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03 / Integrated festive marketingDiwali 2025

Diwali, made to be felt.

One gifting thought. Many screens. Many ways in.

Haldiram’s Diwali campaign showing festive gifting packs and a family celebration
+34.6%

reported branded-search volume change

Monthly comparison in the Diwali report; not a causal brand-lift study.

+122.9%

Meta views above plan

Delivered views compared with the platform plan.

+41.7%

YouTube TrueViews above plan

Delivered TrueViews compared with plan.

+72.9%

LinkedIn impressions above plan

Delivered impressions compared with plan.

01 / The challenge

The same thought, different expressions.

Diwali is a crowded season for attention. Haldiram’s gifting story had to hold together across languages, formats and platforms while reaching people in different festive moments.

The campaign combined a gifting-led creative platform with celebrity films, shorter edits and regional versions. That gave the media plan a coherent story with enough variation for different viewing contexts.

02 / My contribution

The part I played.

I worked across digital and brand execution, with marketing planning and partner coordination helping connect the creative platform to the media rollout.

  1. 01

    Carry the gifting idea across the hero film, celebrity content and regional cuts.

  2. 02

    Coordinate social, video, contextual placements and connected-TV activity.

  3. 03

    Review delivery against channel plans and search-interest signals without treating every signal as attributable sales.

03 / The execution

Build for the placement.

A feed, a connected TV and a contextual display placement ask different things of the same creative idea. Coordinating format and channel requirements was part of making the campaign work as a connected experience.

04 / The learning

Learn from delivery, carefully.

The report shows video delivery above plan across key platforms and a rise in branded-search volume during the festive period. Seasonality also affects demand, so the search change is treated as an observed signal.

The Haldiram’s Diwali 2025 gifting campaign creative

One gifting thought, adapted across formats and placements.

The thought that stays

Scale works harder when the brand still feels like the same brand on every screen.

Sources & measurement notes

Source: Haldiram Diwali Awareness Report, slides 5, 85, 91 and 98. Percentages are recalculated from delivered and planned values. Platform views are not deduplicated people and are not added together. Search-volume change is an association during the campaign period.

Haldiram’s marketing team × creative, celebrity, production and media partners.

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