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<ul><li>Covid-19 has changed the way we shop, eat, communicate. It has also flipped the <keyword id="6354839" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="marketing">marketing</keyword> playbook.</li><li><keyword id="10177920" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="dev-batra">Dev Batra</keyword>, Co-Founder and CEO, <keyword id="10177919" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="lyxelflamingo">Lyxel&amp;Flamingo</keyword> and <keyword id="651025" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Nishant-Singh">Nishant Singh</keyword>, Creative Director - Copy, Lyxel&amp;Flamingo write about a few of the changes and trends that have come in play and what will help CMOs succeed in the post-Covid world.</li></ul>The ability to break habits and induce new ones has always been the real litmus test of great marketing. But marketing norms are in a state of evolution right now. It sure is nothing more than wishful thinking right now, but we are hopeful that in a future not too far, the masks will be off and Covid-19 would be a horror of the past. And normalcy shall prevail. The real question is that will we pick up from where we left in the pre-Covid era or will the new normal be different? We believe things will have changed in the post-Covid world. Old habits and ways of living would see paradigm shifts while average consumers will continue adapting to the changes around them. Hence, the longer this pandemic stays, the stronger the force of these ‘new habits’ will get. The effects have started showing already. India’s online retail as percentage of total retail was around 3% a couple of years back and now it’s projected to be at 8% by next year. Why? Well, the average consumer is enjoying immense attention from brands. They’re witnessing an unprecedented convenience &amp; ease with which they can shop online today. While that’s the initial trigger for the surge in online shopping, a much more evolved brand experience with augmented reality, predictive cart, hassle-free &amp; safe home delivery etc. will only see this digital migration rise further. Today, customer experience has overtaken price and product as the key differentiator for brands. So, as we crystal gaze into 2021, we divide the changes we might witness in compartments- Old trend, new scale: Trends that pre-date the onset of Covid but have accelerated significantly because of it in the past few months, will be even more visible at scale and at an accelerated pace. <ul><li>Deeper penetration of mobile internet in rural pockets of the country as well as SEC C, D audience will give a greater push to this segment who aren’t just casual users but those who are actively engaging in online shopping, entertainment &amp; education. Taking the impact of Covid-19 into consideration, the penetration of e-commerce is projected to increase by almost 7% with an estimated 100 million users by mid-2021.</li><li>The rules of video content development have changed. Big brands are creating low-production pieces and promoting them aggressively. Today, content is actually the real king.</li><li>Brands have experimented with influencers for many years now but 2020 has seen the rise of vernacular &amp; micro-influencers. This trend will gain a much stronger momentum in coming years, especially with the steep rise in social commerce.</li></ul>New trends on the block: Trends that came into being because of the pandemic, began in an animated hurry to adapt to the changing market demands, are assuming a more systematic form now. Brands are looking at newer ways of employing and even evolving these new trends with sheer marketing genius to outplay the competition. ●The rise of the ‘Atmanirbhar’ philosophy has become even more prominent with multiple Indian D2C brands actively communicating about their Indian roots. A similar tune is now being sung by MNCs who are manufacturing locally. One of Micromax's advertisements featuring its founder Rahul Sharma as an earnest evangelist ofthe ‘Atmanirbhar’ movement is a great case in point.●Focus on the erstwhile ‘Invisible’ – A very short while ago, empathetic content was synonymous with issues like feminism, equal pay, environment and other ‘educated’ matters. However, the nationwide lockdown &amp; the plight it entailed for the marginalised communities inspired an awareness around this largely ‘invisible’ population — daily wagers, dhaba owners, delivery guys, vegetable vendors, small-scale entrepreneurs. Hence, our empathy is now more empathetic and we are more aware of THE India that was ignored.●Online as an experience &amp; not just a utility: It is clear that we can do a lot more sitting in the comfort of our home, on our laptops &amp; mobile phones. The need to step-out has reduced significantly. So why step out tobuy only groceries or running shoes? Brand marketers can no longer think of online as only a place of final purchase. Rather, they need to use social media as the place where experiences are created &amp; information is disseminated to their customers.●Loyalty: As consumers, we are exposed to thousands of brand messages everyday. And today, acquiring new customers has become extremely expensive. Which makes it critical to retain existing customers through better customer marketing automation, loyalty programs, personalised communications and offers that can help create better long term value for the customer as well as the brands. This trend is bound to accelerate in 2021 given the pressure that brands are facing on their bottom-lines — limiting the monies that are available to acquire new customers. Two sides of the same coin: CMOs will have to take into account trends that are seeing faster pace as well as newer methods of execution. For almost half a decade now, digital media has been an important tool in every marketer’s arsenal, albeit as a subsidiary of mainline advertising. Enter 2020 and suddenly Digital Media was expected to do all the heavy lifting due to lack of investments in traditional media. And boy, did it deliver! Given the internet penetration in this country, now it’s quite possible to build a brand purely by leveraging digital media and many brands have been able to do that successfully. Even those who relied heavily on TV and other traditional media have started making considerable investments in building digital assets (e.g., product videos, Hotstar campaigns during IPL or pre-roll ads on YouTube). Will this trend grow in 2021? As brands learn more about digital analytics &amp; transparency of the medium and hence their ability to correlate outcomes with investments, absolutely! So, what remains to be seen is how brands and their CMOs subsume these trends in their marketing strategies and prepare for the post-Covid world. - This article has been co-authored by Dev Batra, Co-Founder and CEO, Lyxel&amp;Flamingo and Nishant Singh, Creative Director - Copy, Lyxel&amp;Flamingo

Marketing in the era of post-Covid digitization - What will a CMOs new arsenal be?

(Eds: Adds more details, combines related stories) New Delhi, Apr 26 () Delhi on Sunday reported 293 fresh COVID-19 cases -- the second highest in a day -- taking the total tally in the city to 2,918, even as Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced the implementation of the MHA's guidelines on the opening of shops, but said the lockdown will not be relaxed beyond what the Centre has suggested. According to the health department, as many as 877 patients have been cured till now, while 54 have died of the disease. No fresh death has been reported in the last 24 hours. The first highest number of coronavirus cases being reported in a day was 356 on April 13. On Sunday, nineteen more staffers of Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial Hospital in North Delhi's Jahangir Puri area tested positive novel coronavirus, taking the total number of cases at the facility to 59. Till Saturday, the number of staffers affected by the virus stood at 40. According to a senior official, 68 more samples are yet to be tested. "The critically ill patients will remain in the hospital. The hospital management will take care of them," said North Delhi District Magistrate Deepak Shinde said. The hospital will be closed down for new patients for the next three days, an official said, adding all staff at the hospital will be screened for the COVID-19. The number of containment zones rose to 97 in the national capital, with new two such zones coming up on Sunday. Three mediapersons have also tested positive for coronavirus, sources said. They said among the infected persons, one is a freelance photographer while the two are camerapersons. Recently, the Delhi government had set up a testing centre where hundreds of mediapersons underwent COVID-19 test. Addressing an online media briefing on Sunday, Kejriwal said, "We are going through difficult times. We will have to continue our efforts to reduce the number of COVID-19 infections in Delhi." He said his government was implementing the Centre's guidelines on opening of neighbourhood and stand-alone shops during the lockdown till May 3. No markets and malls will be allowed to open in the national capital and all shops in COVID-19 containment zones will remain shut, the chief minister added. "The Delhi government will maintain status quo and will not relax lockdown restrictions till May 3, except those permitted by the Union home ministry," he said. Kejriwal said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that the nationwide lockdown would last till May 3, and added there was a need to see what decision the Union government takes on it. "We will decide our future course of action and set our direction once the Centre takes decision on whether ongoing lockdown be extended or not," he said. "If we must follow lockdown rules, we can get rid of coronavirus," he said. Late in the evening, Chief Secretary Vijay Dev issued an order, implementing the Ministry of Home Affair's guidelines and said that social distancing will be strictly followed. Deputy Commissioners of Police will ensure strict compliance of the order, Dev said. On Sunday, a staff member of Batra Hospital in South Delhi also tested positive for the virus. She was working in the pharmacy of the hospital. "Four family members are high risk contacts and one shopkeeper is a low risk contact. "We are putting high risk contacts under institutional quarantine and low risk contact under home quarantine. Testing for high risk has been done and the report is awaited," a official at the district administration said. Meanwhile, the Delhi government has launched an exercise to prepare a detailed plan for students of the city who are stranded abroad due to the coronavirus outbreak. Union Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba has asked all states and Union territories to furnish data on such students, they said, adding that the Centre would take the final call on a possible evacuation. Accordingly, Delhi Chief Secretary Vijay Dev has asked officials to prepare a list of students stranded abroad and suggest measures for screening and quarantine among others upon their return to the city, the sources told . "Delhi is also compiling its data of its students stranded abroad in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak in several counties," a source said. As three cases of coronavirus were reported from Azadpur Mandi (market), the Agricultural Produce Marketting Committee (APMC) on Sunday issued guidelines to regulate the movement of empty vehicles to prevent the spread of COVID-19. A DDA ground in Burari has been earmarked as the holding area for empty vehicles to reduce the traffic in and around the market, the committee's guidelines read. "All empty vehicles have to go to Burari ground and take a token before coming to the mandi," it said. A total of 3,300 tokens will be issued from 5 am to 9 pm everyday on first-come-first-serve basis. "300 tokens will be issued for the first slot – 5 am to 9 am. After that, 200 tokens will be issued every hour till 9 pm," the committee said. The Delhi Minorities Commission has demanded that Tablighi Jamaat members who are kept at quarantine camps in the city and have not tested positive for coronavirus be released, as they have completed twice the stipulated quarantine period of 14 days as COVID-19 suspects. In a letter to Delhi Health minister Satyendar Jain, commission chairman Zafarul Islam Khan and member Kartar Singh Kochhar also claimed that facilities for food and medicines at these camps were poor. GVS AMP KND SLB VIT BUN AQSAQS

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The Delhi chapter of <keyword id="139680" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="The-Indus-Entrepreneurs">The Indus Entrepreneurs</keyword> (TiE) will host on Thursday the 8th iteration of the <keyword id="4390638" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="India-Internet-Day">India Internet Day</keyword>, one of the largest conferences for Internet entrepreneurs in the country. India Internet Day 2019 targets entrepreneurs which attracts start-ups, unicorns, industry leaders, investors, mentors, policy-makers, and many more key domain experts from across the country every year India is presently home to over 500 million internet users and 21 unicorns. With the aim of raising a hundred start-ups and enterprises to become billion-dollar companies on the back of their internet-centric innovations, TiE Delhi-NCR is hosting the 8th iteration of India Internet Day. The vision of #iDay2019 is encapsulated in the headline of the event’s main theme: “India Internet Unboxed: Getting ready for a 100 Unicorns”. Enabling the next generation of leaders At iDay 2019, leaders of the internet and entrepreneurial community will deliver content for the benefit of young entrepreneurs, enabling the next generation of leaders to gain a deeper insight into the opportunities and evolving trends in the industry, Tie said in a statement. Building on the theme of ‘unboxing’, iDay2019 plans to have focused and thought-provoking discussions during the session line-up on topics including: Unboxing Indian Tech Going Global, Unboxing Funding, Unboxing Talent, Entrepreneurial Milestones: Unboxing Pivots &amp; Pirouettes to Exits, Unboxing 2nd Innings, Unboxing Valuations. It will also have a special focus on the Chinese startup ecosystem, key speakers will speak on Unboxing China, its Landscape &amp; Overview, Chinese VCs in India - A perspective and Cross Border Learnings. Additionally, entrepreneurs will be provided with a platform to showcase internet-centric innovations and get constructive feedback on their ventures. All about networking The conference is one of the most anticipated entrepreneurial conferences across the world as it gathers entrepreneurs and vision-holders in the midst of key investors, industry leaders, and policy-makers under the same roof. It will have sessions that will chaired by prominent industry leaders including Vani Kola, MD, Kalaari Capital, and Rajesh Sawhney, CEO &amp; Co Founder of Innerchef, the conference will open with a keynote address by Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder &amp; CEO of PayTM. The opening address will be followed by conversations with industry experts including Anant Maheshwari, President - Microsoft India and Rajan Anandan, Vice President, Google &amp; President, TiE Delhi-NCR. Other ace speakers include Lathika Pai, Country Head - Microsoft for <keyword id="6362513" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="startups">Startups</keyword> MENA and SAARC , Gaurav Deepak, Co-founder &amp; MD - Avendus Capital, Anand Lunia, General Partner – India Quotient, Helen Wong, Partner at Qiming Venture, Yun Lou, Founder &amp; CEO of Clubfactory, Hans Tung - Partner, GGVC Kunal Shah, Founder &amp; CEO – Cred, Amrish Rau, Ex CEO – CitrusPay, Aprameya Radhakrishna, Founder &amp; CEO of Vokal, Raul Rai, Co-Founder of Nicobar.com, and Mukund Kulashekaran from Urban Clap. Power Breakfast with the iDay Committee The event will kick off with a breakfast with industry leaders and the best in the startup ecosystem. The committee members who will be a part of this event include Rajan Anandan, Vice President, Google &amp; President, TiE Delhi-NCR; Alok Mittal, Co-Founder, Indifi Technologies; Amarjit Singh Batra, Managing Director, Spotify India; Arvind Jha, Multipreneur, Movico Technologies; Miten Sampat, VP, Times Internet; Deep Kalra, Founder &amp; Group CEO, MakeMyTrip; Gautam Gandhi, Angel Investor; Prasanto K Roy, Policy Consultant ; Karan Mohla, Partner &amp; Executive Director of Chiratae Ventures; Ravi Gururaj, Founder &amp; CEO, Qikpod; Dev Khare, Partner, Lightspeed India Partners. B2B Founders' Lunch Ace B2B founders who will be part of this session include Shridhar Gupta, Co-Founder - Loconav; Pranav Tyagi, Founder - Eigen; Ajay Chauhan, Co- Founder -SalezShark; Sachin Bhatia, Co-Founder &amp; Ex VP - Drishtisoft solutions; Rahul Bhalla, CEO &amp; Co Founder -Zeanatix will be part of the lunch tables Fintech Lunch Leading Fintech founders who will be part of the lunch include Ajay Vikram Singh, Consumer Business Head- Clix Capital ; Jonathan Bill, CEO &amp; Co- Founder – Creditmate; Kshitij Puri, CEO &amp; Co- Founder - Ziploan ;Sandeep Srinivas, Co-Founder &amp; CMO - Redcarpet Tech ; Kapil Mehta, Co - Founder – SecureNow; Alok Bansal, Co-Founder &amp; CFO – PolicyBazaar ; Mukesh P Kalra, Founder &amp; CEO – ETMoney #iDay Launchpad A platform at India Internet Day where tech businesses have a chance to demo/launch their new products/services in front of a large relevant audience of VCs, entrepreneurs etc. The start-ups will be selected by an influential jury panel #iDay Workshop A stellar workshop on product management professionals with Anshumani Ruddra, VP of Product (Social &amp; Gaming) – Hotstar will equip participants with new strategies &amp; principles to ace their field Gala Evening Network, interact, explore synergies over dinner and jive the evening away with a rocking band performance! The conference will take place from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm on 25th April, 2019, at Leela Ambience, Gurugram. Register here now! <a href="https://www.iday.in/">https://www.iday.in/</a> Note: Business Insider India is a media partner at the event.

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