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India – RepIndia, an India-based digital agency, has announced key leadership promotions, elevating Neelanjan Dasgupta, Durgesh Tiwari, Sanya Sitlani, Nitin Sharma, and Guru Mishra to new roles. These changes underscore the agency’s commitment to enhancing its digital capabilities and fostering innovation.

The five senior team members promoted have played a pivotal role in driving RepIndia’s success and innovation over the years. These promotions are designed to strengthen the agency’s core leadership and accelerate growth across various digital verticals.

Previously serving as creative head (West), Dasgupta has been appointed vice president of creative strategy and innovations. During his tenure, he delivered award-winning campaigns and onboarded high-profile clients including JSW Steel, JSW Energy, MTV, JBL, Joyville, Amante, Amazon Mini TV, and many more.

In his new role, he will focus on enhancing RepIndia’s creative offerings and driving innovative solutions across markets.

Speaking on his promotion, Dasgupta said, “RepIndia has taught me everything I know about advertising. It has provided me with a safe space to grow, where accountability and kindness go hand in hand. I will always carry these values as a leader and professional.”

Following suit, Tiwari has also been promoted to associate vice president for listening, ORM, and analytics.

Previously senior account director, Tiwari grew his team from 20 to over 100, significantly boosting the agency’s capabilities in social listening, ORM, and analytics. His strategic leadership has been key in acquiring major clients like NPCI, DigiYatra, BluSmart, and Subway, contributing to RepIndia’s international expansion.

Joining Tiwari, Sitlani also takes on the role of associate vice president for planning and growth, where she will drive strategic initiatives and uncover new opportunities to advance the agency and its clients.

Previously an account director for account planning and growth, Sitlani played a key role in acquiring clients such as JBL, Pearl Academy, Kajaria, Colorbar, CARE Hospitals, and others, further expanding RepIndia’s portfolio and market presence.

“We’re heavily involved in a wide range of initiatives—from pitches to strategy for existing clients and reviewing work across accounts,” she shared. 

Mishra also joins the roster of promotions, having been elevated to senior vice president for digital media and buying, underscoring RepIndia’s commitment to expanding its media capabilities.

Before this, he served as vice president for digital media and buying. Under Mishra’s leadership, the digital media team expanded significantly, securing clients like Kajaria, Instax, M3M, Fortis, Haldirams, and others. His extensive experience in digital media strategy is expected to drive RepIndia’s media operations and innovate digital buying practices.

Commenting on his new role, Mishra shared, “When I joined RepIndia, the team was just 2 members. Today, it’s grown to over 18 members. The journey has been rewarding, and I look forward to leading our media operations into the future.”

Finally, Sharma joins the leadership team as associate vice president for search, recognised for his crucial role in enhancing the agency’s search marketing expertise.

Sharma has been instrumental in strengthening RepIndia’s search capabilities, working with prominent brands like Hero MotoCorp (across 8 countries), Merino Laminates, Kajaria Ceramics, Migsun Group, and more. Previously associate director of SEO, he has grown his team to over 20 members, further bolstering RepIndia’s search marketing expertise.

These leadership appointments come as RepIndia positions itself for growth in 2025. With a strengthened team across search, media, creative strategy, planning, and analytics, the agency aims to enhance its offerings and drive digital innovation. The changes reflect RepIndia’s focus on building internal capabilities for the future of digital marketing in India.

Archit Chenoy, CEO of RepIndia, commented, “At RepIndia, our strength lies in our people and their ability to drive meaningful impact for our clients. These promotions are a testament to the incredible talent, dedication, and innovative spirit that define our team. As we look ahead to 2025, this strengthened leadership will play a critical role in shaping the future of digital marketing, delivering cutting-edge solutions, and unlocking new growth opportunities for our clients and our agency alike.” 

India – In conjunction with the Engineer’s Day celebration in India, which is celebrated on 15 September, India-based multinational conglomerate, JSW Group, has launched a new campaign, with the aim to remind people of the importance of engineers in shaping the world by asking a seemingly simple question – ‘What do engineers do?’.

Developed in partnership with advertising agency RepIndia, the campaign celebrates engineers with a heartfelt message about their role in building the country. Giving it a curious child’s perspective, the film talks about all things great and small that engineers have created to make the nation better.

Vinay Shroff, CMO at JSW Steel, said at JSW, their engineers are integral to everything they build and create, and their role is indispensable. 

“It was crucial that besides celebrating them we also made people aware of their unrivalled contributions in building the nation. We collaborated with RepIndia, to make this message come through in this film,” added Shroff. 

Meanwhile, Neelanjan Dasgupta, creative director at RepIndia, noted, “This was a special one, especially because we got an opportunity to tell a story keeping a child in mind. We wanted to thank the JSW team for giving us this opportunity to celebrate the true builders of the nation.”

New Delhi, India – Advertising agency RepIndia has recently bagged the digital and creative mandate for Sleepwell, a flagship brand under bed foam company Sheela Foam. Through the agency mandate, RepIndia will be driving Sleepwell’s consumer marketing initiatives across online and offline channels. In addition, RepIndia will partner with the brand’s growth through innovative and disruptive marketing and communication strategies.

The brand has a pan-India presence with over 110 distributors, over 5000 exclusive dealers, having a web and omnichannel presence supported by over 10 manufacturing units in India, and has become a ubiquitous name for sleep products in every Indian household. 

According to Vishal Sharma, head of marketing at Sleepwell, they have found RepIndia to be exactly the right fit and a partner with the right mindset that will help them translate their strategy and vision into this new reality for their consumers. He added that they are in particular love with the team’s young energy and fresh original approach to their business, going on to say that this partnership shall propel both companies to create a winning formula for the consumers.

“With the fast-changing nature of consumer outreach, emerging new business opportunities and in line with our new strategy of being digital-first, we are very excited to partner with RepIndia and take forward our brand building and communication strategy to all our consumer touchpoints. The Sheela Foam Group on its journey to becoming a multinational [company, and] Sleepwell with its Pan India presence has embarked on a journey to redefine the consumer journey of discovery, trial, buying and post-purchase services in an experiential manner led by digital transformation,” Sharma said.

Meanwhile, Nikhil Kashyap, AVP for strategy and business at RepIndia, commented, “Sleepwell is undoubtedly one of the biggest brand success stories of our time. It is, therefore, an honour to now be associated with them and help unfold & partner the next level of consumer experience journey that they have embarked upon. The team is super excited for this big win, and we are looking forward to connecting with the audience on a deeper level through a blend of clutter-breaking strategy and creativity.”

India – New Delhi’s shopping center, Select CITYWALK, has launched a new campaign that seeks to fulfill forgotten Christmas wishes and inspire people to keep believing in ‘miracles’. 

The campaign, which was conceptualized by digital agency RepIndia, celebrates the adage of “never stop believing in the magic of Christmas,” aims to ignite the spark of ‘magic’ and ‘hope’ for Select CITYWALK’s guests of all ages.

Titled ‘#MerryWishmas‘, the film features the Select CITYWALK team asking its guests what they wanted for Christmas as little children, and giving it to them as a surprise at the end of the video. The film aimed to capture the genuine warmth of surprised smiles, ending with a heartwarming message – “Make someone’s wish come true and their happiness will stay with you forever!”

Gitanjali Singh, Select CITY WALK’s vice president of marketing, commented, “This year, with our #MerryWishmas campaign, we decided to fulfill some cherished unfulfilled wishes of shoppers and our store staff and the reaction we got was truly heartwarming.”

Meanwhile, Nikhil Kashyap, RepIndia’s assistant vice president of strategy and client success, said, “I am glad we were able to assist Select CITYWALK to deliver the right experience through poignant, relatable storytelling.”

India – Digital agency RepIndia has appointed Guru Mishra, former director of buying at creative firm Isobar, to be its new vice president of media.

Mishra brings with him over 12 years of experience from his previous multiple strategic roles. Aside from his previous work at Isobar, Mishra has also worked as the digital planning executive of media company Lintas Media Group. 

In his new role, Mishra will be bolstering RepIndia’s media planning and buying pipeline by delivering innovative solutions to clients across digital.

Commenting on his new role, Mishra said, “I am truly honored to be a part of an extremely talented team and have full confidence in our capability to provide best-in-class creative, media, and tech solutions in line with the evolving digital landscape.”

Archit Chenoy, RepIndia’s CEO, commented that Mishra’s experience leading digital strategic business units has displayed a profound understanding of the most effective ways to execute and buy by using data and technology. 

“With Guru on board, I look forward to tackling new challenges and navigating digital and linear media while scaling this thinking across central teams,” said Chenoy.

In September this year, RepIndia has announced its renewed partnership with global beauty and personal care brand Sephora in India, to be the brand’s social media agency.

India – To celebrate this year’s ‘National Coming Out Day’, which is commemorated every 11th October for the awareness of the LGBTQIA+ community, MTV Beats, India’s music-only channel, has partnered with digital agency RepIndia to release a video that seeks to bolster the movement towards acceptance, inclusivity, and uniqueness.

The ongoing conversation and support have achieved the acceptance for the LGBTQIA+ community by leaps and bounds, but just like any fight against discrimination in society, there is always so much more one can do in order to truly give the minority the respect and belonging they deserve.

The video boasts a highly artistic hand with engaging graphics that are representative of the rainbow symbol of the community. Within the video is a poem that uses metaphors to convey that we are all different in our own ways, but that it isn’t something that should cause a divide among us.

“Some like lines, others like curves,” one of the lines said.

The agency shared that the video is built on the insight that love is natural and comes from within.

“Yet, we judge those who choose to live differently than us. Simply because we aren’t able to comprehend it. ‘Coming Out’ takes a lot of courage and we must never dissuade a person for whom they choose to love,” RepIndia said in a press statement. 

MTV Beats as a brand has been a strong ally of the community. Last year, it released ‘Love Duet’, India’s first ‘Love’ album by the LGBTQIA+ community, which aimed to normalize the conversations on love which go beyond the stereotypes of gender.

The video has been released across the brand’s social media including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Mumbai, India – For the commemoration of the World Mental Health Day last 10 October, Indian bank IDFC First Bank, which is part of the larger financial group Infrastructure Development Finance Company, has launched its latest social media campaign dedicated to promoting mental health – none other than by the use of financial terms.

Conceptualized by digital agency RepIndia, the campaign utilizes said language to present a new meaning from a mental health perspective. For instance, the term ‘investment’ is defined in the campaign as “therapy to ensure that you’re not subject to any mental health risk,” and ‘loan’ being defined as “lending an ear with interest”.

“By thus connecting commonly used financial terms with mental health issues and solutions, IDFC FIRST Bank hopes to be able to remove the stigma and taboo surrounding mental health conversations and drive significant conversations,” the bank said in a press statement.

In a statement given to MARKETECH APAC, RepIndia stated that the campaign aimed to talk about mental health from a way of investing in oneself with the goal of normalizing the conversation just like financial security is already commonly practiced in our society.

“The goal was to redefine the way we look at mental health from the perspective of financial terms that are more commonly present in our vocabulary,” the agency stated.

Said sentiment of normalizing talks on mental health stems from the fact that the aspect of mental health advocacy remains stigmatized and in a ‘crisis. 

“While financial reports have suggested that 70% of Indians now place greater emphasis on securing the future by increasing investments and savings, the mental health pandemic the nation is battling with continues to remain a crisis,” the agency stated.

The World Mental Health Day was first started as an initiative back in 1992 by the World Federation for Mental Health, a global mental health organization, which aimed at promoting mental health advocacy, as well as educating the public. For this year, the observance of said date revolved around the theme ‘Mental health care for all: let’s make it a reality’.

India – Global beauty and personal care brand Sephora in India has renewed its partnership with digital agency RepIndia to handle its social media business.

The agency has won the rights to retain the brand on its books to continue building the French premium brand’s pan-India presence on digital channels. The partnership between the two began in 2015.

Internationally, the brand operates over 2700 stores in 35 countries. According to the agency, Sephora India is driven by the purpose to create ‘a welcoming beauty shopping experience’.

The brand is not new to crafting innovative user experiences which include the use of AR and 3D images that let customers try out products virtually on their website. RepIndia’s task is to bring to life similar disruptive and engaging experiences on digital to serve the needs of increasingly beauty-conscious Indian audiences.

Ayesha Chenoy, the agency’s founder, commented, “My favorite beauty brand, and a client who has become a friend now for over 6 years! Sephora, you’re going places and we’re right there with you.”

Meanwhile, a marketing spokesperson of Sephora India said, “The one-stop-shop for all things digital marketing! RepIndia precisely understands the brand ethos of Sephora India and executes it immaculately via our social media.”

Aside from the current remit, RepIndia has also recently announced its two newly acquired accounts from Singapore-based brands, escrow platform Tazapay, and kitchen appliance brand Rotimatic. The agency said the new partnerships mark its expansion outside India.

India – RepIndia, the digital agency based out of India, is slowly moving beyond its home country with two new client acquisitions from Singapore-based brands Tazapay, and Rotimatic. Tazapay is a leading international escrow platform for cross-border trade, while Rotimatic is an automated kitchen appliance brand.

RepIndia said that the new accounts are aligned with its vision to establish a name in international regions like Southeast Asia, the US, and the Middle East.

The newly acquired mandates pertain to SEO for Tazapay, while the agency will be responsible for the online reputation management (ORM) and SEO of Rotimatic. The development into international markets, the agency said, is a natural progression of its business having already established a strong foothold in India and having worked with over 400 leading brands and clients so far in the country.

For RepIndia, the two Singapore-based brands represent a growing market in the country that is looking to elevate their digital presence and build a stronger customer connect.

Archit Chenoy, RepIndia’s CEO, said that its foray into the global markets has only just begun, with its exposure to market leaders and disruptors like Rotimatic and Tazapay a true accolade.

“We look forward to our partnership and our continued expansion in Singapore,” said Chenoy.

Meanwhile, Rahul Shinghal, Tazapay’s CEO, commented, “We are impressed by the expertise that RepIndia has built over the years in the domain of SEO. With the kind of clients and businesses they have worked and achieved successes for in the past, I am confident that they are the right fit to augment Tazapay’s digital presence and increase the brand’s visibility in order to help us meet our business objectives.”

Pranoti Nagarkar, the CEO and co-founder of Rotimatic, also commented, “Rotimatic has made a huge difference to the lives of thousands of customers across the globe, having overcome the challenges in supply chain, we want to take it to the next level and prepare to launch in India. This is where we would like to partner with the super-efficient and highly energetic RepIndia team that excels in ORM and SEO for our global markets and India.”