MUMBAI: Mullen Lintas launched its first television campaign for Quikr. The latest campaign by Quikr, India’s No. 1 classifieds business, is themed around buying high quality pre-owned smartphones at affordable prices from QuikrBazaar, its C2C vertical. The aim of the ad campaign is to drive pre-owned smart phone purchase intent among people through the assurance of a high quality product from Quikr.

The ad campaign titled ‘Have you seen Rajesh’s new phone?’ conceptualised and executed by Mullen Lintas Bangalore will run on all popular channels spanning the genres of Entertainment, News, Sports etc.

Quikr chief marketing officer Vineet Sehgal said: “With the latest ad campaign we want to address trust issues associated with the used products and mobile phones in particular. The campaign points out the several benefits such as best price, 36+ point quality check, six months warranty and seven-day replacement policy offered by QuikrBazaar."

The campaign brings alive the story of an unassuming person who becomes the center of attention at his work place, as his colleagues become envious about the high-end phone he’s recently got.

Mullen Lintas NCD Shriram Iyer said: “Mobiles carry a lot of flaunt value, right? So what happens when a very junior employee at a firm walks around with a high-end phone? One which looks and feels like a brand new phone? It leads to a crazy chain of Chinese whispers, all speculating how he could afford it. And, given that Quikr and quirk go hand in hand, we went lateral in treatment by giving it a retro, Bollywood caper kind of feel to the whole thing. A simple human insight tuned for super fun."

Team credits:

Client: Quikr

Team: Vineet Sehgal, Ruchika Gupta

Agency: Mullen Lintas

Account Management: Kishore Subramanian, Anil Nair, Arjun KD, Akshata Srivastava

Creative: Shriram Iyer, Santosh Ramakrishnan

Planning: Sushma Rao

Production House: Absolute Productions

Director: Vasan Bala

Producer: Prafull Sharma & Sadhya Vyas