2. INDEX
• Definition
• History
• Surrogate ads in India
• Advantages and disadvantages
• Business prospective of surrogate marketing
• Conclusion
3. DEFINITION
• Promote banned products, like cigarettes alcohol.
• Duplicates the brand image of one product
• Promoting another product of same brand.
• Promoting a brand or a product indirectly.
4. HISTORY
• Surrogate Advertising was first started in Britain.
• Came into India in the mid-1990s after the Cable
Television Networks (Regulation) Act
• Launching new products with a common brand name is
known as brand extensions and is not illegal or
objectionable in nature.
8. SURROGATE ADS IN INDIA
• Advertise a company’s brand name by introducing a
brand of water, or music CD,s,or sponsor some local
sports team.
• Some surrogate advertisers in the Indian context are:
– Aristocrat
– Seagrams
– Bacardi
– Manikchand
– Kingfisher
– Smirnoff
11. Advantages and Disadvantages
• Advantages:
• It helps company to generate sale for banned
products
• It helps on reminding banned product indirectly
• Disadvantages
• It beats the purpose of ban on ads of harmful
products
• Harming society because children cannot
distinguish between the banned product and the
advertised product
12. Business prospective of
Surrogate Marketing
• Indian liquor industry with estimated market value of
INR 15700 Cr according ASSOCHAM
• It is expected to reach 16.8 Billion litres of consumption
by the year 2022.
• It is legitimate business in the country
• Generates great revenue to the government
13. Conclusion
• Surrogate advertising are not only misleading ,but also
false and dishonest in many case
• This method is used by the corporate because of the
ambitious laws
• As tobacco and liquor business are legislated as
restricted business in India and provide huge revenue
to government, economic factors should be consider
,while designing the laws and their implementation