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Zeno Group and Origami Logic form global partnership
MUMBAI: Integrated communications agency Zeno Group and marketing signal measurement company Origami Logic announced a global partnership offering brands the ability to manage the increasing complexities of navigating and managing marketing performance data. The partnership allows brands to draw real-time actionable insights by consolidating, refining and analysing marketing signal data across paid, owned and earned media channels into simple, customizable and dynamic dashboards and insights.
The partnership with Origami Logic will help Zeno Group deliver even more comprehensive results supported by data-fuelled approach driven by real-time newsrooms, social amplification, engagement planning, and process management and design.
“Brands need to optimize at every opportunity to drive efficiency of marketing dollars. With this partnership, they can get an unprecedented view into all their ongoing campaigns deployed over a multitude of online channels. This is probably the single most important step in closing the widening gap between data and insights and get the best possible value from marketing spends.” said Zeno Group chief digital officer John Kerr.
“The explosion of marketing signal data and the availability of the data science to refine and interpret these massive data sets is enabling performance-driven marketers to become much more data-driven in how they execute successful campaigns across an increasingly fragmented media and channel mix. Moving to a continuous cycle of campaign execution and optimization enables changes to be made throughout the course of a campaign to deliver a higher return on marketing spend and objectives. With marketing signal acquisition and real-time refinement and analytics at the heart of Origami Logic, we can help capture opportunities at the point of engagement across all channels and media,” remarked Origami Loogic CEO and co-founder Opher Kahane.
“Our partnership with the Zeno Group allows continued delivery of enhanced measurement and insight capabilities to brands looking to connect with customers and respond faster to their engagement moments across channels,” added Kahane.
Extreme changes in the media landscape, including fragmentation, the shift to digital, growth of video, taking a mobile-first approach and an applications driven ecosystem, have paved the way for a new breed of marketers to increase their ability to interpret data and take action on insights across disparate data sources. According to the 2016 State of Marketing report by Salesforce, 63 percent of the marketing teams surveyed will increase spend on marketing tools and technology over the next two years, with the projection for high performing teams being as high as 72 percent. Those companies are more than 13 times more likely to lead in today’s competitive landscape by leveraging emerging marketing technologies.
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VML India lands two finalist spots at Cairns Hatchlings 2026
The Mumbai agency is back in Australia with two teams, a UN brief and 24 hours to impress
MUMBAI: VML India is heading to Australia again. The Mumbai-based creative agency has secured two finalist spots at the Cairns Hatchlings 2026 competition, one in the Audio category and one in Design, making it the only Indian agency to have reached the finals in both editions of the contest since its launch in 2025.
Four people will make the trip. Senior copywriter Shilpi Dey and senior art director Raj Thakkar will compete in Audio. Art directors Shabbir and Shruti Negi will go head-to-head with the world’s best in Design. The finals take place at the Cairns Convention Centre from 13th May, culminating in an awards ceremony on 15th May.
The work that got them there is worth examining. For the Audio category, Dey and Thakkar tackled a brief for LIVE LIKE MMAD with a campaign called Inner Voice, Interrupted. Using spatial audio techniques, the campaign recreates the overwhelming self-doubt that descends after a long workday, physically panning negative thoughts left and right before cutting the noise entirely to reveal a confident inner voice. Strategically targeted at commuters via Spotify during evening rush hours, the campaign reframes the hours after work as an opportunity for personal growth and charitable action.
For the Design category, Shabbir and Negi worked on a brief for Canteen’s Bandanna Day, a campaign highlighting how cancer pushes teenagers out of their own defining moments. Using a pixelated design language to create stark contrast between a blurred world of isolation and a focused world of connection, the campaign, titled The Flipside of Cancer, shows teenagers fading into the background of birthdays, skateparks and school proms. As a Canteen bandanna appears, the blur flips and the teenager snaps back into sharp focus.
Kalpesh Patankar, group chief creative officer of VML India, made no attempt to disguise his satisfaction. “We are immensely proud to see our teams consistently excel on the Cairns Hatchlings platform since its inception,” he said. “They have masterfully tackled challenging briefs across diverse categories, demonstrating both layered storytelling and a unique creative approach. This exceptional teamwork is truly inspiring.”
Dey and Thakkar, returning to the finals after last year’s run, were candid about the demands of the audio medium. “It’s one of the most demanding mediums, where we only have a few seconds to capture a listener’s world with sound alone, so absolute clarity is essential,” they said. “The true measure of creative work is its ability to create positive change, and our audio submission was made to help those who need it most while encouraging people to silence the inner voices that hold them back.”
Shabbir and Negi, competing in Design for the first time, described the experience as “a completely different beast.” “We see it as an opportunity to showcase our expertise, raise the bar, and challenge ourselves in new ways, while also learning from creative minds from across the globe,” they said.
In Australia, the four finalists will face a live 24-hour brief from the United Nations before presenting in a live pitch session. Twenty-four hours, one brief, one shot. VML India has been here before. It knows exactly what is at stake.
