Bang In The Middle creates new campaign for AIM to promote magazine growth

The Association of Indian Magazines (AIM) is launching a new campaign promoting the 95% growth in the total readership (TR) of magazines in India, as depicted by the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2017. Conceptualised by Bang In The Middle, the campaign will showcase the dramatic growth in readership.

The growth shown by IRS is coming only from print and does not take into consideration the online portals of magazines. IRS 2017 figures have shattered the popular belief that readership of magazines is declining possibly faster than newspapers. Magazines almost doubled the total readership from 40 million in IRS 2014 to 78 million in the latest IRS 2017. The growth has come from the urban areas, which added 22 million readers. Rural India also added 17 million readers. The total readership of newspapers also registered a growth of 40% during the same period.

For the agency, the creative challenge was large, the campaign could not be descriptive that just informed the readers about the growth in readership. The campaign has to make the reader stop and drive the feeling that they knew reading magazine had never gone out of fashion.

Just like the idea, Bang in the Middle kept the execution simple. The campaign is designed around the intrigue of number 95%. The six ads in the campaign build the growth in readership by making the ads contextual to the reader segments.

R Rajmohan, President, AIM, said, “We, at the association, knew that magazine readership is very robust and when the new numbers were released it only added to our confidence. AIM took this opportunity to build on the habit of reading magazines and drive its relevance to both readers and advertisers.”

Prathap Suthan

Prathap Suthan, Managing Partner and CCO, Bang in the Middle, said, “The brief was sharp and singular. Let the world know that Total Magazine Readership has grown 95%. Big growth. Big number. Big picture. Big story. And all of that came alive in the campaign. We didn’t have to get creative for creative’s sake. The number was dramatic by itself. We just had to make sure the number come through bold with a small statistic to add in some wit, and with a hidden image inside the big 95% that hinted and revealed a hidden consumer story. The execution too worked to make it topical for different magazine genres.”

Naresh Gupta

Naresh Gupta, Managing Partner and CSO, Bang in the Middle, said, “It’s a happy number and we wanted to drive this feeling of amazement in readers, advertisers and brand owners about this surge in numbers. While many advertisers have always been convinced about the efficacy of magazines, a 95% growth in readership adds to their confidence. Our campaign, in a matter of fact way, builds on the reading habit of our audience.”

AIM is the national magazine association in India and is affiliated to the global industry association, International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP). AIM members include all the top magazine publishers of the country.

Click here to view the advertisements.

Info@BestMediaInfo.com