Prashant Pitti shares that almost 90 percent of all holiday packages are still booked either via a phone call or through an offline travel agent. Generative AI, such as ChatGPT and other tools, can work wonderfully to create highly customized itineraries based on people’s needs.
Author: Kashmeera Sambamurthy
Havas India launches global talent communications agency Havas People
Headquartered out of London, the agency will become part of Havas Creative Network India, and will add to the creative network’s repertoire like Havas Worldwide India (creative), Havas CX (customer experience), Think Design (UI/UX), Conran Design Group Mumbai (brand design), Shobiz Havas (experiential), and Havas QED (digital) in India.
DD Sports bags television rights for FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023
This event will now be brought to millions of homes across India, courtesy to the strategic sub-licensing by US-based 1Stadia, specialising in technological advancements in the world of sports and media rights.
Seeing marriage between performance marketing and AI: Castrol’s Jaya Jamrani
Recently, Castrol launched a campaign ‘Badhte Raho Aaage’. In a conversation with Storyboard18, Jaya Jamrani, vice president – marketing, Castrol, spoke about the new campaign and its genesis. She believes fearless thinking and challenging the status quo are the key to good campaigns.
Network18’s TV News business beats industry trends, registers 26% revenue growth in Q1
India’s largest TV news network registered a revenue of Rs 337 crore in the first quarter of current fiscal, as compared to Rs 266 crore in the same period last fiscal.
Network18 Media & Investments Q1 revenues jump 142% to Rs 3,239 cr
Network18 Q1: The company said its TV News network delivered strong growth in revenue driven by leadership in key markets as its channels continue to be number 1 in the Hindi, English and Business news genres.
India’s online B2B marketplace has a $200 billion opportunity
Highlights from a report by Bessemer Venture Partners states that the next phase of growth in India’s digital economy will come from B2B marketplaces.
Young Indians are going on a shopping spree on social media. Here’s why and how
According to ‘The next-gen social commerce playbook’ developed by Havas Media Network in partnership with Snap Inc., 94 percent of social media users in India have made apparel purchases on/via social media.
Sleepwell’s parent company to acquire rival brand Kurlon for Rs 2,150 crore
Sheela Foam, the maker of popular mattress brand Sleepwell also plans to get a 35 percent stake in House of Kieraya Private Ltd, which owns rental startup Furlenco, for Rs 300 crore.
Data protection bill may empower users to ask platforms to delete all of their data
According to the 2022 draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, if a user asks a platform to delete their data stored with it, the platform could have just erased only the user’s personal data and kept the rest of it in a deanonymised format.