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Amazon partners with Blink Digital for India’s first immersive game
Mumbai: Blink Digital on Saturday has collaborated with Amazon India for Prime Day to launch its one-of-a-kind interactive game within a pre-roll drive for its audience. The campaign will roll out on YouTube, which aims to allow users to hover within a 360-degree-video during the ad with the theme “Smartphone Hunt.”
Blink Digital conceptualised the pre-roll advertising campaign for Amazon’s Safari-themed Prime day this season.
The brand wanted to engage with its audience to evoke them to spot Amazon specials smartphones and share them on Twitter using #AmazonSpecialsonPrimeDay, which will encourage users to engage on the brand’s Twitter handle. Additionally, this preroll will help the brand increase its engagement on ads as the interactive game will encourage the audience to watch the complete video and interact with the brand on social media to stand a chance to win Amazon Vouchers.
This campaign is seamlessly going to bridge the gap between paid and organic media on social media platforms to raise awareness of Amazon Prime Day smartphone offers. The pre-roll is live and will be played till the 24th of July.
Talking about the collaboration Blink Digital co-founder and COO Rikki Agarwal said, “To candidly capture the user’s attention and create top-of-the-mind brand awareness, it was crucial for the creative team to help amazon engage with their audience with a campaign that encourages them to participate in their contest, in a meaningful way. This campaign format will put an interesting spin, which will engage more audiences and help us deliver our clients’ business goals with dissimilar experiences.”
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Banijay Asia’s The 50 tops OTT charts with 8.1 million JioHotstar views
Reality competition becomes most watched show on JioHotstar in debut week.
MUMBAI: Fifty contestants walked into a palace, but millions of viewers showed up for the drama. Reality competition The 50, produced by Banijay Asia, has emerged as the most watched show on JioHotstar, clocking 8.1 million views in its debut week. The figure, reported by Ormax Media, places the show at the top of the OTT viewership charts and marks a strong opening for the digital reality format.
Adapted from a popular French format, The 50 brings together 50 personalities from television, digital platforms, music and reality shows inside a grand palace setting. Over the course of a 50 day competition, participants form alliances, compete in unpredictable tasks and navigate eliminations as the field steadily narrows.
Guiding the game is a mysterious figure known as The Lion, an unseen game master whose voice introduces twists, challenges and strategic turns throughout the show, adding an extra layer of suspense to the contest.
What distinguishes The 50 from typical reality competitions is its audience driven prize structure. Instead of the winner taking home the final reward, the prize is awarded to one of the winner’s registered followers through the show’s dedicated app. The mechanism effectively turns viewers into participants, allowing fans to have a direct stake in the outcome.
The contestant lineup features a mix of television actors, reality stars and digital creators, including Karan Patel, Urvashi Dholakia, Divya Agarwal, Mr Faisu and Dushyant Kukreja, each bringing their own fan following to the show.
With its blend of celebrity personalities, strategic gameplay and interactive viewer participation, The 50 has quickly carved out a strong foothold in India’s digital entertainment landscape. Its 8.1 million views in the opening week underline the growing appetite for large scale reality formats designed specifically for OTT audiences.
