Communication Agencies Taking the Lead

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.

Why are more advertising agencies taking to target based advertisements?

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The Indian media industry has seen a sea of change within a decade. Ever since the internet was made available in almost every corner of the country, an Indian advertising agency has started prioritizing it over other forms of mass media such as television, radio and newspapers. The Internet not only allows you to launch cost-effective publicity campaigns but acts as a two way street. Both advertisers and targeted groups can communicate about goods and services. A communication agency launches a video blog (vlog), podcast, blog post or ad campaign on Twitter and Facebook which is viewed by internet users. These users can in turn provide feedback on the campaigns through comments, opinion polls, ratings and other channels.

Since internet advertising is a two way street advertisers have decided to adopt target advertising that can lead to substantial results in quicker time. Unlike mass media which targets an audience without knowing its tastes or preference, an Indian advertising agency working with the internet, profiles a user before bombarding him/her with ads. That way, the agency knows for sure that the person who is seeing the advertisement would be interested in buying the service or product sooner or later.

There are quite a few methods that an Indian advertising agency adopts to analyze the effectiveness of a particular campaign. It uses analytics tools to observe the time of logging in of a particular user, the pages visited or liked by the user on Facebook and the handles followed by him/her on Twitter along with the discussions she/he participates in. Using the information collected about a user group at a particular hour of the day, the products which would appeal most to them are advertised. For new users, a communication agency throws ads belonging to different genres at them to observe the response of the user. Based on the user’s actions, the communication agency displays further ads. Viral advertising is another surefire way of gathering user interest about a particular product. Ad campaigns pertaining to a particular brand of product or genre is shown to users once they visit a site of a similar nature.

This method of target based advertising is trending globally and the Indian advertising agency too has adopted it rather seamlessly.

Why should you hire design studios in India for building your website?

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Every business worth its salt today has a website that showcases its services or products and other information. Although there are many platforms available that allow you to create your own website, these websites turn out to be simplistic both in terms of layouts and functioning. In order to make an impact online, you need to have a well constructed website, replete with impressive content and web programming for making it appear on the top rungs of Google’s search list. Unless a website appears in the top 2 search pages of Google’s result list, it fails to make much impact in the online space.

Design studios in India not only design your website using web development applications and mappings, they also manage the publicity of the website to ensure you generate enough revenue from it. They take care of the brand strategy and social media marketing of your website through promotional campaigns online, pay per click campaigns, video blogs, and other promotional campaigns on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Design studios in India have PHP developers, web designers and coding experts who look into the development of websites on various platforms such as Joomla, Magento and Word press. They also handle content management systems and customer relationship management. Design studios code the program for your website to pave the way for the incorporation of keywords used by most users to seek out particular services and products related to your own domain. They also keep shuffling content and keywords in order to keep up with the current trends in the market.

Some design studios in India also offer the services of application development for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone platforms. A lot of companies nowadays have applications which are downloaded by users for their smartphones. The template for these applications is also developed by design studios.

The role played by design studios has become significant in the online scenario because they can make a website popular almost overnight. Website owners can track the effectiveness of different campaigns and the growth in their traffic through the tools provided by various web development platforms. Design studios in India incorporate the suggestions of clients for making the site more useful and closer to the essence of the service/product that it has been dedicated to.

Therefore it is hardly surprising that entrepreneurs and business owners rely heavily on the mushrooming number of web design studios of India for their website based needs.

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.

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 14^th 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.

Indian advertising is going global with elan

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India’s advertising industry is in the throes of dominant change in recent times and nowhere is it more visible than television and marketing campaigns themselves. Indian brands are now tapping into international markets and audiences for their products and services. The Micromax advertisement was one of the first campaigns that made use of an international ambassador in the form of global Hollywood celebrity Hugh Jackman and this helped the brand create its own presence and niche in the global market courtesy its tie-up with Jackman and its strategies like free X Men movie content provisions on its smartphones and the release of television commercials and promos for the same.

Other brands like Timex have also roped in ambassadors like fast bowler Brett Lee earlier. Reaching out to international markets is a strategy that has been employed before but only catered to limited markets and Indian consumer sentiment was always kept at the forefront. However, campaigns are now choosing to focus on global perspectives. This is witnessed through concepts like the sharing of happiness promulgated by Coca Cola to the need for every kind of friend which promoted Bharti Telecom.

All successful Indian advertisements have always tapped into unlimited reservoirs of emotion, something that has always worked with the domestic consumer. However, the global shift is visible with the advent of international brand ambassadors or creative and funky ways to get the message across. Brand strategies are changing in accordance with global tastes and consumer behaviour. The changing face of India as a global superpower has a lot to do with this shift in advertising messages and strategies.

Multiple Indian celebrities endorse famed global brands and the trend is being reversed here now. There are advertisements which have hit bulls-eye in a global context as well and this is opening up the floodgates for this new international flavour and feel in Indian advertising. Google Search had huge success with its story of two reunited friends across the Indo-Pak border and Indians lapped it up in spite of Google not being an Indian brand at all. The same strategy is being employed in reverse by Indian brands to create more audiences and newer markets for their products.

In line with this changing trend, advertising agencies are now focusing on getting the message across in innovative ways without turning to emotional triggers as was the call to action theme before!

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.

Digital advertising markets are slated to be the next big thing

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Digital advertising is growing at a staggering pace in recent times. The entire industry has been abuzz with the new found relevance and convenience offered by digital platforms. This has caused a steady change in the advertising industry and key players are following suit to jump onto this lucrative bandwagon. As per industry estimates, the market for online advertising in India will cross INR 3, 575 crores and counting by March 2015 and advertising expenditure on mobile and digital platforms is increasing by a whopping 43%! This has set the cat amongst the pigeons in the industry and is supremely indicative of evolved consumer behaviour and preferences.

The overall growth rate of digital advertising is being pegged at 30 percent annually which is staggering by all means. As per industry estimates, the sector was worth around INR 2, 750 crores by March 2014 and this has been seconded by industry reports and statistics published by leading advertising associations and organizations. The biggest contributors to the entire digital advertisement spending pie are display and search which constitute 29 and 38 percent respectively as per reports. This has caused a rethink on strategies usually employed by top advertising and media agencies. Advertising trends are forever in a state of flux, something that is both chaotic and disruptive if not handled right.

Alongside, Search spends came down to about 30 percent soon after for total digital advertising expenditure. Search still provides a whopping INR 825 crores of overall revenue for the market. Alongside, it is being predicted that digital advertising spend will increase on videos, email and mobile advertisements which will eat into Search shares in turn. Social media accounts for about 13% of overall advertising spend digitally and this is growing rapidly to about INR 440 crores in March 2014.

Expenditure on video advertising has grown by a decent 51 percent to touch INR 303 crores while email advertising has now become an INR 88 crore market. This should be growing to the tune of 56% soon and will hold a decent 12% of all digital advertisements put out by brands. The biggest verticals driving the digital advertising boom are e-commerce, FMCG & consumer durables and telecom and this trend is set to continue in the near future.

Indian advertising and the changing consumer

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Consumer behaviour has changed radically as a reactionary aspect to the entire concept of selling and consumerism at large. Advertising trends have changed and evolved quite naturally as a result. Word of mouth was the oldest followed and social media only takes the concept forward in a more efficient manner. Social media is largely representative of the changing consumer where interactive sessions are now routine for both companies and customers. Customers are increasingly being empowered with regard to their choices instead of being made to gulp down some of the choicest advertisements.

This increasing power of choice and consumer freedom augurs well for advertising agencies but also leaves them with little option but to keep reinventing themselves in the wake of certain radical changes in mindsets and consumer behaviour. The internet is fast becoming an advertising mecca, being cost effective and easily accessible. Target marketing is now coming in at the expense of large scale mass based promotional campaigns. Spending habits of customers can now be tracked and analyzed to come up with suitable campaigns along with analyzing their interests and purchase triggers.

The changing customer has come to be mapped with opinion polls, surveys, segmentation and other ratings. These marketing activities work on accuracy and precision alone and largely influence all advertising activity in any particular segment. Customer feedback is now of immense importance and is actually used by brands to come up with interactive advertising campaigns geared at merging the same with the brand message in question. The changing customer is no longer into spending extra time on advertisements whenever there is a choice or opportunity. Channel surfing or radio channel switching is a routine affair. Unwanted emails are discarded instantly while blocking telemarketers is an option many choose to take these days.

Yet, advertisements still have their own distinct flavour in the consumer mind space in spite of changing habits and the freedom of choice. Spending power has increased and the huge number of options available in every sector puts the onus on the advertising industry to favourably position particular products over their competitors in the minds of customers. Customer sensibilities are constantly evolving and agencies have to be on their toes continually with regard to meeting the same fruitfully. An example would be embedded advertisements neatly integrated into stories themselves which are considerably smaller and more attractive as compared to their lengthy and superfluous counterparts.

Recent trends in the Indian advertising industry and their impact

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21^st century India has witnessed a gigantic customer revolution. The economy has scaled up to a staggering $2 trillion from a mere $422 billion back in 2001. Per capita incomes are on the rise along with the Gross Domestic Product or GDP. Some consumption segments have managed to hold on to their high billing including mobile phones, subscriptions and also cars. Indian advertising has naturally transformed itself to match the changing needs and demands of the newly emancipated population.

According to advertising experts, the landscape has shifted considerably as compared to the earlier decade and even the last few years. Service oriented sectors have grown as opposed to the slump in the manufacturing and production sector. This has impacted advertising immensely. Services now dominate both the print and television advertising categories and this is one of the biggest trends in the sector in recent times. Television has heralded its dominance over all other media platforms when it comes to advertising. According to industry statistics, television holds the lion’s share of advertising expenditure which is more than 40% while digital media is also rapidly expanding its footprints and will soon move into double digits.

Print media expenditure has gone down considerably and stands at less than the coveted 40% mark as per recent reports and statistics. Television is increasingly being used as a prime advertising platform by nationally acclaimed companies and organizations while print is the marketing weapon of choice for local and regional players. Alongside, advertising has witnessed the interdependence of media platforms where they often work complementary to each other to get the message across. This is another new development which is being tapped by agencies for their campaigns and marketing blueprints.

Soft drink companies still advertise hugely in their bid to outdo each other and this translates into fantastic advertising. Alongside, other duels have emerged between telecommunication companies and mobile phone companies as well. The Samsung and Nokia or Vodafone and Airtel battles are the stuff of modern day advertising legend. The telecom industry has taken up a huge space as far as advertising is concerned. Alongside, FMCG sectors are having a field day when it comes to occupying advertising space and consumer mind spaces. FMCG players are investing heavily in television advertising in recent times while consumer durables sectors are witnessing a quiet exit from the advertising space.

Digital media is slated to be the next big thing in advertising and may soon overtake print as reinforcement to television advertising.

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