shows the fast bowler in relaxed, everyday situations playing croquet, chatting casually, smiling, playing Jenga, and simply being his cool, composed self. Throughout these unforced scenes, Uniqlo’s breathable, versatile AIRism fabric takes centre stage, highlighting its comfort, flawless fit and easy silhouette.
Entourage Films founder and executive producer Garima Arora said the brief was straightforward: avoid stylised glamour and let the scenes breathe naturally. “We wanted to show Bumrah’s calm demeanour and effortless performance, which perfectly aligns with Uniqlo’s philosophy of simplicity, quality and comfort,” she noted.
Director Ishaan Nair, who was working with Uniqlo for the sixth time, added that Bumrah was an ideal fit. “He’s easy, effortless, dependable just like the brand. The shoot was quick and painless because he is as quick off the field as he is with the ball,” he said.
The campaign is being rolled out across digital, social, out-of-home and in-store mediums.
In a world full of loud celebrity endorsements, Uniqlo and Bumrah have delivered something refreshingly different, an ad that feels as comfortable and reliable as the AIRism t-shirts themselves. Boom Boom indeed, but this time, it’s all about calm, cool comfort.
