Category: How it Works

Weekly Shorts: Tips on influencer marketing for services-based businesses

Influencer marketing for the service sector is more complex than product-based promotions. Service-based businesses have intangible products in most cases, which puts the customers at a buying risk because they don't know what they're getting before actually getting the service. (Representative Image: Roberto Nickson via Unsplash)

What’s buzzing in influencer marketing and the creator ecosystem? What’s the next big thing coming down the line? Catch the big trends and hot topics in our weekly shorts.

Will Connected TVs surpass HDTV in popularity with Free Streaming of IPL 2023?

CTV provides advertisers with the ability to reach their audience through highly engaging, full screen, high-quality video ads that can be delivered to specific households based on their viewing habits and demographic information.

With cord-cutters, advent of 5G, rise of affluent audiences and shift towards Digital from Linear TV – CTV is setting the stage on fire for both viewers and advertisers this year,

Four-Day Week: Can the Indian ad industry adopt a 4-day work week?

The country's Finance Minister, Christian Lindner, has expressed concern about the potential negative impact on prosperity, particularly in context with the fears of a recession and hiring issues until 2024. (Representative Image: Tungsten Rising via Unsplash)

With a larger shift in view, the four-day work week starts making a lot of sense. But agencies and clients, it seems, are not ready to go from 5-6 to 4 days.

Content creators write books to enhance their personal brands

Currently, non-fiction books are teeming and vibrant. According to multiple reports, the share of non-fiction has gone up 58 percent in the last few years. Publishers observe that readers are picking up non-fiction books more than ever. (Image source - Amazon)

As Indian content creators are becoming authors, publishing houses are also gaining insights about Indian readers.

Indian brands to bet big on content creation and workflow improvements in 2023: Adobe

As per Adobe’s 2023 Digital Trends Report, investments in content and creative workflows reflect how leaders are prioritising improving processes and technologies to enable success in the current economic climate. Almost half (45 percent) of APAC leaders plan to invest in new marketing and data technologies. For India, 44 percent of leaders are looking to maximise the value of existing technologies. (Representative Image: NordWood Themes via Unsplash)

As per Adobe’s 2023 Digital Trends Report, 79 percent of senior Asia Pacific (APAC) executives including 92 percent in India say customer demand for content has significantly increased.

Digital agencies focus on building personal brands of startup founders, corporate leaders

To tap into a new opportunity, digital and integrated marketing agencies are gearing up to launch new verticals to cater to the growing demand of creating personal brands of leaders, online. (Representative Image: Giulia May via Unsplash)

From profile building and content creation to crisis management, agencies launch specialist services to cater to growing demand for personal branding for leaders, founders, CXOs.

OTT platforms eye ad revenue from sports streaming with increasing genre popularity

As a category, sports has never really stopped growing. Thus, innovation and upgradation by brands to extend their products and services through this genre is a logical next step. Brands and sports organizations are partnering with OTT platforms to create an immersive, on-the-go viewing experience for their audience. (Representative image by Paul Skorups via Unsplash)

Sports streaming in India takes the next leap with immersive, interactive and personalized experiences on OTT Platforms.

Art of Framing in marketing: What you know changes what you see, what you see changes what you know

Persuasion is fortified with evidence - information, referendum, validation, certification, statistics, testimonials - all enhance acceptance. Emphasizing the benefits is another technique for framing. (Representational image by paul skorupskasvia Unsplash)

Framing is about mental structures and stencils which we apply to derive meaning. To change a perspective is reframing. Reframing is a triumph of marketing.

Startup founders in India are waking up to white space in online gaming market

Mobile Premier League announced 350 layoffs, Rush Gaming Universal let go of 55 people, Spartan poker fired 125 people and real money gaming platform Fantok suspended operations.

Two new gaming companies were launched in the past two days. Investors are flocking to India’s gaming and esports arena. We take stock of recent developments.