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Brand · Media · Culture · 14 Years · India

Sheetal
Koul

Senior marketing and media leader with 14 years building brand campaigns, integrated media strategy, and cultural marketing work across consumer tech. Nothing Tech, vivo India, Samsung, Apple India, and the agencies that built the foundation before that.

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Nothing Tech vivo India Samsung Apple India Honda Cars Microsoft Levi's GSK
Career

14 years, three chapters

From agency foundations to leading national brand and media strategy at some of India's most competitive consumer tech brands. Rs.350Cr+ in media managed across the career.

Oct 2024 to Present
Nothing Tech
Sr. Marketing Manager · Brand, Media and Culture

Full ownership of brand strategy, integrated media, consumer insights, and cultural marketing for Nothing India. Led product launches, sports partnerships, creator ecosystem, PR, and brand film production end to end.

Rs.100Cr+ media managed
Nothing Phone (4a), (3a), (3a) Lite, CMF launches
RCB title sponsorship activation, full IPL season
200+ creator ecosystem built from zero
Brand films with Ranveer Singh and Samay Raina
Partnerships: LFW, Dirty Magazine, Soho House
Oct 2021 to Oct 2024
vivo India
Sr. Marketing Manager · Brand and Integrated Media

Led national brand strategy and integrated media for vivo's full smartphone portfolio. Owned 360 campaign execution from consumer positioning through to week-one sell-through across flagship and mid-segment ranges.

Rs.250Cr+ media investment managed
vivo X100: 40%+ lifecycle volume in week one
vivo V27: 15M Google searches on launch day
Sports-led campaigns with football athletes and creators
A/B and MVT testing frameworks built with agency partners
2012 to 2021
Agency and Brand
Cheil India · GroupM · Omnicom PHD · Wunderman Thompson

Nine years across leading agencies and brand-side roles, building integrated media and campaign strategy for globally iconic brands across consumer tech, automotive, healthcare, and lifestyle categories.

Samsung M-Series: 45% Amazon revenue share, 51x ROAS
Samsung Galaxy Fold: India's first foldable launch
Apple India: iPhone 7 launch media strategy
Honda Cars · Microsoft · Levi's India · GSK
Expertise

What I bring
to the table

Brand Strategy and Activations
Campaign strategy, agency briefing, creative development, sports and lifestyle partnerships, culturally relevant brand moments across categories
Integrated Media Planning
Top and mid-funnel strategy, channel mix, audience targeting, budget allocation across TV, digital, programmatic, OOH and earned. Rs.350Cr+ managed
Consumer Insights
Brand health tracking, consumer behaviour analysis, search trends, social signals, post-campaign learning agendas, GWI, TGI, Power BI
Creator and Influencer Marketing
200+ creator ecosystem built from zero, macro and micro management, always-on and campaign-led programmes, athlete and celebrity partnerships
Film Production
Brand films with Ranveer Singh and Samay Raina, AI-generated content production, PPM to final delivery, BCCI content compliance
Cross-functional Leadership
Agency management, global team alignment, product-marketing collaboration, stakeholder influence across brand, product, retail and senior management
Selected Work

Campaign work

Nothing Tech · March 2025 · Agency: AEOS

Every Shot Matters

Nothing Phone (4a) x RCB · AI Brand Film
Objective

Go mainstream with RCB as the cultural enabler and showcase Phone (4a)'s 140x Ultra Zoom, at launch, before the RCB sponsorship was publicly active.

Approach

Physical shoot was impossible, players were unavailable and our association was with the club, not individuals, making any player likeness an IP violation. Pitched and closed AEOS, used RCB training footage, rotoscoped players frame by frame, replaced jerseys with AI, and generated the crowd, stadium, and phone entirely in AI. One of the first productions of this kind in Indian consumer tech, delivered within strict BCCI content guidelines.

My Role

Competitive agency pitch, closed with AEOS. End-to-end film direction, script, approvals across RCB, BCCI, and Nothing senior management.

Sentiment 13.9% to 60.8% 153% of sales target 729M impressions
Every Shot Matters, Phone (4a) x RCB
Nothing wins RCB, Season Campaign
Nothing Tech · Phone (3) Launch · July 2025

Three-pronged
cultural play

Phone (3) launched at Rs.70,000. The IMC needed to reach commercial and aspirational audiences without a conventional advertising approach. Three activations ran simultaneously.

01
Urban Trailblazers
Aspirational Reach

Year-long partnership with Varun Mayya and Sharan Hedge, India's top entrepreneur creators. Nothing products integrated into daily life and podcasts. Built genuine aspirational visibility without paid-ad feel.

+1pp Flipkart awareness · Sustained organic reach
02
Unstop Incubator
IITs and MBA Institutes

Case study challenge: how to make tech culturally relevant. Finalists built a 5-year Nothing product roadmap. Winner: Rs.2 lakh. Top 3: Nothing Phone (3). Reached campuses across India entirely online.

12K registrations · 500K+ impressions
03
Dirty Magazine x Soho House
Premium Niche

Curated dinner at Soho House Mumbai. 400+ attendees including Kiran Rao, Konkona Sen, Gurpreet Singh, Abhay Deol. Entire evening shot on Phone (3). 20 celebrity guests received Headphone (1) in goody bags.

11.4M impressions · 300+ organic posts · 34 content pieces
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something great

Open to senior brand and media leadership roles at MNCs. Based in Gurgaon.

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