English Entertainment
COLORS INFINITY creates an all-inclusive BFF experience for viewers of Jeep presents BFFs With Vogue powered by RealIsADiamond.in
MUMBAI: Viacom18’s premium English Entertainment channel – COLORS INFINITY binds its superlative on-air programming propositions with deeply engaging and innovative marketing endeavors to create a wholesome experience for viewers of their latest homegrown show – Jeep presents BFFs With Vogue powered by RealIsADiamond.in. Amplifying reach and prominence for the celebrity-based chat-show, the channel has pushed the envelope beyond conventional marketing and promotional activities that include a host of innovations.
COLORS INFINITY launched ‘The BFF Quiz’ – a pioneering Amazon Alexa voice skill for the show. Users can enable the skill by just saying “Alexa, open BFF Quiz!”. Voiced by the show’s host Neha Dhupia, the skill enables users to engage with their Alexa device on the latest gossip from the show as well as win vouchers of Amazon Pay by playing an elementary Yes or No quiz every week.
Elaborating on the marketing campaign, Navin Shenoy, Head of Marketing – Youth, Music & English Entertainment, Viacom18, said, “At COLORS INFINITY, we’re constantly driven to exceed our efforts beyond industry standards and benchmarks set by ourselves at the onset of every campaign. Bringing together the advanced technology of Alexa with the essence of our show – BFFs With Vogue, is a prime example of innovation that boosts the engagement on the show.”
Adding to this, Dilip R.S. – Country Manager for Alexa Skills, Amazon India said, “The Alexa skill of BFFs with Vogue is a great example of how TV networks can bring original, fun experiences on voice to their viewers. Incentivising users to win rewards via engagement with their skill also adds an interesting challenge to the skill experience while gratifying users and building visibility for their show.”
COLORS INFINITY recreated an ARVR-version of Neha’s cozy and exclusive loft for BFFs With Vogue, that gives viewers a life-sized virtual step-in tour to the loft. Further magnifying the interaction, virtual visitors can navigate to various hotspots to find videos, trivia, weekly customized clue-hunt games and other elements hidden behind the iconic artifacts in the loft.
Navin Shenoy, further added, “Through the AR/VR experience, we’re giving fans an exclusive peek into the Loft that they watch on-screen in every episode but cannot visit. For an interactive chat-show, engaging viewers innovatively is a very important aspect of our promotional plans to garner maximum eyeballs for the show.”
Complementing the extensive ATL campaign that included multi-city Outdoor and Radio promotions, COLORS INFINITY also leveraged its Campus Inc. programme to tap the oversized network by devising a series of enjoyable tasks that required college-going BFFs to complete 14 original & unusual tasks within 14 days to win exciting merchandise and gifts like laptops, mobile phones and many more valuable prizes. The tasks led to a torrent of entries from various colleges across the country. Furthermore, the channel also curated a series of BFF-workshops at various venues to celebrate Food, Fitness & Art with your BFF.
The audacious admissions, untamed inhibitions & unabashed consequences on the latest season of BFFs With Vogue that boasts a guest list including Katrina Kaif, Jacqueline Fernandez, Parineeti Chopra, Vicky Kaushal, Ayushmann Khurana, Shahid Kapoor and many more, has been strongly backed by a comprehensive marketing and promotional campaign of the channel.
English Entertainment
Ellison takes his Paramount-Warner Bros case straight to theater owners
The Skydance chief goes to CinemaCon with promises and a skeptical crowd waiting
CALIFORNIA: David Ellison strode into a room packed with thousands of cinema owners and executives at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday and did something rather bold: he looked them in the eye and asked them to trust him.
The chief executive of Paramount Skydance vowed that his company would release a minimum of 30 films a year if regulators greenlight its proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, a deal that has made theater owners deeply, and loudly, nervous.
“I wanted to look every single one of you in the eye and give you my word,” Ellison told the crowd. “Once we combine with Warner Bros, we are going to make a minimum of 30 films annually across both studios.”
It was a confident pitch. Whether it landed is another matter. Cinema operators have already called on regulators to block the deal, and scepticism in the room was hardly concealed.
Ellison pushed back by pointing to recent form. Paramount, born from the merger of Paramount Global and Skydance Media last August, plans to release 15 films this year, nearly double the eight it put out in 2025. Progress, he argued, was already underway.
He also threw theater owners a bone they have long been chasing: all films, he pledged, would run exclusively in cinemas for a minimum of 45 days, drawing applause from a crowd that has spent years fighting for exactly that commitment across the industry.
“People can speculate all they want,” Ellison said, “but I am standing here today telling you personally that you can count on our complete commitment. And we’ll show you we mean it.”
Fine words. The regulators, however, will have the last one.
