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List of Social Media Agencies in India

Quick Summary: The social media marketing scene in India is heating up both on the demand and supply side, with digital advertising agencies, PR practitioners, and prominent bloggers offering a range of social media services.

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I have been watching the social media marketing scene in India for a while now, and, suddenly, things seem to be heating up in this space. On the demand side, companies/ brands are showing willingness to engage with social media and, on the supply side, many players are offering, or planning to offer, a variety of social media services.

The Indian players offering social media marketing services can broadly be divided into three categories –

- Digital advertising agencies offering social media marketing services with a focus on virals, social network apps, social media campaigns etc.

- Public relations agencies/ practitioners offering social media services with a focus on online reputation monitoring and social media outreach etc.

- Prominent bloggers offering, basically, corporate blogging consulting services and workshops.

Let’s look at the players under each category in some detail.

Digital Advertising Agencies

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Location(s): Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore

A Starbucks in the College Library?

Coffee

Photo by Una Cierta Mirada

As an MBA student at IIMB, I spent an absolutely obscene number of nights in the institute library. The canteen closed at midnight and an insomniacs like me could only get my nocturnal caffeine kicks from a canister of terrible South Indian coffee that the canteen folks very considerately left behind. Even during daytime, the best coffee you could get in campus was from a vending machine, and you know how bland vending machine coffee can be. That changed, by the way, in my second year, when I spent most of my nights in the girls hostel, rarely reading, and had my coffee brewed in an electric kettle.

You can probably imagine the mixed emotions I felt when I went back to campus a couple of years back and found the students hanging out at a brand new Cafe Coffee Day outlet inside the campus. The campus had found a new favorite public space.

That’s what coffee shops do: they don’t only sell coffee, they create shared public spaces. In creating such branded public spaces, of course, coffee chains also open up two very different types of opportunities for marketers.