Brands
TheSmallBigIdea to drive regional engagement with TSBI Bharat
MUMBAI: After having successfully led numerous multi-category brands, TheSmallBigIdea now announces its initiative to help brands reach the next 100 million digital users with TSBI Bharat. With the focus pivoting on content localisation across the digital landscape, ‘TSBI Bharat’ will enable brands to engage with audiences more effectively. With brands with linguistic & cultural focus in the heartland and south already on board, TSBI Bharat aims to address the exponentially growing regional audience through the language and platform they are most comfortable in.
With only 20% of the digital audience stating English as their language of comfort and with early adopters contributing to only 42% of the Indian population, the next wave of digital adoption will see languages and platforms that go local displaying radioactive growth.
Speaking on the development, Harikrishnan Pillai, CEO and co-founder, TheSmallBigIdea, said, “TSBI Bharat is a focused attempt at helping brands reach out to the next wave of digital audience. The next 100 million digital incumbents will find ease in consuming content in regional language, using neo-social apps that allow them to create and consume local content. We have hired creative strategist with great regional understanding, have trained planners to understand new platforms and we are working closely with clients to craft their regional strategy. It’s great to see brands looking at a ‘Bharat-first’ digital approach to establish stronger audience connect and drive better outcome. We have already on-boarded 4 clients in the entertainment and BFSI space. We believe more brands will open up to this in the immediate future.”
With banks and e-commerce portals going regional, films with strong regional undertones succeeding well at the BO, the stupendous growth of regional language video content, growth of digital content consumption from non-metros, the growth of neo-social apps; there are enough indices available to safely predict the mosaic of the Indian digital landscape of the future. TSBI calls this move being future ready, as they believe the digital audiences in India will demand to be spoken and seen at places they find comfort in.
The services of TSBI Bharat will remain similar to TSBI. TSBI Bharat will operate as a full service digital-first agency with a service roster that includes Social Media Management, Video Content Production, Digital Media Planning & Buying, Social Listening & ORM services, Augmented & Virtual Reality amongst other ancillary marketing services.
Brands
PeopleStrong appoints Adishri Charla SVP marketing to drive global growth
Former UiPath marketing head to scale brand, demand and expansion across regions
NEW DELHI: PeopleStrong has brought in marketing heavyweight Adishri Charla as senior vice president, marketing, tasking her with sharpening the company’s global brand and fuelling its next phase of growth.
Charla steps in with nearly two decades of B2B marketing experience across both fast-moving start-ups and global technology giants. She joins from UiPath, where she served most recently as director and head of marketing for India and Saarc, playing a key role in the automation firm’s rise to category leadership in the region. Her work there ranged from revenue-driven marketing strategies to building strong customer and community engagement programmes.
At PeopleStrong, Charla will oversee global brand strategy, demand generation and customer engagement as the HR tech firm expands across India, Asia, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
CEO Sandeep Chaudhary said the company was looking for a leader who could connect brand storytelling with measurable business outcomes. “Adishri brings global marketing experience and strong team leadership. We are confident she will help sharpen our positioning and support our next phase of expansion,” he said.
Charla previously held marketing roles at Oracle India and IBM India, working across cloud, systems and product marketing. An MBA graduate from Symbiosis Centre for Management and HR Development, she has also completed executive programmes at Columbia Business School and ISB.
Sharing her excitement about the move, Charla said PeopleStrong has the potential to reshape how organisations across the region think about HR technology. She added that her focus will be on building stronger brand connections while driving measurable business impact.
Backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, PeopleStrong today serves more than 500 enterprises and has won several industry recognitions, including honours at the ET Human Capital Awards and the People Matters Infini-T Awards. Charla’s appointment signals the company’s intent to strengthen leadership as it scales its global ambitions.
