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Tuesday 17 December 2019

Brands Must Embrace Moment Marketing - Here is Why


Moment marketing (MM) involves communicating the right message at the right time to the right audience. It requires a brand to be right there when people are most likely to engage with its message or advertisement.

It works by building connections between offline events and online media at the right moment. Offline events can be anything such as a TV ad, a festive event, a football tournament, etc. For example, when a person watches a TV ad and reacts to it by searching on his smartphone, then if a brand presents itself to him with the right ad in that exact moment, there is a great chance of his engagement with the advertisement.

TV Ad Sync
For implementing MM, brands need to focus on what is trending or is expected to be trending among their target audiences and look for the right time to connect with the customers in the right context.
A great instance of moment marketing that can be cited is a tweet made by Oreo in 2013 when a power outage happened during the Super Bowl. Oreo tweeted – “Power out? No problem. You can still dunk in the dark”. As the message was tweeted at the perfect moment, it immediately received thousands of retweets.

MM is embraced by brands because of the following reasons –

It increases user engagement with a brand
A person’s engagement with a brand is apt to increase with tv ad sync as it receives communication from the brand at the right moment when he is most likely to pay attention to it.

It boosts brand awareness
As more people react to the messages when they are delivered at the right time and in the right context, brand awareness is easily spread.

It boosts overall marketing results
When moment marketing is used simultaneously with other forms of marketing, a brand achieves better results from its marketing campaigns.


Moment Marketing
It provides a competitive edge
Moment marketing helps in fetching new customers to a brand and at the same time improves the perception of a brand in people’s minds.

MM offers a great tool for marketers to capitalize on. Brands are increasingly deploying moment marketing as a strategic marketing tool to complement their core marketing campaigns.

How Parallels by SilverPush can help brands effectively engage consumers at the moment
Parallels seamlessly sync social, display and video advertising campaigns to real-life moments and events such as TV advertising, weather, sports, pollution, trending topics and more. Enabling an enhanced connection with the consumers around the events that are most interesting to them, at the moment they happen.

With live sports sync, Parallels automatically triggers digital ads based on various live sports moments, runs creatives and messages contextualized to these moments, maximizing rand exposure and value of sports sponsorships.

With TV ad sync, Parallels helps in recapturing audience attention and capitalize on cross-screen behavior through real-time syncing of TV ads with digital ads, on social, display and video platforms, across digital screens.

Other live triggers include weather and pollution levels. Parallels are used weather and pollution API triggers for in different states, cities and zip codes. And include data such as temperature, humidity, weather forecast, AQI, pollen levels, an ongoing flu epidemic and much more.


Monday 16 December 2019

Industry Gold Standards SilverPush Has Won in 2019




2019 has been an amazing year at SilverPush. Awards, recognition, and accolades have come our way while we continued to serve our clients. Our technology continued to make a difference in the world of digital campaigns and online media for some of the largest brands globally. Join us as we look back at the ride that 2019 has been for us.

MMA APAC: Gold In The Cross-Media Category

Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), a global mobile trade association, in fact, the only one of its kind is a hub for marketers, sellers and technological innovators in the media industry. MMA Smarties acknowledges the best brands, agencies, and tech enablers that exceed expectations by driving business growth via mobile campaigns.
Unilever Wall’s and Mindshare Indonesia won the gold in the Cross Media category for their Wall’s Gold Spirit campaign celebrating national sports heroes, powered by SilverPush’s tv ad sync — Parallels.
The platform enabled a data drive strategy to deliver highly targeted ads against relevant content around Indonesia’s sports heroes and Wall’s official brand ambassadors. Every time these heroes would hit a Gold for the country, ads featuring contextual messages were delivered across digital platforms to reach the relevant audience.

MMA Smarties India: Silver in Innovation and Product and Services Launch


Silver in Innovation

Thumbs Up, a leader in the soft beverages industry in India was targeting millennials for its new 2019 variant- Thums Up Charged in Summer. Their concerns about brand safety and engagement optimization were resolved with SilverPush’s Mirrors Platform. The AI-powered in-video ads platform helped the brand reach its most relevant audience.

Silver in Product and Services launch

As a part of the Amazing Moment Marketing Campaign, SilverPush was the technological enabler of Madison Media working on Asian Paints’ Clean the Air campaign. With the rising concerns around AQI, the campaign revolved around creating hyper-localized messaging synced with real-time AQI levels. With quality insights delivered at the right time, SilverPush informed with and showcased 1000+ region-specific informative communications.

WARC Media Awards: Bronze for Effective Use of Tech

Every year, WARC recognizes brands that excel in communication planning, driving positive business results via online channels globally through WARC Media Awards. At 2019 WARC Media Awards, SilverPush was awarded bronze for a campaign for Unilever’s Breeze in the category — Effective Use of Tech.
With Breeze, SilverPush leveraged TV sync for Unilever Philippines. With a customer base of housewives aged between 22 to 44 years, SilverPush identified that the buyers were becoming increasingly social media savvy and therefore are prone to multi-screening. The audience was targeted and retargeted with paid advertisements through creating a tv ad sync between the brand’s TV commercials and digital video ads across social platforms.

Festival of Media Awards (FOMA) Asia Pacific Awards: Bronze for Best in Technology

 
Festival of Media Awards is a celebration of brilliant media thinking across the Asia Pacific region. The jury comprises of a vast network of creative thinkers and innovators in the industry. At FOMA APAC 2019, Breeze earned a bronze for the category — Best in Technology.
Moreover, collaborating with Mindshare was a unique learning experience that has added immense value to our technology.

Other Campaigns That Have Won Accolades and Recognition

  • Won Bronze at MMA South Africa for KFC bucket campaign for #TVtomobile work in the Cross Media category
  • Shortlisted at The Wires APAC Awards for the multi-screen sync platform as the Best Marketing Technology solution
  • Nomination at Drum Digital Awards APAC for Best Cross-Platform Campaign on behalf of Rexona
  • Shortlisted for MMA Smarties Vietnam in the mobile Mobile Video and Innovation categories
  • Shortlisted at Effie MENA awards in the Data-Driven and Healthcare-OTC categories for Sanofi’s Telfast

More About Our Winning Campaigns

Breeze

While TV advertising remains a key channel for information distribution in South Asia, women displayed indifference and lack of interest during TV commercial breaks, displaying a cross-screen behavior — paying more attention to social channels. The campaign overcame the clutter and increased brand engagement within the target audience through real-time, TV ad sync with digital advertising.

KFC
KFC’s launch of a new popcorn chicken flavor created the right buzz with SilverPush’s AI Moment Marketing powered contextual targeting ad placement platform — Mirrors. Thirty contextual triggers were identified through Mirrors’ unique capability of detecting faces, logos, objects, scenes, actions and emotions in a streaming video. Coupled with customized creatives, KFC was able to target the right audience, as they engaged with their interests on YouTube. The campaign achieved a VTR of 35 percent; a direct increase of 10 percent against agency benchmark of 25 percent.

Thumbs Up
Thumbs Up leveraged contextual ads placements to target millennial buyers engaged in adventure and thrill-seeking activities. For the campaign, SilverPush contextually targeted users consuming video content around extreme adventure sports, through AI-powered object and emotion detection capabilities. This maximized brand engagement exactly at the moment consumers were engaging with their interests, and not based on past viewing habits.
By seamless brand integration through Mirrors, the campaign gained a VTR of 35 percent with a decrease in CPV of 48 percent.

Oreo
SilverPush partnered with Oreo for their special edition Spider-Man themed pack for Contextual targeting. Spiderman themed content was identified with Mirrors technology enabling the brand to unlock the audience engaged in such content at that right moment. Spanning across four weeks, the campaign directly contributed to sales, leading to 38 percent higher sales for Oreo.
In 2019, we have made a huge difference in the advertising industry. And in 2020, we intend to further expand our product portfolio and help brands understand and reach their customers, like never before.


Thursday 5 December 2019

Is TikTok’s Advertising Potential Worth The Brand Safety Risk?



Let’s be honest. TikTok has been on a roller coaster ride since its inception.

Bytedance’s TikTok, currently valued at $75 Bn, has witnessed admiration, neglection, rejection, and dejection in a tight timeframe.

Do you remember Musical.ly? One fine morning, the users of this teen karaoke app woke up to TikTok on their phones instead of Musical.ly. Yes, TikTok acquired Musical-ly and rebranded the app.

With a Bn reported users as of February 2019, TikTok is the first Chinese app with a wide user base, i.e., 14.3 Mn users in March 2019 in the States. TikTok is sailing the high tide.

It is currently pushing paid ads after hosting several successful sponsorships. However, recent controversies have given rise to concerns around brand safety for businesses. Are you wondering if investing in TikTok’s Ad Business would be a smart move to grow your brand?

Then you must keep reading.

TikTok

The Right Audience Exists

The primary user base for the platform is not just teens; it is the upcoming economy class. Reports suggest that Gen Z forms a large population of the user base too. This means that the right audience exists on the platform.

NBA is showcasing the fun side of the game with behind the scenes footage. Guess’s viral #inmydenim challenge drove engagement and user interaction for the brand. United Nations IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) is leveraging TikTok to combat world hunger by encouraging rural agriculture. 

What is common in all of these brands when they are poles apart? I am glad you asked.

They are putting a creative spin on their messaging.

TikTok is a platform that doubles up as a tool for new content creators. The evolution of the platform has been tremendous. From a meme sharing platform, it has evolved as a contextual video ads platform with a creative edge.

Micro-content is easy to create, and the inbuilt tools make it convenient - an offering previously offered with pictures by Instagram!

TikTok Ads Business- A Marketer’s Dream, or A Brand Safety Nightmare?


The idea of multi-channel marketing through audio-visual content revolves around staying on the customer’s mind and keeping them informed about the brand. However, when businesses invest their time, energy, and funds, the initial apprehensions are obvious.

TikTok is making several brands think, “Will my brand getting the kind of visibility that I want? ”

Or, is Tik Tok going to be another platform to expose our brand to the next brand safety debacle?
 
From data privacy to encouraging child pornography, the allegations on the platform have been massive.

Brand Safety
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) levied a hefty fine of $5.7 Mn for violation of COPPA: the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. The app admitted to collecting children under 13 years of age to collect email addresses, names, and other private information with no parental consent. They put an age verification feature under works but it hasn’t been refined yet. BBC’s investigation and it’s startling discovery does not make the decision any easier for brands.

In an India High Court, ByteDance’s legal representative, senior advocate Abhishek Manu Sanghvi rightly pointed out something that led us to a realization. Data privacy and illicit content continue to exist on leading social media platforms: just like YouTube, Facebook, and Snapchat.

The Sword Dangles in the Air


YouTube, Facebook, and SnapChat is still updating its data guidelines to find the right mix of practices. They have been in the business since the last decade.

TikTok will need some time to find the right mix of tactics that can help brands showcase their strengths better, as well as, extinguish their concerns around brand safety. However, the execution on a global level will require time. The early adopters of the platform will gain an advantage.

But what about today? Should brands abandon TikTok until the issues are resolved? That’s a big fat no.

Not in the age of Artificial Intelligence. Leveraging external platforms that ensure brand safety through their unique product offerings is the safest bet with a better conversion rate for your brand.

No business should have to miss out on the pros because of the cons. The introduction of such products in the ads business will keep your customers in the loop while keeping brand safety intact.

Is Artificial Intelligence Powered Video Advertising The Answer?


Data-driven artificial intelligence-powered video advertising solutions can understand the context and are fast becoming an answer to brand safety woes on platforms like Tik Tok. Through the use of artificial intelligence in video advertising, it is now possible to process large volumes of data at speed, with better context, at higher scale and improved targeting efficiencies, while avoiding potentially damaging ad placements.

However, most of these solutions still depend on the use of natural language processing (NLP) and still carry the limitation of not truly understanding the complex relationship words have in written or spoken language. And the biggest limitation for video content lies in the fact that more often than not, the actual content in a video can be drastically different than what it is described in words through meta tags and more. For instance, a 10-minute video might have significant frames featuring smoking or nudity, but this will most likely be missing from the description. Here, Artificial Intelligence-powered computer vision technology can play a significant role.

Artificial Intelligence

How Mirrors is making Video Ads Brand Safe

MIRRORS, by SilverPush, is the world’s first in-video context detection platform for context-relevant video ad placement targeting. Trained to draw insights from millions of pieces of visual content, MIRRORS use OTT Computer vision and deep learning to identify faces, objects, actions, scenarios, logos, and emotions in a streaming video to contextually filter video content. Helping brands engage with the target audience, while they are engaging with their interests across social platforms like Tik Tok, without collecting reams of personal data.

MIRRORS maximize performance through strategically placing in-stream ads at the moment when the targeted context is being viewed and through real-time optimization of your in-flight campaigns.

MIRRORS’ Artificial Intelligence-powered in-video context targeting not only targets context-relevant video content, but it also filters out unsafe, irrelevant and unsuitable content through MIRRORS SAFE. Providing you absolute control and transparency to run your video campaigns in the most relevant environment ensuring complete brand safety.


Monday 2 September 2019

Contextual Video Ads: The New Rules of Effective Engagement


With a worldwide exponential growth of video consumption, the communication standards for bands have evolved in a new model dominated by the importance of video content & video ads. More & more global brands are under immense pressure to keep their engagement levels high, which explains the recent years’ astronomical rise in YouTube revenues.
And, this exponential rise in audience’s media consumption habits has resulted in an all-time high spending on video ads, which has led to the emergence of the new stars in ad-tech industry, who are leading the way by eliminating random placement of ads with contextual video ads. One such rising star in this race is SIlverPush MIRRORS, an award-winning machine learning & AI technology which leverages OTT Computer vision to establish contextually relevant connect between the ad being served & video being watched by a user.

AI Driven OTT Advertising

SilverPush MIRRORS automatically identifies everything that happens in the video content, highlighting valuable contextual advertising opportunities for brands who strategically need alignment of audience’s interests & their messaging.
MIRRORS’ AI tech looks for objects, actions, logos, faces, emotions, activities and positive themes that match a particular brand image & ethos.
For example, where previously a baking brand might have only contextually advertised on videos themed on popular culinary shows like MasterChef, SilverPush MIRRORS can now help that brand to locate all the contextual opportunities in a wide range of videos being streamed, attracting eyeballs in millions.



Multiple media research organisations & reports have listed the advantages of AI driven contextual marketing in terms of consistent higher ad-recall rates & view through rates. SilverPush MIRRORS is automated and brand safe, delivering contextual advertising at scale for YouTube, OTT platforms & in very soon for TV media.

In APAC various regional & national regulatory bodies & organisations are in the process of laying down the stronger laws with increased focus on user’s privacy rights. So, the real success stories of AI OTT advertising will have to jump over these regulatory hurdles to make a real difference & establish themselves in the bigger picture. 





Wednesday 14 August 2019

The Rise of AI Powered Video Content Marketing



With internet having an average penetration of 90% in developed markets, digital advertisement has reached never before frontiers to engagement through AI & machine learning. Many promising start-ups across Asia are leading this new revolution with the next level of context-based placement, one of the leading names is Singapore based SilverPush Technologies.

With the launch of their AI-driven marketing-tech platform, MIRRORS the company is already getting rave reviews from the ad-tech industry & client global brands. The platform detects video content for logos, objects, scenes, faces & emotions to help brands reach their target audience basis their interest, as defined by the video being watched. With SilverPush MIRRORS, marketers can leverage Digital contextual ads for video content on YouTube & OTT service providers.

AI driven contextual detection
YouTube, remains the most popular video platform but with increasing limited options to align communication with user’s interest levels. With MIRRORS’ AI powered detection tech, contextual moments automatically identify everything that happens in the video content, highlighting valuable contextual advertising opportunities. MIRRORS’ AI looks for objects, actions and positive themes that match a brand’s image & requirements, which then ensures brand ad appears precisely on these videos only & thus has the unique distinction of being the first & 100% accurate platform for video contextual advertising.

After leading the way for efficient campaigns on YouTube, the company plans to extend the services to leading OTT providers in India & abroad. With MIRRORS’ scanning tech, the brands & advertisers can increase their engagement levels by making OTT advertising platforms as a central element to their media planning & buying.

With the tremendous results & accolades gained by these advancements, we can safely say that, ad-tech innovations like SilverPush MIRRORS’ will soon be an essential part of global brand’s marketing plans.

Wednesday 10 July 2019

AI Powered Moment Marketing & Context Detection Advertisement



South East Asia has played host to numerous innovations in ad-tech industry with the region witnessing one of the highest internet penetrations in the world. The industry at large has adopted latest marketing & advertorial developments like TV sync digital campaigns for increasing reach over TV by tapping the second-screening behavior of TV audience. And, this space will see more & more innovations with the entry of SilverPush in Hong Kong market, who are globally renowned for their moment marketing technology offering digital campaign triggered in sync with weather updates like temperature, live TV moments, live sports, air quality indices & finance fluctuations.

contextual digital advertising

Though TV still remains the most popular mass outreach platform, the fragmentation of audience’s attention is leading to media stacking, requiring a rise in ad-tech innovations to boost brand connect with changing media consumption habits. This is where companies like SilverPush are making a mark by their award-winning AI-driven context detection technology to help brands engage with their audience more effectively.

Another huge development is the emergence of video as the most consumed media format, globally. And once again, the industry has quickly embraced the format with communication designed basis this growing video consumption. Ad-tech pioneers SilverPush have yet again been at the forefront of innovation with the launch of their MIRRORS, the machine learning and artificial intelligence powered technology for context detection in video content to offer contextual ads for YouTube & OTT advertising platforms.

AI driven real time ads

MIRRORS by SilverPush scans video content for faces, logos, objects, background activity to precisely match brand communication with the content being watched. This contextual placement of brand communication aligned with user’s interest has yielded unprecedented rise in engagement metrics like view through rates, click through rates.
As confirmed by SilverPush CRO, SilverPush plans scale up their presence in the region to unleash the power of Contextual In-video Real time advertisement for Hong-Kong based brands to a never before level with the company’s core products for TV to digital sync and Contextual Ads for video content.

Thursday 20 June 2019

The Rise of AI Led Marketing Innovations



The buzz words since the last year has been Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, being mentioned in developments of each industry, as the guiding force for growth in most of the global tech powerhouses. Owing to the emergence of these technologies, almost all modern digital advertising platforms have been offering never before features & customization for incorporating AI to help advertisers achieve their goal.

Most of these innovations have been ignoring video consumption growth, a format which has been on the radar for marketers to leverage the universal content format for engaging with target audience. The rise of OTT platforms validates the importance of video format to be noticed by technological innovations powered by AI & machine learning.
All of these OTT platforms rely on either subscription or advertisement for revenues. The earlier model of advertisement for video content has been shifting to OTT Contextual advertising to align viewer’s interest with brand’s communication.
However, the advertisement ecosystem has adapted contextual placement has the thumb rule for helping brands with higher engagement rates. A slew of reports has proven that, contextual editorial video content dramatically increases a consumer’s engagement and recollection of video advertising on a web page.

Video Contextual Advertising

This shift to contextual ad placement has been the playground for technological innovations from big tech companies & start-ups alike. SilverPush, an Indian start-up has taken the lead with the launch of MIRRORS, AI driven context detection technology for video content with frame by frame detection of logos, faces, objects & backgrounds in the video content. Earlier, SIlverPush has won global laurels for their TV sync technology to align digital campaigns with live TV, weather, financial fluctuations and pollution levels. 

With the launch of MIRRORS, the company is set to conquer new markets with their game-changing innovation, as confirmed by the Chief Revenue Officer, Kartik Mehta, SIlverPush is aiming for $ 25 million revenue in the next financial year.  As more & more brands seek innovations for their customer engagement, the relevance of ads will be determined by their contextual relevance to the background content.  This approach will naturally follow to video content being watched by customers for brands to leverage video contextual advertising for raising engagement levels.
Going further, “user’s experience” will be improved by this alignment of context & branded communication, which is another buzzword in the marketing world.

Wednesday 15 May 2019

Congress & Campaigns



After the digital campaign wave of 2014, the 2019 campaigns began from March with each party rolling out powerful campaigns against each other. Congress’ campaign is based entirely upon the unfulfilled promises of BJP. Congress believes that in 2014, the campaigns run by BJP boasted of development of the whole nation, but there has been no development as such. The work on Congress’ campaign strategy began in October 2018, with a counter-narrative on BJP’s ‘Main Bhi Chowkidaar Campaign. The campaigns have been outsourced to the agencies that worked with Congress for the 2014 elections and has given results in the past. There is a dual campaign strategy- one for the States where there is a direct fight with BJP and the other where it is fighting in alliance with regional parties. The party has hired three agencies- DesignBoxed, Niksun, and India-based Silverpush.


The main focus apart from countering BJP’s campaign would be jobs, GST, demonetization and rest of the non-fulfilled promises made by BJP. Silver Push has been roped in to run Congress’ media and outdoor campaigns. Silverpush, the Gurgaon-based company works around optimizing TV and OTT media. The prime focus will be on Facebook for content uploading and WhatsApp for distribution. Since social media has a very big role to play in these elections, all the major platforms have agreed to a general code of ethics and agreed to take down requests by the Election Commission of India. Research conducted by some analysts claims that Facebook and WhatsApp might be able to swing votes this year. Since Facebook acts as a bigger influencer than Twitter for the urban middle class and lower-middle-class population. The campaigns will also target 130 million first time voters and 110 million second time voters. A total of 900 million voter turnout is expected in this election.

Tuesday 7 May 2019

NYAY- The Theme of Congress Campaign


In 2014, BJP came up with their famous campaign slogan ‘Acche Din’ and yes it did create a wave. The year 2019, Congress took the same route and their campaign is based on the total injustice done by the present government and hence their main theme became “NYAY”. Congress claims that in the last 5 years, various sections of the society faced injustice as the BJP government could not uphold their promise of ‘acche din’. The promises of jobs for youth, safety for women, equality for Dalits and minorities have not been fulfilled. ‘Ab hoga NYAY’, Congress’ primary slogan reflects not only justice but also “Nyuntam Aay Yojna”, the minimum income guarantee scheme which is the highlight of the party’s manifesto. To increase their outreach, Congress has hired agencies that will help them run their campaign. Percept has been roped in as the main professional agency, while Silverpush has been engaged to take care of the digital media campaigns.

Congress claims to have done extensive research before coming out with their manifesto. They believe that the PM misled the people and rather than ‘acche din’, people had to go through difficulties and struggles. All the other slogans unveiled the focus on the main theme.  Apart from this, Congress’ manifestgo promises to provide Rs. 72000/ year to impoverished households. It also promises free education till class XII, free diagnosis and treatment in government hospitals and employment. 


Silver Push, the agency hired by Congress will run social media campaigns and highlight the party’s main objectives on digital platforms. 
The party also launched their official campaign song “Hindustan”, highlighting that the country is made from its people, not leaders. These slogans will be used movie theatres, hoardings, digital platforms, and print. Hundreds of container trucks will run all over India displaying Congress’ “NYAY” theme. Congress believes that its cost-effective campaigns along with their sincerity will help them win hearts.

Friday 26 April 2019

Making of Mirrors: The AI-driven Content Detection Technology



‘’ We’ll synchronize between TV and digital ‘’ – the words that changed the whole scenario and gave rise to SilverPush’s AI-driven contextual detection technology: Mirrors. The technology runs graphics processor units that monitor TV feeds in real time from set-top boxes. The feed from each TV channel goes to the processor which further breaks it down into audio and video. After this, the adverts are matched and the online response required is then triggered. Mr. Hitesh Chawla, the CEO of SilverPush explained this technology in a simpler way. He said that while watching IPL when the viewers will turn to your phones during the ad break, the viewers will see an ad on Facebook. It was stated that to detect an advertisement with older methods it took about 7 seconds for this process. But with this new platform launched by SilverPush, it takes 0.6 to one second for detection, and hence SilverPush patented this technical achievement. The company has claimed that it has over 100 clients and some are big names like Coca-Cola, Cisco, Spotify and more.


SilverPush has recently raised the second round of funding of 5 million dollars from FreakOut Holdings and the revenue grew over 100% in 2018 and is now targeting 25 million dollars in the next two years.  One of the campaigns that were run by them was for Coca-Cola in Thailand, during the 2018 football World-Cup. Here, the Facebook data was used to synchronize the adverts to a specific demographic. The football fans aged between 18-35 were the prime targets and the creatives were done on the most popular 9 teams of that World Cup. The Key in-game moments like a free kick, goals, half-time, etc were synced with advertisements on social media and finally redirecting to popular food app- Lineman. The technology monitored the TV feed and matched the ad it caught to trigger ott ads on a specific demographic.


Apart from TV, SilverPush has moved on to videos more broadly on the net and otherwise. It is not necessary that the trigger does not have to be an advertisement. It can be anything from a face, logo to emotions. The contextual adtargeting is taken care through this platform. SilverPush plans to expand and perform as a leading platform in the Southeast Region and is sure that with this technology getting better day by day, that day is not far.

Tuesday 23 April 2019

Politics in the Digital Age



2014 elections welcomed a new age of campaigning using social media. Today, almost all political parties big or small, for the centre or for the state have found a new way to campaign- famously known as digital campaigns. It is certain that while scrolling down your Twitter or Facebook feed you have noticed the uprising presence of these digital campaigns which have actually made it easier for the parties to reach out to more people than they ever could. Catchy hashtags dig at oppositions everything has become a part of their digital campaign. But is making the campaigns enough? Monitoring the campaigns and targeting the right audience at the right time is as important as the content.  

Earlier this year, Congress launched a digital campaign #ChowkidarChorHai to which BJP launched their campaign #MainBhiChowkidar and now Congress is all set to launch an offensive against the BJP with a new campaign. Apart from social media, Congress needs to run media and outdoor campaigns, for which they have hired three agencies- DesignBoxed, Niksun, and Silverpush. These agencies have given successful results in the past making them the first choice for Congress. 

For example, Congress had hired DesignBoxed for Assembly Election in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh where the party won ultimately. The current campaigns will focus on the promises that were not kept by the NDA government and the content will focus on issues like job scarcity, farm distress, etc. along with the response to #MainBhiChowkidaar.

Since Facebook has a bigger influence, the campaigns will focus on Whatsapp for distribution and Facebook for content uploading. The agencies hired will look after these campaigns. Niksun specializes in production, digital and branding solution while Silver push works around optimizing TV and OTT media.  Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter have agreed to a general code of ethics and takedown requests from the Election Commission. The war of the hashtags will continue till before the elections and the analysts from both the parties will try to swing votes in this year’s elections.

Monday 15 April 2019

Elections and Social Media Campaigns



2014, the last elections saw ‘The Modi Wave’ running throughout the whole country. But how did Narendra Modi gain this popularity? How did every person hear about ‘Ab kibaar, Modi Sarkar’? It’s simple! With the rising use of technology in our day to day lives and rampant growth of social media, the political campaigns have gained popularity like never before. Medians like Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. are a prime medium through which the political parties can reach their audience located even in the remotest area. Politics has become more than just campaigning; it has taken on digital platforms and has extended its reach through digital campaigns.

After this social media stunt pulled by BJP back in 2014, Congress has also taken the digital approach. Congress has launched its social media campaigns and has hired three different agencies- DesignBoxed, Niksun, and SilverpushIndia based Silver push is an advertising technology firm that has been roped in by Congress as their election partners. The firm run by smart IITians is set to take care of Congress’ digital media campaigns. Their campaigns will basically point out the promises that were made and never kept, the services that were offered but never provided. Congress plans to hit its opposition with the campaigns that will point out the non-fulfilment of the promises made by the current government. Apart from this, they have also launched their campaign song, ‘Hindustan’.

Elections are a very important aspect of a democracy, where the people decide who they consider fit to run the country. With social media and the campaigns, it definitely has become easier to connect and influence people, launch manifestos for the people to view and later on let people decide what’s best for them. These campaigns will definitely play a huge role as a deciding factor for every citizen, as this time they will be targeted on social media. 

From working people to home-makers, everyone is on one social media or other and the plan of the agencies working on these digital campaigns is to become the voice of the Party and let people know what’s what. But at the end of the day, it is the work of the government done now or before the biggest deciding factor, and it is certain that these social media campaigns will play a huge part in it.

Monday 18 February 2019

AI to Bridge the gap between TV and Digital Devices in Real Time


The scenarios have changed! Today when someone watches television, he or she is also glued to their smartphones that are constantly in their hands. Thus, creating some serious challenges for the marketers, who despite spending too much cost on TV ads are not being able to reach their potential customers in real time. Capturing the viewers' attention when it shifts from one screen to another in real time is the prime target for advertisers and marketers. This is where SilverPush steps in. Founded in 2012, SilverPush helps brands reach their target audience in real time by real-time TV tracking and synchronization from Tv to digital through contextual marketing.

SilverPush intends to expand in Southeast Asia to help the brands operating there, facing the problem of reaching their multi-screening clients effectively with digital contextual advertising on multiple screening platforms. Kartik Mehta, CRO of SilverPush, said in one of his interviews that Southeast Asia has become SilverPush’s topmost priority as it has become one of the top leagues of the world with one of the world’s highest internet and mobile penetration rates. A report released by ‘We are Social and Hootsuite, the internet penetration rate of Southeast Asia was 58% as compared to the world average of 55%.

In-video Contextual Ads

SilverPush has expanded from India to 12 different countries when it first entered this market in 2017 and began operations in Thailand. Some very big brand names like Unilever, Nestle, KFC, Coca-Cola, Samsung, Ford, and also, some regional brands have been associated as clients with SilverPush. For a very long time TV has been the dominant platform for the advertisers to reach out to their customers. But, now the gap between smartphones and the TV has been narrowed, making it a challenge for the advertisers to reach their potential clients in real time. The ‘TV Sync’ technology was pioneered by SilverPush in India, three years ago. SilverPush has also patented video fingerprinting and content recognition technology. SilverPush’s real aim is to further develop real time solutions and help brands create contextual video ads and normal ads, to raise audience engagement.

Contextual Marketing Platform

According to SilverPush, the real challenge for the brands today is where to put their resources like money, time and people. The immense amount of money spent on TV ads today, doesn’t seem as effective as it used to a few years back. Zenith, a multinational media specialist has predicted that according to them mobile advertising will overtake TV by 2021, with the current growth rate of 21% every year, and since smartphones have become the first point of online access for millions of users, this prediction could possibly be true. Whenever a commercial comes up on television, the viewers quickly shift their eyeballs from the TV to their mobile phones. This is where SilverPush uses the data along with the AI and connects the advertisement seen by the consumers on the TV to an engagement option on the viewers’ mobile phones at the right time, in the form of an interactive advertisement or a content that the viewers can share on social media. This is the ‘Moment Marketing Strategy’.

To provide insights about this technology, Mr. Mehta explained that AI detects ‘triggers’ on TV like when a team scores a goal, AI driven video context detection, will select pre-prepared social media messages with client representations like logos, etc to help the brands be there when the viewers interact with the triggers.