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IndiGo and Spotify partner to launch 6E Shuffle
Mumbai: IndiGo and Spotify have partnered to launch 6E Shuffle, a unique experience that creates personalised travel playlists based on users’ journeys and preferences. IndiGo customers booking directly will also receive four months of free Spotify Premium. Through this collaboration, travelers will get curated playlists and destination suggestions tailored to their music tastes. Spotify data shows that Gen Z leads in travel-related music searches, with over 22 lakh searches in India each month. The campaign, featuring Armaan Malik, highlights that ‘there’s a 6E playlist for every journey’.
IndiGo chief digital and information officer Neetan Chopra said: “We are delighted to announce our collaboration with Spotify to offer our customers a one-of-its-kind travel experience with a complimentary four-month subscription and personalised playlists. Travel and music are interconnected, and this partnership reflects our commitment to meeting the ever-evolving needs of our customer and enabling memorable journeys. Our vision is to create an immersive experience for our customers, while we remain continually dedicated to delivering affordable, hassle-free, and on-time travel experiences across our extensive network.”
Spotify India director of marketing Neha Ahuja added, “Music is an integral part of travel, whether for work or holidays, and our partnership with IndiGo is so relevant because it allows us to tap into existing and new users. We know that travel is one of the most important use cases for music, and this year alone, listeners on Spotify in India created several lakhs of playlists around travelling, with more than 7.5 lac playlists created around ‘driving’, followed by ‘travel’, ‘bus’, and ‘road trip’. We are always looking to collaborate with brands with whom our synergy matches, and we can reach the right audience, meaningfully, and this is one such example.”
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PNB partners Kiwi to launch credit-enabled UPI for users
Targets 180 million customers; RuPay card offers 0.5 per cent to 1.5 per cent cashback
MUMBAI: Swipe, tap, or scan credit is quietly slipping into the rhythm of everyday payments, and Punjab National Bank wants in on the action. The state-run lender has partnered with Kiwi to roll out credit-enabled UPI payments for its 180 million customers, marking a significant push to blend traditional banking with India’s fast-evolving digital payments ecosystem.
At the centre of the collaboration is the launch of the PNB Kiwi Credit Card on the RuPay network. The card is designed with a digital-first approach, offering fully online onboarding and seamless integration with UPI, allowing users to transact via scan-and-pay while accessing credit.
The offering also brings in a rewards layer, with cashback ranging from 0.5 per cent to 1.5 per cent on online transactions, positioning the product as both a convenience play and a spending incentive.
The move comes as UPI continues to dominate India’s digital payments landscape, increasingly blurring the lines between debit-led transactions and credit access. For PNB, which operates over 10,000 branches around 60 per cent in semi-urban and rural areas, the partnership signals a targeted effort to extend formal credit to segments that have traditionally remained underserved.
The collaboration also reflects a broader industry shift, where banks and fintech platforms are converging to embed credit directly into payment flows, reducing friction while expanding access.
With RuPay credit cards gaining traction and UPI evolving beyond peer-to-peer transfers, the PNB–Kiwi tie-up positions both players at the intersection of scale, accessibility, and the next phase of digital finance in India.
