PhonePe’s “Karte Ja. Badhte Ja.” brand campaign – touching every household this cricket season

National, October 7th, 2020: PhonePe, India’s leading digital payments platform announced that its new brand campaign aired during the cricket season has created buzz and awareness across the country. The 8- weeks brand campaign that premiered on August 18th reflects the role played by the company in enabling a digital economy by catering to the varied aspirations and needs of its over 230 million users across the country.

Weaved in the form of a storyline, the 6 brand adverts show a sceptical Aamir Khan gradually getting convinced by Alia Bhatt on PhonePe’s ubiquity – trusted by 230 million Indians, availability across 12 million merchant locations, 3 layered security and overall simplicity to become a PhonePe customer.

The campaign is designed to engage with audiences who are currently not using digital payments. The objective is to introduce digital payments, explain the benefits – easy of use, safety and ubiquity. The series of adverts explain the key takeaways through an engaging storytelling format that unfolds over six, 20 sec adverts. While each ad talks about a different reason to try PhonePe, yet the story picks up from where the previous ad ends. This episodic treatment has been chosen to create engagement and to get customers excited and keep them guessing about the next one, while continually reinforcing the key message of using PhonePe for digital payments.

Here are the 6 adverts arranged in their order of appearance:
Film 1: 20 crore Indians love PhonePe
Film 2: Pay across 1 crore+ store with PhonePe
Film 3: Credit card, Debit card, UPI & wallet – multiple options to pay via PhonePe
Film 4: With password, UPI pin & fingerprint ID, payments on PhonePe are safe & triple secured
Film 5: Direct bank to bank transfers in 5 seconds on PhonePe
Film 6: Your friends & family are on PhonePe. What about you?

PhonePe’s objective behind running this campaign during the cricket season was to reach the massive audience that’s not yet gone digital for payments. The key focus is to remind the audience that PhonePe stands at the vanguard of safe, easy and instant digital payments and financial services for each and every Indian.

The campaign has been well received by all consumer cohorts – current users, category non-users alike, with the adverts garnering over 425 million views on youtube and Facebook. While the campaign is still ongoing, there has already been a significant positive impact on brand recall and business metrics along with positive engagement and organic love being shown by audiences on digital platforms. PhonePe is confident that with the cricketing season kicking off now, it’s only further going to add to the positive momentum.

About PhonePe:

PhonePe is India’s leading digital payments platform with over 230 million registered users. Using PhonePe, users can send and receive money, recharge mobile, DTH, data cards, pay at stores, make utility payments, buy gold and make investments. PhonePe forayed into financial services in 2017 with the launch of digital gold providing users with a safe and convenient option to buy 24-karat gold securely on its platform. PhonePe has since launched Mutual funds and Insurance financial products like tax-saving funds, liquid funds, international travel insurance and Corona Care, a dedicated insurance product for the COVID-19 pandemic. PhonePe also launched its Switch platform in 2018, and today its customers can place orders on over 200 apps including Ola, Myntra, IRCTC, Goibibo, RedBus, Oyo etc. directly from within the PhonePe mobile app. PhonePe is accepted at over 12 million merchant outlets across 500 cities nationally.

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