Kerala-based IMC Advertising and Bengaluru-based digital marketing agency ThreePercent Collective have entered into a collaboration to jointly work in the advertising space.
As per them, the mutual collaboration will help both agencies to increase their client base and expand their presence across India.
The collaboration will enable IMC Advertising, which primarily focuses on print and electronic advertising, to gain a strong foothold in digital advertising.
With this, IMC Advertising will become a full-fledged agency which can hope to dominate advertising, and content creation.
ThreePercent Collective, founded by veterans in digital advertising - Achuth Nair, Praveen Rao, and Pradeep Singh, is working with interesting brands across FMCG, Fashion, Edtech, agritech and healthcare (both B2B and D2C) and scaling up their digital presence
At present, IMC Advertising and ThreePercent Collective have regional offices in Kozhikode and Bengaluru, respectively. They have plans to open offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kolkata in this financial year.
IMC Advertising develops advertising campaigns for leading brands such as Malabar Gold and Diamonds, Malabar Developers and Eham Digital.
This association gives Three Percent Collective access to the existing client base of IMC, which includes Malabar Group, while adding value to IMC as complete integrated marketing communications solution provider for brands across India.
Malabar Group Chairman MP Ahammed said, “IMC Advertising has been playing a major role in bringing Malabar Gold and Diamonds to the masses and making it a global brand. It has been managing all the campaigns of the Malabar Group, making a huge impact in the print and electronic advertising spaces. Their expertise is helping our brand grow to a great extent. By joining hands with the ThreePercent Collective, IMC can make a big impact in the digital advertising space as well.”
CTP Ummerkutty, Executive Director, IMC Advertising, said, “IMC will become a full-fledged agency by expanding its expertise into the fields of digital advertising, marketing and public relations in collaboration with Three Percent Collective, one of the best agencies in the field of digital marketing. Digital advertising has emerged as a huge-growth segment. That’s why we have decided to expand our core expertise into the digital space.
Praveen Rao, CEO, ThreePercent Collective, said, "We are delighted to join hands with IMC Advertising which has been designing and strategising advertising campaigns for big brands including Malabar Group. Brands jointly handled by both the agencies will be able to achieve better results through effective partnership.”
Achuth Nair and Pradeep Singh, Co-founders of ThreePercent Collective said, “The partnership between the two companies is poised to make major strides in the fields of advertising and digital marketing.