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Coca-Cola Launches Creator-Led Football Watch-Along Format for FIFA Season in India

Coca-Cola has reimagined what it means to watch football in India. With the launch of Matchday Hangout, the brand is transforming late-night FIFA viewing from a passive experience into a creator-led, community-driven digital event. Running across 12 live national streams, the format brings together creators Rohan Joshi, Sakshi Shivdasani and Kaashvi Hiranandani as hosts, with … Read more

Nykaa Partners OpenAI to Bring Its Catalogue Into ChatGPT

Nykaa has struck a multi-year partnership with OpenAI to bring its beauty and fashion catalogue into ChatGPT – a move that shifts the consumer journey from app-based browsing to AI-driven conversation. Under the deal, Nykaa Beauty and Nykaa Fashion storefronts will function as connected apps within ChatGPT, powered by OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol. Users can … Read more

Alite Taps Anushka Sen and Taaruk Raina to Call Out Everything Wrong With Skincare Advice Today

The moment a pimple appears, the internet appoints itself your dermatologist. Your cousin has a remedy, your colleague has a reel, and your group chat has a miracle ingredient it half-heard somewhere. Nobody has a citation. Alite, Leeford Healthcare’s acne-focused skincare brand, has built its latest campaign entirely around this frustration – and chosen humour … Read more

EssenceMediacom Appoints Sumit Patil as Business Director

EssenceMediacom has appointed Sumit Patil as Business Director. Based in Mumbai, he joins the agency after nearly five years at Zee Entertainment Enterprises, where he most recently served as Senior Manager, leading revenue strategy and sales solutions for several regional channels. Prior to Zee, Patil worked at Omnicom Media, handling integrated media strategies for brands … Read more

McDonald’s India Appoints Shruti Shukla as Head of Strategy & Insights

McDonald’s has appointed Shruti Shukla as Head of Strategy & Insights. A seasoned strategy and insights leader with over 13 years of experience, she joins the company after an 11-year stint at McKinsey & Company, where she led global growth and benchmarking initiatives for consumer-facing businesses. In her new role, Shukla will leverage her expertise … Read more

Frido Takes Its Ergonomics Brand Offline With 15 Experiential Stores Across Five Cities

Frido, India’s D2C ergonomics and comfort solutions brand, has opened 15 new experiential stores across Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune – marking a deliberate shift from digital-first disruptor to omnichannel brand. The retail network spans mall and high-street formats in a 70:30 split, all operated under a COCO model. Store sizes range from … Read more

The next chapter of Social Panga has its own studio. And it runs on AI.

Social Panga has launched intoai.studio, a dedicated AI-focused creative unit offering services across AI-generated films, content production, virtual avatars, music creation and product photography – marking the agency’s most structured bet yet on artificial intelligence as a creative infrastructure play. The studio integrates AI tools with human creative processes to support content development at scale. … Read more

Punt Partners Enters Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network With Quick Commerce AI Tool

Bengaluru-based Punt Partners has been inducted into Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network through its product ShelfRadar.AI, placing it among the first cohort of companies selected globally into the network’s Services Track, which opened on 3 June 2026. ShelfRadar.AI is a decision-intelligence platform built on Claude’s API and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), designed for consumer brands … Read more