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Advertising Trends in Mumbai

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Nowadays, we are watching so many advertisements, wherever we go right from the pan shop to departmental stores, railway stations, bus depot, on pillars, on walls etc.

The new forms of advertising are wall paintings, electric board, neon sign board, acrylic board, sandwich board, florescent lights and lots more. But all these methods consume lot of electricity.

These electric boards create a startling impact on people, they can be placed at high traffic areas, the various sizes, shapes and illumination and to grab more attention of people there are certain 3-dimensional effects in these boards.

A lot of creativity can be used on these boards and they provide visibility from a distance. They appear 24 hours a day without fail with the help of light and vinyl colours. They can be used as directional like pointing out the locations. It’s a good way to remind the audience about the product which is being advertised. Ad agencies in Mumbai hardly fail to create a stir.

Disadvantages: It demands that the message should be brief and simple, so it’s relatively difficult to communicate about the product details. The construction of new boards is restricted by cost, space availability and certain codes of municipality and regulations of environments act. The fragmented nature of ownership of these media makes it difficult for the advertisers. Obstruction by streetlamps, trees, branches which makes it of no use. Sometimes it may lead to wastage of resources and adversely affect the beauty of this city. Even illegal boards create loss of revenues to the respective government.

The media agencies in Mumbai are trying hard to deliver rich advertisements in form of videos, apps based adverts on mobile devices, social media adverts which not only make the environment cleaner and healthier but also reaches straight to the user’s lap and pockets.

In this new tech savvy world, viral videos have also become a great way of advertising, these videos serves as a promotional vehicle which helps in replacing the conventional ways of advertising. People nowadays spends a very less time in reading newspapers and listening to radio, as the newer ways of advertising like videos, social media ads and mobile based ads are readily available to the users and can generate more earnings for companies.

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Outdoor advertising trends in Mumbai –are we up for the challenge!!

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Though Mumbai’s official twin sister city is Stuttgart in Germany , but for people of our country, Mumbai , for long, has had the aspirational qualities of New York. Everyone wants to work here and be a part of the exciting and maddening chaos.

The latest in fashion (can’t deny the fact the Bollywood has had its influence), business, industry, etc. make it the trendsetter for the rest of the metros.

Especially for advertising, trends spread like wild fire. Since it’s becoming more and more tough to catch the attention of the masses, ad agencies have to come up with the most unique and path breaking ideas to put forward products and services.

In any big city, most of the time people spend is in travelling, whether its trains, buses, cars, two wheelers, etc. Hence, outdoor advertising is the definite way to grab maximum attention.

Advertising landscape today
Outdoor advertising trends fast catching up in other parts of the world include billboards, street furniture, transit advertising and alternative media. Media Solution Agencies in Mumbai may want to emulate the west but due to the nature of audience and restrictions end up holding back on their creativity related to content.

The most common way is advertising in a mall, where you would easily appeal to people from all age groups, gender and spending capacity.

Another most sought after medium are billboards /hoardings. Perfect for getting your message across to a large group of people, fast.

In order to constantly stimulate the minds of your audience in the right way, a hard hitting message shouting out from a life size billboard would be less effective after a period of time. Hence, the need for new and innovative mediums must be recognized.

Where the industry should aim to be?
One of the best cities to experiment with for different advertising experiences would be Mumbai , because of the open minded and interactive culture in the city. Creative advertising agencies in Mumbai could do much better by exploring new mediums like bus benches, graffiti, street advertising , walls capes , Automobile & Building Wraps and interactive out of home advertising.

How many of us have seen the slick interactive ads on YouTube or Facebook and go wow thinking this kind of stuff should come to India!

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Mumbai – The next advertising hub of the country

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One of the recent news pieces caught my attention, which said 30 of our country’s 68 millionaires reside in Mumbai city. That’s a lot of money just for Mumbai. This doesn’t come as a surprise since its one of the most favored destinations for the wealth creators to live. Another news suggests that the University of Mumbai has more millionaire alumni than MIT and LSE.

Imagine the kind of opportunity if offers for advertising and marketing in the city. More purchasing power, equals more demand for goods and services or if it’s the rich and famous, it could be luxury goods and services. Given the sheer number of people residing in this city (Mumbai is the most populated city in India and the fourth most populated city in the world), it comes as a no surprise how advertising agencies in Mumbai go all out to woo their customers .

Strategies for the future
Given the forecasts for advertising trends in the world, the traditional means of advertising are paving the way for new era in digital marketing and advertising. As advertising and marketing are becoming more and more personalized and customized, it makes sense to identify who your audience/customer is, to better adapt your strategies.

In today’s era of online, digital advertising, it no longer matters which part of the county you live in. As long as you’re able to create the right kind of attention through the web, social media and other online channels and platforms, you are on the right track.

What makes it tick – talent pool
Talent cannot be restricted to boundaries, saying Mumbai has more of something and that Delhi lacks in that field. It would be inappropriate. But a city’s culture definitely plays a super important role in nurturing talent, along with the opportunity available that would decide where it is available in abundance.

This goes to show the reason for IT companies setting up camps in Bangalore where in IT talent is most abundant. Any creative advertising agency in Mumbai looking to make its mark in the ad industry should be looking to utilize and retain the existing talent pool along with using the new age tools for smarter, always-on and more customer centric advertising.

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Is Online Advertising Replacing Traditional Advertising

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With more and more companies adopting online advertising, you may ask is online advertising the future of advertising and will advertising in traditional media gradually peter away? This is a question that has been discussed and debated all around the globe. The online media definitely has gained quite a lot of precedence among businesses who want to expand their business and reach out to their target audiences more instantaneously. But the future of traditional media being bleak is questionable?

More and more companies are now opting for online media for advertising because of the reach and efficacy that it has. More and more people are now registering online for business, education, recreation etc and this has led to a huge database of online users. Most brand agencies in India are now focussing on using the online platform for brand promotion activities because of the several advantages it offers.

On the other hand, companies have not shunned the practice of advertising in traditional media such as newspapers and television channels. The advent of new age media sure has led to traditional media taking a backseat in the advertising world, but the latter is still important and figures high in advertisement plans of most brands. This is because of the fact that although a major section of the population has switched over to the digital world, there is still a large section of the world that still relies on the traditional media.

Especially in rural India, where Internet is yet to establish its influence, traditional media plays an important role. Also there are smaller cities in the country, where people aren’t as dependent on the Internet as their fellowmen are in metro cities. Keeping these customers in mind, brand agencies in India do not rule out traditional media from their advertising plans.

Advertising is very vast in its approach and there are several channels and elements through which it reaches out to its audience. It is the interplay of all these elements that make a campaign successful. So ruling out one over the other, may not necessarily result in successful brand promotion.

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How Social Media Advertising Can Improve Your Revenues

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As you might be aware that social media is becoming increasingly popular across the globe. Social media not just connects people but allows them to build a bond digitally. Social media has successfully eliminated geographical distances and made the world a smaller place. People can share, comment and like each others pictures, videos and posts and stay connected all the time. With the advent of Smartphones and Android phones, social media has gone mobile. Now people can access these social media sites anywhere and everywhere, without having access to a desktop or laptop.

This huge penetration of social media has led ad agencies in Mumbai to create social media advertisements. The popularity of social media among the Indian masses has led to ad agencies using these platforms for brand promotion. There are several advantages of using social media for advertising. Social media allows you to get a bigger audience for your promotional campaigns as compared to the traditional media.

When you advertise in a newspaper or a television channel, there is a limitation to how much you can measure the success of your campaign. Social media allows you direct interaction with your target audience. Several companies set up fan pages for their users wherein they can directly interact with their customers, gather feedback and address grievances. It also serves as a measurable database of customers that can be approached to quantify the impact of an advertisement.

One of the major advantages of social media advertising is that it is much more affordable than advertising in traditional media. The air time costs of a television channel or the space costs in a leading newspaper can incur huge expenditure and can eat into most of your advertising budget. Social media on the other hand has greater and instantaneous reach and will cost you much lesser. So, if you are a small company that cannot frequent advertising in traditional media, social media advertising can be your game changer.

 

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Print media Advertising vs. Online Marketing

Print media Advertising vs. Online Marketing

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When was the last time you picked up the newspaper? Is print media really dying? Most of us come across the recent incidents through social media or on-line newspapers. Those who don’t read the e-papers are on sites, entertaining people from all ages and all parts of the world. These platforms are often exploited to promote products and services. Whenever we hear of something we are unaware of, the first thing that comes to our mind is the idea of googling it. Yes! We can find the solution to our every question and problem on internet. Does that mean we do not require the newspapers and magazines anymore?
You don’t think Playboy is going to stop printing! Do you?

Print media is a business that will never go out of style! Though you find all the information you need to know on the internet, we often forget that almost half of the world does not have access to this wonderful deity. That half of the world still reads newspapers and magazines. Print media advertising still gives a huge number of customers to our local Indian businesses. How will you ever get to know about the ‘ Diwali Dhamaka in your next-door mall if you don’t read the newspaper? Print media largely promotes local services and the government also prints a good number of advertisements. Legal tenders and notices, TV program schedules, Local art exhibition etc.: all local events are promoted through print media in your local newspapers.

In the case of on-line marketing, we are exposed to national and international products at the same time. However, what if we just need the information about local services next door? Here is where our newspapers and pamphlets come in. Brand agencies in India; have two hands extending on both the print media as well as the on-line marketing platform. We will definitely buy that branded jeans from the shopping centre in the heart of the city or we will search for the same on-line to compare prices. On-line marketing is useful to the sellers as well as the buyers. The sellers can connect to a larger number of people and the buyers can make decisions based on reviews from other customers.

To finally conclude, there are plenty of things that print media advertising offers us that on-line platform cannot in such a concise and precise manner. On the other hand, on-line marketing has the potential to take one’s business international and reach maximum number of potential customers with increase in international sales.

 

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Painting Mumbai Colorful with Advertisements

Painting Mumbai Colorful with Advertisements

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Media is an unavoidable part of our lives. One can’t even avoid news about the most hated celebrity having their first child. Media is our primary, or rather, our only source of information. We are connected to the whole world through media. Just sitting in front of our television sets in the comfort of our beds, we get to know the updates from all around the world.

These days, media is not only used to relay information to the world, but it also gives us information and updates on various products and services that are available to us. Media is used to a large extent to communicate to customers and it is one of the primary sources from where potential sellers and buyers meet each other.

There are plenty of media agencies in India, and all of them provide various services, depending on the target audience and the means of communication available. If you dig in a little, you will be amazed by the numerous ways one can advertise your products or services.

Increase in number of people means increase in consumption of various commodities. Mumbai is full of people and advertisements. Even the smallest streets are full of billboards. One can find John players next to every bus stop. There are billboards, hoardings, posters, banners, handbills, sandwich boards, computerized boards, wall writings, wall paintings, sky writing etc peeping at distance of every meter. It is a common sight to see billboards and hoardings publicizing political parties all across the city during elections. Sometimes, there are even advertisements for advertising agencies. So much of them are there in 2013, BMC decided to make the city banner-free.

With huge number of potential customers and an advertisement for every eye to see, with so many potential customers, Mumbai has taken advertising to next level. People are buying more and more automobiles, branded clothes and footwear and visiting luxurious hotels, malls and restaurants. The quality of life is changing in Mumbai and so is the advertising scenario. We cannot notice the change until we somehow involved in business ourselves. Keeping up with the changing business trends is essential to stay strong in the market.

Outdoor marketing in a way is a part of print advertising agencies. Print ad agencies emphasize on the hard copy form of publicity and advertisement of services. Be it, the small pamphlets for Help Age India or huge bill boards for the New Year’s party at Hard Rock Café, everything is responsibility of printing ad agencies. Best print ad agencies provide creative designers who cater to the needs of different businesses and create designs appropriately. These agencies provide designing solutions for small paper ads as well as the 5 sqm. flex sheets. The ever increasing agencies are seemed to be hell bent to fill the city with banners and posters, with no free space to see anywhere.

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Communication Agencies Taking the Lead

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India’s economy is developing at a rapid rate, thanks to our prime minister, Mr. Narendra Modi who is constantly bringing “good days”. With the new deals signed with Russia, we can expect a tremendous growth in our technology as well as defense sector. A majority of our population consists of youths who are either working for MNCs or starting up their own business. A rise in economy means rise in the earning of citizens which will result in consumption and selling of more and more goods.

Communication Agencies are an essential part of a strong society. Let it be the election of our leaders or purchase of a new microwave oven, when people are well informed, they make the right decisions. Indian advertising agencies play a major role in our economy and our lives.

Small business start ups are on the rise and it is way easy to start a small business today. We have on-line platforms where we can sell our products ranging from a television set to a spoon, without having to spend thousands or lakhs in the process of setting up a store in the city. We can even buy domains on-line with the name of our choice and design it according to our needs. We can do it all ourselves or we can ask the professionals to do it.

Communication is a blend of art and science. The main motive of any advertising agency is to build a relationship between the brand and the customers. Communication agencies provide you with a variety of options of marketing your product to the maximum of the target audience. They use modern methods, marketing tools, innovative processes for developing the most effective communication plans and brand strategies.

If we are getting something for around 20 units cheaper than what the local store is offering, and to add icing to the cake, the product is delivered at our doorstep without any delivery charges. What can be better than this? All of us will leave the conventional way of shopping and take the cheaper online way.

Now these on-line platforms, where a large number of people are connected to each other, are providing new means for those who only dreamt of starting their own small businesses a few years ago. Communication agency has turned our lives around and everything is available at the tip of our fingers. There are plenty of agencies that offer advertising options on platforms that are flooded with users from all around the world. One can take their business to an international level at the small price of internet bill and a little more efforts on communication agencies. These agencies cater to all of your on-line selling queries. Communications agencies have a lot to offer when working with clients on social media. These agencies bring to use their special knowledge of creating strategy, internal education, and organizational social media development. They offer web/digital designing, media buying, content development etc.

Being based on the communication industry, the amount you spend on advertising through a communication agency is literally a small price to pay. The communication agency is a promising field that has revolutionized the age of advertising.

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Changing trends of the Indian advertising scene

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Advertising is an age old concept, having begun with word-of-mouth publicity. Over time, newer methods of advertising were developed such as public announcements, newspapers, and billboards, flyers, television, radio and the internet. Advertorial campaigns are designed in a way to entice a sizeable proportion of the population for purchasing different goods and services. Any media agency in India comes up with campaigns for the television network, newspapers and internet which would attract the largest possible buyer base.

In recent times, social media has taken over as the main form of advertisements with the outreach of the internet expanding every year. The media allows both interactive sessions and unidirectional flow of information. They allow consumers to become an integral part of the purchase process by including their contributions to campaigns. Rating techniques, opinion polls and audience feedbacks are some of the ways through which a media agency in India collects information from the masses about their preferences and tastes. The latest marketing techniques involve targeting different customer groups for a particular product. This includes profiling a customer’s internet usage pattern to come up with the right products that s/he would be interested in buying. Not only is this method cost effective, it is also more result driven as you know the spending habits of the person you are targeting.

Target based marketing is quite popular for urban centers and rural areas alike, thanks to the increased usage of the internet in non-urban centers. There are 214 million internet users in the country which serves as a significant base that needs to be tapped for selling consumer products and services.

However, this in no way suggests that the importance of print media is lost. The print media is particularly useful because a lot of people are unfamiliar with the way the internet works or cannot access it every day. A print ad agency in India tries to come up with the most lucrative captions and images to titillate a particular consumer group and position a product accordingly. A good print ad agency in India also makes extensive usage of billboards, pamphlets and flyers for releasing advertisements.

The advertising world has indeed become more competitive for a media agency in India because each one is vying for the attention of 1.2 billion Indians.

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Digital advertising to grow to the tune of CAGR 27.7% by 2018

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One of the fastest growing sectors in the country is the media and entertainment arena. It comprises of television, film, and print media advertising, digital and musical among others. Over the past few years, there has been tremendous growth in this segment. Print media advertising and television is reaching a saturation point, although it is far from exhaustion.

The digital media segment is actually one of the rapidly growing segments and it is slowly gaining more ground. The Indian entertainment and media industry has grown by a double digit figure of 11.8 percent overall in 2013. However, gaming and digital advertising has recorded astounding growth rates which are near about 40 percent. A research by KPMG in the past year has stated that digital advertising and media has grown to cover a wider base compared to the previous year. In 2013, digital media advertising notched up 8 percent of the advertising sector, compared to 5 percent in 2012. According to a KPMG-FICCI report, the media and entertainment industry of India enjoys an outreach of 161 million via television and 94,000+ via newspapers. There is however 214 million users of internet in India, of which 130 million people use their cell phones to access the internet. Given these figures, a creative advertising agency has a lot of scope to reach out to a wider audience by tweaking campaigns uniquely to suit the sensibilities of this growing audience.

India’s television advertising pie has been valued at Rs 41,720 crores almost in 2013 and is expect to growth at CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) of 16.2 percent between 2013 and 2018, to amount to Rs 88,500 crores by the end of the period. The estimated size of the Indian advertising market is around USD 5 million, which makes it the 14th largest one in the world, according to the latest issue of Gunn Report. The CAGR of digital advertising is also expected to be around 27.7 percent by the year 2018.

The media and entertainment industry of India shall continue its reliance on digital media. The expanding user base of the internet has the potential to generate vast revenues for the industry. A creative advertising agency must make use of these forecasts for the industry to plan its growth trajectory. From 2013 onwards, telecommunication companies began focusing on data as means of revenue generation. A print media advertising agency and others would have to compete against each other for acquiring digital and social media domains. This certainly spells a bright future for this industry.

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