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Advertising Trends in Mumbai

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Billboards are making their presence felt in mainstream advertising

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More and more advertising agencies are choosing to tell their brand stories through billboards which still have no equal when it comes to garnering consumer attention and eyeballs in equal measure! Take the case of the appropriate positioning of movie billboards near places where they were shot, especially those which talk of particular issues related to the areas in question. For top brands, these billboards are all about telling stories and communicating the brand message on a wider canvas to the masses.

As can be seen nowadays, advertisers are making use of big hoardings and billboards to create a commanding presence for products and brands. A whole new process and approach has been born out of the recent restrictions imposed by the Mumbai municipality with regard to conjoining billboards. Billboards have now been confined to specific sizes by the municipality and this rule is being tapped positively for better brand positioning by agencies. Many advertisers are choosing to tell a comprehensive brand story and deliver a message spread throughout two or three billboards placed adjacent to each other. Often, advertisers make use of multiple devices like text and visuals as foils on multiple billboards.

Many brands like Apex Home Appliances, Axe deodorants, Millionaire apparel, Birla Sun Life, Lakme, Poonam Soni’s jewellery brand and many others have made use of hoarding clusters to draw unlimited attention on streets and roadways crowded with billboards and hoardings. Advertisers usually prefer to create a particular hub across multiple hoardings at one particular area, ideally a place where traffic movement is slowed down to the maximum according to industry experts and professionals. Many agencies make use of split billboards nowadays as well where one half conveys the visual message and the other contains the necessary information for the customer.

Outdoor advertising revenues have been hit hard by the global economic depression but experts feel that the sector should bounce back with innovative measures like the ones mentioned above. Alongside, occupancy rates are on the wane for outdoor advertising and this helps advertisers pick up clusters together without any hassles. There are discounts provided on the basis of multiple billboards commissioned owing to the falling rates in today’s times. Billboard advertising is making its presence felt in mainstream strategies of brands and how! There are even brand marketing messages now tailored around them.

What every advertising team should possess for a great campaign

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A well known brand is not built in a day and neither is a solid advertising campaign. There are multiple agencies out there but what they sorely lack is coordination among the members of their creative team. A well oiled team is what takes a campaign from good to great. Here are some of the most important attributes that every good creative team should possess:

Proper communication while working on projects is very important. There are multiple functions and skills needed to execute campaigns and this requires many people to work together as a team. Proper communication between team members is essential for getting projects off the ground and breaking dead locks. The team should be able to get its message across clearly to clients as well.

The team should prioritize creativity above all else:
It is important to ensure that creativity does not get lost amidst the matrix of marketing targets and figures. Creative thought and brainstorming often makes teams come up with fantastic ideas for campaigns and out of the box thinking is only possible with multiple perspectives of team members for a particular project. Client servicing skills are a must as customer satisfaction is after all the chief motto of any company in the advertising space. The whole team must always be aware of client requirements and should communicate with each other for the fulfillment of targets.

The creative team should have immaculate designing ability and inputs should come from each member of the team with regard to layout, artwork, colors and fonts among other aspects. The whole team should have the ability to execute and plan campaigns together. Harmony is a key aspect when so many people work together and advertising agencies should look at building productive professional ambiences which facilitate harmonious professional relationships. A good team should display particular skills with regard to solving problems. Well oiled teams always chip in for each other’s problems and are able to brainstorm quickly to come up with tangible solutions.

Quick solutions enable teams to beat deadlines and avoid unnecessary pressure from the client’s end and this is highly essential as a result. Teams should be able to focus on time and resource management and should be able to maximize both to achieve the best possible results. Advertising is a deadline based profession and projects should be smoothly managed by each member of a team. The team should be good with words and should be able to inspire the copywriter whenever he/she is short of ideas or perspectives. A thorough understanding of marketing concepts and sales always helps as well.

THE SLEEK BRAND STORY

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Sleek wanted a good Brand Communication strategy with a Brand Positioning and a nationwide Media Plan. The Rego team put on their thinking caps and came up with a winning strategy along with a media solution that helped Sleek emerge as the No. 1 modular kitchen brand in India.

The whole brand process started with a thorough understanding of the market and consumer. Rego Advertising, a creative ad agency in Mumbai with the help of client inputs and Rego’s in-house brand research team, began its study. Along with internet and market resources, the Rego, brand agency in Mumbai also conducted brand-consumer interfaces by taking potential consumers to the Sleek showroom, and studying their responses towards the brand.

The modular kitchen market was growing at a snail’s pace as people had a more ‘dependable’ option in the carpenter. Even after visiting the showroom and discussion with the Sleek design team, the price-conscious consumer would, in the end, choose the carpenter as it gave her an assurance of quality and cost her much less than a branded kitchen.

Though slowly, the trend was changing. Economy was looking good. With increased spending power, the middle class and higher middle class began to aspire for better lifestyles. The globe-trotting Indian consumer was now aware of designer kitchens and wanted one for his home. The time was right for Sleek to strike big time. A good scenario was the non-existence of a clear leader in the modular kitchen industry. The place at the top was empty.

Key Consumer Insights

Consumers want information and understanding of modular kitchens.
They want a brand that they can depend on for quality and durability.
They want a brand that has those classy European style kitchens, without costing as much.

THE BRAND POSITIONING
Rego, Advertising Agency in Mumbai believes a clear Brand Positioning always helps a brand to establish and distinguish itself from its competitor, and occupy a place in the consumer’s mind.

The Rego Creative Team derived a Brand Positioning that cut through all the challenges the brand was facing when it came to consumer confidence. It was the Big Idea that was soon going to change the fortunes of Sleek, cut through their competition, and put them in a leadership position in the market.

SLEEK – THE KITCHEN SPECIALIST
To push the positioning of ‘The Kitchen Specialist’, we roped in India’s cooking specialist, the master chef Sanjeev Kapoor. The idea that ‘A Specialist like Sanjeev Kapoor endorses the Kitchen Specialist – Sleek’ was a proposition that appealed to the client.

Sanjeev Kapoor became Sleek’s Brand Ambassador, and he drove home the point of Sleek being a ‘Kitchen Specialist’

The next brand campaign with Sanjeev Kapoor in a Sleek Kitchen, talking in a most matter-of-fact way about what makes Sleek a Kitchen Specialist, was an extremely believable campaign that won the trust of the consumer, and the praise from even the competition.

The popularity and recognition of Sanjeev Kapoor gave the brand an immense boost. People turned and looked at the ad, and nodded in acknowledgement.

Importance of Brand building for a small business

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Brand is a type of product, service or even personality that people immediately recognise. It may take years of effort to bring about this recognition from people across the world. Not only does it entail advertising but also customer relations, understanding of markets and building connection with people. For example, the brand recognition that Coca-Cola enjoys is only comparable to that of Pepsi. No local brand would be picked up by a consumer if a Coca-Cola bottle is kept alongside the local branded soda. Such is the power of brand recognition that people identify with a brand and trust it over the others. Apple is another brand which enjoys a loyal following. Every time an Apple product is launched, people line up outside stores to get the item.

Even though spending millions on brand building every year is possible for large brands, is it feasible for smaller brands for which budget is perpetually a constraint? Is it worth spending all that money? Well, by all means, it is a good idea for small businesses to indulge in brand building as well because it would help them build a steady set of followers, in the form of end consumers or business houses. There are many methods of marketing that a small business can invest in which would bring them in lots of sales within a short period of time. Some of these methods of marketing include content marketing through eNewsletters, vlogs, and promotions on social networking websites, blogs and other methods. It is not required for them to invest lots of money in television or radio advertisements. It has been seen that most publicity happens through online media such as social and business networking websites and hence it would be best to invest resources in them.

These methods of promotions are inexpensive and can be handled by the firm themselves. However, not all the tactics would be known to them and hence it would be best to rope in a professional for maximum benefits. A professional agency would know how to get the best out of minimal techniques of promotion.

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Advertising Trends in Mumbai

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

Mumbai – The next advertising hub of the country

How Social Media Advertising Can Improve Your Revenues

Print media Advertising vs. Online Marketing

Painting Mumbai Colorful with Advertisements

Billboards are making their presence felt in mainstream advertising

What every advertising team should possess for a great campaign

THE SLEEK BRAND STORY

Importance of Brand building for a small business